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…

Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here? ...a proposal from Michael Moore

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Friends,

This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's "vision statement" to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:

We…

I've finally tallied up the numbers and in order of greatest harvest, here goes:

23 oz   Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Helper* - beefsteak

16.25   Pollock

16 oz   Black Krim* - most tasty

14.5     Taxi

13.25   Black Prince

12 oz   Yellow Pear

9.25     Victoria* - tasty early producer

7 oz     Elfin Cherry

6.75     Principe Borghese

118 oz TOTAL

(7 lb, 6 oz)

What have I learned?  They are…

Hello all.

I thought I would put it out there that OSRL (Open source Resilient Living), based in Burnaby, with any luck will have a CEB (compessed earth brick) press soon.  I have the design just about done and soon will have drawings to share with everyone.  In the interest of raising some funds for more projects, I would be willing to rent the machine out to group members for a good rate.

This is a great…

Hey there,

We have a chance to save a forested area the size of Maine from destruction by Canada's Tar Sands, but we need a lot of people to chime in to do it.

Dole and Chiquita produce half of the world's bananas, and because bananas require so much fuel to reach our fruit bowls, we need banana producers to use the cleanest fuels available to protect our health and our planet. Can you ask Dole and Chiquita to reject the Tar Sands in favor of cleaner…

Some of you may have been following the case of Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Ontario who is currently on a hunger strike. I think it is day 19 now....

What is he protesting? Our very basic right to decide for ourselves what we put into our own bodies.

In both the US and Canada, judges have ruled that we can't drink milk right from our own cows. Canada and the US are marching in-step towards a future where our food is completely controlled by…

We, the Ninety-Nine Percent, come together with our diverse experiences to transform the unequal, unfair, and growing disparity in the distribution of power and wealth in our city and around the globe. We challenge corporate greed, corruption, and the collusion between corporate power and government. We oppose systemic inequality, militarization, environmental destruction, and the erosion of civil liberties and human rights. We seek economic security, genuine equality, and the protection of…

By Eric Doherty, October 11, 2011

The slogan “System change not climate change” is well known in Europe, and is becoming a central rallying cry in the growing global movement for climate justice. But to many people in North America, it is still an unfamiliar and even threatening slogan. So what does “system change” mean where the rubber hits the…

Feature: My one-year crash course in subsistence gardening is over

Transition

States of Consciousness

A Hathor Planetary Message

Through Tom Kenyon

Definitions

Chaotic Nodes are

clusters of chaotic events. According to the Hathors, Earth has entered a

Chaotic Node and, as a result, we can expect ever-increasing levels…

Summer is coming to an end (even though it doesn't feel like it) and we're taking a look back at what we've been up to the past few months at The World In A Garden. We've kept ourselves busy (and we still are) with farmers markets, workshops, volunteer events and of course, lots of weeding! Here are some highlights from the summer:…

This picture shows all the varieties and quantities I harvested August 29 (and there's still more). If you're wondering about the brown tip tomatoes, those are Ardwynna Paste tomatoes with blossom end rot. It is a deficiency in the soil and the cure is to dissolve epsom salts and water, and give the afflicted plant a dose.

I appear to have a lot of…