Home Grown Food Network’s Ultra Low Cost House Demonstration at Desert Hot Springs, California, is using a corner of the East Yard to demonstrate that you can grow potatoes in recycled garbage bags. The demo area is in the corner as far away from prying cameras as we can manage, and near a source of [...]
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The number of people living in what health experts have called a ‘food desert’—an urban area with few supermarkets and, therefore, limited access to cheap, healthful food- is on the increase. I wrote about this last year when I experienced it myself during a vacation in Escondido, but normally living within a two mile [...]
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Remember this dialogue in The Graduate (1967)?
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin (played by Dustin Hoffman): Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?
( more quotes from the movie)
Back when The Graduate was first released, [...]
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