| Learn about growing, buying produce locally
Celebrate Earth Day from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at your library on 7 Minerva St. East, Huntsville in the multipurpose room. If you want to do something to cut down on the 1,500 miles the average North American meal travels to get to the plate, consider growing some of your own, buying local produce and meat direct from the grower, or both. To mark Earth Month and help get you thinking, Huntsville Public Library will present a group of speakers on local wild and organically grown food options. Farmer Lori Ware of Ware Farms will speak about running, with her husband Owen, a mixed, chemical-free crop and livestock operation providing local people with an opportunity to buy local meat, fruit and vegetables. Well-known Huntsville market gardener John Baker will talk on organic vegetable gardening.
Made in Vermont: A Growth Industry
They may not be the hardest workers here, but the cows at the Foster Farm in Middlebury certainly earn their keep. Jim Foster beams, "It's benefiting Vermont all the way around!" The farmers sell the cows' milk, produce electricity from their manure, and now draw even more profits from that waste. Foster explains, "We're taking that a step further and using that to make a value-added product." Fifteen years ago, the Fosters launched a line of compost. Since then, the business of helping gardens grow has grown itself. Vermont Natural Ag Products sells several mixes, some approved for organic farms. Heather Foster-Provencher says, "It gives them nutrients that might be missing in the soils you're trying to grow product in." Their signature line of "Moo Doo" claims to be "Udderly the Best." To make it, the Fosters use their farm's manure, also trucking in manure from other Vermont dairy farms.
International Distributor Offers Rubber Mulch Products for ...
Expanding on its theme of providing environmentally friendly products Target Technologies International Inc. (TTII), a leading-edge recycled rubber and global logistics outsourcer, announces the addition of specialty rubber mulch to its family of fine product lines.
Currently a "must have" item nationwide, rubber mulch has proven highly adaptable to a number of different marketplaces -- most notably in playgrounds, landscaping, equestrian arenas and ballistics. Long-lasting & non-toxic, TTII's rubber mulch products are a timely alternative -- as consumers become more quality conscious in their choice of ground-cover materials.
After debuting the "It's time!" rubber mulch marketing campaign on their corporate website TTII's Managing Director -- John B.
The UK’s DIY and Gardening Market Will Return to Growth in 2007 ...
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c53535) has announced the addition of UK Retail Futures 2011: DIY and Gardening to their offering. Long used to being one of the fastest growing sectors in retail the DIY & gardening market has now declined in value for two years running. This report analyses the macroeconomic, social and consumer factors that shape sector demand to provide detailed and reliable forecasts. It is an essential reference tool for any business with a stake in the sector. Scope Five year forecasts to 2011 for DIY & gardening market expenditure, inflation and volume growth with ten year historic data. In-depth analysis of key market issues that will shape demand and retailer responses over the next five years.
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