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POPSCompost Pile Friends they may not look nice but they are big helpers (most of the time). However, if you are concerned about the food web in your compost pile "breaking out," try the following tips: 1. Create a barrier by spreading a line of wood ash (not barbecue ash because of fat residues) or crushed egg shells around your compost pile. This will keep the activity contained within the pile. 2. A similar, but more lethal technique, is to sink small margarine containers full of stale beer, molasses and water, or yeast and water in the ground around the compost pile. Unsuspecting slugs, sow bugs, and earwigs will be attracted to the liquid, crawl inside, and drown. Earwigs can be sprayed with a solution of one tablespoon of liquid soap detergent combined with one quart of water. This will kill the earwigs that are doing damage and spare the helpful bugs that are eating dead organic material. (information from California Integrated Waste Management Board)
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POPSExamples of San Francisco Bay Area Homeless Garden Projects
This is a garden in Santa Cruz.... but, don't be jealous San Franciscans.. who care about homeless life and plant life... we have all kinds of Garden Communities and Farms on the way now... A couple weeks ago, the SF First POWER group (homeless and formerly homeless peer advocates, already working to help others around the city, at the main library and outreach) and SF Project Homeless Connect and the Hayes Valley residents started a Garden Community at Octavia & Lily Streets. Here is a link to a 2 minute, intro video about the Octavia & Lily Garden Community in the Hayes Valley neighborhood, a few blocks north of Market Street. LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyBWmSjMiic 15 homeless (or formerly homeless) and 15 non-homeless residents are going to work together to build up community, grow food, share labor and share the fruits of their labor, TOGETHER ! Other community groups, artists, advocates and more SF POWER group members are already doing outreach to pro
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POPSWhy What's For Dinner May Be About to Change
Obama's 2010 federal budget reflect this, and sets aside a $1 billion annual increase for improving child nutrition in order to meet the President's goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015. Notably, the budget also includes language that -- according to the Administration -- "reflects the President's commitment to supporting independent producers... and investing in the full diversity of agricultural production, including organic farming and local food systems." The budget also increases funding for the National Organic Program, and removes direct payment subsidies for farms that pull in over $500,000 in revenue per year. This reduction in subsidies represents an important shift away from a commodities-based agriculture system where certain crops (namely corn and soy) permeate our food supply and serve as the primary ingredient in everything we eat, from processed snack foods to meat and cheese. As the Administration cuts back on these subsidies and promotes fruits and vegetables
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POPSThe $200 White House Vegetable Garden The Obamas are planting a vegetable garden on the White House lawn in an effort to publicize healthy eating. The seeds and mulch will cost $200 and they'll be able to harvest spinach, chard, collards and cilantro, among other things. Do you think this will educate the public about more healthful options or go largely unnoticed?
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POPSGoing GREEN - A Beautiful Cabbage - Images
I keep reading that in Ecuador, they are not limited to the kind of growing seasons we have here in the US. That got me thinking. When I was young, we used to "borrow land" for gardening. We lived in a subdivision, but the electric co-op let us freely use their land about 20 minutes away and till it up for gardens to our hearts' content. There was not one summer that we did not have our own cucumbers, tomatoes, and corn, ever! Why can't we do the same thing only on a global scale? Why can't the US go into Ecuador and just farm it up? Make a world-food co-op of sorts? Start feeding the world. The world will still have to buy the food, but at least there will be an abundance. Many countries could do this. Why not? In a land where they are not limited to growing seasons and you can plant strawberries right beside the cabbages, plenty of land to grow on, fertile soil, lots of room to live, it would even create jobs for the people there! "Organic in Ecuador -Farmed by the USA for YOU."
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POPSBiggest Little Garden: Harvesting Your Backyard Thanks to tanyamm for alerting us to The "Biggest Little Garden" idea practiced in New Westminster, B.C. I hope by "clipping" it here the idea will be cloned and shamelessly copied around Canada, North America, and the world. Such a simple idea... deserves to be copied! /e
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