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Food is Free: Growing Food & Community in the Front Yard!

Food is Free: Growing Food & Community in the Front Yard!

Vertical Veg — Grow your own vegetables DIY $2 self-watering garden bed - Grow produce easily, even in the toughest drought conditions - NaturalNews.com Thursday, June 26, 2014 by: Carolanne WrightTags: self-watering garden bed, sustainable agriculture, drought conditions (NaturalNews) "When life gives you lemons, share them with neighbors!" enthuses the Food is Free Project, a grassroots organization based out of Austin, Texas. The project isn't advocating sharing bad luck; instead, it's championing the idea of connecting neighbors and communities with a bounty of free, homegrown fresh produce. It all began as a single, front yard organic vegetable garden with a sign explaining that the food was free for the taking. The founders of the project realized that most people don't grow their own food because of financial considerations, as well as the time it takes to maintain the plot. A zany video demonstrating how to build the raised bed, along with a wealth of other gardening resources, can be found at the Food is Free Project website. As wisely observed by Buckminster Fuller, "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

Achtung die Stadt! - Sternstunde Philosophie Die einen haben Angst vor ihr, andere suchen sie in der Agglomeration, und dritte fühlen sich magisch von ihr angezogen: die Stadt. Juri Steiner diskutiert mit den beiden Stadtexperten Anna Schindler und Philip Ursprung über urbane Bedürfnisse, Werte und Utopien der Schweizer Stadt- und Raumplanung. Städte sind dynamisch: Sie schrumpfen, wachsen, passen sich an geographische, klimatische, politische und wirtschaftliche Situationen an. Aber bewegen sich die Seelen der Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner mit der Stadt? Urbanisten sagen, dass die Abneigung der Schweizerinnen und Schweizer gegen alles Wuchtige städtische Architektur hierzulande kaum möglich mache. Die Stadtentwicklerin Anna Schindler und der Architekturhistoriker Philip Ursprung erzählen vom Stadt-Land-Graben, den Herausforderungen des ebenso komplexen wie faszinierenden Systems Stadt und man in der Schweiz von den Favelas in der Dritten Welt alles lernen könnte. Dienstag, 12. VHS- oder DVD-Bestellung direkt: sternkopien@srf.ch

Cómo hacer 10 Fungicidas y pesticidas naturales y caseros para el jardín. El Aceite blanco es un plaguicida fácil y barato de preparar. Se utiliza para controlar pulgones, cochinilla, minador de cítricos, ácaros y orugas en las rosas, plantas ornamentales, cítricos y otros árboles frutales. Los insecticidas comerciales blancos de petróleo que se venden en tiendas de jardinería son a base de petróleo, por lo que son bastante caros, y también contienen el tipo de cosas que realmente no quieres rociar alrededor de tu jardín. El Aceite blanco es un aceite vegetal tradicional y ha estado en uso durante alrededor de dos siglos. Si funcionó todo el tiempo, aún funciona ahora!Cómo hacer Aceite blanco Necesitarás: - 2 tazas de aceite vegetal - 1/2 taza de jabón líquido puro ( jabón puro de Castilla, hecho a partir de aceite de oliva si quieres mantener todo natural) - Frasco vacío o botella de boca ancha - Botella de aerosol de plástico Verter el aceite vegetal y jabón líquido en una botella o frasco y agitar hasta que la mezcla se vuelva blanco. Necesitarás:

ThriveLiving Dorms Tell us how you got started painting graffiti? It was the summer between 8th and 9th grade. I had just moved from Los Angeles to San Diego. My pop still lived up in Los Angeles and every other weekend I had to go visit him. I remember staring out the window and seeing all the graffiti on the freeways of LA in the '80s. When I moved to San Diego I rode my skateboard to a ditch with a homey from school and bombed it up with some wack shit. Who were some of your early influences? Well when I first started I gotta say Gkae, Chunk, Siner and Brail I didn't really start doing anything substantial until I met Huge, Fokus, and Chie. What do think about bombing, and street writers versus legal walls. That is a double-edged sword for sure. How to you feel about Graffiti on the Internet? When I started writing there was no Internet, and mags were pretty hard to come by. Any good chase stories? In like 1998 I was living in Berkeley. I love rocking big walls and productions with themes and backgrounds.

