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Richard Grevers commented on Denise's group What To Do Today?"Another trick is to cut butterfly shapes out of white margarine container lids (or similar) and add wing markings with a vivid. SOMETHING decimated the broccoli I planted out a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't find any caterpillars, so the…"
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In the meantime we have 809 sq section near CBD. A few established fruit trees.
Successfully growing potatoes, yams, kumara, courgettes/marrows, snow peas, sweetcorn, silverbeet, cabbages kamokamo, kikuyu and weeds.
Struggling with beans, tomatoes, capsicum and several other crops this year. Still learning heaps. The garden is taking a bit of a back seat while we prepare the house for sale.
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The city without hunger
The Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has taken the"radical" step of recognising access to food as a basic right of its citizens and created an environment where producers sell locally grown direct to consumers at an affordable price.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/the-city-that-ended-hunger
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/the-city-that-ended-hunger
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:38pm
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- At 11:09pm on October 26, 2012,
Kali said… HI Richard, I have some tatsoi seeds I could send you some, and maybe some other things if you are interested :)
- At 8:09am on January 8, 2011,
Hester said… - Thanks for posting the Avaaz petition, Richard. I was just going to, and saw that you already had.
- At 8:08pm on April 25, 2010,
Pete Russell said… - Sounds oooobylicious!!
- At 1:50pm on March 23, 2010,
Kama Burwell said… - Hey Richard,
I'm looking forward to your produce for the Ooooby Stall on Thursday !
You can drop it into the Environment Centre or the Inglewood library anytime before 2pm, or straight to the Ooooby Stall, preferably before 3pm.
Nga mihi, Kama
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