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Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around, a village, town or city. Urban agriculture in addition can also involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, agro-forestry and horticulture. These activities als... More from Wikipedia
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YWCA to Expand Urban Farming Initiative in Evanston, Illinois

YWCA Evanston/North Shore. The YWCA said the program will help empower local women. By Jessica Rudis Evanston Patch Jan 27, 2... Similar stories ...
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green leafy vegetables in our little garden.

Leafy vegetables, leafy greens, sayur hijau all refer to the same thing. Plant leaves are eaten as vegetables, either raw as ... Similar stories ...
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Top 10 Urban Farming books

I wanted to create a list of essential Urban Farming books for those who are just starting out as well as for the more experi... Similar stories ...
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RAIN!

Prayers were answered not once but twice last last!   We enjoyed a few days of rain - what a blessings!  Forecaster are predi... Similar stories ...
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roselle after two months here.

Any new vegetable gardener should include roselle in the list of plants, simply because of it's zest to keep growing. While o... Similar stories ...
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SMART METERS REALLY SMART?

There's a controversy cropping up over the new smart meters in cities  all across AmericaA concerned reader asked us the foll... Similar stories ...
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Urban Farming Essentials: Authors of a New, Definitive Guide Tell All

After Novella Carpenter’s critically acclaimed memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer came out, she and friend Wi... Similar stories ...
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Growing cabbages in Johor

The four cabbages are Ok..., leaves getting bigger. I did regularly posts on cabbages following their phases and stages in Pu... Similar stories ...
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Long red chili have a go.

The bigger space I am currently enjoying offers room for multi-adventure in vegetable gardening. But one thing I am very muc... Similar stories ...
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Western Bluebirds I think the two guys are wooing the female... taking her to the local watering hole / pub. She must be hot ... Similar stories ...
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Edwin Marty and Urban Farming in Montgomery, Alabama

Winter greens in raised boxes. Downtown Montgomery is off to the left of this picture. Photo by Caroline Nabors Rosen. Growin... Similar stories ...
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HANKY, ANYONE?

1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionThere’s an old Irish proverb that says, “always carry two handkerchi... Similar stories ...
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Raising Trashcan Tilapia is Latest Trend in Urban Farming

Tilapia in the Bronx. Urban farmer Christopher Toole teaches children how to grow fish and vegetables at The Point in Hunts P... Similar stories ...
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OF THE TWO BASILS

We had grown two different type of basil before. One with whitish flowers and the other slightly purplish. There is a new typ... Similar stories ...
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Food Legacy features on Radio 4 Food Programme

Radio 4 investigates food for the London 2012 Olympics, and interviews Sustain, which coordinates the Food Legacy programme i... Similar stories ...
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The Big Smoke�s Best Banger

The Jellied Eel magazine is teaming up with London Farmers' Markets to get Londoners to choose their favourite local farmers�... Similar stories ...
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HOMEGROWN MUSIC GIVEAWAY

Last January was when I made a resolution to RE-learn guitar.   I'd fiddled around when I was younger but resolved myself tha... Similar stories ...
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THE FATE OF GRAPE VINES.

It used to be two grape vines in Tanah Merah, our former house. They had to endure 9 hour long distance travel. One died, an... Similar stories ...
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STRAIGHT RAZOR SHAVING

FACT: The U.S. EPA estimates that 2 billion disposable razors are tossed each year.We live in a outrageously disposable socie... Similar stories ...
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Real Bread workshop for Bristol teachers and cooks

On Tuesday 21 February, Square Food Foundation (formerly the Cookery School at Bordeaux Quay) hosts a one-off workshop in sup... Similar stories ...
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Celebrity Real Bread baker Tom Herbert launches Bake Your Lawn

On Monday 23 January 2012, Real Bread Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert sows the Bake Your Lawn challenge for schools around Br... Similar stories ...
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Stand Up & Be Counted!

Fellow Chicagoans, it’s that time of year again – time to cast your vote in the annual One Seed Chicago campaign!... Similar stories ...
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Vegetable Garden maturing

It's slightly over two months since we arrived here, Pasir Gudang Johor. Weather is getting slightly drier, no more daily sho... Similar stories ...
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New ideas and thoughts are always popping in my head, it's like a three (more like five) ring circus.   Of course, I'm haven'... Similar stories ...
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Hello Snow

Finally, after a dry winter thus far, it’s snowing. It’s been coming down steadily all day, and there’s a f... Similar stories ...
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SEED STARTING TIPS & TRICKS

I've been asked countless times how do you know how deep to plant seeds.   A simple and very effective way to figure out how ... Similar stories ...
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DARN IT!

