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Maria planted lots of Jerusalem artichokes last April and now we are harvesting buckets of these tasty tubers.

Jerusalem artichokes or Sunchokes are a perennial sunflower with tasty potato-like tubers. 6-8 ft tall with daisy-like flowers, sunchokes are very hardy and can become weedy, so plant them in a bed that is permanent. Harvest from August through late Fall. Nutty tasting tubers become sweeter after frost when left in the ground!

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Photo by Photoriel. Vineyards in Switzerland. La ville de Vevey, vue depuis Chardonne, Lavaux, Vaud, Lac Léman (Geneva Lake). Larger image here.

The Wine-Town Nexus of Urban Agriculture: in the Baltimore-Washington DC Metropolitan Area

Jac Smit, AICP
November 21, 2008

Production of wine within the modern city is increasing from Vienna, Austria to Vienna, Virginia.  This form of urban agriculture includes tourism, recreation, gourmet meals and picnics as well as diverse wines.

In 2007, Virginia was declared one of the Top Five new wine travel destinations in the world by Travel and Leisure magazine, the only one in the USA. In urban northern Virginia [Washington DC commuter zone], Loudoun County from 1986 to 2005 was either first or second in population growth amongst all American counties, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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Pacific Drug Review Magazine, 1944

Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small, consecutive highway billboard signs.

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