Topic: Urban and Community Agriculture
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Michelle Obama: 8 food and garden tips, stories from the First Lady
8 stories and pieces of advice from Michelle Obama's new book 'American Grown'
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In Pictures: Urban gardens
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In Pictures: Detroit retooled
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In Pictures: Spring has sprung
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In Pictures: Earth Day 2011
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Michelle Obama: 8 food and garden tips, stories from the First Lady
8 stories and pieces of advice from Michelle Obama's new book 'American Grown'
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Stir It Up!
Cookbook review: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
Is it worth it to make your own bread? Let Jennifer Reese be your guide through the trials and triumphs of the homemade life.
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Change Agent
John-Paul Maxfield aims to put nutrients from food waste back into the soil
Waste Farmers collects organic waste and creates organic agricultural products like fertilizer, potting soil, biochar, and compost tea.
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Change Agent
Five innovations working to empower women
Women produce more than half of the world's food but face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping them – and strengthening the world's food system.
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Global News Blog
One village at a time in Haiti
The Boca Grande Hope for Haitians Committee raises funds to build self-sustaining villages complete with schools and water-treatment facilities in Haiti.
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Horizons
Twitter introduces new look, and new HQ
Twitter has a fresh new look, which extends to its website, its iOS and Android apps, and TweetDeck. Twitter is planning a physical as well as virtual expansion: a cavernous new headquarters with room for more than four times its current staff.
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Stir It Up!
A goat is a chef's best friend
Fairmont Hotels incorporate 'farm connections' to bring fresh, local tastes to their customers.
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Chapter & Verse
Michelle Obama's book on the White House garden coming in April
Michelle Obama, who's become known for her advocacy for healthy eating and exercise, will give tips to readers on how to start their own edible gardens.
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The rise of urban farming
Urban farming's trendy frugality is drawing converts in an age of economic uncertainty.
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In Pictures: Urban gardens
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Retooling the Motor City: Can Detroit save itself?
A retooling plan for Detroit – involving controversial razing, shrinking, and repurposing – is under way as the Motor City tries to save itself.
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In Pictures: Detroit retooled
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Change Agent
In Brooklyn, two farmers return to the roots of community gardening
Bushwick City Farms operates on an abandoned illegal dumpsite using castaway materials and hands on help from residents.
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Diggin' It
Vertical gardening with small vines
When gardeners are faced with tight spots, they can grow vertically, with vines. A garden designer recommends several good small vines.
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Diggin' It
Community gardening grows in popularity
When plots in a community garden are assigned, plenty of people turn up to claim one. Growing vegetables is very popular.
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Change Agent
Do urban farms reduce runoff and save water? Seeing Green is finding out
The Seeing Green project aims to show the value of urban farms in controlling runoff and reducing the burden of wastewater on cities.
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In Pictures: Spring has sprung
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Global News Blog
Indonesia's real-life Farmville
Rising food prices are galvanizing Jakarta's urban farming movement.
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In Pictures: Earth Day 2011
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Diggin' It
School gardens serve a vital purpose
School gardens may be small and sometimes not well-tended, but they are important to encourage environmental literacy and overcome 'nature deficit' in kids.
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Michelle Obama will write a book on her White House garden
Michelle Obama will write about what inspired her garden and will also share favorite Obama family recipes.
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Diggin' It
Urban gardens take root in unconventional places
In urban gardens from Chicago to San Francisco, enthusiastic growers make do with whatever space is available, no matter how unconventional. Carrots grown on a paved basketball court, anyone?
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Diggin' It
The joy and aggravations of community gardens
Growing veggies in a Chicago community garden is only partly about growing and much about getting along with other members of the community.
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5 books about chucking it all for country living
This is the time of year – when it’s been freezing for two months and the city is covered with dirty snow that won’t melt for another six weeks – that I dream of trading it all in for a simpler life. You know, one complete with farm animals, caves for aging cheese, and a vegetable garden large enough to supply all of Manhattan with frisée. I'll never do it – I can't really live without groceries delivered to my apartment, mass transit, and access to Korean food at all hours – but I can at least read about it. Here are five amazing, hilarious, utterly charming books brought to you by people, crazier, more desperate, and with even less impulse control than I: the ones who actually did it.
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Diggin' It
A living wall comes to Portsmouth, N.H.
Vertical gardens, or living walls, are becoming more and more popular. Here's one on a Portsmouth, N.H., restaurant.
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