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• These Are the People In Your Neighborhood: Jinny Blom

  
  Flux Capacitor — Authority: 468
  About Jinny Blom " I began with life with a mixed European heritage of musicians, sculptors, artists and scientists, an unconventional Liberal Arts education and a bohemian family who loved travel and looking at things. I then trained in theatre design, ran my own delicatessen and trained lengthily as a ...
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• An Afternoon Tomato Diversion

  
  The Benjamin's Weblog — Authority: 125
  In the past year I’ve had a couple of conversations with my Grandfather regarding the white growth inside tomatoes. He is curious what it is. From these conversations I believe what he is seeing is the part of the tomato berry mesocarp referred to as the placenta. Botanically speaking a tomato is a fruit ( I’ve ...
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• Madame says: WHY, MR.GOLDSTEIN….!

  
  madame says — Authority: 126
  Nathaniel’s always been a bit of a dark horse on the old shop display front but when I got to M.Goldstein the other day it was the simplicity of these hand-thrown pots in their cosy trunk that I loved. We’ve got lots of exciting new stock at the moment but these little pots starting at £1 each deserve a mention ...
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• Annapolis’ floating wetland

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 126
  baltimoresun.com reports Annapolis intends to test a floating island in a local lagoon that, if successful, could help clean the water in the Chesapeake Bay , according to Mayor Ellen O. Moyer …… Floating islands are created from recycled plastics and planted with wetland plants that soak up nutrients ...
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• Winemaking Enhanced by DNA Technology

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) — In winemaking, grape juice is turned to wine during the fermentation process by the action of a number of essential beneficial microorganisms -namely bacteria. Sometimes, though, harmful bacteria also populate the fermentation vat, spoiling the wine in the process. As part of her ...
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• Halloween Horticulture

  
  PUMPKINROT.COM: What's Brewing — Authority: 144
  Drove past a house and saw that they had old dried vines growing around and onto the porch. They looked like grape vines. They also had a row of tomato plants that had withered and browned along the walk to the front porch. It got me thinking about the different plants that a person could grow through the year with ...
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• The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Ken Belson of the New York Times has written an interesting piece about green walls which looks at the green wall as a source of food production. Belson talks to a varied number of designers, universities and manufacturers about the green walls as food production. He also states that at $500 a panel they aren’t ...
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• What A Great Surprise!

  
  Plants and Stones — Authority: 121
  Yesterday I discovered that Plants and Stones was one of Horticulture magazines top 20 favorite garden blogs. With all of the terrific blogs they had to choose from, I was surprised, no shocked to be selected! What a thrill it was for me. Theres no question about that. My smile was so broad that Ed was afraid I ...
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• Urban Garden inside Bank of America

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  WRT’s New York office have installed living sculptures in the Urban Garden Room at Bank of America Tower’s 60-foot high street-level atrium space at One Bryant Park, New York. The Durst Organization, the building’s owner and developer, commissioned WRT to create an appropriate – natural – signature for ...
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• Canada’s biggest green roof was technically challenging: LA

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Journal of Commerce reports The biggest living roof in Canada is surrounded by water on three sides, and the marine deck on which the building sits is supported by stilt-like piles. It also features slopes of up to 53 per cent. Bruce Hemstock, of PWL Partnership , a Vancouver landscape architecture and consulting ...
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• Our message on smallholder farming came over loud and clear, five on five (Willem VAN COTTHEM / UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  For many years we have been promoting the idea that the battle against global hunger can only be won by using small-scale farming as the most effective “war strategy”.  Offering smallholder farmers, in particular the women, the necessary minimal means (tools and seeds) to grow their own fresh food, instead of ...
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• To fast or not to fast, that may be the question (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Did you too get FAO’s message on Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 ?“The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<”http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/37300/icode/”>FAO) on Wednesday called for a day-long, global hunger strike.“We are suggesting that everyone in the world who wants to show solidarity with the ...
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• We can also have food security with small kitchen gardens (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  After reading the preceding article on the excellent publications of FAO and IFPRI, commented by AfricaFiles, I was recalling the success of the UNICEF project on “Family Gardens in the refugee camps of S.W. Algeria”.Just to refresh my memory on the results obtained in a very short period with minimal means (an ...
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• Advice On Finding Garden Play Houses For Youngsters

  
  http://mymeanbiz.com/theinvestorshaven — Authority: 155
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   Every so often, children require a point of their own, where they can stay away from the company of their guardians and create their own pretend worlds. There is in all likelihood not enough space inside the house for them to get the comfort and privacy they need, and their sleeping ...
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• National Symposium to Harness The Spices of Northeast

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 157
  By Peter Chachei Dimapur, Nov 15 : India’s northeastern states hold immense potential for the large-scale cultivation of spices. To encourage its production, a national symposium on spices was organized in Dimapur recently. The objective was to delve upon ways to harness the existing potential of spices in ...
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• National symposium hold to harness potential of spices in northeast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Peter ChacheiDimapur (Nagaland), Nov.14 (ANI): India’s northeastern states hold immense potential for the large-scale cultivation of spices.To encourage its production, a national symposium on spices was organized in Dimapur recently.The objective was to delve upon ways to harness the existing potential of spices ...
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• Juan Canary Melon

  
  The Benjamin's Weblog — Authority: 125
  A few days ago I mentioned that I tried red pummelo for the first time. During the same grocery shopping excursion I also picked up a Juan canary melon, which is another fruit I had never had before. I brought it home and put it on the counter to finish ripening. I named my Juan canary melon Old Yeller. While I ...
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• Cinderella Species Find Their Glass Slipper in Domestication

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 437
  I love old animated Disney movies, as well as the gruesome Brothers Grimm stories or Perrault fairy tales that most come from. One of the best has got to be “Cinderella,” with its talking mice and bad cat in the 1950 film and the grisly, on-the-fly foot surgery in the Grimm’s version. So I was pleased to see ...
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• It’s All Wrong But It’s All Right

  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog — Authority: 466
  I simply cannot get it out of my head. This fall is absolutely beautiful – from all the great color to the nearly perfect temperatures day after day. And though I wrote on a similar topic last post I must return to the gorgeousness of things again. To not go on and on about this fall would be a double sin no doubt. ...
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• { friday inspiration! }

  
  designvagabond — Authority: 127
  Inspired by... eco-conscious graffiti - "green" in more ways than one! By Jesse Graves: "I use mud or earth because it is a fundamental life-giving substance, logical for my messages. Mud stencils are an evolving medium, intended for art and social justice, not corporate advertisement." via Inhabitat
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