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My daughter Cassandra was blessed with a baby boy May 8th. His big sister Kayleigh is very excited about Dustin! This makes grandkid number 4.

June 8th I will be participating along with my wife Heather, and my oldest daughter Sarah in a Relay For Life 18 hour walking event. The Team I am on is headed up by my niece Erica. Her father passed away rather quickly from pancreatic cancer just more than a year ago. (September 2010)

If anyone wishes to sponsor me in a donation, go to:
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY12EC?px=20800363&pg=... and I thank you for your support!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/howard-buffett-helps-start-rural-feed...

Buffett and other organizers planned to announce the "Invest an Acre" initiative Thursday. It will encourage farmers around the nation to donate profits from the sale of 1 acre's crop to the charity Feeding America, which will use the money to support food banks in rural communities where advocates say malnutrition is a serious — if often overlooked — scourge.

http://blog.michiganadvantage.org/talent-enhancement/need-a-short-term-j...

This is an interesting do-it-yourself how-to video from the Home Depot.

March 2012 http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/supportdocuments/RD_RCoopsMag_MarApril12.pdf
Interesting agricultural articles.

This TV program is based on the old concept of backyard gardens during war time to keep everyone fed and keep the country strong. Some shows touch on color, lighting, shade, and such. Other topics cover sustainability, and community benefit.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/

This PBS show is very informative, and is weekly picked up by my DVR to watch.

More on Victory Garden here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden

A friend's wife works for a company in the Windsor/Essex region of Ontario, Canada (a neighbor of Detroit Michigan) and I've known for years of their promoting of beneficial insects in greenhouses. Although I've never met her and had a chance to learn more, I looked up a website to a greenhouse company well known around Leamington Ontario, and saw they had a page on their website that talked about this technique of using bugs. I thought I would share the link to this page: http://www.sunsetproduce.com/good-bugs

It sounds like these are plans down the road to bring back the glory of a former Greenhouse/Butterfly building.
See the full article: http://sgp.msu.edu/history/index.php

Rockville Maryland rents garden plots

I see Michigan had a similar idea back in 2009.
Also:
http://greatlakesecho.org/2010/04/24/state-land-bank-supports-urban-gard...
http://www.michigan.gov/treasury/0,1607,7-121-34176-200357--,00.html