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World Naked Gardening Day - Saturday May 14, 2011

It was a perfect morning in Pat Brown’s back yard - temperature in the low 70s,
no rain, sunny. She was itching to take off her clothes and start gardening.
You heard right.

“I do garden in the nude, and I enjoy it,” admitted Brown, 69, a master gardener
living near Eugene, Ore.

City digging in Halifax, Nova Scotia

It’s not every day a high school gets turned into a farm. But that’s what’s going
on at the corner of Bell Road and Robie Street, where Queen Elizabeth High School
once stood. Partners for Care, a registered not-for-profit charity that ventures
to raise money for the city’s hospitals, had the idea to reclaim the school site,
to be called the Common Roots Urban Farm.

“Dog Gone Farm” in Vancouver

My son gave me a sign he had hand-carved for Christmas. “Dog Gone Farm”, it reads,
in jaunty red letters (inspired by our fence jumping dog). With the sign hung proudly
on the front door, it was official. We were farmers. We grow fruits and vegetables,
build soil, and raise chickens, which wouldn’t be unusual if it weren’t for the
fact that we do all this in the middle of the city.

Area’s first urban farm takes root in Valencia

There’s more than just okra, peas and squash growing at the Valencia Park Community
Center in Shreveport. Young minds are growing the skills needed to nurture a dream
that began with a small plot of land and will hopefully end up a source for fresh
food.

Phones That Make Your Garden Grow

The hardware-known as Plant Factories-are computer-controlled boxes that provide
lighting, water temperature, air temperature, nutrients and oxygen gas to your
plants. Each plant box has a blue LED light as well as red LED light, which, according
to Farmbox, can be used to control the taste or the growth rate of your plant!
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City Farmer News [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=fclqmpbab&et=1105520999043&s=1304&e=001KwDlu8XwhVGHgfCR1-potJWg5wDNgL-iTR6AXRdMcxpfX4UsLmkcf1dqV0KyIMUJ_RJZeHkMN6OCVSvlVuUvgWZtKhVm7p3zjE1Mi4N5ySh1UyBITba4Gg==]
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
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