Courtesy of FIU News FIU News recently caught up with agroecology students Nall Moonilall and Carin Luna at the organic garden on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus for a demonstration of how to propagate plants. Their plant of choice was an herb: tropical oregano. “It’s very easy to propagate,” said Moonilall. The students worked together [...]

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By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents — thousands of plant starts, many of them incredibly rare and entirely new to cultivation, all of them members [...]

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“The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.” Bill Mollison, Gardening for the Future of The Earth “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall [...]

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Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, asks us to look at ourselves from the point of view of plants and animals. About Michael Pollan Tweet

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