Are the teabaggers ready to stop throwing tomatoes and start growing tomatoes? Glenn Beck’s latest sponsor, The Survival Seed Bank, is banking on Tea Party paranoia to sell a product it calls the “Full Acre Crisis Garden.” As Stephen Colbert noted last Wednesday, “nothing moves product like the hot stink of fear.”
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Glenn Beck’s Seedy Sponsor: Banking On Sowing Fear
March 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments
If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Into The Garden
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
I’m always amazed by the number of folks who think that most of Central Park is some kind of natural habitat of indigenous plants, a pristine terrain onto which we plunked our bike paths, boathouses and pretzel vendors.
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Don’t Let a Little Soil Contamination Keep You from Gardening: Why You Shouldn’t Panic if you Find Lead in your Garden’s Soil
August 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Shane Crary-Ross spent her childhood summers at farm camp, where her favorite activities were cow milking and bread baking. These days, she studies economics and social work at New York University, and spends her free time gardening, bicycling and reading science fiction.
When I first looked at my current apartment, what I loved about it most [...]
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