Grow Me

16/01/2024

Beautiful float home for sale in Victoria, BC. Here is a listing for more information.
https://www.royallepage.ca/en/property/british-columbia/esquimalt/a22-525-head-st/21182242/mls949915/

25/03/2023

The lovely and incomparable and had such a great performance for brunch this morning!!!! Can't wait for the next show.

28/07/2022

Sean Sherman, also known as the Sioux Chef, demonstrates one of the oldest methods for nixtamalizing corn, using ash from hard wood trees like birch or oak. ...

08/06/2022

The prehistoric shift towards cultivation began our preoccupation with hierarchy and growth – and even changed how we perceive the passage of time

22/04/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/22/climate-food-biodiversity-five-charts

Crops are already seeing losses from heat and drought. Can genetic diversity – a return to foods’ origins – help combat the climate challenges ahead?

21/03/2022

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22/01/2022

It’s not a well-known fact, but SNAP benefits can be used to purchase fruit and vegetable seeds or plant starts.

12/01/2022

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=427132772536933&set=a.216987150218164

The natural world doesn't judge, it's where I can be my true self.
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Written by Becky Hemsley - Talking to the Wild

06/01/2022

Ya think?

Ongoing habitat loss and the spread of invasive species and non-native insect diseases are also taking their toll.

11/12/2021

Island farmers were in Ottawa Wednesday giving away free bags of potatoes to raise awareness of the ban on fresh potato exports to the U.S.

10/12/2021

Gail Potocki, Botanical no. 3, 2010

05/12/2021

01/12/2021

This is pretty cool!

Birch Community Services, a unique food redistribution program in Portland, Oregon, takes a radical approach to rescuing food, reducing food waste, and helping people manage their money.

18/11/2021

Yum!!!

COOS BAY, Ore. - Green crabs are a growing problem in Coos Bay and other estuaries along the Oregon Coast. Can we eat our way out of an environmental crisis? Researchers at South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve released a report documenting efforts to track the invasive green crab populat...

03/11/2021

“We can use the seagrass as a food source that will produce healthy foods for humans without requiring fresh water, nor arable land, nor fertilizers, neither herbicides (or) pesticides, and then sequesters carbon at the same time,” Duarte explains. “It’s almost too good to be true, but it’s absolutely true.

The world has become dependent on a handful of crops, but cultivating “forgotten foods” could help feed our planet more sustainably.

03/11/2021

Thank your local bootlegger :D

And now “Jimmy Red” – whose kernels look like pomegranate seeds – is making a comeback via a craft whiskey maker in Charleston, South Carolina A little over a century ago, an ancient Native American corn species made its way from Appalachia to the islands of Charleston, South Carolina. It [....

28/10/2021

So sad!

Crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans have washed up on beaches in the north-east

17/10/2021

Please!!

Food justice advocates are pushing the Biden administration to change its pro-corporate agricultural agenda.

17/10/2021

"The more sway mega-corporations have over our economy, the more power they have to gouge customers, squeeze Main Street, and exploit workers."

13/10/2021

Makes sense!

The trials have confounded historians for centuries. Some scientists think a toxic fungus from rotten grain might be responsible.

12/10/2021

A new kind of chemotherapy derived from a molecule found in a Himalayan fungus has been revealed as a potent anti-cancer agent, and may in the future provide a new treatment option for patients with cancer.

11/10/2021

Oregon included

The American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)—once abundant and found lazily floating around in grasslands, open prairies, and some urban areas throughout the United States—now face a rapidly declining population.

06/10/2021

Lights out tonight!!

We're still in peak migration, and tonight there is a red alert for much of Western Oregon—including Portland. A projected 3.7 million birds will be flying over Oregon, with over 10,600 birds moving through our Portland skies. You can help by turning off any unnecessary overnight lighting from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

30/09/2021

"Peaches had effectively become, in the language of modern ecologists, a non-native invasive species. And like many subsequent invasive species (kudzu, multiflora rose, etc.) it was its usefulness to people that contributed to its spread. Every Native American village and garden was a dispersal vector for peaches in a new area - another place from which they could spread into the landscape. The razorback hogs descended from the pigs released by de Soto undoubtedly cherished this fruit as much as domesticated pigs, and were likely another dispersal agent for further spreading the seed in wild areas.

The peach orchards of the Cherokee, Lenape, Iroquois, and others did not resemble the orchards we are familiar with. Today, all commercial peach orchards are grown with grafted trees: two trees are spliced together, the bottom one with good roots, and the top with good fruits. In this way, a single peach variety can be grafted onto rootstock anywhere in the world. A seedling tree that isn’t grafted, however, will have traits from both of its parents, and will produce a completely different fruit from either. Planting an orchard of seedling trees today would create a population of unique trees with variable quality and disease resistance - something modern agriculture cannot economically cope with. Indigenous peoples throughout eastern North America, however, did plant orchards by the thousands with seedling trees. Even if some of these trees produced inferior fruit, some would also produce peaches of exceptional quality (remember the accounts of peaches with a girth of 13 inches?). In essence, growing peaches from seed didn’t just produce fruit, it could produce superior genetics that would be passed on and planted in new orchards and villages. The East Coast was a massive peach breeding project enacted over centuries by indigenous farmers, and the peaches we have today are often the descendants of these seedlings."

Nothing announces summer quite like a perfectly ripe, juicy peach. The bright yellows and reds, the intoxicating aroma, the “shlurp” of the first delicious bite - peaches symbolize and epitomize a time of abundance and warmth. They are such a fixture of our culture that we often don’t even thi...

29/09/2021

The animals and one plant had been listed as endangered species. Their stories hold lessons about a growing global biodiversity crisis.

26/09/2021

Yep...

It’s not just animals that are at risk of dying out, the world’s crops are in rapid decline. Here’s why it matters what is on your plate