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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Anna Hess
Eggs, the other red meat
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November 16, 2008: I've never been a vegetarian --- not quite --- though for the first twenty odd years of my life I ate meat sparingly and mostly under duress. I blame my budding vegetarianism on pacifist parents who looked on in... read more >
Holistic Agriculture
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November 10, 2008: The buzz of the honeybee may soon be a thing of the past. Colony collapse disorder (or CCD) is a fancy term to refer to the recent decline in honeybee populations, a decline which has been scientifically documented but... read more >

Re "Holistic Agriculture" (November 14, 2008): Thanks for your kudos --- I'm glad you enjoyed it! 10-10-10 is a chemical fertilizer --- 10% nitrogen, 10% phosphate, and 10% potash. Read More >
Anna Hess
I'm a biologist and artist who dreamed about moving back into the countryside ever since my parents dragged me kicking and screaming from our family farm at the ripe old age of eight.  Since then, I've grown up and gone back to the land --- where I quickly realized that real... More