A few crops in my urban garden only two/three weeks after planting. June 08, 2013 | Riverdale Neighbourhood, Toronto, Ontario
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Corn
Strawberries
First Nations Tobacco – Planting some crops next to vegetables help vegetables grow.
Dinosaur Gourd not doing too well
Peppermint
Urban Garden Pepper
Tomato plants
Oregano
Growing your own food is one of the most therapeutic and defiant things you can do. Green and nutritious gardens all around us make our urban ecosystems work.
Turkish protesters who have been occupying Istanbul’s Gezi park for six days in an effort to save it from development take to mass yoga as a new form of protest. The public yoga class in Gezi Park swelled to about 80 people.
Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
Thousands of demonstrators massed on streets surrounding Istanbul’s central Taksim Square while protests erupted in the capital, Ankara, and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.
Broken glass and rocks were strewn across a main shopping street near Taksim. Primary school children ran crying from the clouds of tear gas, while tourists caught by surprise scurried to get back to hotels lining the square.
The unrest reflects growing disquiet at the authoritarianism of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Riot police clashed with tens of thousands of May Day protesters in Istanbul this month. There have also been protests against the…
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June 9, 2013
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