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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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Botanical Name of Fennel: Foeniculum vulgare. Zulu speakers call it Imboziso and in Afrikaans it is called Vinkel.

 

Growing Fennel
Fennel likes to grow in the full sun and is grown from seed in situ, where you want it to grow. It doesn’t like to be transplanted. Each fennel plant can grow up to a metre and a half high. It has little yellow flowers, which form the fruits or seeds. It is quite hardy and doesn’t required excessive water in order to flourish. Constant and vigorous picking of the leaves stimulates the bulb to form.
Antagonists of Fennel Plants like bean, caraway, coriander, dill, kohlrabi, pea, tomato, and wormwood find it difficult to flourish in the vicinity of Fennel. Usually the Fennel lands up in a corner somewhere producing its delicious bulbs.
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