What expanded your mind today?

Hollylane · 08-19-2013, 02:57 PM

Hollylane · 08-19-2013, 03:08 PM

Can city farms feed a hungry world?

Licious · 08-19-2013, 04:10 PM

What a good idea for a thread!

Subscribing.

I am interested in many of the topics listed. Thank you everyone for posting. Information is Power, I believe that... spread the word, get people to think.

This post is regarding Commercial City Farms/Organic Farms near cities...

http://www.fairviewgardens.org/who-w...ission-vision/

Fairview Gardens Farms and Center for Urban Agriculture is near my home, it has been there for decades.

They have their stand next to the library and their property abuts the library parking lot... makes it easy to stop by for the free tours and yummy produce.

Their staff is requested worldwide to assist communities with Urban Agriculture.

I enjoy the free tours there and it's nice to see a viable urban farm that keeps going year after year.

Hollylane · 08-24-2013, 10:43 PM

Devoted dad runs triathlon carrying his teenager daughter with cerebral palsy because she loves being outdoors...

NorCalStud · 08-25-2013, 12:24 AM

I am 60 in two days. My mind had to expand to grok that!

This is one of the most important things I have learned at this age:

Time allows for perspective to lengthen. It stretches past the myopic thoughts and it lengthins insight.

Okay I am not as judgemental. I am more accepting.

Make Love, Not War.

Hollylane · 08-31-2013, 01:45 PM

Hollylane · 09-01-2013, 09:24 AM

History of Labor Day

In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) of New York. Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in May 1882, after witnessing the annual labour festival held in Toronto, Canada. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated Labor Day.

Following. the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, the United States Congress unanimously voted to approve rush legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover Cleveland signed it into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent Communist, Syndicalist and Anarchist movements that, though distinct from one another, had rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair in International Workers' Day. All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.

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Licious Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: California Posts: 686 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,502 Thanked 1,973 Times in 546 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	What a good idea for a thread! Subscribing. I am interested in many of the topics listed. Thank you everyone for posting. Information is Power, I believe that... spread the word, get people to think. This post is regarding Commercial City Farms/Organic Farms near cities... http://www.fairviewgardens.org/who-w...ission-vision/ Fairview Gardens Farms and Center for Urban Agriculture is near my home, it has been there for decades. They have their stand next to the library and their property abuts the library parking lot... makes it easy to stop by for the free tours and yummy produce. Their staff is requested worldwide to assist communities with Urban Agriculture. I enjoy the free tours there and it's nice to see a viable urban farm that keeps going year after year. __________________ Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ~Rumi

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Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,361 Times in 5,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	History of Labor Day In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) of New York. Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in May 1882, after witnessing the annual labour festival held in Toronto, Canada. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated Labor Day. Following. the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, the United States Congress unanimously voted to approve rush legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover Cleveland signed it into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent Communist, Syndicalist and Anarchist movements that, though distinct from one another, had rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair in International Workers' Day. All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.