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How does your vegetable vocabulary grow? (a quiz)
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Quick. How many vegetables can you name? Make a list and don't read below.According to the Center for Disease Control, less than a third of us eat the recommended amounts of daily veggies, and this is including fried potatoes (i.e. french fries) in the category. Part of ...
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6 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
America's post fast food era & Europe's oldskool land lovers
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"Don't you think America is preparing for a post-fast-food period whereas Europe is slowly entering the fast food period?", wrote my Belgian friend Veerle in an email last week. It's a big question so I'll back up and explain how we got to this point from a ...
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8 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
Sustainable yard: drip irrigation, thyme groundcover
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The days of installing sprinklers systems for large grass lawns may
be numbered in much of the United States. A growing public awareness
that water is a limited resource, especially in much of the West, is
causing many of us to rethink what we plant and how we water.Unless ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
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How to build a backyard greenhouse
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Once you've started growing your own food (if you haven't started yet, see our report American garden revolution, our video An urban Victory garden or our DIY How to grow a vegetable garden in a small space), the next step toward even more alimentary self-sufficiency and more hyper-local ...
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1 year, 1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
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A greywater system kitchen with marmoleum floors
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To create a sustainable kitchen, consider flooring with marmoleum and putting in a greywater system. Linoleum which hit the market 50 years ago as a product of natural oils has since become a petroleum-based product, but you can go retro with all natural marmoleum. And to water your garden with ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Vegetable garden in a tiny space, 100% re-used materials
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My garden has finally been started. It has been a long time now since I first decided to, but at least I didn't wait until mid-summer when it would be too late to plant. I built the planter entirely out of scrap wood I had saved from past hauling ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user 1 comments
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Growing a veggie garden in a small space
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You don't need much space to plant a veggie garden. If you just have a windowsill, you might want to opt for some herbs or if you have a sunny sliver of siding, you could hang a living wall. Financially, growing your own food makes sense: for every $1 ...
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1 year, 4 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies 1 comments
No, the garden has not been built yet
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Getting (slightly) closer to growing my own vegetables
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1 year, 4 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user 2 comments
At home with an accidentally-eco Spanish grandma
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On the list of carbon emissions per capita, Spain comes in at #51, far below the US, Canada, Norway and Australia (at 10, 11, 12 & 13, respectively). While it's been getting recognition as a world leader in solar and wind power, the country's eco-friendly customs don't get ...
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1 year, 5 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
John Muir Project
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The John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute wants to end all commercial logging in the United States forests, as John Muir himself envisioned more than a century ago.
Their immediate goal is to end all timber sales on federal public lands of the US and redirect the timber subsidies ...
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1 year, 6 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
