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Comfrey: A Valuable and Important Herb

My mother always had comfrey growing in the garden, and I think that it is one of the most useful herbs to cultivate to bring relief from pain. If I could only grow one herb, comfrey would be my herb of choice. I've used the fresh leaves successfully to reduce the pain and swelling of sprains and, most recently, to alleviate pain when my son’s girl friend bumped her nose on a glass door. On another occasion, my ex-husband’s friend, who was visiting from Chicago, was suffering pain from a nail… Continue

Added by Lee Mitchell on July 12, 2008 at 8:41am — No Comments

Raise the Roof by Making It Green

At Sixth and I streets NW, amid the Chinatown bustle, Nancy Somerville is standing in front of a rolling meadow sprinkled with black-eyed Susans. It's no urban mirage: This colorful mosaic of plants lives four stories high atop the American Society of Landscape Architects' building. Somerville, the society's chief executive, is one of her industry's biggest advocates of green roofs -- layers of soil and hardy plants that replace conventional black-tar… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on July 9, 2008 at 9:35am — No Comments

Farms Take Root in Detroit's Foreclosures

by Charla Bear/NPR



Urban Farming helped turn this empty lot in Detroit into a garden with neat rows of collard greens and tomatoes.



Eric Parrish has lived in Detroit for more than 15 years. He says he recently started gardening with Urban Farming because it helps turn things around in his city.



Morning Edition, June 11, 2008 · Wayne County, Mich. — home to Detroit — has been hit… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on June 11, 2008 at 9:07am — No Comments

Farming the city

Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market

IN the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on June 10, 2008 at 4:56pm — No Comments

Urban Garden Success

Where Industry Once Hummed, Urban Garden Finds Success





Amid the tightly packed row houses of North Philadelphia, a pioneering urban farm is providing fresh local food for a community that often lacks it, and making money in the process.



Greensgrow, a… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on June 10, 2008 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Putting down roots

A confluence of factors have influenced me into thinking about establishing my own sustainable home. I was granted permanent residence in the US a couple months ago and thought it might be good to put down some roots now that the specter of being rudely shipped out is that much less likely. I confess to being tempted in a weak moment by the prospect of picking up a foreclosure bargain, but the tightened mortgage market following the sub-prime debacle put paid to that notion.



Spring… Continue

Added by Larry Chang on June 6, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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