Thursday Breakfast

categories: Climate, Pest Management, Recommended Reading, Urban Agriculture

Published May 14, 2009 @ 05:57AM PT

Sharing breakfast; by audreyjm529 Raiding the internet fridge for your intellectual delectation ...

- Here's a rundown of predatory insects that prey on common garden pests, which you can use in your home garden instead of pesticides.

- The City of Denver considers the urban, backyard chicken question.

- A new generation of greenhouses being tried in California could point the way to both the next productivity and sustainability leaps in agriculture.

- Hundreds of millions of farm operating loans are in question as a large agricultural bank in Colorado collapses.

- Climate change is believed by some experts to be the world's biggest global health threat due to the migrations and civil unrest it's likely to generate as various parts of the world become less livable.

- Lastly, just because it's interesting, a SEED article on how babies' minds work.

(Photo credit: audreyjm529 on Flickr.)

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nice tip.i will try this one in my garden

regards,
David from Loan Modification

Posted by nevilled f3 on 05/14/2009 @ 06:35AM PT
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I'm passing this on to my daughter who is starting a small garden. Thanks!

Posted by Julie Greenspan on 05/14/2009 @ 08:30AM PT
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Natasha is an amateur eater with severe snarkolepsy and a c. 2002 blogging habit. She had a fabulous time studying ecological agriculture and policy at The Evergreen State College, and even did her homework while writing at various times for pacificviews.org, boomantribune.com, and mydd.com.