Here’s your mulberry guide restructured in the same warm, lesson-driven format — perfect for urban gardeners and curious plantitas with limited space 🌿💜 🍇 Growing Mulberries in Pots: Sweet Harvests from Small Spaces You won’t find fresh mulberries in grocery stores — their short shelf life makes them nearly impossible to sell commercially. But…
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img { border: 9px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m very glad to share our new paper analyzing spatial, income and racial inequalities in access to COVID-19 healthcare using the new balanced floating catchment area approach (BFCA). I have summarized the key findings and contributions of the study in the Twitter thread, but please feel free to…
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Registration is Now Open! Learn the essentials of soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment! Online Learning by Live Lectures (Sept. 18 & 25) and/or by lecture recordings This course offers all the keys to learn soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment. Contents include strawberry physiology, cultivar selection, production…
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This essay was written by Leo Porte, who researches the revitalisation of marginal villages in Japan. He has generously shared some of his research findings, which elucidate the importance of understanding rural areas just as much as cities. Abandoned houses slowly collapsing as conquered by vegetation, bamboo groves taking over the man-shaped woods, wild boars…
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By Peter Blackmer Editor’s note: This is the third post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, where we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. In early 2013, Michigan governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in Detroit, which gave him the power under a…
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Dr Chloe Cannell, University of South Australia Image: ‘Kilburn history mural’, 2025, photograph. Source: Chloe Cannell Growing up my friends and I would remark that you could watch the class decline on the G10 bus ride from the city to Gepps Cross—though I’m sure we used cruder phrasing than class, like ‘rich’ to ‘povo’. The…
Local food production doesn’t always look like a traditional rural farm, or even an urban half-acre plot. Sometimes, tilapia are involved. FoodChain, another nonprofit food access organization in Lexington, began its work in 2011 targeting the city’s food insecurity through sustainability and education. They host free community meals, a free ingredient market, educational classes and…
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Healthy soil is essential for better vegetation and thriving garden. High quality soil is responsible for water retention, nutrient supply, and plant immunity. New gardeners often experience issues such as loss of nutrients, poorly aggregated soil, or imbalanced pH. Such issues generally require more than generic advice. Agricultural consulting in Brisbane provides tailored solutions based…
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When we sent out a message on Twitter asking for photographic evidence of the worst bike lanes on the planet, the response was huge. Apparently, there are a lot of crappy bike lanes out there, and people are not happy about it. The variety of mistakes shown demonstrates that it isn’t just about size, or…
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Portuguese artist Restless has recently brought his characters to the streets of Paris. Known for his mixed-media portraits of everyday people, Restless pairs each image with a few lines of text concise, unpolished, and deeply human revealing fragments of their inner worlds. These figures are left in public spaces, waiting to be stumbled upon and wondered about,…
