Front Yard Vegetable Gardens: Different is Good
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Since I wrote about the Michigan woman who is facing 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden last Friday, the story has just exploded. TIME, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Geek Mom, CRAFT, Grist, and Daily Kos -- along with plenty of other blogs -- have covered the story. It never fails that someone in the comment section defends the city of Oak Park's actions by saying "why should ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Circle of Blue has an outstanding article about America's problem with too much arsenic in the water.
"A decade after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took aggressive action to limit arsenic in American drinking water, the agency, in its latest assessment published in January, reports that nearly 1,000 water systems serving 1.1 million people are still not in compliance."
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This is a nice spread to keep in your refrigerator for when you need a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, or if you invite some friends over for a glass of wine. You can serve it with 
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