The Travel Lodge Hotel chain are testing the world’s first mobile hotel room – the Travelpod
Designed to be set up anywhere you might put up a tent, the Travelpod will be offered at various concerts and festivals in the UK next year, and if catching a good night’s rest just doesn’t happen while [...]
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Last week we wanted to buy a bell pepper, an onion, and a few greens for our grand-daughter’s breakfast omelet in Escondido. We drove around for an age before we found a full service grocery store. It seemed easier to buy a Twinkie than an onion there.
It turns out that Escondidio is not the [...]
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Have you ever noticed while balming out in your yard in your favorite hammock, absorbing the sun, that your appetite for your favorite mp3 tracks becomes insatiable? But what happens when you find your mp3 player is running out of juice! What do you do? Abandon the whole afternoon and [...]
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Get back to your roots!
There is no place too small for you to create your own garden. Even if you live in an apartment (as some of us do!) with no yard at all, you can start a container food garden.
Container gardening requires less soil and takes up less space. Container gardening suits a [...]
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Gardening can reduce crime in a crime ridden neighborhood..
Local folks in Flint, Michigan were tired of seeing vacant lots fill up with trash and troublemakers. They wanted to turn empty spaces into productive property. It wasn’t only greenery they sought. Some Flint residents had a hunch that corn and tomatoes cultivated by neighbors in [...]
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Do you desperately want to get your friends to share your passion for locally grown healthy food, but cannot find a way to discuss the issue with them? Good news! There’s a card game that challenges your dinner party guests to share the story behind each dish on the menu. The game can be [...]
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A Locovore is a person who wants to eat only food that is grown within a radius of 100 miles from their dinner table. The opposite of Locovore is a person who likes to order Spanish cheese, Italian ham, and Kentucky eggs while dining out in San Francisco without missing a forkful! [...]
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It’s official- Austin , Texas is the top blogging city in the USA, but Columbus (Ohio) has the best food blogger network.
Columbus has a Social Media Cafe and that’s what makes it a great blog center.
Home Grown Food Network has a mission to highlight the many aspects of the intimate relationships we humans have [...]
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Last week the LA Times published an article about a Program called the Safe Parking Program in Santa Barbara, California. This lets people live in their cars on designated parking lots.
They can live in cars or RVs in about a dozen parking lots that belong to the city, the county, churches, nonprofits and [...]
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(1) Grow something good to eat. I enjoy a meal made from food we’ve grown ourselves. We have a tiny yard where, in December, we grow tomatoes. I will plant lettuce and cucumbers in pots and serve a home-grown salad in 2008.
(2) Upgrade our garden shed so that it will have room [...]
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