Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition [Survival Today - an On going Thread #3]

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Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.

To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.

The Frugal Roundup

How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)

Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)

Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)

Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)

40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)

Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)

5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)

A Few Others I Enjoyed

* 4 Quick Tips for Getting Out of a Rut * Young and Cash Rich * Embracing Simple Style * First Trading Experience With OptionsHouse * The Exponential Power of Delayed Consumption * How Much Emergency Fund is Enough? * 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind * Save Money On Car Insurance

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This message contains the following:

1. Scuba Diving Buoyancy Compensators Recalled by Ocean Management Systems Due to Drowning Hazard

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10208.html

2. Gogo Sports Recalls Children’s Hooded Sweatshirts with Drawstrings Due to Strangulation Hazard

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10209.html

3. ICON Health & Fitness Recalls Inversion Benches Due to Fall Hazard

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10210.html

4. Jo-Ann Stores to Pay $50,000 Civil Penalty for Violating Federal Lead Paint Ban

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10207.html

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Showdown in the garden patch - one neighbour’s garden is another neighbour’s blight

When Sara St. Vincent looks at the tangle of yellow kale flowers swaying in her
front yard, she sees a nutritious vegetable, soon to be part of her dinner plate.

What her neighbour, Ken Dyck, sees are unsightly weeds, eating away at his property
values.

A messy urban conflict has erupted on a quiet east Vancouver street, pitting a lawn-loving
homeowner against a group of young counterculture renters who’ve turned their front
and backyards into vegetable crops.

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Making urban farming legal

The crow of roosters in New York City neighborhoods is an increasingly familiar
sound, as is the chatter of gardeners working in community plots on rooftops and
abandoned lots. NYC and other metro areas around the nation are engaging with the
organic agriculture movement to establish local food systems that address concerns
of food deserts, childhood obesity and inequality of access to fresh, healthy, whole
foods.

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Is urban agriculture the way of the future, or simply a hobby for people who have
backyards?

This year has been declared the year of urban agriculture in Seattle.

Is urban agriculture
more than just growing food in P-Patches and backyard gardens? What is local government
doing to support food production within the city? Some urban areas in Asia produce
more than 60 percent of their food within city limits. Could Seattle be that fertile?

Is urban agriculture the way of the future, or simply a hobby for people who have
backyards?

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400 Woolly Pockets in 40 foot long edible wall

Last Thursday, Earth Day, Woolly Pockets installed a giant (40’X8’) “Living Green
Wall” of edible plants and lush Native New York plant species on the Southern plaza
of Union Square in New York City.

The project was in conjunction with New York Restoration
project for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

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Cities Grapple with Rise of Urban Agriculture

PITTSBURG, PA (WEKU) - Urban agriculture is growing. And its not just city-dwellers
frequenting farmer’s markets for their vegetables, eggs and honey - more of them
are interested in growing or cultivating it themselves. That’s leaving officials
scrambling for ways to regulate the new farmer that’s cropping up in American cities,
farmers like Jana Thompson.
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture

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1. Simplicity Cribs Recalled by Retailers; Mattress-Support Collapse Can Cause Suffocation and Strangulation

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10211.html

2. Graco(r)-Branded Drop Side Cribs Made by LaJobi Recalled Due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10212.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

PEDIATRIC INFLUENZA VACCINE - NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA: ADVERSE REACTIONS
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org

Date: Wed 28 Apr 2010
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Press Association
(NZPA) report [edited]
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/five-nz-kids-react-to-flu-vaccine-20100428-trpw.html

New Zealand [NZ] children have suffered convulsions from a flu
vaccination following reports of similar reactions in Australia [see:
Pediatric influenza vaccine - Australia: adverse reactions 20100428.1368].

Last week [week of 19 Apr 2010], the NZ Ministry of Health advised
doctors against using Fluvax on children. On Wednesday [28 Apr 2010],
New Zealand’s Health Ministry chief adviser for child and youth
health Pat Tuohy told politicians that 5 children had been reported
to have suffered febrile convulsions in New Zealand since Friday [23 Apr 2010].

