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Edmonton Needs a D&B Beer Scene
D&B Beer is thought to have originated in Britian in the middle ages and is made by fermenting a tea made by boiling the roots of dandelions and burdock. The flavour is "mildly bitter and aeromatic). You can buy a non-alchoholic version at some local grocery stores but we're going to make th...
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D&B Beer is thought to have originated in Britian in the middle ages and is made by fermenting a tea made by boiling the roots of dandelions and burdock. The flavour is "mildly bitter and aeromatic). You can buy a non-alchoholic version at some local grocery stores but we're going to make th...
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The Watershed Diet – You Are Where You Eat
You are 60% watershed - a small pond gathering water from the environment - a small pond with legs. From this perspective, a 150 lb person walking hill is 90 lbs of water flowing against gravity. The post The Watershed Diet – You Are Where You Eat appeared first on Dustin Bajer.
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You are 60% watershed - a small pond gathering water from the environment - a small pond with legs. From this perspective, a 150 lb person walking hill is 90 lbs of water flowing against gravity. The post The Watershed Diet – You Are Where You Eat appeared first on Dustin Bajer.
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You’re Eating Clones – But That’s Not News
An individual plant that's continiously propogated by cloning is refered to as a cultivated varitiey or cultivar. Almost all fruits and some vegetables (like potatoes) are propogated by cuttings because it's the only way to guarentee consistency across generations. The post You’re Eating C...
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An individual plant that's continiously propogated by cloning is refered to as a cultivated varitiey or cultivar. Almost all fruits and some vegetables (like potatoes) are propogated by cuttings because it's the only way to guarentee consistency across generations. The post You’re Eating C...
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Your Parking Stall Wants To Be A Forest
Your Parking Stall Wants To Be A Forest Imagine a parking stall – hot, grey, dry, and dead. Parking lots are uninteresting, uninviting, and inhospitable to most plants and animals. They are begging to be forests. Even the most meticulously paved parking lot has minor imperfections that spe...
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Your Parking Stall Wants To Be A Forest Imagine a parking stall – hot, grey, dry, and dead. Parking lots are uninteresting, uninviting, and inhospitable to most plants and animals. They are begging to be forests. Even the most meticulously paved parking lot has minor imperfections that spe...
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I Want To Try A Writing Experiment If you’ve ever kept a website, you know that a lot of work happens behind the scenes – in addition to writing there are the tedious tasks of resizing and formatting images, finding the perfect headlines, and optimising the content to maximise search ...
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I Want To Try A Writing Experiment If you’ve ever kept a website, you know that a lot of work happens behind the scenes – in addition to writing there are the tedious tasks of resizing and formatting images, finding the perfect headlines, and optimising the content to maximise search ...
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9 School Urban Agriculture Projects With The Power To Kickstart The Local Food Scene
9 Urban Agriculture Projects Schools Can Do Right Now To Support The Future of Local Food One of the best ways to kickstart a local movement is to provide early access to training. I saw this firsthand while watching Jasper Place High School’s Culinary and Pastry Arts students. Under the gu...
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9 Urban Agriculture Projects Schools Can Do Right Now To Support The Future of Local Food One of the best ways to kickstart a local movement is to provide early access to training. I saw this firsthand while watching Jasper Place High School’s Culinary and Pastry Arts students. Under the gu...
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Report A Honeybee Swarm or Colony
This You Have a Honeybees? Verify it with a Questionnaire and Report it to an Edmonton Beekeeper Before we go too far – if you have thousands of bees flying around our yard or clumped together on a branch – you have a swarm of honeybees. No need to worry. If you’re in the Edmonton […] The ...
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This You Have a Honeybees? Verify it with a Questionnaire and Report it to an Edmonton Beekeeper Before we go too far – if you have thousands of bees flying around our yard or clumped together on a branch – you have a swarm of honeybees. No need to worry. If you’re in the Edmonton […] The ...
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Report A Swarm Or Honeybee Colony
Report A Swarm Or Colony of Honeybees In The Edmonton Area Before we go too far – if you have thousands of bees flying around our yard or clumped together on a branch – you have a swarm of honeybees. No need to worry. If you’re in the Edmonton area, call (780) two three five [&...
