Reading Round Up: Civet Edition

I finally created a facebook page for the website.  Please press the like button if you feel so inclined.

Here's a different application for hydrogel gardening that I mentioned in last week's reading round up.

The smell of pumpkin pie pie turns men on.

So the stranded cruise ship passengers were not served Spam, Carnival ended up giving it to the Navy.

I love simple technology like this, a low-cost color chart promotes fertilizer efficiency.

Why eating a lot feels so damn good.

Vegetable Harvest Report 12 2010

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Here's the last of the peppers for 2010.  I haven't even finished eating them and I miss them already.  I also harvested the last of the cherry tomatoes and the regular tomatoes, but they weren't worth consuming so I excluded them from the weigh-in and tossed them into the compost pile.  Now that the pepper and tomato plants have been removed from the garden the only thing left growing on the rooftop are the peas.

November 8-November 24:

Peas:  3.5 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  1 pound, 6.0 ounces

Weight Total:  1 pound, 9.5 ounces

Vegetable Harvest Total:  63 pounds,  8 ounces

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Reading Round Up: Carnival Splendor Edition

Stranded cruise ship passengers survive on Spam and Pop Tarts until they are towed to shore.

Hydroponics not your thing?  Try hydrogel gardening.  Here's more about hydrogel technology.

Listen to the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

Read about the history of the Slurpee.

First it was Vermont, now NYC gets its own mobile farm stand.

View some canned art at the 18th Annual CANstruction Competition, an international charity competition designed to raise hunger awareness during the Thanksgiving season.

Store your vegetables in a DIY root cellar.

Meet a new generation of lunch ladies.

Huntingon Ranch explores ways to grow food in a city setting.  I especially like the food forest idea.

A food hotel in Germany offers the next best thing to sleeping in the supermarket aisle.  Uh, ok.

If my garden hose ever breaks down maybe I'll make a basket out of it.

I think this is a sign of the apocalypse: hedge funds team up with personal injury lawyers to make money.

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Reading Round Up: Cooks Source Edition

A print magazine steals a blog's content, Internet mob justice ensues.

Mike Tyson is vegan.  Did you know this?  I didn't.  The article was interesting, but the comment thread on Huffington Post was what really held my attention.

What's your favorite part of the meal, entree or dessert?  For Thanksgiving you can have both at the same time: Thanksgiving Turkey Cake Recipe.  I can't decide if I'm horrified or intrigued.

Read and watch a video about a Farm School in Massachusetts.

Here come the vegivores.

A nutrition professor loses 27 pounds on a Twinkie diet.

Explore the connection between food and mood.

The owner of the Ohio farm that is source of a major egg recall is a repeat offender.

The fast food industry is helping to write UK health policy.

First it was the Little Tokyo, now it's the Fishy Farm.

Are you a night owl or an early bird?  Take the quiz to find out, I scored a 12.

Do you guys like these posts?  Should I continue with them?  If so, what about the number of links?  Too much, not enough, or just right?  Let me know your thoughts.

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Reading Round Up: Vegetable Butcher Edition

The future is now, Will Allen and Growing Power are building a vertical farm.  Read more here.

Grow food in a garden vending machine.

Visit the Bushwick City Farm.  You can also see their garden if you ride the elevated J/M train in Brooklyn, it's close to the Myrtle stop.

The White House vegetable garden has produced over a ton of food since its inception.

Here are the top ten US cities for urban gardening.

Meet some revolutionary Chinese organic farmers.

Guess who won the race for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture I mentioned in the previous reading round up.

Meet a vegetable butcher.

The US government sends mixed signals about cheese and fat.

NYC gets a Farm School.

A Texas food plant is closed for listeria contamination.

Man foils robbery with a squash.

My favorite story of the week: He's got a big turkey in his pants!

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Vegetable Harvest Report 11 2010

October 27-November 7:

Cherry Tomato:  1.8 ounces

Peas:  2.7 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  15.9 ounces

Weight Total:  1 pound, 4.4 ounces

Vegetable Harvest Total:  61 pounds,  14.5 ounces

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