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- Research and Markets: Philippines Sourcing Report - Home & Garden ... - PR Inside
- Natural options for your garden - WAND TV
- Beautiful Garden contest winners - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Mrs. Obama's garden - Norman Transcript
- Guardin’ gnomes - The Sun
| Research and Markets: Philippines Sourcing Report - Home & Garden ... - PR Inside Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT 2009-08-04 19:50:05 -
Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6bf53b/philippines_sourci : The Philippines' long tradition in weaving, woodcarving and clay molding has enabled it to become one of key sourcing centers for indoor furnishings and garden ornaments in Asia. Handicrafts from the country are shipped to all major regions, decorating homes, gardens and patios worldwide.Aside from unique designs and ingenuity in material processing, Philippine-made home and garden decorations attract discerning buyers looking for pieces with handcrafted appeal. Vases, baskets and mirrors with intricate weaving are offered, together with terra-cotta planters and pots that were sculpted by hand. This exclusive report is your guide to the home and garden decor industry of the Philippines. It will help you. - Discover key industry issues, and find out how they can affect your sourcing decisions With profiles of 21 confirmed export manufacturers, a comprehensive industry overview and detailed product and pricing information, this report will help you stay a step ahead of your competition. What you'll get Profile tables of 7 additional suppliers, with key information such as production capacities, export capabilities and key export markets Results of the custom-designed supplier survey, which forecasts industry trends for the next 12 months Verified supplier contact details, including names, e-mails, telephone numbers and websites of profiled makers This report covers the two main types of home and garden manufactured in the Philippines - INDUSTRY OVERVIEW Source: Global Sources Laura WoodSenior Manager press@researchandmarkets.com : mailto:press@researchandmarkets.com Fax from USA: 646-607-1907Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Natural options for your garden - WAND TV Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:41 AM PDT Featured: 8 ways to recycle that old T-shirt *Top 5 'green' jobs  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Beautiful Garden contest winners - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:46 PM PDT Beautiful Garden contest winners Thanks to all of you who nominated gardens for this year's Beautiful Gardens contest. We didn't have as many entries as we typically have, but the quality made up for the lack of quantity. Many of the gardens were so spectacular that it was hard for the judges to choose. But choose we did. Here are our winners for 2009: Sarah and Scott Buerkley tend a 2-acre cottage garden in Stillwater that includes a butterfly garden, a raised-bed herb garden, vegetable and cutting gardens as well as a formal garden bordered by a clipped hedge. Singer and actor Jennifer Baldwin Peden has grown flowers since she was a kid. Last year, her husband, Tom Peden, pitched in to add some vegetables to the mix and got bitten by the garden bug. Jim Smith had never planted a garden until he dug up the yard in his Minneapolis home in 2005. With a little help from his friends, he's turned his back yard into an artful mix of perennials, annual, trees, bushes and veggies. Connie Young has been tending -- and extending -- her gardens for more than 20 years. Now, they cover both the front and back yards of her Bloomington home. Mark Campbell's Edina garden is a study in environmentally friendly gardening. He grows organically and composts all his leaves, yard waste and kitchen waste to feed his peonies, daylilies, more than 400 varieties of hostas, and a host of fruit trees and bushes, from apricots and apples to plums, cranberries and seaberries. In their shady Minneapolis yard, Anna and Tom Erbes planted every flower, tree and shrub. They've also built fieldstone garden walls, retaining walls and the cobblestone walkways. Look for their stories in upcoming issues of Home+Garden. Harvest for others If you have more tomatoes, peppers and onions than you know what do to with, don't let them go to waste. Keep picking (to keep the plants productive) and share the bounty. Area food shelves are happy to take fresh garden produce, especially now that they're trying to meet increased demand. Second Harvest Heartland will find a use for whatever you can't use. Yes, even the zucchini.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mrs. Obama's garden - Norman Transcript Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:17 PM PDT Published August 11, 2009 12:15 am - Mrs. First Lady Obama's organic gardening is good for all of us involved in agriculture. So few citizens have the time or interest or space to grow anything they eat, that they have no way to relate to the land and what it takes to make it fruitful. Mrs. Obama's garden
