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Growing to extremes	5.5.2009	Arizona Daily Sun
When he was a fourth-grader in Ohio, Jim Mast decided to grow watermelons.
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Growing to extremes	5.5.2009	Custom Search
When he was a fourth-grader in Ohio, Jim Mast decided to grow watermelons.
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Kraft Profit Rises on Cost Cuts and Price Hikes	5.5.2009	NY Times: Business
The company posted first-quarter profit of $662 million, beating analysts’ estimates.
Cancer patients: Beware extreme diets	5.5.2009	Guardian: Science
Cancer survivors who adopt "extreme diets" to try to stop the disease returning are wasting their time and may even be harming their health, experts warn. Dietary regimes which urge cancer patients to drink only fruit and vegetable juice, avoid meat or dairy products or take large doses of supplements may be popular, but will not work, according to the World Cancer Research Fund. A significant, but unknown, number of the 2 million Britons who have been diagnosed with some form of the disease turn to alternative diets in a bid to prevent a recurrence once they have been given the medical all-clear, cancer charities say. Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at the WCRF, which is renowned for its research into preventing the ...
Sustainability Tip of the Week: Turn kitchen waste into gold	4.5.2009	Arizona Daily Sun
Leaves, kitchen scraps, newspaper and garden trimmings can all become garden gold through composting. It's an easy and healthy way to make organic fertilizer for your yard and can help you reduce the amount of garbage you generate by 25 percent.
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New gardeners learn it's a dirty job	3.5.2009	Chicago Tribune: Real Estate
PHILADELPHIA -- One of the first, and most humbling, lessons of the garden is weather. You can't control ...
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Up on the farm	3.5.2009	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Liana Ghiron of Newton, Hazel Edwards of Acton, and Tori Gitten of Wayland could have spent their spring school vacations at the mall. Instead, they worked six-hour days at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, tending baby goats, mucking out animal pens, and even coaching an uncooperative 500-pound Jersey calf down a country lane.
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Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Given Fire to an International Movement	1.5.2009	AlterNet
The first garden has spurred a race to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts.
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Ciscoe Morris says it's time to feed the grass and plant broccoli	30.4.2009	Seattle Times: Top stories
Ciscoe Morris says May is the time to fertilize the grass in the Seattle area and plant broccoli. The Northwest Natural Yard Days sale is coming to an end this year.
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Stephanomics	30.4.2009	BBC News: AsiaPacific
What is the potential economic impact of swine flu?
Dine & Dash: finding gold in Oro Valley	30.4.2009	Tucson Citizen
The 2009 Art in Oro Valley Competition & Exhibition runs through April 30 at Ventana Medical Systems, 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, with viewing hours from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.
Gardening: Plant sales are blooming	29.4.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
Blake Glover, owner of Cozydale Farms, thought the order for 30,000 seedlings was a mistake, but it was no error. Wasatch Community Gardens has more than doubled its order of plants the number of plants it has ordered for its May 9 sale and fundraiser.
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Austerity chic	28.4.2009	The Economist
Grocers will suffer in a new era of parsimony SOCIOLOGISTS wanting to understand modern societies could do worse than study their shopping baskets. There is far more to supermarket shopping than just the dry, rational transactions of the mythical Homo economicus. Partly cultural, partly emotional, shopping reveals much about our societies and where we fit into them. One of the area’s fundamental sociological observations is Engel’s law, devised by a 19th-century statistician: it states that as their incomes rise, households spend a declining part of their income on food. In modern times, rising incomes coupled with food-price deflation have had a profound effect on shopping habits in rich countries. For instance, British families ...
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Wash. grower has all-organic peaches, nectarines	27.4.2009	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
One of the Pacific Northwest's largest fruit growers has had 100 percent of its peach and nectarine crops certified as organic, following a three-year transition period.
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Washington state grower Stemilt has all its peaches, nectarines certified organic	27.4.2009	Star Tribune: Business

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Hospitals adding fresh, organic food to the menu	27.4.2009	LA Times: Health
More hospitals in the U.S. are offering organic produce and hormone- and antibiotic-free meats and dairy foods in response to a trend toward healthier eating habits. The days of bland chicken, reconstituted potatoes, frozen peas and a side of syrupy, canned peaches appear to be coming to a close at a growing number of hospitals across the U.S.
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Minnesota among leaders in organic farming	25.4.2009	Minnesota Public Radio: Business
Minnesota ranks high on a couple of measures of organic farming.
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Minnesota Ranks No. 5 In Organic Acres Harvested	25.4.2009	WCCO: Local News
Minnesota ranks high on a couple measures of organic farming.
Maine eyes new spray warnings	24.4.2009	Boston Globe: Latest
Maine lawmakers are considering several bills to further regulate pesticide spraying, including one to require notification of residents within a quarter-mile of spray areas. The agriculture committee took up the bills Thursday.
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Green building a natural fit	24.4.2009	Chicago Tribune: Real Estate
Good Karma chief invokes Dalai Lama Picture the typical new house. Then, erase the paints and finishes containing VOCs (volatile organic compounds). Delete all products made with toxic glues and adhesives. Remove woods from non-sustainable sources. Now, you can begin to envision a Good Karma Construction home, which is rife with green products and rid of products that harm or deplete the ...
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