August 2012
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PLEASE VOTE: Awesome Food Foundation Grant →
Please vote for Urban Habitat Chicago to win the Awesome Food Foundation Grant of $1000. Help us promote and educate the community about the importance of urban food production!!!
We only need 50 votes to get to the final round, so every single one counts! All the work done by UHC is purely via donation and volunteer labor. Please help with this wonderful cause.
July 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
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“9. It’s all borrowed time. You shouldn’t take anything for granted,...”
– 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won’t Tell You, WSJ Essay
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“6. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us...”
– 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won’t Tell You, WSJ Essay
April 2012
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Redefining Success
It has almost been one month since I denounced the corporate world for a life tending to the land. All of my friends have been supportive of this decision, but only a couple truly understand. To be honest it has been an annoyance of mine to pour my heart out regarding my new ambitions in life to only receive the tame and unsure response of, “That’s great! Congrats.” It reminds...
March 2012
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“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if...”
– Bill Mollison (via appletonpermaculture)
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FarmieMarket Uses Web to Sustain Real Food Economy... →
localfoodlab:
“A lot of people want to bicker over prices, but the fact of the matter is that a farmer who works fifty to eighty hours a week shouldn’t have to live in poverty, and they know what the food they raise is worth. We have to educate consumers on the realities of quality and small-scale food production, including pricing.”
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“Nothing worth doing is easy.”
– Victoria, random stranger-turned-friend at dinner tonight
Avanti Cafe
Costa Mesa, CA
“We need a farm bill that’s designed from top to bottom to support healthier...”
– Marion Nestle (via mind-bomb)
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“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a...”
– Masanobu Fukuoka
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After Hours Operation
A super stealth operation occurred last night, under the cool March moon. Due to impending weather conditions we had to evacuate all sprouted plants in the greenhouse, to avoid complete and total annihilation of living plant species.
[1] My sidekick helped to quickly whisk the plants from indoors to place them on the northside of the structure. This will prevent overexposure to the sun.
[2]...
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Soil Erosion Facts
According to a 2006 study conducted by Cornell University:
• The United States is losing soil 10 times faster — and China and India are losing soil 30 to 40 times faster — than the natural replenishment rate.
• Soil erosion costs the United States about $37.6 billion each year in agricultural productivity. Worldwide, the damage from soil erosion is some $400 billion a year.
• Over the past...
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“American citizens are now ready to believe without question that it is entirely...”
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Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
Dream Life
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer Garden, 1870
Source: calmforestwinds
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“If you want it all, you better be willing to do it all. Doing it all, each and...”
– my friend, Anais
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The Start of Something New
I put in my notice at work today!
Officially working on starting my own thing on April 1. So exciting!
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Birthday E-mail from DAD
My dad sent me a good morning birthday e-mail with two quotes that made my day. It is especially meaningful given how my career path is about to change drastically.
“Go for it now, the future is promised to no one.” “You’ll see it when you believe it.”
Live and die by this. 26 is going to be a cuh-razee year.
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Recently Purchased: 5,000 Vitana Carrot Seeds
4 buckaroos..
i feel like such a high roller right now!!
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come...”
– Howard Thurman
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Winter Sun
A few weeks ago I got to planting the seeds I purchased from Johnny’s. Chicago has been hit by a few mild snow storms since then, but regardless my seedlings are sprouting!
THE SUNSHINE
Ever since the 4th grade, when Ms. David taught us about photosynthesis via interpretive dance - she was a heavy set woman - I have been fascinated by the power of sunlight, both for humans (I’m a...
