ProfileIssue: Aries 10
Barbara Damrosch Goes 100% Organic in Her Revised Garden Primer
Are you starting a garden for the first time and don't know where to start? Save yourself from some big mistakes by reading the comprehensive, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference, "The Garden Primer," now 100% organic, by Barbara Damrosch. From composting to crop rotation to the best varieties of seeds for the climate you live in, Barbara touches on it all - she is clearly an expert, having worked professionally in the field of horticulture since 1977.
Barbara suggests that pepper seedlings need a really warm spot to get started and not to harden them unlike other seedlings. She cautions that tomato seedlings need lots of light so they don't get "leggy" and should be hardened in a protected (no frost) area two weeks before planting to avoid the initial shock of planting. Both of these summer favorites need a spot in the garden where there is plenty of heat and sun - perhaps even black plastic cover to keep the ground warm.
I came across "The Garden Primer" near the end of the season last year, and now I don't know what I did without it. This year I actually have a map of my garden thanks to the Primer, including areas that will be "interplanted" with other vegetables. 
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Leo 09 - The Leadership Issue
Rebecca Lolosoli is much more than the matriarch of Umoja Village, an all women's community located in the Samburu District of Kenya. She put herself on the line for others…her life has been threatened for going against the indigenous Samburu traditions and culture. What started in 1991 as a group of 16 raped women, denounced and outcast by their families, on a patch of sun-dried, neglected land, granted to them by the Kenyan government at the behest of Rebecca is today a unique group of 50 flourishing, happy women and girls, orphans and widows and even a few beloved goats. (read more)
Why are there still so few women in top management positions in the corporate world? Nina DiSesa, Chairman of McCann Erickson in New York, thinks it is because women don't understand men and tend to follow the rules and this doesn't work. She explains that women need to learn how to handle men in business in much the same way we do in our personal relationships - through what she calls S&M, seduction and manipulation. Nina says this has nothing to do with sex, and that in the end, everyone wins. In her book "Seducing the Boys Club" she gives the rest of us who think that all we need to do is work hard to get ahead, a swift kick in the butt!
“Many of the meals I ate at home in rural Indiana were Japanese. My mom used what ingredients she could get her hands on then put it out on the table effortlessly. The sensual aspect of Asian food and Mid-west sustainability is ingrained in me. Those are the basic roots of why I love cooking, “ says Linda.
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