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A local organic farm owner wants the community to have vegetables grown by someone using the wisdom of nature rather than someone with a knowledge of pesticides.
Rashid Nuri, an agriculturalist for almost 40 years, in April formed Truly Living Well Urban Organic Farms, a community-supported agriculture organization with farm sites on Washington Road in College Park and Harbin Road in Atlanta.
Nuri also has sites in Henry and Clayton counties and hopes to have 40 acres of plantings throughout metro Atlanta.
Fresh organic produce, herbs and flowers grown by local high school students at the Green Youth Farm in North Chicago is available for purchase at the Greenbelt Forest Preserve beginning today.
Harvested items will be available today and Aug. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. Residents are also invited to bring the family and pick their own from the Green Youth Farm garden, located in the preserve, on Saturdays through October 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dudley would become the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an office in the White House Office of Management and Budget with enormous authority over environmental, health, and safety regulations.
It was an outrageously bold promise, and a bit disorienting.
We have some truly astonishing news for you today. For starters, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) now seems to be openly abandoning any last remnants of journalistic integrity by announcing it will not ban the publishing of studies written by authors who hide their financial ties with drug companies.
Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.
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Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico's ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world's easiest paper ballot.