Tag: "Garden"

Planting the SEEDS
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Planting the SEEDS

If you recall several months ago (when I was still learning how a blog works, so forgive the sad little photos), I volunteered at the Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm for the Eastern Triangle Farm Tour. Several weeks ago, I did it again.

This time I volunteered at SEEDS in Durham, NC, a wonderful non-profit that focuses [...]

Art of Food Justice
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Art of Food Justice

I came across an interesting collaborative of artists working on different social movements: Just Seeds. They just came out with a series of posters on urban gardens, healthy cooking for youth, and urban food deserts. Check them out:
Food concerns more than nutrients; it concerns social and economic justice; it is empowerment, it is a change [...]

Pimped Out Plant
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Pimped Out Plant

Recently, I thought it might be a good idea to embark on some kind of gardening project to begin teaching our children about our ecosystem, farming and the importance of knowing where our food comes from.  My husband and I have no experience growing anything.  Wait a minute!  Wait!  My husband and I did manage [...]

Little Garden in the Big Apple
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Little Garden in the Big Apple

Community gardens ARE possible and they are wonderful things! Living in New York City, I was fortunate to live right across from Central Park. However, to afford living there, my apartment also was on the bottom looking into a courtyard, meaning zero light for plants. My body functions with natural light, so this was pretty [...]