treehugger.com - 3/26/2009
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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 for pollination , and Rob Hopkins and the ...
sustainablog.org - 3/19/2009
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sustainablog.org —
ABC news’ Brian Hartman has reported what many
have been wishfully waiting to hear for months: the...
Obamas will soon plant an organic vegetable garden on the White House South grounds. Following a 60 Minutes interview with Chez Panisse ...
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White House to Plant Organic Vegetable Garden
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Clicklist: Hacks for locavores
green LA girl —
... >> Ready to recreate Michelle’s garden at your home? Consider first all the unsolicited gardening advice the first lady’s getting from gardeners and permaculturists, including, but not limited to, getting chickens already. ...
Urban Ag-gretations
Landscape+Urbanism —
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it's many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels - there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in the realm of city-based food production. :: image via The Infrastructurist The interesting and inevitable direction of any trend is the ...
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Tired of eating mealy tomatoes and bitter tasting carrots? Not always willing to pay a premium for organic veggies at the market? Or maybe you've just heard one too many stories about pesticides, or less nutrition in today's veggies .
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transitionculture.org 3/25/2009 — 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 ...
Have You Heard? There Will Be An Organic Food Garden At The White House!
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