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Report A Swarm Or Colony of Honeybees In The Edmonton Area Before we go too far – if you have thousands of bees flying around our yard or clumped together on a branch – you have a swarm of honeybees. No need to worry. If you’re in the Edmonton area, call (780) two three five [&...
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The Nature of Cities: Why Cities are Good for the Environment.
Want to Help the Environment? Move To A City. The Bigger, The Better. Contrary to our cultural narrative, cities are good for nature. Why? Because cities are natural and governed by same processes that created ecological systems. In fact, cities may be the most useful tool we have for tackling so...
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Want to Help the Environment? Move To A City. The Bigger, The Better. Contrary to our cultural narrative, cities are good for nature. Why? Because cities are natural and governed by same processes that created ecological systems. In fact, cities may be the most useful tool we have for tackling so...
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What Grows Here? Pushing The Limits Of Gardening In Edmonton
What Grows Here? How Innovation and Exploration Continue To Shape Edmonton’s Landscape. One-hundred years ago, Edmontonians longed for apples while present-day Edmontonians have so much fruit that not-for-profits like Fruits of Sherbrook and Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton (OFRE) have emerg...
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What Grows Here? How Innovation and Exploration Continue To Shape Edmonton’s Landscape. One-hundred years ago, Edmontonians longed for apples while present-day Edmontonians have so much fruit that not-for-profits like Fruits of Sherbrook and Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton (OFRE) have emerg...
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The Trouble With School Gardens
The Challenges of School Gardens And Sustainable Food Edmonton’s Plan To Fix Them Recent years have also seen an increase in schools interested in urban agriculture initiatives – especially school gardens. Traditionally run as extra-curricular activities or horticulture classes, schoo...
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The Challenges of School Gardens And Sustainable Food Edmonton’s Plan To Fix Them Recent years have also seen an increase in schools interested in urban agriculture initiatives – especially school gardens. Traditionally run as extra-curricular activities or horticulture classes, schoo...
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One Design For Three Urban Animals – Birds, Bugs, and Bats
One Design Modified For Three Different Urban Animals – Birds, Bugs, and Bats I’ve been wanting to attract more urban animals to my backyard and was researching different ways to go about it. Besides being a joy to watch, urban animals provide important ecological functions such as pe...
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One Design Modified For Three Different Urban Animals – Birds, Bugs, and Bats I’ve been wanting to attract more urban animals to my backyard and was researching different ways to go about it. Besides being a joy to watch, urban animals provide important ecological functions such as pe...
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Save Space and Increase Your Yield With Espalier Fruit Trees
A Leafy Wall of Fruit. Save Space, Increase Your Yield and Extend the Growing Season with Espalier Fruit Trees Espalier is the ancient practice of training plants – typically trees, shrubs, or vines – against a two-dimensional surface such as a wall or trellis. The result is a compact...
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A Leafy Wall of Fruit. Save Space, Increase Your Yield and Extend the Growing Season with Espalier Fruit Trees Espalier is the ancient practice of training plants – typically trees, shrubs, or vines – against a two-dimensional surface such as a wall or trellis. The result is a compact...
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12 Steps to Start Beekeeping In Edmonton
A Step-By-Step Guide To Beekeeping In Edmonton If you’re thinking about keeping honeybees in Edmonton you’ve probably come across the City of Edmonton’s Urban Beekeeping page. If so, you’ve read about 4 steps, city guidelines, swarm plans, PID numbers, and provincial agric...
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A Step-By-Step Guide To Beekeeping In Edmonton If you’re thinking about keeping honeybees in Edmonton you’ve probably come across the City of Edmonton’s Urban Beekeeping page. If so, you’ve read about 4 steps, city guidelines, swarm plans, PID numbers, and provincial agric...
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What is Aquaponics and How Does it Work?
Aquaponics in a Nutshell Aquaponics in the union of aquaculture and hydroponics. But why combine the two and how does it work? To answer that questions let’s take a step back to examine the input and outputs of each component technique. Aquaculture Aquaculture is fish farming and involves l...
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Aquaponics in a Nutshell Aquaponics in the union of aquaculture and hydroponics. But why combine the two and how does it work? To answer that questions let’s take a step back to examine the input and outputs of each component technique. Aquaculture Aquaculture is fish farming and involves l...
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