There are tons of benefits to having a
community garden: stronger sense of community, promoting healthy eating,
learning what it really takes to grow your food. It’s also a great way
to make gardening a possibility for those living in urban homes with
less yard room, and to create a healthy town center for citizens of all
ages.
But where should you start if you’d like a community garden
of your own? We chatted with Rodney Spencer, the executive director of
City Slicker Farms, which provides community gardens for West Oakland
residents, to hear his top tips on how to get started.
At this point ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.
KEEP SPREADING STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR EACH OTHER. IT ISN’T JUST A “IF YOU’RE A REALLY GOOD PERSON YOU WOULD RISK THIS” IT’S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE NORMAL. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS STAND UP FOR YOUR FELLOW HUMANS
Cops are legally allowed to lie in general, they can even lie and say you won’t get jail time etc to get you to tell them something. You can’t trust a single thing they say. They’re state-backed terrorists period.
It’s never too late to benefit from a flu shot, even into December and January, says Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville.
“Giving influenza vaccine to people with heart disease, for example, is as important as giving them a statin,” Schaffner says, yet many people living with chronic illness — and even many of their health care providers — don’t realize how vital flu vaccination is to managing their condition.
The vaccine’s ability to prevent flu cases last year hovered around 44 percent overall; it was about 59 percent effective in young children and just 16 percent in adults over 65. But even that low number for older adults elides how much death and disability the vaccine prevented.
“Effectiveness” only refers to the ability of the vaccine to prevent illness, and the vaccine does so much more than that,“ says Dr. LJ Tan, chief strategy officer for the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition, based in St. Paul, Minn.
Milk Crate Garden: Grow A Lot Of Veggies In A Little Space
A milk crate garden is a great way to grow a lot of produce in a small space. Gardening in a milk crate is pretty much the same idea as square foot gardening. It’s kind of amazing what you can grow in these happy little plastic boxes. Plantable, stackable and cute, repurposed milk crates grow great gardens. A milk crate garden is such a clever way to grow a productive garden in a small space. Instead of growing vegetables, herbs and flowers inexpensive flower pots, grow them in stackable, repurposed, plastic milk crates. You can often find these crates on Craig’s List or freecycle.org, or at garage sales, thrift shops and other inexpensive (or free!) sources.
