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FIVE FOR FALL – FREEDOM SEEDS GIVEAWAY (82)

August 30, 2010 • Category: Product Reviews & Giveaways

Five for Fall! Growing for food security in the 21st century.  To celebrate the launch of the new and improved Freedom Gardens we will be giving away 5 “Five for Fall Collection” of Freedom Seeds That’s right there will be FIVE lucky winners! The seed collection will include five fall veggies (cabbage, mizuna, beets, peas, [...]

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FREEDOM PLOTS (0)

Plots of opportunity on urban eco-farms (The Natural Food Merchandiser) by Vicky Uhland The Dervaes family’s 1,500-square-foot vintage Craftsman bungalow, set on a standard city lot a mile from downtown Pasadena, Calif., is an unlikely homestead for a working farm. And yet Jules Dervaes and three of his children manage to grow 350 varieties of [...]

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More Tomatoes? (3)

Tomatoes have already had one post to themselves on this site, but I think they deserve another, don’t you? To introduce myself: I am a British-born, stay-at-home mother of two, and I’m an impostor here. Unlike others who contribute to this site, I’m only a beginner when it comes to growing my own food. I [...]

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GARDENER OF THE MONTH: AUGUST 2010 (1)

MergingLight you have been selected to be the “Freedom Gardener of Month!” Location: Gravette,AR Plant Hardiness Zone: 6-7 Acreage / Lot Size: Half Acre (Freedom Gardens) Tell us a little more about your garden/ farm, what you grow, etc. MERGINGLIGHT: We have a backyard garden, spread out amongst several small patches where we grow mostly heirloom [...]

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GROWING PROPAGANDA (0)

“All you gentlemen have to do is to induce the American people to change their ways of living — that’s all.” — John S. Pardee, chief of the Publications Section of the Food Administration, addressing State Educational Directors, with irony, 1917 Cory Bernat has curated an extensive online image gallery  of war-era government posters related [...]