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Bananas in the Mountains

Elevation-Grown Bananas

Erin has some bananas growing at 9000 feet in the heart of the Rockies. Her operation, Erin’s Geothermal Greenhouse, is looking to harvest a few naners sometime this spring. She’ll keep us posted. Our own banana tree sits in the window of our south facing window – I doubt it will produce fruit. We [...]

Toronto’s Battle with Coffee Cups and the Filling Landfill

Toronto’s city council is trying to figure out what to do with its coffee cups and lids. Together, they aren’t recyclable, apart they are. Even if you have something that is recyclable, most of it ends up in the landfill anyway. The article Industry gets more time to fix coffee-cup conflict is a good read, [...]

Spotlight: Colombia

I spent the bulk of last week working on a dairy north of here where I consult on grazing planning and Holistic Management. One of the people at the dairy is from Venezuela and we got to talking about the Colombian guerillas and his need to flee his home because they had invaded and presumably [...]