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OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram: October 15
OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram: October 15
OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram: June 15
OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram: June 15
OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram: March 15
OTR HG: West Site Sun Diagram, March 15
Case Study Research / (late) Day 2
December 15 2010 A belated second installment to the book review of “Garden Anywhere” by Alys Fowler. After further review of the book while on vacation this past week, I have determined it very generally presents an urban and chic set of instructions for gardening. In the first real chapter, “From The Ground Up,”various steps [...]
Case Study / Research day 1
This is the start of a book report. It is similar to the reports we all had to do in elementary school. This report is an over-winter case study / research experiment manifest in blog format. I am going to read a couple of books about gardening, with the intention of learning and bringing something [...]
350 Nati Work Party & Eco fair
Cincinnati 350 Global Work Party and Eco Fair Sunday 10 AM – 3 PM at the Liberty & Elm garden in Over The Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio. 350.org Global Website The Facebook page of the Cincinnati event 350.org for events in Cincinnati, Ohio
Google Raising Bees at Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco
Urban farming is a comprehensive way of life that incorporates farming lifestyle and country methods into our urban community. Ideas like having chicken coups , rooftop foliage, hydroponic growing systems, vertical growing structures and multi-floored garden buildings, vermi composting, even window herb gardening, can and are being incorporated into the urban household. Now, my favorite [...]
Buying Seed: Hybrid Vs. Non-Hybrid; Genetically Altered and Organic.
The package seeds come in contain good information about the seed variety inside. As much information that is included on the seed pack it is becoming more rare to see the listing of a hybrid or non hybrid. The terms described below identify if a seed is a hybrid, or an open pollinated variety. These [...]
Rooftop Water Reclamation, SUCCESS!
No one realized how much water comes off a roof in only a short rain fall, but after the first rain we were all amazed! I marked the water line of one of our three 220 gallon tanks in an attempt to measure how much water we would collect from the rooftop reclamation system our [...]
Harvest Celebration
Harvest Celebration at the OTR Homegrown Urban Farm Sunday, August 30. 12 PM Celebrate the success of the OTR Homegrown urban farm, discuss and understand the potential of urban agriculture, and be very, very suave at the OTR Homegrown Garden on Walnut St. in Over The Rhine. Check out the Google map for directions to [...]
