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The Growing Edge

http://www.growingedge.com

A hybrid blog of original content and a news aggregator/news portal of garden news, media, links and commentary for growers that are growing on the cutting edge including topics like sustainable gardening, organic gardening, the soil food web, compost tea, hydroponics, aquaponics, greenhouses, rooftop gardens and urban gardens.

• Added on: Feb 7th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: thegrowingedge
• Listed in: Gardening Agriculture
• Tags: hydroponics gardening agriculture organic gardening sustainable gardening soil food web

Recent Posts

• Farmers’ Markets Not Your Best Marketing Choice?

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 09:54 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, vegetables, original content, organic produce, locavore, farming & agriculture

  —————————————————————————————- Scott is offering a Thanksgiving Special to r...

• Children Should Be Allowed To Play In The Dirt, Research Shows

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 02:47 in soil-food-web, kids and gardening, kids & gardening

  If you have read Jeff Lowenfels’ best selling book, Teaming with Microbes, you know how bacteria is an important part of the soil food web. Now, scientific research shows that bacteria in dirt has an effect on children’s health. Children ...

• How Many Chickens vs Cattle In The U.S.

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 18:51 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, locavore, farming & agriculture

  Since I am estimating the number of turkeys there are in the U.S. (see post below); I might as well include how many chickens and cattle are there in the U.S. too… Source: WolframAlpha...

• How Many Turkeys Are There In The United States?

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 18:38 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, locavore, farming & agriculture

  With Thanksgiving or Turkey Day, just a few days away, one might ask, “How many turkeys are there in the United States?” Answer: 272 million (2007 estimate) Source: WolframAlpha Photo credit: Springfield Farm...

• Nine Weeds Confirmed To Glyphosate Resistance

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 18:26 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, vegetables, organics, food safety, organic gardening, organic produce, sustainable garden, soil-food-web, sustainable soil, farm garden politics, farming & agriculture

  From a press release of the Weed Science Society of America, Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the nation and a mainstay of weed control for both farmers and homeowners. Over the last 13 years, it has been applied to more than a billion...

• USDA Scientists, Colleagues Sequence Corn Genome

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 18:17 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, vegetables, organics, gmos, plant breeding, farm garden politics, farming & agriculture

  In what may benefit both traditional genetic corn breeders and genetically modified corn gene manipulators, U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement the USDA expects t...

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