Growing Green and Living It! — Official Olive Barn Blog

Olive Barn Outlet Store Closing / Warehouse Relocation

April 19, 2010

Our West Houston Location at 12674 Goar Rd is permanently closing on June 30, 2010. Everything remaining at this location must be sold. Our warehouse and outlet clearance officially begins on Friday April 30, 2010. This does not effect Olivebarn.com which will continue to operate as we have for the past 10 years. We will [...]

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Watch The Story of Bottled Water

March 22, 2010

“In the United States alone, we consume approximately 500,000,000 bottles of water each week. Imagine that: while 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water worldwide, other people spend billions of dollars on a bottled product that’s no cleaner, harms people and the environment and costs up to 2,000 times the price of tap [...]

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A Chemical Reaction: Is Your Lawn Making You Sick?

March 13, 2010

A Chemical Reaction, is a documentary movie that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America. It started with one lone voice in 1984. Dr. June Irwin, a dermatologist, noticed a connection between her patients’ health conditions and their exposure to chemical [...]

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Dirt The Movie!

March 13, 2010

DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.
The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same [...]

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Patti Moreno Talks About Soil

March 10, 2010

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, talks about building good soil in this video. If you’ve got worms, that is a sure sign that your soil is healthy.

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STORY OF STUFF: UPDATE

March 9, 2010

Get the whole story…
Annie Leonard managed to fit a whole lot of information in 20 minutes but there’s still so much more! You can read the whole story by picking up a copy of her new book at your local bookstore or by ordering The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing [...]

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New Video: Preparing a Raised for Planting

March 8, 2010

New video from Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl on preparing a raised bed. Patti shows you how she cleans up her bed from last fall, and turns the soil. She also adds rabbit manure which she gets from the rabbits she raised. She prefers rabbit manure since it does not need to be composted before [...]

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Veggie Fertilizer Basics Call For Balance

February 18, 2010

Reprint from my post on Boxed Dirt:
Last week at my Urban Harvest’s Organic Vegetable Series class, Dr. Bob Randall shared his thoughts on fertilizers. Now this is a subject I’ve been very interested in. Given the transition I’ve made from synthetic to organic fertilizers over the past decade. Long gone are the days of using [...]

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Cheap Kids Jewelry: Another Reason to Be Careful

January 12, 2010

It seems China can’t go more than a few months without another incident of using toxic materials in the goods they are shipping to the USA. KIDS JEWELRY now!!!!
Read this Store on Yahoo News about Cadmium Jewelry
You get what you pay for and in this case, you may even get more….

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DYI Worm Compost Bin

January 8, 2010

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows you how easy it is to build a worm composting bin. Don’t toss those kitchen scraps, start feeding them to the worms. Kids love watching worms and this is fun project to do with them.

A year later….

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