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		<title>Bronx Green-Up Wants New Yorkers to Make Friends with Worms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva.
Last month I had the privilege of signing copies of my new book, Talking Dirt, (Penguin Group, 2010) at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Am I shamelessly promoting my book here? Of course I am! But mostly, I want to tell the world about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women on Tractors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva.
Unfortunately, like many urbanites, I grew up thinking that food came from the supermarket below my New York apartment building, and flowers came from the florist at 84th and Lexington Avenue. It took a PS 6 fifth-grade field trip to the Metropolitan Museum to view a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Trip to Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa—Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heritage Farm, the Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) headquarters, is nestled into a little valley amidst rolling Iowa cornfields. This was the 35th anniversary of Seed Savers and the 30th anniversary of the annual Campout. So the valley was filled not only with glorious gardens but also with, as Diane Ott Whealy—the cofounder—calls them, “diverse seedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to my Kitchen: Ed Orem from Grower&#8217;s First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Ed Orem is stopping by my kitchen, to talk about his personal journey from being a sugar junky to an organic freak.
Ed “Organic Freak” Orem is the data manager at Grower’s First, an organization that helps farmers and their families achieve a better standard of living across the world. Ed is passionate about his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Gardening Teaches Patience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was weeding my asparagus patch. Asparagus takes three years to get going enough for you to start eating it. The first year you plant asparagus, it takes its good old time getting going, and you have to fight the weeds and mulch like crazy. The second year, the asparagus gets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen Bees, Cellphones, and Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom</title>
		<link>http://www.mariasfarmcountrykitchen.com/queen-bees-cellphones-and-colonel-mustard-in-the-ballroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva)
A recent study, conducted this spring in India, found a link between the disappearance of honeybees and cellphones. If only it were that simple. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) was found in the United States and various other countries in 2006. Beekeepers started noticing queen bees—normally very maternal—and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Start a Compost Pile in 4 Easy Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now is the perfect time to start a compost pile. You can do it fancy or simple. And if you know me, you know I always prefer simple. Compost is the most important thing you can use in your garden to improve your land&#8217;s  fertility (lawn, garden, and landscape), get rid of kitchen and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Says You Can&#8217;t Grow Roses Organically?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mariasfarmcountrykitchen.com/who-says-you-cant-grow-roses-organically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often hear people say they can&#8217;t grow roses without chemicals, and to them I say &#8220;phooey!&#8221; Actually, I say, &#8220;of course you can!&#8221; All it takes is a little intelligence, and really not much effort at all.
The main thing is to start with root-grown roses, which is to say, roses that haven&#8217;t been grafted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Organic Weapon for Weeding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 11:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year, when weeds arise and rise again. Even the most devout organic gardener might be tempted to pull out the evil chemicals at times—especially when it comes to those hard-to-weed places like cracks in between rocks and gravel walkways, where there&#8217;s no food growing that could be tainted by a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>The President&#8217;s Cancer Panel Report Suggests We Smarten Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva)
Earlier this month the President&#8217;s Cancer Panel submitted its report, entitled Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which describes the effects of environmental exposures on cancer risk. The two-member panel—LaSalle D. Lefall, Jr., MD, a professor of surgery at Howard University, and Margaret Kripke, [...]]]></description>
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