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December 2011 Blog Posts (4)

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The Bugs that ate Monsanto - Grist Magazine

This article is in part a reminder to check our home page often to read the RSS feeds from Yes!, Chelsea Green, and Grist Magazines.  They are in the lower left column.  These are free headline links to great information on what is happening in our global ecological system and on how to live sustainably.  This article below,…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on December 20, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Humans can figure out how to do things, by Celia Brauer (Vancouver Sun)

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on December 12, 2011 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Carrots in the Car Park, a tale of today's Victory Gardens in England - Daily Mail, 10 Dec 2011

Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg

By VINCENT GRAFF

Last updated at 4:31 PM on 10th December 2011

Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.

Outside the…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on December 10, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Free wood stakes

Vision Vancouver has a bunch of wood stakes (from their campaign signs) at lengths ranging from 12" to 8' that "would be excellent for use in garden projects". The wood is free and on a first come basis.  The wood  can be collected from the parking space in the back of their office at 2512 Yukon Street.
They ask that, when picking up, the two parking spaces to the west of the parking area NOT BE BLOCKED as they belong to the Dollar Store business below their office.

Added by Village Vancouver on December 2, 2011 at 2:53pm — No Comments

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