Grow Your Own Dinner May 7th at the Urban Garden

The Earthboxes are in at Art Knapp! Come May 7th for their Grow Your Own Dinner event. Ten bucks gets you in for food, drinks, music, seminars and professional advice on growing your own food. 20% off everything in the store. Lotsa door prizes with your ticket. Proceeds go to the kids for botanical education. See you there!

dwell mag talks dirty backyard fun

In the April issue, dwell talks home gardening. At the turn of the 20th century, Ebenezer Howard published "Garden Cities of Tomorrow", promoting harmony with the natural world through proximity between agricultural and city centers. 20 years later, the war turned every available green space into an urban farm, until the post-war boom lead to sprawling suburbia and expansive lawns. Now we again see the resurgence of home gardening with sustainability and utility as the drivers. dwell's advice for container gardening - be sure the soil is kept constantly moist and evenly drained. Even dwell loves the Earthbox!

Spring begins today!

Aaah, Spring is here once again. The perfect day to plant my first seeds in the "ground" (aka indoors on the window ledge) - my first time growing from seed. It's also the perfect day to set up my first Earthbox of the year with tomatoes! I'll let the Red Cherry and Sweet 100s transplants grow inside my sun-splashed kitchen and gain at least a one-month head start on the season! Because the Earthbox is on wheels, when it's the right time, I"ll simply roll it outside.

Earthbox at Gardenworks stores!

Earthboxes have arrived at Gardenworks stores!
Kind Gardens ran product demos and gave planting advice at the Burnaby and Mandeville locations this weekend. Now is the time to decide what organic veggies you would like to eat for free this summer from your Earthbox garden! Good early season plants: arugula, spinach and kale. These greens like cooler weather and less sunshine and, if planted now, you should get a full harvest before the heat of June comes on.

Can we eat to starve cancer?

If you don't know TED, this is a great introduction. My advice - watch one TED talk each week and become a better human. In this talk, William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the supply of blood to hungry tumours. The crucial first (and best) step - eating foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at it's own game.

Maybe the most important 20 minutes of your life. If you're really short on time, start at 11:55.

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-05-18&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Are you ready to get to work?

Our 2010 climate action plan is all about getting to work on local climate solutions.
On 10/10/10, the Global Work Party, we'll start transforming our communities from the ground up. Through local climate action projects, we'll make our leaders wake up and lead on the climate crisis. It's a plan that may well break the logjam and get us moving. Will you join in?

http://www.350.org/

Bill McKibben on Deepwater Horizon

A proper perspective:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/missing-the-real-drama-of_b_606562.html