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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(170, 77, 78);">**Looks like we're right on with our efforts at bringing back canning and other methods of food preservation!**</span> - Larry<br></td>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Unusual Chinese vegetable grows in city backyard</span><br><br>My friends have a large, productive, backyard food garden in Richmond, B.C. One vegetable they grow is most unusual and delicious. At dinner the other night, I asked my generous hostess to tell me about this Chinese vegetable, which she both grows and cooks. They call it "Orsun" in Mandarin.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78);">**We can all see the same kinds of vegetables being grown by the Laotians and the Karen at the Charles & Turner community garden under the "Y" bridge.**</span></span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Backyard Growing and Selling in Vancouver</span><br><br>Many people in Vancouver grow their own food in pots or in community gardens. But some businesses are putting those small plots together for a big harvest.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(170, 77,
78);">**Antiquated Canning Makes a Comeback - Canwest News Service</span><br style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;"><br style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;">For a generation that made instant gratification its raison d'etre, the recent reclamation of canning - a domestic art that could be timed with a sundial - is nothing short of astounding.</span><br style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;"><br style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(170, 77, 78); font-weight: bold;">Nielsen
Canada reports this week that sales of canning accessories were up nearly 70 per cent in May over the same month last year, while June saw the category swell a whopping 88 per cent compared to the same period in 2008.**</span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Composer writes song - 'The Family Farm in My Front Yard'</span><br><br>Jean Elliott Manning writes, "This song is the finale of an entire musical I've written about how an urban lawn becomes a Food Farm. It's called Daisy and the Wonder Weeds." The songwriter is looking for a producer.<br><div> </div>
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