Gardening for gold

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Gardening is an opportunity for young ones to feel & be useful.

You can plant and you can forage and you can get-by. Those are positive things. You’ll probably lose weight you’ve needed to shed anyway and regain strength you thought was gone forever; you’ll definitely gain a new perspective toward food and you’ll likely taste wonderful things you would never have otherwise experienced. Continue reading “Gardening for gold” »

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Food, inc. – a first glance

Food, inc. takes a fact-supported look at agribusiness. It’s not a pretty picture.

This book is a companion publication to the movie by the same name and includes much material and additional detail that simply could not be reasonably crammed, wedged, shoehorned or otherwise forced into the movie.

If, like me, you missed the movie, you want to get this book. Really … you want this book. If you saw the movie, you still want this book … because you’ve already forgotten most of the movie.

The impact of the food we eat on our health, the impact on those who produce it and the impact on our precious natural resources must be met by a personal determination to ‘do better’ with our food choices and practices.

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Make the world go away …

Or, at least, the uglier parts of it.

If you haven’t given any thought to becoming a Guerilla Gardener or, if you have thought about it but simply haven’t taken action, you really owe it to yourself to see how much beauty one guy with buck teeth has brought to Zurich, Switzerland.

http://www.maurice-maggi.ch/blumengraffiti/guerilla-gardening/ggtv-guerrilla-gardener-maurice-maggi-zurich/

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