Gardening offers numerous opportunities to learn. Working with plants, seeds, soil and the elements a student/gardener may learn math, history, botany, biology and so much more. The possible skills and allied trades, such as arboriculture and horticulture offer an array of niches waiting for aspiring entrepreneurs to discover and fill.
The herbal industry is expanding. There are possibilities awaiting. Where do the herbs you use come from?
Something to ponder:
“We can choose to spend time with our children, to grow our food or support the local organic farmer, to ride a bicycle instead of taking the car, to not purchase products from industries that exploit people and cause environmental destruction. What we do with our time, our resources, our money, our energy is a reflection of our deepest values, whether we are conscious of them or not.”
Reinventing Money, Restoring the Earth, Reweaving the Web of Life by Carol Brouillet
Comments
April 27th, 2006
Hemp
Some of my friends are sick and tired of hearing me cry "Hemp, Hemp and more Hemp". The whole of north america except for a few brave souls are not growing hemp. It is still illegal to grow it in the States and barely legal to sell the products of hemp. Here in Canada it is not illegal to grow, but it may as well be. Unless you have alot of land and a lot of money ( and a lot of patience for jumping through government hoops) you can be charged with growing marijuana if you grow hemp. Not fair and stupid would be the words I would use to describe the current policy. I have a blog on the go at http://myhemp.blogspot.com that talks about this wonder-weed. When I can (if I can) sell my house and buy some land I would be willing to devote most of the land to hemp production and live in a big trailer if I have too. That is going to be about 5 years down the road, sooner if I come into some money. I believe in the potential of hemp. If the governments would get their head out of the sand( I was going to say something much worse), alot of our food, clothing and paper supplies would be made from hemp. A plant that has 50,000+ uses can not be all bad.
Michael J. Kaer, Owner of www.2bitpixel.com and www.mikesworms.com
May 2nd, 2006
Don't wait to plant your hemp crop
May 2nd, 2006
After the fall
After the collapse of the money system, there will be a time of chaos where you will see thousands of little people planting hemp and marjuana. Thanks for the Woody link.
Michael J. Kaer, Owner of www.mikesworms.com and www.2bitpixel.com
May 3rd, 2006
Viable low-THC Hemp Seeds in US?
April 28th, 2006
Nutiva and Hemp
May 2nd, 2006
hemp shakes?
Hi Jim.
I have tried hemp coffee, hemp hearts (hulled hempseed), roasted hempseed and various food bars. Hemp shakes sound great. I was at the Women's Expo here in Chatham, Ontario and came across a booth of a person who made hemp bread and hemp cookies, with hemp butter to spread on top. I had my booth there for giving Massages and Tarot card readings, selling silver jewelry and bee's wax candles(with hemp wicks). I did not bring much food with me so I was mostly working off what I consumed at that booth. I had good energy all day and got a lot of clients. The stuff works!
Michael J. Kaer, Owner of www.mikesworms.com and www.2bitpixel.com
April 28th, 2006
Hemp
Hemp has enormous possibilities. It can provide food, housing material, even car parts. Small scale farmers could add hemp to their cash crops list.
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