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back to the garden
"And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden" Joni Mitchell Woodstock
We can learn much while spending time in our gardens. Every school needs a garden. Your garden is where Nature and Civilization interact.
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This lesson requires students to learn to use a GPS receiver as they learn about physical geography. Students will use GPS receivers to survey an open area (natural or disturbed ecosystems) and investigate the different species of plant populations, rock and land formations, and soil types either in the school grounds or in recreational areas in the local community. Students will examine the geologic and geomorphic formations and describe how water and wind erosion have shaped the landscape and helped further plant and animal succession.
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back to the garden
food and trasnportation
You don't have to be driving for long on the Trans-Canada Highway to realize that there are a lot of trucks, big rigs, that is, rolling down the highway. They carry everything from toys to tomatoes. Cities, and towns across are dependent upon the trucking industry to keep us supplied in most, if not all, of Life's essential items.What happens when the trucks can't make it into town. This is an particular concern in the winter where snow and ice storms can close the highway and make it impossible for the trucks carrying our food to get by. Now, the storms don't usually last five days, a few hours or maybe a day's delay is most likely but it doesn't take much more than that for fresh items such as fruits and vegetable to disappear from the stores' displays.
I use the word fresh with some hesitation. I am almost tempted to put quote marks around the word but manage to resist. How fresh is food that has been transported a thousand miles or more, even if the truck is refridgerated. How long has the food sat on a loading dock, in a warehouse or food terminal, before being shipped to its end destination.
Are transport trucks really the best means of transporting food across the country? Is transporting food across country the best approach to food delivery? The use of fossil fuels contribute to climate change, for example, global warming, not to mention smog within urban centres. We may want to ask ourselves why we have become so dependent upon a system that leaves us vulnerable.
The growing local food movement is addressing these questions. We need to relocalize our food supply .
I use the word fresh with some hesitation. I am almost tempted to put quote marks around the word but manage to resist. How fresh is food that has been transported a thousand miles or more, even if the truck is refridgerated. How long has the food sat on a loading dock, in a warehouse or food terminal, before being shipped to its end destination.
Are transport trucks really the best means of transporting food across the country? Is transporting food across country the best approach to food delivery? The use of fossil fuels contribute to climate change, for example, global warming, not to mention smog within urban centres. We may want to ask ourselves why we have become so dependent upon a system that leaves us vulnerable.
The growing local food movement is addressing these questions. We need to relocalize our food supply .
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December 10, 2007 no responses I first discovered Terra Edibles 5 years ago and have been buying their seeds ever since. They have an online and a print catalogue which are well produced and easy
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