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Gardens not only allow you to grow fruits and vegetables, but also can be a way to grow your community. In this section, we give you tips on how to grow green as well as present you with ideas for community gardening.
Seeding New Urban Farmers!
Methods of Natural Pest Insect Control
GREEN GARDENING 101
Don't like the idea of spraying your fruit and vegetable plants with harmful pesticides? Neither do we. Luckily, Grant Estrade from Laughing Buddha Nursery has given us information on methods of natural pest insect control including repellents and organic pesticides. Plus learn about bad bugs and good bugs.
'Slow foods' help make fast friends
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August 29. 2007 - LA Times - Samuel J. Green Charter School is home to 360 lower- and middle-school students, nearly all of them poor. Principal Tony Recasner still seems a little amazed that his modest campus would be the latest outpost of the trendy "slow foods" movement extolled by celebrity restaurateur Alice Waters. Grow Kids Grow!We love the edible schoolyard program at Samuel J. Green Charter school. We think that if it can work in one New Orleans school, it can work in all of them.A great way to get to this goal is Parkway Partners' schoolyard gardens program. So far, the program has started gardens at Lusher, Benjamin Franklin, McDonough 15, Lafayette Academy, Edward Hynes School and The International School of Louisiana.
Part 2 of a mini doc about the new Orleans' edible schoolyard. (See part 1.)
Video created by DocNo Productions Plant Power to the PeopleGuerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture.Activists take over ("squat") an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. Composting - Making Trash into Treasure
GREEN GARDENING 101
This installment of Green Gardening focuses on Composting. Do you have a fruit tree in your backyard? If so, with composting, you can eat the fruit, compost the "waste" into fertilizer that you can give to the tree so it can give you fruit that you can eat and compost... We tell you what/what not to put in the compost and links to D.I.Y. bins.
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