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The Crunchy Grape Harvest

Urban Farming
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We’ve been eating the first few grapes in the last week, but the big harvest is still a week or two away, and the rainy days we’ve been getting in Liguria lately aren’t speeding things up.

Container Garden Ideas

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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I was lucky enough last weekend to spend a day at the Cleveland Botanical Garden with my mother and a group of gardening friends.

Wild Country Discovery

Homesteading
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I’m sorry to have been out of touch for so long, but several weeks ago my husband and I decided to unplug from our computers, TV and coffee-maker (oh, the agony) to embark on an off-farm backpacking adventure.

A Fig Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Urban Farming
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Courtesy Reverend DeVanie Jackson Chef Noah Sheetz with Reverends Robert and DeVanie Jackson organized the fig jam in Brooklyn. A tree grows in Brooklyn — a fig tree, that is, and in Bedford Stuyvesant, no less. In 2004, when the Rev. Robert Jackson and the Rev. DeVanie Jackson had finally trudged through the red tape […]

Revamp Your Garden with a Garden Coach

Crops & Gardening
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Spruce up your home’s garden landscape with cultivation advice from professional gardeners.

Denver Distributes Trees to Communities

Urban Farming
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Courtesy The Park People The city of Denver’s Denver Digs Trees program distributes trees to neighborhoods twice a year—once in the fall and once in the spring. If a tree falls in Denver chances are very good someone will plant one back in its place. That’s due, in large part, to Denver Digs Trees, a […]

Rio Goes to Camp

Urban Farming
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University of Kentucky Solar House

Urban Farming | Video |
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Students from the University of Kentucky built a solar house for the 2009 Solar Decathlon with sustainability and liveability in mind.

Favorite Farmers’ Market Results In

Urban Farming
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Courtesy Stock.XCHNG American farmers’ market shoppers casted their votes for their farmers’ market. Last month, farmers’ market goers across the nation entered their picks for their favorite farmers’ markets as part of a contest by American Farmland Trust. “Over 50,000 people from across the country voted for their favorite farmers’ markets this summer,” says Jane […]

Figs and Olives

Urban Farming
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Fall means the figs are ready to pick and preparations for the huge olive harvest here are just starting.

Chicken Chores

Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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I once read an article (and I think it was actually in a long-ago issue of Hobby Farms) where the author stated that the term "free-range chicken” really means "crap-everywhere chicken.” Spot on, my friend.

Food Souvenirs

Urban Farming
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