backyard this summer

i've finished my planting at home... would like to know from others (teachers, leaders, home users, students, etc) what they are growing + photos if possible...
thanks
bob p.

The Growing Connection in New York City

We have been working for the past few months with Philson Warner from the Cornell Cooperative Extension to grow corn for an exhibit at WIRED NextFest. In addition to The Growing Connection's booth, we have been contracted by General Motors to grow corn to be used in an alternative fuels exhibit showcasing Ethanol/E85 powered vehicles.

IIASA - Land Use Change

IIASA - Land Use Change

Land-use and land-cover change are significant to a range of themes and issues central to the study of global environmental change. Alterations in the earth’s surface hold major implications for the global radiation balance and energy fluxes, contribute to changes in biogeochemical cycles, alter hydrological cycles, and influence ecological balances and complexity. Through these environmental impacts at local, regional and global levels, land-use and land-cover changes driven by human activity have the potential to significantly affect food security and the sustainability of the world agricultural and forest product supply systems.

Independent of long-term global cumulative dimensions, changes in land use and land cover will have profound regional environmental implications, such as alterations in surface runoff dynamics, lowering of groundwater tables, impacts on rates and types of land degradation, and reduced biodiversity. It is therefore widely recognized that an understanding of changes in land and water use over a time span of the next 30–50 years is central to the debate of sustainability.

Greenmarket at 30, Searching for Itself - New York Times

Interesting story from The New York Times about the Greenmarket program and shortage of vendors. We hope to help fix that.

Greenmarket at 30, Searching for Itself - New York Times

AHS at River Farm Blog

The staff at the American Horticultural Society Headquarters located at River Farm in Alexandria, VA have been keeping a blog all spring in the Growing Connection Demonstration Garden. Stop by and take a peak at some of the amazing crops.

Green Maps

We've recently had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of the people at Green Maps . They have 350 different communities around the world publishing green maps. Very cool stuff, definitely check it out.

Sorry. It's been awhile, but, that means we've been busy, and up to good things.

We continue work on the site and have begun registering people on the site. If you'd like to join The Growing Connection community, please sign up for the site here.

We've just launched the new forums and user registration using e107, check it out here: Click here. We encourage everyone to please sign up for an account and use the forums. We are striving to use the website as the centralized base of operations for all aspects of the project, from lesson plans to student interaction to gardening tips to project initiatives and Advisor action points.

New content management system. We've been messing around with e107 and have it installed on the server here check it out and if you're familiar with e107 and want to lend a hand, please drop me a line.

Thanks.


Ken
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