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7 High-Tech Online Gardening Tools to Plan the Perfect Garden

8:00 am in almosts, food production, fruits & vegetables, gardeners, organic agriculture, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

garden planner online photo Screenshot: Garden Planner Online Is your dream a Tomato Sauce Garden...or the White House Garden? Or are you still embarrassed about last year's patch -- the one where the lettuce crowded the carrots, the green beans spilled over into the cucumbers, and the edible flowers edged out the tomatoes? These seven online garden planners help you pull together the perfect plot while offering tips on spacing, planting times, and harvest yields. Read through to find the one that's right for you -- and start planning for next year....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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From Schools to Hospitals, Fresh Healthy Vending Makes Healthy Snacking Easier

1:31 pm in Business & Politics, diet, drinks, fruits & vegetables, green youth by TreeHugger

Fresh Healthy Vending photo Image: Fresh Healthy Vending It seems like a good sign when an eighth-grade girl says this about a vending machine stocked with things like fruit slices, (healthy) granola bars and dairy-free snacks: "All the vending machines I see have candy or soda—things that people would assume the general public wants. But actually the healthy things that are in this vending machine, everybody likes." She's talking about the Fresh Healthy Vending machine that recently came to her Denver school, and that seems to be all the rage....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: What’s The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?

1:15 pm in agriculture, bananas, buying local, environmental footprint, farming, food, Food & Health, fruits & vegetables by TreeHugger

Dole Food Company Fruit Reefer Container Ship Image credit: Pablo Päster Dear Pablo: What is the environmental impact of importing tropical fruit? Should I eat only what is grown in the US? In our globalized world, products travel halfway around the world all the time. Water is shipped from Fiji and Italy, wine comes from Australia a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Cold Desert Recipes for Summer’s Hottest Days (Slideshow)

9:00 am in Food & Health, fruits & vegetables, local food by TreeHugger

peach popsicle intro photo Photo: Auntie K/Creative Commons Nothing cools down the dog days of summer like a freezer full of fresh and fruity frozen treats. But here's the good news: You can make all the ice cream, popsicles, frozen yogurts, and smoothies you could ever want, using local, organic produce. These 10 recipes boast the best in flavor and nutrition -- from classic pairs-with-anything vanilla ice cream to tangy watermelon-cilantro-lime popsicles, peach and blueberry combos, and even an icy indulgence with the adult addition of beer. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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7 Ways Gardening is Back En Vogue

10:15 am in farming, Food & Health, fruits & vegetables, gardening, local food, organic agriculture by TreeHugger

herb gardens en vogue photo Photo: KateMonkey/Creative Commons If you scoff and think growing your own food may sound just a bit too "Little House on the Prairie" for your liking, well, you might be missing a major Paris Hilton-worthy trend (in addition to all of the other benefits). Contemporary garden trends have almost nothing in common with the habits of the Ingalls family. From urban living walls and small space-friendly container gardening to foodies relying on fresh herb...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Roofs are Covering the Chelsea Flower Show

4:56 am in botanical, competitions, Culture & Celebrity, fruits & vegetables, gardens, insects, sustainable, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

roof monaco photo Photo: B. Alter Green roofs are getting a lot of coverage this year at the Chelsea Flower Show and it's great that their popularity is spreading. Seen first at Chelsea and next year on your street... The roofs can be landscapes in themselves, with different kinds of wild flowers and places for bees and other insects to alight. They absorb rain water too. So let's see how the big and little garden designers handled them. The Prince of Monaco has wall to wall...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bouquet Garni Recipes Inspired by a 1st Century Roman Herb Garden

10:12 pm in botanical, cooking, fruits & vegetables, gardening, organic agriculture, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

getty herb garden image A kitchen garden circa 79 AD replicated with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Photos by R.Cruger Since every home had a kitchen garden in ancient Rome, it's a tradition worth keeping over the centuries. So when given the chance to pick sprigs from the replica of a Mediterranean garden at the Getty Villa, I wondered what ancient plants were growing. The museum's garden is filled with herbs, edible flowers and fruit trees as well as flax for making linen. The co-author of a new bo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC’s Fresh Bodegas Program Stocks Bed-Stuy Bodegas With Affordable, Local Produce

9:02 am in Food & Health, fruits & vegetables, local food, new york city by TreeHugger

nyc-bodega-1.jpg Photo: hi-lo under a Creative Commons license. Last October, Matt told us about about GrowNYC's Fresh Bodega's program, designed to bring fresh produce to bodegas in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Now, four bodegas and an upstate farm have been selected by the non-profit matchmaker, and the locally grown fresh fruit and veggies will be coming in this...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exploding Watermelons in Jiangsu Province Latest Sign of China’s Food Safety Problem

7:30 am in agriculture, china, farming, Food & Health, food safety, fruits & vegetables by TreeHugger

shanghai china watermelons for sale photo Watermelons for sale in Shanghai. Photo: John Solomon / Creative Commons. Farmers in China's eastern Jiangsu province awoke one morning earlier this month to a scene of agricultural carnage -- hundreds of exploded watermelons. More continued to burst throughout the next couple of days, ruining more than 100 acres of the crop. In the search for a culprit, many are placing the blame on the misuse of growth chemicals in a country already deeply troubled by Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York School Kids Build Their Own Greenhouse, Grow Their Own Veggies

3:45 pm in Food & Health, fruits & vegetables, gardening, green youth, local food by TreeHugger

Belfast school greenhouse photo Image: Rodney Volkmar You know it's dedication when a teacher decides to teach his kids aquaponics in environmental science class, have them bring the vegetables they grow to the school cafeteria, and then spend time looking for funding to expand that program. And effort like that pays off. After numerous setbacks, Josh Hazelton of Belfast Central school in New York State managed to secure a $25,000 grant that enabled him and his students to build a greenhouse dome, which they will use to grow vegetables using both soil and aquaponics....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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