[Akroncooperative-news] Ireland’s Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is a Kitchen Gardener!

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Ireland's Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is a Kitchen Gardener!

I'm lucky to have a front and back garden that's big enough to grow some food but not too big to manage. Before I cook a meal I always see what I can add to the meal fresh from the garden. Growing food to me is richly satisfying - a healthful pursuit for mind, body and spirit.

George Bernard Swaw, even though he earned his money writing plays, stated "gardening is the only unquestionably useful job". The same can be said for farming. Indeed, food production is not just useful, it is essential.

Selling from your front yard

On a sunny weekend, as I take a stroll with my wife, I see lots of yard sales in my neighbourhood. But on a recent walk I counted three people selling something other than old records, books and clothing.

Honey and flowers!

Tokyo Green Space reports on downtown Tokyo rice farm

On a side street in Ginza, I noticed a rice farm and met Ginza Farm's CEO Iimura Kazuki and his assistant who were tending the rice and two cute ducklings. Shop clerks and construction clerks stopped by to admire the rice in its mid-summer glory.


  
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