Markets in Everything: Backyard Urban Farming

Submitted by CARPE DIEM MyFarm was started by Trevor Paque, a young mortgage broker, who decided in 2007 to get out of the office and take up farming. Hardly a new idea, but Paque took a new approach. His business plan called for building, planting, and harvesting vegetable gardens in small overgrown, weed-infested patches of soil [...]

10 Tips For Growing Great Tomatoes

One of the true joys of Summer gardening (and Summer farmers markets, for that matter) are just-picked, juicy tomatoes. Luckily, you can grow tomatoes in containers, so even the smallest patio garden can benefit from a delicious tomato plant. There are some important things to consider, though. So whether you're getting a late start on a seedling or looking for some advice on tomatoes that are in your garden already, I've got some ideas to keep your tomato plants healthy and productive throughou

Alert: Late blight disease, responsible for Irish Potato Famine, found on Long Island

Click for update (7/3/09)If you're growing tomatoes or potatoes, especially if you've recently planted seedlings, be on the lookout for a nasty disease that's been detected on Long Island and elsewhere in the northeast. Late blight disease is a fungus that causes white-mold encircled gray spots on leaves and stems that causes the plant to blacken, wilt and die. It's the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, and it has never occurred this early or widespread in the Uni

Little Italy in Australia: Italians in Sydney moving out

Where have the Italians gone? Little Italy in Sydney is fast changing in a city well known for its multicultural communities and evolving diaspora. Currently in Five Dock in Sydney’s inner west only 11 percent of residents were born in Italy compared with 38 percent back in 1971. The figures have come under focus with the sale of a famous Five Dock home that appeared in the film “Looking for Alibrandi”. The film is based on the book of the same name by Melina Marchetta , and deals with a teen

My List Of Blogs Who Either Use Comment Luv And Keyword Luv Or Do Follow Or Both….Or Not.

This is the list that I did a search via www.seo-traffic-guide.de You can do a blog search for do follow and comment luv blogs that use these,depending on the keywords chosen.I chose reviews and ad space. This blog uses comment luv and do follow. I don’t know how to get through them all to make a comment as I am a bit strapped for time. The site above gave me the results and I will try to form a list of what was found.What I found was hundreds and hundreds of them.I am sorry for any mis

Soooo Cute! Tiny House, Tiny Yard - Updated

This is so cute, tucked snug between two larger homes.I love the little yard. Together with the backyard, it's ample space to grow one's own herbs and veggies.Here's the The Tiny Life blog from which that image comes.ETA: The little house has its own website, writes a commenter! And the house is in Toronto! But I find this interesting: Current value: priceless. Does that mean no one lives there? That no one is allowed to buy it?Also, I notice that the backyard has been paved over. What a sham

Soooo Cute! Tiny House, Tiny Yard - Updated

This is so cute, tucked snug between two larger homes.I love the little yard. Together with the backyard, it's ample space to grow one's own herbs and veggies.Here's the The Tiny Life blog from which that image comes.ETA: The little house has its own website, writes a commenter! And the house is in Toronto! But I find this interesting: Current value: priceless. Does that mean no one lives there? That no one is allowed to buy it?Also, I notice that the backyard has been paved over. What a sham

The Collateral Damage of Old School Advertising

I drive a BMW 7-Series . It’s the car I wanted my whole life, and when I could afford one, I went to my local dealer and paid cash for the most loaded one they had. It was a gift to myself, a celebration of success after decades of hard work, and every time I get into that car I feel special. Like other 7-series owners, I received a beautiful hard-cover brochure – more of a coffee table book, really – for the new 7 coming out in 2010. The car is truly magnificent, and given the emotional wrap

6 Upsides of the Down Economy

By Jeff Yeager My father-in-law had a saying: If you don't have a good time, you usually learn a good lesson. I'm reminded of that a lot these days during the current economic recession. I'm not saying that the economic downturn is a good thing, particularly for people who have lost jobs or their homes. But fortunately that's not most Americans. For the rest of us, some involuntary belt tightening might have some silver linings. In other words, I think the current market corrections we

THE COOK REPORT Americans Like Obama, But They’re Doing The Math

Quote: THE COOK REPORT Americans Like Obama, But They're Doing The Math Most people generally subscribe to the president's goals but are troubled by the specifics and the costs of achieving them. by Charlie Cook Saturday, June 27, 2009 The bad thing about being awash in a flood of polling data is that the survey results don't always agree. Just as I begin to settle on one conclusion, new figures appear to support a different one. The plethora of new polls initially

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