5 Pasos simples para crecer semillas de Manzana Los beneficios de sembrar, cultivar y plantar dentro del hogar, dependiendo del tamaño del mismo y de las necesidades de sus habitantes, es muy grande. Tales son los beneficios que se puede destacar en primer lugar el hecho de tener comida saludable, sin químicos ni conservantes, y nunca mejor dicho, al alcance de la mano. Los beneficios de comer una fruta o verdura recién salida de la huerta aporta muchísimos nutrientes y aporta las vitaminas esenciales que necesita nuestro organismo, evitando el consumo de tóxicos y contaminantes que abundan hoy en día. Cómo crecer Semillas de Manzana. 1.- Elige una manzana que te gusta y guarda las semillas. Colóquelas en una toalla de papel húmeda y luego dóblala en cuatro partes. 2.- Ahora planta los brotes en pequeños recipientes llenos de tierra para macetas. 3.- Cuando la planta sea lo suficientemente grande, plantarla al aire libre cuando pueda conseguir alrededor de 12 horas de luz solar por día. 5.

7-Sauces-That-Taste-Better-Homemade.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=MG_7ST_20140716&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT Two weeks ago I provided nine nonbeef burger recipes. Consider these recipes an addendum: homemade alternatives to the bottled and jarred condiments that are lined up like summer’s foot soldiers on our refrigerator doors. Why spend time making your own condiments? A legitimate question, even for cooks who embrace the D.I.Y. mentality that yields things like homemade salad dressings, salsas and hummus, all of which could be considered “condiments” in their own right. But when it comes to ketchup and its brethren — relish, barbecue sauce and the like — most of us cave and revert to the store-bought versions. Resist that impulse. My ketchup, for example, is a respite from the commercial brands laden with high-fructose corn syrup. None of these can languish in your fridge for months on end, which is what happens when you don’t load things up with preservatives.

Interview with Graffiti Writer MONE | Alternative Control MONE is a New York City graffiti writer and Freight King who’s been in the game for over two decades, before it became the latest trend. Starting out in the streets of Mount Vernon, New York in the late 1980s he progressed from bombing walls to painting freights in the early 1990s. His pieces are recognized from coast to coast. I recently had the opportunity to interview MONE about his graffiti work back in the day and the current state of street art. VM – When did you start painting and what inspired you to pick up a spray can for the first time? MONE – I grew up in New York in the early 1980s, which was a really different time than now. VM – Did anyone take you under their wing when you were coming up? M – JENT taught me the most when I was young. VM – Do you prefer to paint with other writers or solo? M – It depended on my mood. VM – Who would you say is the most underrated writer? M – Of the writers that I personally saw painting I would have to say Vet TMC. M – No.

Cómo hacer un semillero de tomates, pimientos y berenjenas En esta entrada del blog, quiero mostraros una forma muy sencilla en la podemos hacer semilleros en primavera de los cultivos estrella del verano. Es importante que hagamos los semilleros al principio de la primavera, para que no nos pille el toro a la hora de querer ponerlos en tierra y no hayan crecido lo suficiente. Debemos tener claro la cantidad de tomates, pimientos o berenjenas que queremos trasplantar, para saber la cantidad de semillas o variedades que podemos poner. Por eso mismo siempre es importante que hagamos una pequeña planificación de los cultivos que vamos a poner en cada temporada. Más o menos estarán en el semillero unos dos meses, o un mes y medio, posteriormente los pasaremos a tierra. Así pues aunque yo no uso semilleros tradicionales, mas bien estas cajas de poliespan, que me encantan , ya tenemos todo listo para empezar nuestros semilleros, solo nos falta conseguir las semillas y un poco de humus. Ver en YouTube

mag06-eat Standing over a grill full of hamburgers with a spatula in one hand and a beer in the other is about as American as it gets. So patriotic is this summer ritual that it’s easy to forget how far burger culture extends beyond American soil. (The hamburger is named for a German city, after all.) Countless cuisines feature their own versions, which, in plenty of cases, are better, or at least more interesting, than our default. Regardless of the final product, you’re best off if you grind your own meat. Doneness, of course, is a matter of preference. For all of these, begin by starting a charcoal or gas grill; the fire should be moderately hot (very hot for tuna) and the rack about four inches from the heat source.

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