Sunday, April 10, 2011

Organic News 04-10-11


Landscaping in the modern age
Chambersburg Public Opinion
Another modern trend is the increase in the use of organic fertilizers. They are more expensive that hemical-based types, but a natural-based fertilizer is "the best way to promote plant health and vigor" and the ecosystem, Kelsey said. ...
Humans may owe more than smooth feet to pumice, claim scientists
Telegraph.co.uk
“Osmotic gradients would also have seen other important organic chemicals accumulate inside these vesicles. What we end up with is a substrate that provides all the conditions for the first living cells to form.” Professor Brasier and his colleagues ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Meet Eve Kaplan: Organic Farmer, Garden of Eve
Patch.com
Our goal has always been to be able to farm and also be a sustainable living for us as farmers. Long Island is a very expensive place to live. And we're a young business and also a young family. So we have those typical costs – a house to pay off and ...
Rare-Plant Auction Raises Money for Plant Research and Living Laboratories
GardenNews.biz (press release)
A program of the Chicago Botanic Garden, Windy City Harvest is an organic vegetable and plant production enterprise that provides instruction in sustainable horticulture and urban agriculture to.
Kinkade writes as well as he paints in new novel
News Chief
There is the quaint tearoom and adjoining lending library, the Bramble antique shop, of course, the general store and a new interest -- the Gilroys' goat farm specializing in goad cheese and organic herbs. Two main characters step into major roles ...
It's a Green Day in Bethesda on Earth Day 2011
Patch.com
Continue on down past the old McCormick Paints store and think about the great local and organic beer and wine that Francis Namin will carry when he opens Beer, Wine & Co. later this spring – a companion store to his nearby restaurant Food, Wine & Co. ...
Dine Out Maine: Apollo's Bistro worth the road trip to Waterville
Press Herald
International and broad wine list of 16 whites (six by glass), 26 reds (12 by glass, all $6 to $8); several organic selections. Four beer choices in bottles; five dessert wines. BOTTOM LINE: Delicious small plates, homemade pastas, and meat or seafood ...

Press Herald
The "New Vegans"
The Spoof (satire)
I mean organic life - animals, plants, anything that has ever lived. We refuse to eat or harm any living thing. I don't even use bleach to clean the toilet for fear of killing the bacteria there." They live off sand, soil, household furniture and ...