Garden Up - Urban Gardening & Living

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-29333808-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); I started a little NYC company called Garden Up. We make TOWER GARDENS which use a drip-system of nutrient tea and water (not soil) to grow plants. The large unit grows over $1,200 worth of produce in one season, holds 72 plants and takes up less than four square feet of space. It’s all about moving away from supermarket produce and growing your own. Please visit us at www.GardenUpNow.com and let me know what you think. PS: I am a photographer as well so you will see some of my pictures!

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If you're new to New York City, simply visiting for vacation, or if you're a born-and-raised New Yorker that still can't point out any other states on a blank map besides Florida and Jersey, then you might also mistakenly believe what the MTA subway map tells you about the city—that its train lines lack any natural level of fidelity and Manhattan is the blown-up silouhette of a Motorala RAZR phone: Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/can-concentric-circles-save-subway-sanity#ixzz2aHnvoQPi  Follow us: @motherboard on Twitter | motherboardtv on Facebook

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As Biotech Seed Falters, Insecticide Use Surges In Corn Belt Dan Charles, npr.org

Across the Mid­west­ern corn belt, a famil­iar bat­tle has resumed, hid­den in the soil. On one side are tiny, white lar­vae of the corn root­worm. On the other side are farm­ers and the insect-killing arse­nal of mod­ern agri­cul­ture.

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Wal-Mart Takes Over America of the Day: And here we have unimpeachable proof that America’s exponential decay began in 1962.  [allthatisinteresting]

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The little marvel peas are moving on up!

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Whole Foods Shows Customers the Bleak Future of Produce Without Bees

“The decline in bee populations has been all the buzz lately, which led Whole Foods Market to team up with the Xerces Society to show us what a world—or at least, produce section—without bees would look like. The University Heights, Rhode Island store removed all foods that are reliant upon the important pollinators, and it leaves a pretty slim selection; 52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves without bees around to help.”

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Last Saturday, Banff mechanic Tim Bartlett was christening a new motorcycle through the Rocky Mountains when he had a rare wildlife encounter