Although vegetables and fruits are commonly delivered to your local grocery in sturdy boxes, the produce distribution network does not accommodate their reuse. As a result, landfills are being filled with astounding amounts of wax and plastic crates. What are the reasons behind this pattern of activity, and can it be changed? ...
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The wirebound crate: Poised for an unexpected comeback?
Meet the wirebound crate -- familiar primarily to farm workers and backroom grocery clerks, it is a lingering but rapidly disappearing throwback to a simpler time, when sustainable packaging was the default. ...
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Daisy fleabane and heath aster: fraternal twin sisters
Many a summer wildflower bears in its name a lingering legacy of another time: for one, the dainty and prolific Daisy Fleabane. ...
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Can you freeze eggs in the shell? Yes you can
Can you freeze eggs in the shell? Yes you can. Here's what happens when you do. ...
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So, Vincent Van Gogh walks into a bar…
A properly peopled bar feeds the imagination ...
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Failing in public
We all know that things don't always go as planned. But there should be a special category for failures that go forth to publicly display themselves, even as they cry for a solution. ...
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Dandelions into wine
Only a scene of hazy visuals is left to recall the picking of buckets of dandelions with my parents, one spring afternoon at about age 6 or 7. Here's how to make dandelion wine. ...
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A pasture of Pasture Thistle
Well into August, the pasture thistle has yet to open its buds, as if the flower within takes longer to construct than ordinary flowers. But by September, their purple blossoms are entertaining bumblebees. ...
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January: Time to cut spiles
Want to make your own maple syrup? "You should make your own spiles," the MIT professor Sandy Brown said, assuring us that it's easy if you have some staghorn sumac growing in the neighborhood. ...
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Don’t grow so close to me
What is a species that can grow to 100 feet doing -- growing here? Ask a squirrel. ...