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.  ~Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851Make Do and MendI have a love affair wit... Similar stories ...
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Cycling Again!

In the two months since I posted to this blog I’ve moved and done lots of shopping and planning for my new home and gar... Similar stories ...
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RECYCLING FUNDRAISER

Our family is looking forward to 2012 with a mixture of uncertainty and excited anticipation. It's a new year and there are n... Similar stories ...
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POULTRY CARE IN WINTER

Though in some parts of the country it doesn't FEEL like winter and here in the Southland we are experiencing some record bre... Similar stories ...
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New Year, New Plans

Hey All, I hope you had a great holiday season! We had a wonderful first Christmas with Baby Apartment Farmer and a nice low-... Similar stories ...
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Rise in communities growing their own food to beat recession

A new report explores the rise of the new urban market gardener making money out of the hunger for ultra-local food. Similar stories ...
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Mayor awards Capital Growth�s food growing 'heroes'

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PAUSE

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”-Henry David ThoreauAs our weekly Sabbath day ... Similar stories ...
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HOMESTEAD BLESSINGS COOKBOOK

Home Cooking with our homesteading Tennessee friends, the West Ladies, is a beautiful 218 page book with over 150 tasty and u... Similar stories ...
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Urban Farming in Taiwan

Hsintien, Taiwan. Photo by Patrick Coswill. 2 Photos by Patrick Coswill Taipei, Taiwan. Photo by Patrick Coswill. Link here. Similar stories ...
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HOME INDUSTRY: Cottage Food Bill

A “Cottage Food Production Operation” involves a person using their own kitchen facility to produce food items that are not p... Similar stories ...
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Dodgiest junk food marketing claims of the year

In a poll of a thousand people organised by the Children's Food Campaign, Chupa Chups lollipops were declared winners of the ... Similar stories ...
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DECEMBER & YEAR HARVEST TALLY

Drum roll please.....The 2011 harvest "weigh in" is in!   We  also have THREE winners who will receive a Little Homestead in ... Similar stories ...
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Hospital patients served healthier food in Wales than in England

Good Food for Our Money campaign survey shows massive public support for introduction of legally-binding hospital food standa... Similar stories ...
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pokok kantan, a different ginger

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Zimbabwe: Urban Farming Vital to Food Security, but . . .

Published by the government of Zimbabwe in The Herald Editorial The Herald Jan 3, 2012 [Note from Wikipedia: The Herald has f... Similar stories ...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR: another gardening adventure

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Harvest Monday - January 2, 2012

This is my first harvest report of the new year so I get to report the final harvests of 2011 and the first harvests of 2012.... Similar stories ...
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I RESOLVE?

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.  ~Thomas Foxwell BuxtonIt's that time of year... Similar stories ...
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HOMESTEAD HELPERS: Cleaning Stove

Vintage Kleenoff Jelly ad via alsis35 on Flickr.Do you know that there is a way to clean your stove without any chemicals?  I... Similar stories ...
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Renee's Garden Seed Trials - Beets

Two of the five varieties of beets that I grew this year were from Renee's Garden Seeds. Golden Beet from Renee's Se... Similar stories ...
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21st CENTURY PIONEER

A lot of people wonder how we manage to do so much, why are we doing this and how did we learn what we have.  They also wonde... Similar stories ...
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SECOND HAND ROSE

"New" skirt, had to take it in at the waist since it was a wee bit too big at XL when I wear S-MI’m wearing second hand hats ... Similar stories ...
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More vegetables to add.

Germinating indoor is useful during rainy season, where one can guarantee seeds let out roots and leaves popping up, and not ... Similar stories ...
December 26th 2011 · Like · Save · Comment · Share · Flag
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Merry Christmas – With Cocoa!

I’m sitting on the sofa next to our lovely lighted Christmas tree, all aglow with multi-colored orbs that illuminate th... Similar stories ...
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WINTER’S GREETING

“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some” ― Char... Similar stories ...
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GARDEN REPORT

Salvaged wood...Turned into raised bedsWhile some of the plants are on winter hiatus, we human's work has only just begun!Eve... Similar stories ...
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carpentry work for garden use.

It is all about putting ideas together, and seeing it through. Carpentry work is my other passion. Who need 20,000 dollar equ... Similar stories ...
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