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Growing Edibles Indoors

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Author
MELEAH MAYNARD
Master Gardener
If you like to cook, there's really nothing like walking out into the garden and snipping a bit of fresh basil and oregano to add to your spaghetti sauce. But even if your gardening space is limited to a few sunny window ledges, there are still plenty of tasty things you can grow indoors.

Most herbs do well when planted in containers and grown in a spot (preferably a south- or west-facing window) that gets at least six hours of sun. You can start herbs from seed. It's easier, though a bit more costly, to buy small plants from a garden center or your local co-op. Buy the smallest

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ON THE WEB!

Sproutman Publications,
sproutman.com

Home & Garden Television,
hgtv.com (search for "indoor herb garden")

Read Up!

The Miracle Food: A Complete Guide to Sprouting, by Steve Meyerowitz, Sproutman Publications, 1998.

Growing 101 Herbs that Heal: Gardening Techniques, Recipes, and Remedies, by Tammi Hartung, Storey Publishing, 2007.

Act Locally!

Urban Earth,
910 W 36th St., Minneapolis, MN
612-824-0066, urbanearthcoop.org

Mother Earth Gardens
3738 S 42nd Ave.
Minneapolis, MN, 612-724-8463
motherearthgarden.com

Head to Head: a Lettuce Comparison

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Author
ELI EFFINGER-WEINTRAUB
Do It Green! Minnesota
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Nothing tastes better on a hot summer day than a crisp, cool salad. Before you toss up that salad, consider where the lettuce and other fruits and vegetables on your summer plates come from. If it's like most conventional produce in this country, it comes from an average of 1,500 miles away. 39% of our fruits and 12% of our vegetables traveled from another country.1 Is the lettuce in that salad good for the environment? We compare three heads of lettuce: one grown conventionally in California (where more than half of
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References:

http://looncommons.org/2008/01/11
/racking-up-the-food-miles/

http://www.lifeintheusa.com/food
/vegetables.htm

http://attra.ncat.org/downloads
/water_quality/irrigation.pdf

http://www.sare.org/publications/energy
/energy.pdf

http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff
/ppp/food_mil.pdf

It's Never too Late to Go Green

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Author
Lark Weller
Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability

Many of us strive to live environmentally conscious lives. However, we often do not realize that we have the ability to make some of the same green decisions regarding our deaths as we have made throughout the rest of our lives - we can choose a natural, eco-friendly death. Although many may be uncomfortable thinking about or making arrangements for their own death, it makes good sense that our decisions about death be compatible with the choices we have made in life.

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Why Natural Death?

Funeral Consumers Alliance

 


Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love, Lisa Carlson

Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial, E. Morgan

Anatomical Gift: Whole Body Donation Guide, Regina Lee


MN Department of Health - Mortuary Science Division
121 E. Seventh Place
Suite 400
St. Paul, MN 651-282-3829
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