RIPE Altadena

Offer: Patty Pan squash, a little overgrown. Largest is 7”; then around 6” and 5” Giving the largest 4 in the photo , smaller ones to show size usually eaten. On line recipes say you can bake and eat the insides. Must be able to pick up, I’m giving one to two squash per person. Tell me what you would do with it and I will pick tonight or tomorrow depending on response.

Everyone laughed at me for painting rocks to look like strawberies,.but found out that if you put them around your berry plants and bushes before the fruits appear, the birds will peck the red rocks. They hate pecking super hard things so they will leave the fruit when it appears. No crows. 🍓🍓🍓

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Study: Number of monarch butterflies in California declined by 86 percent in one year The march toward extinction appears to be nearing an end for monarch butterflies in California, whose numbers have declined precipitously over the last two decades.

This Sunday January 28th, at 4:30 meet other RIPE members at Farnsworth Park in Altadena.

2017 MEMORIAL WEEKEND
SHARE FAIRE
IS ON!

Come on by with your extra veggies, fruit and seeds or other
garden-related items. Catch up with some old friends
and make some new garden pals.

Look around your house.
Maybe there’s an extra gardening magazine.
Or some seeds, a succulent cutting,
homemade spice rubs…be creative!

Sunday, May 28, 2017
5:30 – 6:30 pm

Farnsworth Park - Covered patio area
568 E. Mount Curve Avenue, Altadena, CA 91001

RIPE Altadena
(Residential In-season Produce Exchange Altadena)
is a local group of gardeners who meet regularly
to share extra vegetables, fruits
and garden-related items.

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Why Is Glyphosate Sprayed on Crops Right Before Harvest?

ecowatch.com Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, is recognized as the world's most widely used w**d killer. What is not so well known is that farmers also use glyphosate on crops such as wheat, oats, edible beans and other crops right before harvest, raising concerns that the herbici...

Every town needs a remakery

makewealthhistory.org The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their …

9th grade student “Cress + WiFi” experiment attracts international attention

How not to grow anything... :( Including your brain.

stopsmartmeters.org.uk Foreign researchers are extremely excited for a biology project from five 9th grade girls. Researchers from England, Holland and Sweden have shown great interest in the five girls’ biology ex…

Homemaking.com

Every gardener should know these tricks.

Urban Homestead Trademarks Cancelled!

rootsimple.com After six years of legal wrangling, urban homestead and urban homesteading belong to us all. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled the trademarks thanks to the hard work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm of Winston & Strawn.

The Truth About Monsanto You Need to Know

GE Crops significantly increase the use of toxic herbicides while not increasing yield. The word is finally getting out!

foodrevolution.org By Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety Most of us have told a lie a time or two and probably a variety of them. For example, there is the excuse lie as in the timeless “my dog at my homework,” and the proverbial “white lie” as in “No you really do look great in those jeans.” But the …

Pictures > Miscellaneous: Positive sea in one bank)))))) [Pub N:1168101]

http://www.brainparking.com/view/topic.cfm?key_or=1168101&lenta_type=4 Amazing veggies in Jars! A work of art!

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Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom

So maybe everyone that lives around the shores of Lake Erie should do a class action suit against Monsanto.

ecowatch.com Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie's troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.A dead fish surrounded by algae in Lake Erie during a record-setti...

GMO Free USA

BREAKING: Last night, under the cover of darkness, 63 U.S. senators voted in favor of S.764, AKA The DARK Act, and the bill passed. We just became the first country in the world to unlabel GMOs. While we are outraged, we are not the least bit surprised considering that the co-authors of this terrible bill, Senators Roberts and Stabenow, have taken over $4.3 million dollars in campaign contributions from Agribusiness.

We are now just a few steps away from being the only country that forces its consumers to call an 800 # or scan a QR code just to find out what's in our food. And make no mistake, this bill serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to protect the profits of the $150 billion dollar a year biotech industry that chooses to hide GMOs in the U.S. food supply and hopes that no one notices.

This bill is not a mandatory national GMO labeling law, it is a non-mandatory national GMO UNlabeling law.

While the Biotech Bullies are no doubt celebrating the victory that their hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign contributions bought, they would be sadly mistaken if they thought for a second that the US GMO labeling fight is now over. It is not. Our movement will NEVER give in to corporate bullies who need to take away people's rights just to sell their unwanted products. We WILL continue our efforts until every food product sold in grocery stores across the U.S. is clearly labeled on the package if it contains GMO ingredients--just like 4.6 billion people in 64 countries around the world already have. In light of the FDA's failure to regulate this technology using independent science, labeling is the the only tool available for broadly tracking the health harms associated with GMO consumption.

As a movement, we will regroup from this loss and we will press on. This issue is just too important for us and our families to give up now. Our all volunteer staff works really hard to keep you up to date on all that is happening to our food system. If you can help with a donation--large or small--we would be very grateful!

Our best hope of stopping the DARK Act at this point is on President Obama's desk. Sign the petition: https://wh.gov/iFYPQ This petition must reach 100,000 signatures in order for the White House to respond. President Obama: VETO the discriminatory GMO unlabeling law! Please get your family, friends and everyone you know to sign it: https://wh.gov/iFYPQ

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Voting One Way, Eating Another - Modern Farmer

modernfarmer.com When Liz Coffey, 31, shops for herself and her husband, the Oakland, CA resident typically buys the cheapest eggs. That is, the ones from chickens raised o

Autism: Maybe It's Not What We've Been Told

In an indirect way, this may be very related to food, and if not, so very interesting, I thought it worth posting on RIPE!

www.huffingtonpost.com I believe we are on the verge of a paradigm shift in autism where the new view is that, while some genetic factors may be important, the underlying condition is more of an acquired syndrome that arises from externally-induced changes in metabolism, immune function, and the microbiome.

Sweden: Family designs greenhouse to wrap around home and warm it naturally

Smart!! I now know how, being from California, I could move somewhere cold and be just fine!

hortidaily.com While Charles Sacilotto and Marie Granmar’s home, encased in glass, may look like something out of a sci-fi movie, their life is far simpler than it appears. In a video uploaded on Nov. 11, the.....

12 Holistic Doctors have now died within a little over 90 Days - Freedom Outpost

This isn't our usual type of posting, but just found this to be too incredible not to share!

freedomoutpost.com 12 Holistic Doctors have now died within a little over 90 Days

Federal Judge Cancels 'Urban Homesteading' Trademark Held by Dervaes Family

blogs.ocweekly.com Back in 2011, I wrote a series of articles about a battle between advocates of urban farming and the Dervaes...

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Farnsworth Park - Covered patio area
568 East Mount Curve Avenue, Altadena, California 91001

[RIPE Altadena (Residential In-season Produce Exchange Altadena)
is a local group of gardeners who meet regularly to share extra vegetables, fruits
and garden-related items.]

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Farnsworth Park - Covered patio area
568 E. Mount Curve Avenue, Altadena, CA 91001

Budget101

Gutter berries! Here's an interesting way to grow strawberries, fill an old rain gutter with soil, plant the berries & harvest them as the overhang. Much easier than crawling through Rows of berries on the ground and you won't need straw between the rows!
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Creating a Drought Resilient Garden

A free how to plant to save water class in Sierra Madre:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-a-drought-resilient-garden-registration-17145064349

eventbrite.com SPECIAL FREE CLASS! See a DROUGHT RESILIENT GARDEN conversion in progress This FREE Class is being hosted by a Sierra Madre resident, activist, and member of The Growing Club. She has generously decided to open up her home as it is being converted from a landscape of dry and dying grass to an abunda…