Tag: Living
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Vermiculture: An Easy Alternative to Outdoor Composting
If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms. Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down…
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Will Hawaii’s Big Island Ban GMO Farming?
The Big Island of Hawaii County Council is expected to consider a bill on Wednesday, Oct. 16 that would prohibit all open-air growing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) except papayas and other GMO crops now being cultivated. The bill also would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the Big Island. [caption id="attachment_307940" align="alignnone" width="520"] Most papayas…