Australia’s chief medical officer had already suspended seasonal flu
vaccinations for children under 5 following concerns stemming from a
significant rise in the number of Australian children developing a
fever after receiving the vaccine. A 2-year-old child was found dead
in her cot on 9 Apr 2010, [one] day after she and her twin sister
were given the seasonal flu vaccination by a private Brisbane GP
[General Practitioner]. The case continues to be investigated.

As of 6 pm (AEST) on Tuesday [27 Apr 2010], Queensland Health had
received 95 notifications of Queenslanders who’d had adverse
reactions after receiving the seasonal flu vaccine. Of those 95
cases, 41 related to children aged 5 and under. And in Western
Australia, flu shots have caused adverse reactions in 251 children under 5.

The NZ Health Ministry was in regular contact with its Australian
counterpart and a teleconference was scheduled to try and garner more
information, he said. On present advice there was no reason for
children, especially those at high risk, to stop receiving other
types of flu vaccines, Dr Tuohy said. Children at a high risk were
considered to be those who had an underlying chronic condition, such
as asthma or diabetes, or those at risk for other reasons including
those from low socio-economic families.

While there had been more reports of severe reactions, including the
5 febrile convulsions, there were also more children receiving the
vaccine and people were more likely to report reactions due to the
media attention.

Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore were the only countries to use
the [Fluvax] vaccine so far this year [2010]. Most northern
hemisphere countries begin flu vaccines in the lead up to winter.
Over 260 000 Fluvax doses were administered in March [2010] and the
ministry said supplies were now likely to be low. More supplies of
[an] alternative vaccine — Vaxigrip — were expected from Europe
this week [week of 26 Apr 2010].

—
Communicated by:
Viki Hansen-Landis, MPH, CHES
Senior Medical Communications Specialist
Medical Information and Analysis Team
3600 Horizon Boulevard, Suite 300
Trevose, PA 19053
USA
Viki.Hansen@internationalsos.com

[Fluvax, marketed by the CSL company, is a trivalent seasonal flu
vaccine, which includes the pandemic A(H1N1) virus. CSL’s Fluvax is
available in adult and pediatric formulations. It is an inactivated
split-virus vaccine that does not include an adjuvant. It contains
the flu strains recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)
for the Southern Hemisphere’s seasonal flu vaccine: that is, the
pandemic A(H1N1), an influenza A Perth-like H3N2, and a Brisbane-like
influenza B. In February 2010 the WHO recommended similar strains for
the Northern Hemisphere’s next flu season.

It is unclear at present to what extent the adverse reactions are
related to an individual component of the vaccine, or the whole CSL
vaccine, or one or more production batches of the vaccine. Further
information is awaited. The adverse reactions appear to comprise
predominantly febrile convulsions. The autopsy findings from the
single fatality in Australia were inconclusive and indeed this case
may be unrelated to the subsequent vaccine-related cases, which have
been observed in several Australian states and now in New Zealand. - Mod.CP]

[The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of New Zealand is
available at http://healthmap.org/r/00c3
. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]

[see also:
Pediatric influenza vaccine - Australia: adverse reactions 20100428.1368
Influenza vaccine 2010/2011 - N. hemisphere 20100218.0567
2009

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Influenza vaccine 2009/2010 - N hemisphere 20090218.0670
Seasonal influenza, vaccine mismatch - Taiwan 20090206.0545 2008

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Influenza vaccine 2009 (02): S. hemisphere 20080923.3009
Influenza vaccine 2009: S. hemisphere 20080922.2988
Influenza vaccine 2008/2009 - N. hemisphere 20080805.2404]
...................................cp/mj/mpp

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FDA Initiates Rulemaking on Sanitary Food Transportation Act

April 30, 2010

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) today announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on implementing the Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2005 (2005 SFTA). The ANPRM is the first step in writing federal regulations that will govern sanitary practices by shippers, carriers by motor vehicle or rail vehicle, receivers, and others engaged in the transportation of food products for humans and animals.

