Deuce veggies + workday Sunday

Everyone,

The Deuce Gardens finally has some tomatoes! We also have a healthy share of cucumbers, and I think that the garlic and onions are probably ready to be harvested.

So, I haven't firmly said anything about money yet, but here's what I was thinking: Jeffers, Ugolini and I are the only people who have spent any money on the garden (no one else has been asked). Therefore, to make some of the money back, I was thinking about offering the veggies for a discounted price for those who have helped out with the garden (or offering them to everyone, but giving precedence to those who've helped out). I'll check on average prices in the super market, and make sure that we are comparable, if not lower.

Another option would be to make salsa and/or marinara sauce out of the tomatoes, and sell the salsa.....

Anyways, I'm open to options, so let me know what you'd like to do!

As always, we need help weeding this Sunday around 2pm, and we'll be digging and placing some posts.

~Sir Knabe

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More Chicago Green Fest News

Chicago Green Festival Attracts Huge Crowds
Our first-ever Chicago Green Festival, held over Earth Day weekend, broke records and exceeded all expectations. With more than 30,000 people attending, it was our biggest launch of a new Green Festival yet. Setting an example for other large-scale events, we recovered more than 92 percent of the Green Festival's waste through recycling and composing, and we offset all carbon emissions associated with the festival.
Co-op America Quarterly

I must add, some of us SEAers helped accomplish that! Even though Mariel and I couldn't convince a man to buy the "perfect scarf, the only one with just the right amount of orange fabric", all 10 or 12 of us helped out in numerous other ways.
Upcoming festivals this year:
Washington, DC Oct. 6-7, 2007, San Francisco, CA Nov 9-11, 2007, Seattle, WA April 12-13 2008 (I think the Seattle one is new) and Chicago, IL (TBA).

I vote our nations capitol this year...

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Vertical farming in the big Apple

Is this how farms will look in the future?

Jeremy Cook
BBC News , New York


Professor Despommier lists many advantages of this revolutionary kind of agriculture. They include:

• Year round crop production in a controlled environment
• All produce would be organic as there would be no exposure to wild parasites and bugs
• Elimination of environmentally damaging agricultural runoff
• Food being produced locally to where it is consumed

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