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Strega Nona's harvest
After helping Strega Nona plant her vegetable garden just so, Big Anthony takes some extra seeds and sows another garden willy nilly, then must find a way to deal with the consequences.
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Sprout! : everything I needed to know about sales I learned from my garden
This guide is about sustaining a career in sales and keeping it both fun and profitable. It uses a gardening metaphor that can be applied immediately to real sales situations, and helps people have less stress and more enjoyment in their jobs - and make more money doing it.
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Two little gardeners
Two young gardeners plant vegetable seeds in the spring, watch over the plants as they grow during the summer, and have a bountiful harvest in the fall.
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Just as Surprised as Everybody Else
Applauded crime fiction author Louise Welsh published Plague Times, a cross-genre trilogy set in the context of a flu-like pandemic, only a few years prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. The fictional nature of Plague Times feels particularly realistic and ominous when read after enduring an actual global pandemic, due to Welsh’s thorough research on epidemics and her insight into human nature. This interview is articulated around how fiction and reality converged, and this understanding of human reactions in the face of fear. The subjects of solidarity—or lack thereof—and community are key as we approach the main characters, strangers who, following their own storyline in the first two instalments of the trilogy, finally team up in the last novel. Their journey is not only that of personal growth, but also geographical; there is a deliberate choice of locations contextualizing the development of both characters and story. This conversation takes place outdoors, on a sunny day in Louise Welsh’s Glasgow neighbourhood community garden, a coincidental parallelism with the optimistic outlook that permeates an otherwise sombre topic.
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Mouse Scouts
To earn their 'Sow It and Grow It' badge, Violet, Tigerlilly, and the other Mouse Scouts plant a vegetable garden.
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RATIONAL VALUES AS REFINED AESTHETIC MOLD-ERASMUS DARWIN
Medical profession helps people not only by healing the body but also the soul. Medicine has been by man's side since its beginnings, and a society that lacks care for man is doomed to suffering. Even if sometimes the doctors who became literate abandoned the path of practicing medicine, their thoughts turned consciously or not to this noble profession. As Richard Gordon said, without medicine we could not talk about the human being himself: \"Man's activities have been hopelessly open to disaster since that calamitous business of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Best treatment is to admit, to analyze, to avoid. Medicine readily confesses its share. But what a disaster, were there no doctors amid the world's unending catalogue of disasters.\"1 Literature is just one of the languages that doctors use to relate to the world and reality. Of all the exact sciences, medicine is the closest to literary fiction. The art of the word is a reference to what defines us as people. Human gregariousness had to be supported through communication, and medicine has language as its main means of existence and of creating deep inter-human connections. Hence the naturalness of the expression of deep feelings on the page written by those who heal their fellow men physically.
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Lulu loves flowers
When Lulu reads 'Mary, Mary Quite Contrary' she wants to grow some flowers herself. Being Lulu, she has to do some research first; she goes to the library, chooses the best flowers to grow, buys seeds and bulbs and sets them. Then she has to wait-- quite hard for a little girl!
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The Politics of Plant Life: Transatlantic Animisms in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes
This essay argues that Leslie Marmon Silko's 1999 historical-fiction novel Gardens in the Dunes enables Indigenous-centered interventions into Victorian studies, ecocriticism, and their intersection. Dramatizing an animistic Native American view of nature as agentic and enspirited, Silko's novel critiques Victorian plant hunting as rooted in settler-colonial logic that treats nature as inert. In turn, through representations of late Victorian gardeners, Silko suggests that British horticulture was also informed by colonial and capitalist ways of thinking about plants. At the same time, however, the novel locates an animistic strain running through Victorian gardening discourses, which I demonstrate through readings of Victorian garden books depicting plants as agentic and enspirited. Silko, I argue, invites us to revisit the late nineteenth century as characterized by a cultural revival of animistic thought, even as this period also saw the racist stigmatization of animism in the field of Victorian anthropology. I connect this fraught discursive moment in British history to an inherited hesitation toward animism in contemporary Victorian studies and ecocriticism, a hesitation that has contributed to uneven engagement with Indigenous thought in both fields. In response, this essay explicates and emulates Silko's critical methodology for an undisciplining engagement with animism in white-authored, ecocritical Victorian studies.
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Zinnia's flower garden
Zinnia plants a garden, eagerly waits for the plants to grow, sells the beautiful flowers, then gathers seeds to plant the following year.
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Recognising the edible urban commons
Across urbanising Asia, edible commons surprise, contradict or challenge social norms of being in public. Their presence provokes new adjudications of approaching, governing and managing shared and living property, prompting thought on how public and private realms of life may converge into informal modes of co-governance for green place-making and flourishing. Starting with an anecdote of stealing in a short-lived urban farm in Singapore, I conceptualise edible urban commons as ‘active moments’. Specifically, they are active moments where a generative form of friction and fiction emerges, and as such, are allegorical packages that transmit latent capacities. I suggest that closer attention to forms of regulatory slippage in these spaces generates insight about latent capacities for transformation. Finally, I propose a preliminary set of latent capacities for transformative governance towards an ecological identity that supports edible commoning in cities.
在正在城市化的亚洲，可食用公共空间（edible commons）出人意料、与公共社会规范相冲突、并对其形成了挑战。它们的存在引发了对待、管理和治理共享生物资产的新观点，促使人们思考公共和私人生活领域如何融入非正式的共同治理模式，以促进绿色地方营造和繁荣。从一个短命的新加坡城市农场发生的偷窃事件开始，我将可食用城市公共空间概念化为“活跃时刻”。具体来说，它们处于活跃时刻，其中出现了摩擦和虚构的生成形式，因此，是传递潜在能力的寓言包。我建议更密切关注这些空间中的监管滑点形式，这可以让我们了解潜在的转型能力。最后，我提出了一套初步的潜在转型治理能力，以实现支持城市可食用公共空间的生态认同。
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