Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
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Broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
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