I love this time of year. Looking back over our shoulders at where we’ve been the last three to four months, how could we not be amazed by the shape and size of all that is growing in our gardens. Even the hailstorm that ripped the plants to shreds last month couldn’t destroy its beauty. [...]
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Women hold up half the sky…
…and produce 60-80% of the world’s food supply in Asia and Africa. Yet these same women–who also bear the children, tend the children, haul the water and wood and cook the food they grow–share few if any of the benefits and incentives their male counterparts receive.
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By Job, I think he’s got it!
World population, which is currently 6.5 billion, is growing at 76 million annually, with an expected peak at 9.5 billion by 2070. For the first time, global population estimates this year show that more people live in cities than in rural areas. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations projects that almost all of [...]
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A K.I.S.S. for Thanksgiving
We could end starvation on this planet if people learned how to plant beans! Do you know how easy it is to plant beans? 2″ apart, 2″ deep.It’s up to the people! (Jimmy Keyes, The Bronx) Remember this old maxim, KISS? Keep It Simple Stupid? Well, Jimmy Keyes understands how critical it is in moving [...]
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A Greenhouse: not just about food
The Global Oneness Project (www.globalonenessproject.org) amazes me. As they say on their website they’re “traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.” The GOP (yes, that’s its acronym) [...]
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Outrageous Gardens
What if someone told you that they had solutions to world hunger, that these solutions would cost only pennies on the dollar not billions of dollars and that they were accessible to anyone right now? Presumptuous? Idealistic? Perhaps. Impractical? No! For these solutions are the heart and spirit of this website and they are working. [...]
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