Mrs. First Lady Obama's organic gardening is good for all of us involved in agriculture. So few citizens have the time or interest or space to grow anything they eat, that they have no way to relate to the land and what it takes to make it fruitful. Even fewer know how to can or preserve their home-grown produce for the winter's larder. She, the First Lady, is a modern suburban dweller and has adopted the banner of 'organic', which has now morphed into a brand name like Navy or Danish Ham. I doubt she could explain the difference except to say 'no hormones or chemicals' but it doesn't make any difference. Organic has become a great niche market for 'real' farmers, too. It is a high end product like prime beef, wild salmon, or Roquefort cheese. However, home gardening may be making a comeback, whether you choose to use chemical fertilizer or fresh chicken manure, Sevin or to hoe your own weeds. People out of work have more time on their hands and are on a budget. As Steve said, "When you've got enough to eat you've got lots of problems. When you don't have enough to eat you have one problem." This spring a group of my church members planted a community garden. It's the size of a good Iowa farmer's front lawn! I don't know if it's organic but it takes a lot of work; weeding, watering, fighting bugs, birds, rabbits, and all manner of vermin and varmints. It probably won't produce enough food to sustain a family, but it will offer a few weeks of fresh corn on the cob, squash, onions and tomatoes to spice up a meal. And it didn't cost much, just seeds and chicken wire. That's if you don't count the cost of labor, which, of course, farmers never do! And yes, I do have a garden. It looks like the solitary confinement cell in Cool Hand Luke! It is javalina, jack rabbit, locust, bird, rattlesnake, rat, cottontail and cowdog proof! Good enough for six rows of jalape?os and tomatoes. You'd think I'd have an abundant crop, alas, this morning I called the extension service Master Gardner. Diagnosis: Blossom end rot. Etiology: Too much water. Treatment: Stop it! So Mrs. First Lady, you are setting a good example, as am I. But obviously even with our own gardens, we can't hardly feed ourselves, much less our neighbors. I mean, you must have lots of company! And that is why we continue to place the burden of feeding the world on the backs of our country's farmers and ranchers who, by using modern agricultural practices are able to keep up with the globe's ever increasing appetite. And we as a grateful nation thank them for giving us the time to worry about politics, what to wear, energy, global cooling, writing a column, Supreme Court appointments, bank foreclosures and media critics, because thanks to them we don't have to worry that our children are going to bed hungry tonight.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2009 06:49 PM PDT A TEAM of 18 cops mounted a mass night-time raid to rescue 30 GARDEN GNOMES.Officers recovered a haul of 160 stolen outdoor ornaments and tools when they swooped on three homes in the same street. And the bizarre treasure trove - which also includes a plastic penguin, a porcelain Mexican and a dog cage - is now under guard at a police station. Last night Inspector John McGill, of Lothian and Borders Police, said: "This incident may seem to be on the amusing side and nicking gnomes may appear a bit daft - but there is a serious message behind it. "Theft will never be tolerated." The street in Dalkeith, Midlothian, was targeted after a tip-off by suspicious locals that the three houses had been left decorated like Christmas trees. Officers believe the garden gear was nicked in a series of night-time heists across Edinburgh and the Lothians in recent months. Two Hawaiian parasols, 12 deckchairs, two lawnmowers and strimmers were also found in the estimated 1,000 haul. All the items removed in the July 29 raids are being held at Dalkeith police station. And cops are now appealing for the rightful owners to claim them back. Insp McGill said: "We suspect that the majority of the goods were stolen sometime within the past three months as we have experienced an increased number of garden thefts reported. "If the goods are stolen it's amazing the thieves had the audacity to put them into their gardens." He added: "Some of the items, such as the oriental bird table and an ornamental Mexican figure, are very distinctive so we are hoping the original owners will come forward and claim them. "The thieves seem to have targeted 15 or 20 miles away from where they lived, so that the garden furniture would not be recognised. "So far a number of people have come forward to identify goods. Anything that is unclaimed might go back to the families detained."
Five men and two women - aged between 16 and 47 - were questioned and released pending further investigations. In 2007 The Scottish Sun told how two women were accused of stealing 132 garden ornaments - including 30 gnomes - after an 11-day undercover police investigation. Karen Stenhouse, then 37, roamed around at night stealing the garden statues from homes across a 20-mile radius from her home in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire. She and pal Anne McCallum, then 36, were arrested when cops discovered an "Aladdin's cave" at the friend's home. McCallum's not-guilty plea was accepted. Stenhouse admitted six charges of stealing gnomes, plant pots and garden ornaments but escaped with a 1,000 fine when she helped cops track down the real owners.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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