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Joint effort to help communityFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:39PMPetaluma Service Alliance members gave the Petaluma Recycling Center a much-needed makeover on Saturday, Sept. 4.

SOUTH AFRICA: Greening Project Creates Income and Food SecurityFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:34PMSource: IPS Frances Mandla is visibly filled with pride. Together with her colleague, Nouniform Nqevu, she stands tall and smiling in front of a wide bed of lush spinach. The harvest will be their ticket to a better life. A life where there is enough money to buy food, clothes and pay school fees.

Solar panels on the White House? Not on Obama's watch.Friday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:29PMEnvironmentalist Bill McKibben and a troupe of college students were disappointed Friday when the Obama administration officials refused to accept a solar panel for use on the White House roof.

Gardener's Journal: Vines are useful around the gardenFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:28PMVines and climbing plants are different from any other type of plant in your garden. Properly used, vines help create attractive solutions for screening undesirable views.

Community calendarFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:21PMWe want your listings! Listings for the community calendar are free, but not guaranteed. We encourage you send us your listings of upcoming events and we will do our best to include them.

Little farm, lotta love in LaurelFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:18PMMary Mary might have grown her garden with silver bells and cockle shells, but at Quite Contrary Garden in Laurel, it's all heirloom variety plants, organic compost and the sweat of the garden owner, Joya Parsons.

His cacti defy state's climateFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 1:16PMWinter hardy cactus. That sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? John N. Spain would disagree. Spain has one of the largest collections of cacti and other succulents in the Northeast, many of them winter hardy.

Bayport woman urges growing produce close to homeFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 12:52PMValley Voices looks beyond regular newsmakers to highlight the varied residents who make the St. Croix Valley what it is.

UA engineers build lunar vegetable gardenFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 12:44PMTUCSON - University of Arizona researchers are demonstrating that plants from Earth could be grown without soil on the moon or Mars, setting the table for astronauts who would find potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables awaiting their arrival.