The 2005 SFTA provides broad authority to FDA to regulate the transportation of human and animal food products to protect products from food-safety hazards during transport. Today’s ANPRM requests input on the issue from all interested parties including the food and transportation industries and consumer interest organizations. After evaluating comments received in response to the ANPRM, FDA will propose specific regulations to implement the statute. FDA will coordinate with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Transportation in this rulemaking process.

The ANPRM also is part of FDA’s focus on farm-to-table prevention of food safety hazards. This focus on prevention is the primary recommendation by the President’s Food Safety Working Group in its report on food-safety issues to President Obama (http://www.foodsafetyworkinggroup.gov/ContentKeyFindings/HomeKeyFindings.htm1).

In addition to the ANPRM, FDA today issued Guidance to the Industry on the Sanitary Transportation of Food. The purpose of the guidance is to provide interim recommendations to industry on keeping food safety during transport while the agency proceeds with developing regulatory requirements.

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Banks closed in Puerto Rico, Mich., Mo., Wash.
The Associated Press
The FDIC also seized CF Bancorp, based in Port Huron, Mich., with about
$1.6 billion in assets; Champion Bank, of Creve Coeur, Mo., with $187.3
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State closes CF Bancorp in 2nd Michigan bank failure of 2010
Detroit Free Press
By KATHERINE YUNG State regulators have closed Port Huron-based CF Bancorp,
selling its deposits and many of its assets to First Michigan Bank in Troy.
...
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McNeil Consumer Healthcare Over-the-Counter Infants’ and Children’s Products: Recall

including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products

Audience: Consumers and healthcare professionals

McNeil Consumer Healthcare and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a voluntary recall of certain over-the-counter (OTC) Children’s and Infants’ liquid products manufactured in the United States, including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products. Some of these products may not meet required quality standards. This recall is not being undertaken on the basis of adverse medical events. However, as a precautionary measure, parents and caregivers should not administer these products to their children. These products were distributed in the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Dubai (UAE), Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, and Kuwait. See the company Press Release for a list of products affected by this recall.

Consumers can contact the company at 1-888-222-6036 and also at www.mcneilproductrecall.com

Read the MedWatch safety summary, including a link to the FDA Questions and Answers web page regarding this recall, at:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm210442.htm

You are encouraged to report all serious adverse events and product quality problems to FDA MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

I’m gradually getting to the point that just slowly reading through these delicious recipes has a certain satisfaction to it, enjoying the remembered smells and textures without actually consuming the calories. ... See what you’ve wrought, Granny?<<<<

How very sad.

I had not realized that you have sunk so low, that you no longer rush to the kitchen and cook the new recipes..[joking]

[nw_arizona_granny]

THANK GOD, NO CANCER.

They are going to keep an eye on it, but for now it did not show any cancer.

Thank you for all your prayers, Diana sends her thanks also.

Now if we can hear more good reports, it will be wonderful.

Thank you to all the Prayer Warriors.

[Quix]

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

Liberty Rocks, you are welcome to send a PRAISE REPORT to whatever level of the END TIMES LIST you wish to.

[DelaWhere]

Well, money seems to be getting really tight for some of the unemployed...

We have been having a rash of copper thefts - central pivot irrigation systems are stripped of the power and control wiring, and they are taking the wheel motors too. This is costing many thousands of dollars - some are even being stolen a second time.

Then, we just had a family with 5 kids who were moving into a new house, and it blew up! - totally! They were all home and several of them have severe injuries (father has broken back in 2 places and both legs had compound fractures, wife was burned and a broken arm, one boy had a broken arm and leg, and the other kids were blown out through a window and only had cuts and scrapes.

Seems the copper thieves had pulled all the copper tubing gas line out from under the house, and when they turned the gas on, BOOM.

Hardware store is selling lots of motion detecting floodlights with cameras in an effort to capture the culprits.

Hope others are not seeing this type of thing starting in your area...

