Camomile Sprouts Day#2

These things are growing like crazy and it gets me really excited to keep experimenting with container gardening. I have an 8×14 room and even I have enough space to grow a few things!

Camomile Sprouts!

YAY! I edited the crap out of this pic, in hopes that I could emphasise the liitle green buds, but you still gotta look for them.
Last Wednesday I planted strawberries, lavender, lemon grass and camomile. The little buds are camomile! They only took a few days to pop out
Yesterday I planted basil. The stawberries [...]

DIY site

You all know how much I love DIY projects, especially when you get to use re-envisioned materials! So here is a site that offers lots of fun stuff to do. It’s called Instructables. There is even a Green tab for DIY sustainability projects!!!
YAY!

Self Sufficient-ish

Not only is their page name hilarious, but they’ve got lots of goodies for those of you that aim for sustainable and home grown food.
Here’s a small list of some of their useful posts:
Home Growing on a Budget
No Tech Solar Oven
Bean,Squash, Corn Matrix (a traditional method of Native Americans)
Setting Up your Food Storage Program.
There’s [...]

DIY Indoor Garden

Here’s an article I found over at Beauty Just 4 You on growing herbs indoors. Why buy ‘em when you can grow ‘em right?
GardenGuides has a good overview of container and indoor gardening.
Here are some tips and tricks from Home and Garden and then there is www.tipsonindoorgardening.com.
Standup Gardens has lots of good [...]

Bush Guts Endangered Species Act

In true Bush fashion, the Washington Post reports how the administration is making it impossible to add species to the list.
Controversies have occasionally flared over Interior Department officials who regularly overruled rank-and-file agency scientists’ recommendations to list new species, but internal documents also suggest that pervasive bureaucratic obstacles were erected to limit the number [...]

Scotland Makes Move Toward Energy Independence

HAPPY EASTER!! It’s a beautiful sunny day and here’s some good news to top it off.

A Green Power station opened recently in Scotland, using biomass (trees) to generate electricity.
“The power plant will produce enough green energy, from the surrounding forests, to supply up to 70,000 homes – more than 17 times the population [...]

Fish Vital to Reef Survival

In entirety:
Fish Key to Reef Climate Survival
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Life on the Reef
A healthy fish population could be the key to ensuring coral reefs survive the impacts of climate change, pollution, overfishing and other threats.
Australian scientists found that some fish act as “lawnmowers”, keeping coral free of [...]

DIY Raised Garden Beds

I’ve found some good resources for building raised garden beds.
Just a few notes: avoid pressure treated wood unless you have a plastic liner to cover the inside walls or infuse the wood with a penetrating oil such as AFM Naturals (Which is sustainably made from plant base.) Eartheasy says that another alternative to pressure treated [...]

Brazilian Women Destroy GM Crops

Report in entirety:
Brazilian protesters destroy GM crops
Mar 7, 2008
SAO PAULO (AFP) — Around 300 women rural residents in Brazil burst into a property owned by the US company Monsanto and destroyed a plant nursery and crops containing genetically modified corn, their organization said.
The women were protesting what they saw as environmental damage by the [...]