Author: belly
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It takes a hard shove to free the greenhouse door from the grip of overnight frost. It opens suddenly, with a clatter. Inside, it’s quiet enough to hear a mouse’s footfall, which was what I thought might be the source of the rustling, down among the stacked clay flower pots. Then a wren – rotund…
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It’s winter. The tomato cages are back in the garden shed. The hoses are coiled and put away (did you drain them first?) Growing food is pretty much off your mind because that’s the way it goes this time of year. Right? Well, sure—we might reflect on the past season and plan for the next.…
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[SINGAPORE] Susan Chong, the founder of agritech startup Greenphyto, had never planned to become a vegetable farmer. After all, she already had a multimillion-dollar business designing environmentally friendly packaging for companies. But it was a “simple community project” with that company, Greenpac, that introduced her to growing vegetables. Sometime around 2011, Greenpac engaged senior citizens…
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WASHINGTON— the Physicians Committee, a nonprofit public health advocacy organization with 17,000 doctor members, is maintaining a grant program to assist farmers who would like to grow health-promoting fruits, veggies, and nuts while phasing out animal agriculture. Launched in November 2024, the Physicians Committee’s Convert to Crops program is modeled on a program established by lawmakers…
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Experimental site The current study was carried out in the Sargodha region, which is located at 72° 40’ E and 32° 10’ N. The climate of the research region is local steppe, with average temperatures ranging from 25 to 49 °C in summer and 5 to 23 °C in winter. The average annual rainfall in this area…
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Members of The Garden Center Group presented Retailers Choice Awards for 15 products to 14 companies during Cultivate’25 earlier this month in Columbus, OH. To determine the winners, a group of garden retailers walked the trade show floor and selected their favorite new products they think would be of interest to garden center customers. Previous…
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Indonesia and the Netherlands have agreed to cooperate in the development of greenhouse-based horticulture as a strategic move to enhance food security and promote sustainable agriculture. The commitment was reaffirmed during a meeting between Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Sudaryono, and Guido…
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One of the books that I treasure most is an Edwardian edition of The Encyclopedia of Gardening by T. W. Sanders. It’s not a rare book, and my copy is badly battered, but I value it as a document of a time when British gardeners regularly performed miracles of cultivation under glass. It’s made even…
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In the first winter after moving to rural Connecticut, Pom Shillingford stood at her kitchen window each morning and stared out at very little. There were no flower beds. No hedges. Just a barren scene of bare earth and old, haunting trees pressing in against a wide, empty sky. ‘There was very little in the…
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If you love the idea of growing, harvesting, and preserving vegetables from your own backyard, but can barely keep a single plant alive, these easy-to-grow greens offer a simple entry into the world of kitchen gardens. From old classics, like cucumbers and lettuce, to new favorites, like amaranth and cucamelons, we asked experts to recommend…