Happy Friday! Been loving this weather? I sure have, but I’m from Maine. Had a few complaints lately about leading off with death announcements, so I will move those. But the good news is that this week, I didn’t hear of any.
- Last week I forgot to link this story: The first man-made, biologically functional leaf has been created—a boon for astronauts.
- This is such a neat story. If you are in Buffalo you can’t have missed it, but for those who aren’t: Rare corpse flower’s bloom draws record crowds to Botanical Gardens, via the Buffalo News.
- Also at the Gardens, a new Healing Garden project is in the works—via Buffalo Rising.
- More good stuff out of Buffalo (again via Buffalo Rising): Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has issued a new publication, “Guide to Native Plants for your Garden,” available FREE at various places around the region or via free download here.
- We are busily working on the September-October UGJ. Let me know if you would like to reserve ad space.
- Here’s a new lawnmower concept. Muvi cuts the grass and turns the compressed clippings into…fun and useful objects. You can play with them, make them into chairs…(?). I don’t know. It’s the Internet, people. Via my current guilty pleasure, imgur.com (browse at your own risk).
- Last week there was a discussion somewhere in one of the e-newsletters or newsgroups or on facebook about these fruit trees that supposedly can bear 40 kinds of fruit at once. I know some do four or five, but 40? I poked around and found many many reports of an artist and Syracuse University professor named Sam Van Aken, who is or was planting these trees all over the place. Awesome. I think it’s great. But when you distribute to the press what is obviously a rendering and they reproduce it willy-nilly as if it were an image of an actual tree, I’m crying foul. There are scads of articles about this Tree of 40 Fruit project online, but I will link to Business Insider‘s because a.) they freely admit the image is a rendering and b.) it amused me that they used quotes around the word grafting, as if grafting is some kind of imaginary, made-up thing. (I feel like Peter Griffin: “You know what really grinds my gears?” OK, end rant.
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