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A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
transitionculture.org - 3/25/2009
A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
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If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook , it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White House lawn and turn it into a vegetable ...
The White House Vegetable Garden: A Permaculture Perspective
treehugger.com - 3/26/2009
The White House Vegetable Garden: A Permaculture Perspective
— treehugger.com — Image credit: Sunday Times The White House Garden - Permaculture Style Politics is an unforgiving arena -... everyone's a critic. No sooner had the Obama's announced their plans for a vegetable garden at the White House , even featuring bee hives ... (more) The White House Vegetable Garden: A Permaculture Perspective

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Planning the Vegetable Garden
1greengeneration.elementsintime.com - 3/31/2009
Planning the Vegetable Garden
— 1greengeneration.elementsintime.com — Planning The Edible Garden Two years ago, I designed my large 2,000 square foot garden space using... Microsoft Excel. It worked out ok, as I know the program pretty darn well with all the strategic planning, grant writing, and budgeting I’ve done over the years. Anyway, my plan looked ... (more) Planning the Vegetable Garden

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The White House Vegetable Garden: A Permaculture Perspective
TreeHugger — To be fair, my intro may be a little disingenuous. Nobody is saying that the newly announced vegetable garden is a bad thing. In fact Rob calls it "a fantastic development with enormous and potent symbolism." His post over at Transition Culture is actually hugely supportive of this initiative - but he does take the opportunity to offer a " friendly permaculture critique of the Obamas' vegetable garden ", discussing what might be done differently if the garden were designed from a permaculture perspective. Suggestions include putting the garden closer to the house, adding more ...

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