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Sometimes I miss living in Seattle. I used to teach at a converted building dedicated to nonprofit orgs and low-income artist housing. There are similar endeavors in many cities, but in Seattle it’s everywhere and at the Good Shepherd Center, located a mile away from my former home, one of the tenants, Seattle Tilth, inspires and educates people to garden organically and consider urban chicken coops and beehives. My neighbors upstairs turned half our yard into a garden. Last week it held a workshop in Herbal Tea Gardening and on the 23rd it gives one on Composting for Apartment Dwellers. Take a look at the tenants inside this one building. Shouldn’t every city have one?
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The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision in 2005 to allow Monsanto Co. to sell the sugar beets, known as "Roundup-Ready" because they are engineered to coexist with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. 
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Sustainable Agriculture PDF Print E-mail
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Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labor demands to produce the majority of the food and fiber in the U.S.

Although these changes have had many positive effects and reduced many risks in farming, there have also been significant costs. Prominent among these are topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, the decline of family farms, continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm laborers, increasing costs of production, and the disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities.

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Seeking the Highest Degree PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rev. Dr. S. Conley   

As there are so many forms of Worship and Honoring ones Spiritual self and connection, there are also so many forms of difference. This is a tremendous opportunity for one to grow and expand by attempting to understand this difference. The harm comes in the form of In-Difference or the refusal to accept the fact "Different" is exactly that, different. Not right, not wrong, just different!

Personal growth opens when one begins to accept this basic fact and move beyond the limits,conditions and barriers of dogma and judgment. No one knows exactly, positively what is beyond this illusion of "life". We have ideas and concepts called "Faith" but no proof positive! To have Faith and a Spiritual belief is WONDERFUL yet it is also very personal and should NEVER be shunned.

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The True Cost of Cheap Food PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jeff Woodburn   

 

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Picking your own Apples PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kristina Caswell   

It’s odd to have grown up in New England and never picked my own apples. This past fall, I decided that it was way past time to try it. After visiting pickyourown.org, we selected a nearby orchard. On a beautiful September day, a group of us went to Gould Hill Apple Orchard in Contoocook, NH. The weather was balmy and the 5 of us piled in the truck and headed north, for a day of fresh air, exercise and bonding.

When we arrived, we were greeted by over 80 acres of apple trees in many different varieties. We paid for our bags and headed into the orchards. There are over 75 varieties of apple grown here, and each section is labeled by variety. The trees were at a perfect height for us to reach almost to the top for the beautiful red apples. The grounds were easy for us to walk on and in a very short period of time, we had amassed 5 pecks of different apples. We took our children with us and, at 4 and 5 years old, even they had an easy time picking apples and enjoyed it immensely.

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It’s Maple Syrup Season! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mary Smith   

If there was anything I could count on it was that every Saturday morning, when my dad made pancakes, that there would be a jar of Vermont maple syrup at the table as well. As a little girl I loved waking up on Saturday morning to the smell of sugar and the sound of cartoons. Upon waking I could taste the sweet maple syrup. It tasted like a foreign wilderness! I used to wonder if Vermont resembled the forest I had imagined Lucy Pevensie to have entered in the book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; a snow filled wonderland, freckled with maple trees just waiting to be tapped. Now, even though Saturdays are not the same, I still get a familiar feeling everytime I encounter maple syrup at the farmer’s market or a restaurant. Therefore, without further adue, I would like to announce, It’s Maple Syrup Season!

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