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Growing sugarcane is most often a commercial affair, but home gardeners can also enjoy this sweet ornamental grass. If you live in a warm climate, you can grow sugarcane varieties in your garden beds to enjoy both the decorative look and for the sugar you can get at harvest time. Know the differences between sugarcanes so you can make the right choice for your backyard. Types of Sugarcane If you want to grow sugarcane and start to investigate how to go about it, you’ll find there are a lot of different sugarcane plants. It can be confusing, especially if you are reading information for farmers and commercial growing of sugarcane. To help narrow down your options, there are a few basic types of sugarcane: Chewing canes. These are sugarcane varieties that have a soft, fibrous center which is good for chewing. The fibers tend to stick together as you chew so that spitting it out once the sugar is depleted is easier. Syrup canes. Syrup canes have a variety of sugar types that don’t cry...

http//:swtxander.blogspot.com Poem About Changing Seasons I'm Wandera Alex and I am 24 years old. I enjoy writing climate stories, and poems. This particular poem is one I am using in an assignment to qualify for the GLF Bonn Germany about seasons changes and landscape nd how everything changes so rapidly. Born a winner die as a winner climate activist I fight hard to save the planet Earth  Winter is cold, with gusts of tumbling snow, When rain falls down and nothing ever grows. For children, it's the snow that they desire And cups of cocoa in front of the fire. When winter's gone, the grass grows green again. Roses and tulips sprout with bright green stems. The bees are buzzing, the birds are singing. Sheep are grazing and cow bells are ringing. And then the sun starts to shine too brightly. It's so hot that fans are put on nightly, And so then it's off to the beach or pools Where people swim about just to keep cool. All ...

Posted By   Gloria Kyomugisha   in   Youth in Agribusiness Uganda   Posted yesterday at 06:13 Opportunities for young Agri-entrepreneurs: Enable Youth Uganda is a business accelerator that provides the expertise, hands-on support and connections to help your business enter emerging economies. We guide great innovations through the pioneer gap and turn sustainable ideas into profitable companies by offering a business incubator as well as seed funding. Enable Youth Uganda is looking to support young Agri-entrepreneurs that have innovative ideas and businesses in the agricultural sector by providing coaching, mentoring and the best businesses will qualify for investment. Enable Youth supports motivated young entrepreneurs in Uganda to start innovative enterprises in the agricultural sector.  This application form will provide the Enable Youth team with the required information to determine if you...

  2018: Connecting for impact: From commitment to action. “Landscape Leadership is taking responsibility for our actions, engaging others to find integrated solutions, & inspiring others to action.”—Justin  Springer from  # Barbados , eastern  # Caribbean  island. He wants to help people see the connection between their actions & the landscape impacts they have!  👨🏽‍🌾 💪🏽 Inspired by Justin’s story? Are you ready to be transformed into a powerful, actionable leader on sustainable  # development ? Are you ready to take up the challenge of moving from commitment to action?  🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️ Make sure to join  # glfbonn2018  online to meet actionable leaders like him!  # thinklandscape http://ow.ly/ AdJh30mvzGe   👈🏽 Swtxande

We have to have our  tomatoes , thus the greenhouse tomato industry was born. Until fairly recently, this favorite fruit was either imported from growers in Mexico or produced as greenhouse tomatoes in California or Arizona. Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse isn’t for the faint of heart; they require specific greenhouse tomato plant care entirely different from other crops. If you’re interested in trying your hand, read on to learn how to grow tomatoes in a greenhouse. About Greenhouse Tomatoes Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse is a great way to extend the season either due to a short growing season in your region or because you’d like to get a second crop. In some regions, the window of opportunity for cultivating tomatoes is short and folks are left pining for vine ripened tomatoes. This is where the beauty of greenhouse grown tomatoes comes into play. Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse or high tunnel can extend the harvest season by several months up into late fall but ...

Until relatively recently, the problems of agricultural production and deforestation were viewed separately. Thus, inadequate food production was seen to result from shorter fallows, inadequate use of improved technical packages, lack of incentives due to artificially depressed food prices, and so on. Deforestation, on the other hand, was thought to result from excessive cutting of wood for fuel. A growing consensus, however, now considers food and tree problems to be intimately related. For example, it is understood that most trees are not cut to provide fuel, but to clear land for planting crops. More important is the recognition that deforestation is an important reason for declining food output. It is hardly coincidence that many famine areas are those where trees and shrubs have largely disappeared. In Africa, for example, production over the long run depends almost as much on trees as on seed, fertilizer, and other conventional inputs. Traditionally, most African farmers ...

   Do  you love telling good stories and sharing pertinent information with your networks? Are you passionate about sustainable development and the environment?   If so, join our innovative youth social media outreach mentoring and internship project, starting at  the 9 th  edition of the Global Landscapes Forum  (GLF) at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany, from December 1 -2 018 At a time when our planet is facing increasingly daunting challenges,  the GLF in Bonn will gather influencers from all over the world with 1,500 participants, and 6,000 additional participants online, to scale-up best practices and initiatives in support of the global development agenda. We aspire to create a movement of 1 billion people to create a world that is more equitable, productive, profitable, and climate-resilient. Crazy right? But no one ever achieved anything big by thinking small. To achieve this, the GLF is committed to taking...

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Climate change is very much in the news these days and everyone knows that it is affecting regions like Alaska. But you may also be dealing with changes in the garden of your own home, changes that result from the changing global climate. Read on for information about gardening with climate change. Does Climate Change Affect Gardens? Does climate change affect gardens? It does, and it’s important to learn how to spot climate change in the garden so that you can take action to help your plants adjust. It’s easy to assume that climate change is happening somewhere far away. But the truth is, it’s happening everywhere, even in your garden. How to Spot Climate Change in the Garden The weather changes brought on by climate change are causing disruptions in nature’s norms, even in your backyard. Before you can start dealing with changes in the garden resulting from climate change, you’ve got to learn to identify the issues. But how to spot climate change in the garden? It isn’t ea...