Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Reading Round Up: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Edition
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What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?
Greener times bring soap sprays back into fashion for gardeners battling pests
Stop Ripping Up Your Lawn To Grow Veggies
How One Man’s Invention Changed Food Access World-Wide
McDonald's To Debut The McBaguette In France
The 2 Million SHU Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Growing Tips for Rooftop Vegetable Gardening
Welcome to Bucolic Bushwick. Here you'll find advice on rooftop vegetable gardening, as well several plans for DIY self watering planters. Please share this page with others and help spread the vegetable gardening movement.
To celebrate my 5th gardening (and blogging) anniversary I've compiled a list of tips I wish someone told me before I started growing food on a rooftop.
To celebrate my 5th gardening (and blogging) anniversary I've compiled a list of tips I wish someone told me before I started growing food on a rooftop.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Reading Round Up: Headless Chicken Solution Edition
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£200,000 test-tube burger marks milestone in future meat-eating
Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules' as a Stop-Motion Animation Video
Brown Rice Syrup Puts Arsenic In Organic Foods
Human-Made Photosynthesis to Revolutionize Food and Energy Production
Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Indoor Gardening Adventures Continue!
Last week I started a small indoor vegetable garden. My fall planted soybeans and carrots did not work on the roof so I'm trying again on the windowsill. So far I've successfully grown swiss chard, radishes and beets indoors, now I'm trying a few more vegetable varieties.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Reading Round Up: Sliced Bread Edition
World Consumers Doubtful About Food Safety, UL Study Finds
Military Wants to Boost National Defense With Healthier Foods for Troops
Should Public Trees Bear Fruit?
Food Cart Factory
Will You Take The 2012 Urban Farm Handbook Challenge?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Reading Round Up: Double Dipping Edition
Is Universal Access to Good, Healthy Food Really a Problem?
Frito Pie and the Chip Technology that Changed the World
Cancer 'slowed by cooked tomatoes'
Aquaponics Start-Up in Long Island City Dreams Big
An Easy—and Now Proven—Way to Get People to Eat Better Foods
Thursday, February 2, 2012
DIY Fly Trap
This isn't gardening related, but it was so effective, easy and frugal I thought it was worth sharing anyway.