Also, gotta be careful as we do our self-sufficiency things too... Wife’s cousin’s son, wife & daughter lost their house to a fire last week - fire started in a storage area where they had set up a brooder for a batch of chicks. They had seen our chickens and decided to raise some too.

Don’t know if they had it too close to flammables or bad cord or what...

Just gotta be careful! Fortunately they were not home when it happened and a neighbor saw the flames and called it in.

Please everyone, be careful!

[CottonBall]

Once you get in the swing of it, good cooking does not take any longer than the boxes of chemicals that we consider easy.

And SO much more healthier. Not to mention cheaper.

My favorite foods are things like beans, rice, pasta, and bread. All are so cheap to make from dried rice, pasta, and beans. And bread is cheap to make using pre-ground flour too, but I've gotten spoiled grinding my own wheatberries and smelling that wonderful aroma in the kitchen all day! Isn't it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)?

[DelaWhere]

Hey there CB - Glad to see you back postin...

>>>My favorite foods are things like beans, rice, pasta, and bread.<<<

Mmmm, great combination with a lot of variety potentials...

I am about to try canning some beans - Will probably start with pintos and work my way to baked beans. Seems I seldom have the fore-thought to start my beans early enough, so with some canned and on hand, 20 minutes for the rice and 10 to heat the beans - the bread would take a bit longer, but I usually have that made up in advance anyway, frozen like those brown-n-serve, but homemade.

>Isn’t it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)?<

This year I hope to build my own little combine.... I wore out two pairs of gloves doing it over hardware cloth last year, and found a neat Amish Farmer them in his back yard - that I plan to replicate. http://backtotheland.com/html/wheat_thrasher.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

Vita Breath Dietary Supplement

Audience: Consumers, healthcare professionals

FDA notified healthcare professionals, their patients, and consumers not to consume Vita Breath, a dietary supplement manufactured by American Herbal Lab and marketed at health fairs and on the Internet, because the product may contain hazardous levels of lead. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene analyzed a sample of Vita Breath and reported it contained 1,100 parts per million of lead. This level is more than 10,000 times higher than FDA’s maximum recommended level for lead in candy.

People with high blood levels of lead may show no symptoms, but the condition may cause damage to the nervous system and internal organs. Acute lead poisoning may cause a wide range of symptoms, including abdominal pain, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, and bloody or decreased urinary output. Children are particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning.

The FDA is working with state officials in New York and California to further investigate Vita Breath. Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA’s MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:

* Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
* Phone: 1-800-332-1088
* Mail: return the postage-paid FDA form 3500, which may be downloaded from the MedWatch “Download Forms” page, to address on the pre-addressed form
* Fax: 1-800-FDA-0178

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm210514.htm

You are encouraged to report all serious adverse events and product quality problems to FDA MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

GnRH Agonists: Safety Review of Drug Class Used to Treat Prostate Cancer
(sold under the brand names Lupron, Zoladex, Trelstar, Viadur, Vantas, Eligard, Synarel, and generics)

Audience: Urology, Oncology healthcare professionals, patients

FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients of FDA’s preliminary and ongoing review which suggests an increase in the risk of diabetes and certain cardiovascular diseases in men treated with GnRH agonists, drugs that suppress the production of testosterone, a hormone that is involved in the growth of prostate cancer.

Most of the studies reviewed by FDA reported small, but statistically significant increased risks of diabetes and/or cardiovascular events in patients receiving GnRH agonists. FDA’s review is ongoing and the agency has not made any conclusions about GnRH agonists and whether they increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in patients receiving these medications for prostate cancer.

Healthcare professionals and patients should be aware of these potential safety issues and carefully weigh the benefits and risks of GnRH agonists when determining treatment choices. FDA recommends that patients receiving GnRH agonists should be monitored for development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Patients should not stop their treatment with GnRH agonists unless told to do so by their healthcare professional.

Some GnRH agonists are also used in women and in children for other indications than those above. There are no known comparable studies that have evaluated the risk of diabetes and heart disease in women and children taking GnRH agonists.

