Gardening

Employer-sponsored gardens thriving

Employees getting exercise, eating healthier foods, saving money: Win/Win/Win.
“From the end of June through the beginning of October, we’re harvesting once a week for our office delivery, and sometimes we harvest twice a week,” said Liz Morris Otto, who owns the “Dude Ranch” land.
Those who work regularly on the crop get first pick, but every [...]

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Recent Posts

Mobile Gardens – Urban Gardening – Movable Gardens – The Daily Green

Much better use for a car! Thanks to Lynn Dirk for passing this along:
Creative urban and container gardening is transforming the way we view outdoor spaces.By Brian Clark Howard
via Mobile Gardens – Urban Gardening – Movable Gardens – The Daily Green.

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Downtown Garden Day!

Alachua County, in partnership with Florida Organic Growers, Abundant Edible Landscapes, UF Young Entrepreneurs in Leadership and Sustainability, and the Downtown Rotary Club, will plant an organic demonstration garden Saturday, July 10, 2010, beginning 10 a.m., at the County Administration Building on the corner of University Ave. and Main St. in Downtown Gainesville. The public [...]

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Vote for a Local Organic Garden!

We’re asking for support from Gainesville and broader Alachua County community to assist us in raising funds to build a garden in the Porters Community on the corner of Depot Ave. and SW 2nd St. All you have to do is visit this site and vote for our project http://www.justmeans.com/contestidea?ideaid=NDU3
If the project gets the most [...]

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FIU’s organic garden earns recognition from USDA – Miami Herald

A garden that started out as a project of a few FIU environmental studies majors and their teachers has gained recognition from federal agriculture officials.

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SAVE THE FROGS! Travel Grant awarded to USF student for her discovery.

A University of South Florida Ph.D. candidate has discovered that a commonly used fungicide is lethal to three species of Florida’s frogs, even at concentrations previously assumed to be safe.

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Edible Landscaping: One Transition Step from Peak Oil – The Oil Drum

A practical guide to how we can reduce our oil dependency – as well as save money and enhance our lives – by growing our own food. Sent to us by local Green Drinker Ed Brown. Thanks!

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Organic Consumers Oppose Kagan for Going to Bat for Monsanto

US Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, is the most recent in a long line of pro-biotech Obama appointees, including USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Institute of Food and Agriculture director Roger Beachy, FDA senior food safety adviser Michael Taylor, USTR Agricultural Negotiator Islam Siddiqui, and USAID director Rajiv Shah.
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GMOs May Reduce Population?

Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on [...]

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Native Herb Walk and Workshop

You are invited to participate in a Native Herb Walk and Workshop with Master Herbalist Dui Bhuja, (Darrell Martin), founder of Blue Boy Herb Company and speaker at many National Herb Conferences.
* Learn about local plants in our own yards and fields, mistaken as weeds, which are actually medicinal and culinary [...]

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A Chemical Reaction: The Story of the First Town to Ban Pesticides

For those who enjoyed seeing this film at the Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival or elsewhere and for those who’ve yet to see it:
Just this year Health Canada, the equivalent of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced it plans to ban the sale and application of all weed’n feed type products across Canada by [...]

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‘Grow your own’ revolution receives major land boost » Communities » 24dash.com

There is a huge interest in “growing your own”; with people wanting to get more in touch with where their food comes from, as well as staying active and spending more time outdoors.About 300,000 gardeners in England already have allotments but demand still outstrips supply and the Government is therefore determined to support new and [...]

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Ethnoecology Garden Open House

We are hosting an open house at the Ethnoecology Garden on Saturday, November 14th from 9AM-1PM.  We are focusing on discussing a number of activities in the garden related to a number of topics including:

-Composting
-Biodiversity
-Raised bed
-Biomass management
-Overwintering plants

We will have some light refreshments provided by the Society.  Feel free to bring along any caloric contributions. [...]

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Mad City Chickens at Civic Media Center

The Civic Media Center will host a video and discussion on the topic of urban and suburban “backyard” chicken culture on Saturday, November 14th at 7pm.

via Mad City Chickens | Civic Media Center.

The film will be followed by Q & A and discussion with co-producer/directors Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai of Tarazod Films, who will [...]

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Plants recognize siblings

Remember the secret life of plants? There’s more going on with this form of life than we realize; far greater implications even than this article suggests, seems to me:
“Newswise — Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings, and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how.
The ID system [...]

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Green The Block – 9.11.09 National Day of Service

President Obama has called upon all Americans to participate in our nation’s recovery and renewal by serving in our communities on September 11, 2009, National Service Day, as part of the United We Serve initiative.Green The Block is proud to stand in solidarity with the President and United We Serve. We call upon you to [...]

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Alemany Farm, 4 1/2 productive acres in S.F.

Here’s a wonderful model for urban community gardens:
It’s a place where little boys from the adjacent public housing projects alternate between tossing a football and picking bright red, juicy strawberries. Where dozens of volunteers gather every weekend to harvest squash, onions and string beans and divvy up the bounty afterward. Where a windmill, sunflowers and [...]

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Green Q & A: Fertilizing Lawn and Garden

Hi Trish,

What’s the difference between buying regular and organic fertilizers for my lawn and garden?

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Moss Makes a No-Care Lawn

GoGreenNation: There are so many ways to let your grass go, and give up fertilizing and watering the unsustainable grass lawn. If you can get used to the idea of a more natural landscape, moss provides a very eco-friendly and zero-maintenance alternative: Moss Makes a No-Care Lawn – New York Times.
I’ve got moss starts tucked [...]

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