The string bikini tops worked best at the Vancouver Compost Garden

Sean and Maria built a small greenhouse this past spring at the Vancouver Compost Garden. The raised beds inside were filled with a soil blend that included leaves, various composts we had around the garden, and layers of ‘White Dragon’ compost made from our mid-scale electric composter that was fed food scraps from a local restaurant.

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Detroit has an unemployment rate hovering around 24 percent.

Correspondent Desiree Cooper has the story, which is a co-production with Detroit Public TV and Blueprint America.
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Excerpt:

If the Republican presidential hopefuls agreed on anything at last week’s Iowa debate, it was the need for America to create jobs. And one city that needs jobs is Detroit. The city itself has an unemployment rate hovering around 24 percent. The lack of jobs is one reason that nearly one-quarter of the population left the city in the last decade.

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Tending to the hives are carefully screened former convicts

By Marni Pyke
The Daily Herald
Aug 11, 2011

Excerpt:

The sweet smell of success is in the air at O’Hare International Airport with an unusual collaboration aimed at giving honeybees and their keepers a second chance.

Twenty-three beehives were installed on a vacant piece of property on the airport’s east side this spring.

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