Read the complete MedWatch 2010 Safety summary, including links to the Ongoing Review document and FDA news release, at:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm210576.htm

You are encouraged to report all serious adverse events and product quality problems to FDA MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

Also, gotta be careful as we do our self-sufficiency things too... Wife’s cousin’s son, wife & daughter lost their house to a fire last week - fire started in a storage area where they had set up a brooder for a batch of chicks. They had seen our chickens and decided to raise some too.<<<

That is so sad.

They are stealing copper out here too.

A couple years ago, they stole a bunch from a cancer clinic in San Diego and it shut the clinic down, had to rebuild their fancy units for the chemo.

Fire scares me, it is so final.

[nw_arizona_granny]

but I’ve gotten spoiled grinding my own wheatberries and smelling that wonderful aroma in the kitchen all day! Isn’t it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)? <<<

I am glad you got your grinder going and are baking.

Could the reason the white flour is cheaper, be that it is the tailings and the gold has already been sold at a profit? as in wheat germ, etc.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Chinese market gardeners in the City of Burnaby BC continue to practice urban agriculture

In 1979, John Jeavons, a California intensive grower, visited City Farmer and toured
the Chinese market gardens in Burnaby. He was astounded at the productivity of these
urban farms. They were producing for the urban market in the 1800’s and continue
to do so today.

The importance of the Chinese-Canadian market gardens in the Big Bend area of Burnaby
was described in 1912 by The British Columbian as such: “The Chinese farmers have
been for years developing and reaping the benefits of the rich soil. By draining
the land with a series of ditches, the [growers] have reduced what was once little
better than a cranberry marsh into a richly productive farming area which is one
of the most valuable assets to...Burnaby.”

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The pig man and pig bins of WW2

“Not only paper and metal had to be salvaged but now food swill to feed animals,
such as pigs, as well. This would help meat rationing. A round metal bin and lid,
nick-named the ‘Pig Bin’, was put by the lamppost opposite The Bye, beside the path
to the public air raid shelter on The Green. This was for everybody’s food scraps
and meat bones. The bin was emptied every few days by unhappy-looking POW’s in a
very smelly lorry.

The bin became very dented and the lid wouldn’t fit on properly. It also split and
smelly yellowy gunge oozed out. People started to avoid walking too close to it
because of the smell, unlike the flies which loved it. It was my job (more war work
for me!) to take the food scraps to the pig bin.

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‘Urban Farmer’ defined as - the trend for young jam tart types to dress in country
regalia

1. Urban Farmer

April 28, 2010 Urban Word of the Day

A person who constantly plays Farmville and acts like they know everything about
a real farm - but all they do is live in the city, sit at a computer, and at a
certain time, need to stop what they are doing to farm their imaginary crops.

Example: “Carly won’t shut up about her stupid farm and throwing sheep. What an
urban farmer.”

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For backyard-farmer companies, business is bountiful

Ignoring his aching back, Todd Lininger squatted down on his knees and inched his
way around the vegetable field.

The yields were up on three arugula plants. A snail crawled in the row of lettuce.

And it looked like the onions might be ready for that night’s dinner.

All in all, not a bad harvest - considering that these crops were growing in a Lilliputian
backyard plot in a Claremont cul-de-sac.

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Researchers Work to Ensure Safety of Urban Gardens

“Increasingly, urban agriculture is being done on a community basis, rather than
an individual basis,” said Kansas State University assistant professor of agronomy,
Ganga Hettiarachchi. “There are now more than 18,000 community gardens in the U.S.
and Canada,” she said, citing American Community Gardening Association data.

Some of those gardens are on once-vacant lots and land where buildings once sat.

Such locations are convenient for city-dwellers and make productive use of land
that otherwise might be weedy, trash-strewn lots. There is a potential downside,
however.
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture

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[CottonBall]

Pinging to the 7000th post of The Survival Today Thread #3!

Anyone that wants on or off of the ping list, please do let me know.
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