'Pili Nut' The pride of Bikolanos

The Pili Nut is a tropical tree, and indiginous to the Philippines, its center of diversity is the Bicol Region, where it's a priority crop, also have spread to the provinces of Catanduanes, Masbate,...

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Pakistan’s city of flowers becomes city of barricades

Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province that was once known as the city of flowers, has virtually turned into a city of barricades because of the unabating unrest in the adjoining tribal areas. "A notice displayed at one of the gates of Qayyum...

Early study touts honey as antibiotics substitute

" Early study touts honey as antibiotics substitute Module body Wed Sep 24, 2:04 PM ...

Brits choosing food over flowers for the first time since WWII

There are times when I really think that this whole wisdom of crowds thing is for real.  This is one of those examples.  Given the problems we are already seeing with the rise in fuel and the resulting rise in food prices it is refreshing to see people reacting in,...

Suspect Confesses to Killing Lil Kim Partygoer

"All didn't end well at Lil Kim's 34th birthday party. An employee at a New York karaoke bar where a B-day blowout for the rapper was held Sunday night has been arrested after confessing that he beat a 24-year-old woman to death on the roof of the club while the party was...

Wild Flowers

   All the nearby fields around the towns of Ballyghastly and Dunshaggin have been intensively farmed for years.  Over grazing and frequent ploughing combined with heavy fertilizer usage and...

Rabbit ripper shocks Germany

When someone decides to systematically kill pet rabbits, cut off their heads and drain their blood away one has to start worrying what they will turn to killing next. Here in the UK in a small town called Long Eaton...

Expressway eases travel near Da Lat

A 19-kilometre expressway linking Duc Trong town with Prenn Mountain Pass in Da lat was opened to traffic last Sunday."Work on the eight-lane, VND993 billion (US$59.8 million) highway began in April 2004.The...

A Flower Sellers Secrets

Great little portrait piece in first person... words of wisdom from flower seller Dennis Madden. "While you're upstairs asleep, roses can drink two inches, I'm warning you. The stall with the edge is the stall...

Bee symposium broaches barcodes on bugs

Bee experts are abuzz at York University this week, discussing a plan to put barcodes on bees for targeting crop pollination."International bee experts have converged on Toronto to develop a plan to catalogue all...

Carbon Farming

This is a brilliant idea:"A decade ago, late 1990s, we engaged in the establishment of the urban agriculture industry. A visit to Google tomorrow will find 1,740,000 entries. It was then targeted at food security and building community. Since then we have added farming the...

Guerrilla Gardeners

A growing green grassroots initiative is afoot, or, well, underfoot so to speak, and is cropping up globally in cities such as London, Toronto, and Los Angeles.  Guerrilla Gardeners from very young to very old...

Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary

Mother's Day is so commercial now. I'm stressing about what to get my mum tomorrow and the item that she wanted is all sold out so now I really am stuck.But what happened to the simplicity of giving your mum a flower...

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