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Steve Jobs Plans Vegetable Garden In New Home

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Gardening, Research + Science, Tech.

Steve Jobs will have his own private, vegetable garden at his new pad, reports Cult of Mac, which also has a layout of the 5,000 square feet design on its website.

Gizmodo gave the intricate details:

“According to these initial designs, Jobs intends to populate the 6 acres with an assortment of indigenous flora; a simple three-car garage; a modest 5 bedroom home with plenty of windows and decks; a network of lighted stone walkways; and even a private vegetable garden. Everything is neat, tight, pragmatic, and in its place.”

This leaves more questions to be answered, of course. What vegetables will be included? Will the garden be organic? Does Jobs have a staff to tend to the veggies or does he have a natural green thumb himself?

It may awhile before the public learns these answers, but there is information available on why people garden in the first place, according to a survey by the National Gardening Association called “Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America.”

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Organic Vegetables–NSFW (Photos)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 in Food & Drink, Gardening, Humor, Offbeat.

Potato. Credit: Organic Authority

Potato. Credit: Organic Authority

Some people are either really turned on by vegetables or have really dirty minds. We don’t want to know the details of their sex lives.

Organic Authority has compiled some photos of veggies caught in very compromising positions, from the “Wee Weanie Carrot” to this one titled, “You say potato, we say good golly…”

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Prince Charles has opened his home to the London public to host a sustainable living fair, A Garden Party To Make A Difference. But quite a few rodents are into the organic fruits and vegetables he’s grown and are the source of annoyance to the staff at his residence.

According to MSNBC, a source told The Sun the eco-friendly loving rats are having a hard time practicing the art of not over-consuming. “The rats have become more of a problem. There seem to be more — and they are getting bigger. We’ve lost strawberries and our tomatoes got nibbled overnight. It’s all down to the rats.”

No animal lover wants to kill rats with poisonous material or painful traps, but no one wants their yard to be a farmers market for rodents either. What is a humane, eco-friendly way to evict these creatures from your property? Peanut Butter!

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Charlie Trotter Approves Illinois Inmate Gardening Program (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Gardening, Videos.

Charlie Trotter

Charlie Trotter

Chicago based chef who’s appeared on a PBS cooking show and has a cameo appearance in “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” Charlie Trotter, gives the seal of approval to an Illinois program that allows low risk inmates to cultivate vegetables in a garden that are shipped to local food banks.

The Sheriff’s Garden Program was started 17 years ago at the Cook County Jail. After participants learn to plant, water, pull weeds and other tasks necessary to maintain a garden, they earn a master gardener’s certificate from the University of Illinois extension program and participate in a graduation ceremony at the end of the summer.

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Chelsea Clinton Insisted On Organic Flowers For Wedding

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 in Couples, Environment-Eco-Green, Gardening.

In addition to vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free food, Chelsea Clinton insisted on organic flowers for her wedding this past weekend to Marc Mezvinsky.

Florist Jeff Leatham told US Magazine, “It was very important [to Chelsea] to keep it organic and natural…The theme, floral wise, was organic, clean, simple and elegant.”

The happy couple and their guests may have breathed easier without many traditional pesticides and fungicides that are banned in North America for being carcinogenic and causing multiple health problems like nausea, neurological and reproductive problems in workers tending to the plants.

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Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr may have sang along to “Meat is Murder” when he played with The Smiths and he still follows a vegan diet today. However, his plant counterpart has no problem trapping innocents bugs and gulping them down. Guess everyone has an evil twin.

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A Subway Sandwich shop in Japan is taking fresh to the next level.

The restaurant located in the Marunouchi Building, which is located across the street from the Tokyo Station, has created a hydroponic garden for growing lettuce. Hydroponic involves culturing plants in a solution versus soil, that is free of normal chemicals applied on conventional crops.

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Mark Ruffalo A Rebel With A Garden Cause

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, July 5th, 2010 in Actors, Gardening.

Mark Ruffalo

As a seasoned actor, Mark Ruffalo doesn’t mind the cameras and director’s orders, but he’s just as comfortable with the soil and the hoe.

The actor told the New York Times, he enjoys spending time in his garden in Sullivan County, New York that is currently home to corn, zucchini and tomatoes.

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