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		<title>Okra is a popular alley plant</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105150/okra-is-a-popular-alley-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105150/okra-is-a-popular-alley-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bitter melon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second okra plant I have spotted along the small street leading from my apartment to the JR station. I was impressed with how beautiful its flower is. In the background is a climbing bitter melon vine, and a dog house. The “yard” is paved, so all the plants are in pots.]]></description>
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		<title>Baby bitter melon in September typhoon</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100613/baby-bitter-melon-in-september-typhoon/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100613/baby-bitter-melon-in-september-typhoon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s mild typhoon is a welcome relief after more than six weeks of record-breaking heat and absolutely no rain in central Tokyo. I was getting worried about the street trees and all the “independent” plant life that survives in Tokyo without human care. For some reason, the bitter melon I planted by seed in April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balcony garden update</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/97030/balcony-garden-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took this photo a month ago, and our balcony garden is now even more lush. It’s amazing how much incredible heat and daily watering can increase bio-mass! It’s amazing what you can fit in a sunny narrow space. I have six mini-watermelons ripening on the railing and green net, three Saipan lemons, two types [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More baby watermelon on balcony</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94528/more-baby-watermelon-on-balcony/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94528/more-baby-watermelon-on-balcony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The watermelon vine has been leafing out like crazy all summer, but only this morning did I notice five tiny watermelons growing on the balcony’s green curtain. This one is the size of a golf ball with fuzzy white hairs growing from the fruit and stem. I am surprised at the success of this vertical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two views of balcony green curtain</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93334/two-views-of-balcony-green-curtain/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93334/two-views-of-balcony-green-curtain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Curtain Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morning glory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shinjuku]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are two views of my balcony green curtain. I purposely trained the Okinawa morning glory to create a grid pattern on top of the string net. Last year it flowered into late September. My green curtain is not as lush as this amazing house’s green curtain with nine species. Below you can see a side view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidewalk bitter melons in two buckets and plastic twine</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/92901/sidewalk-bitter-melons-in-two-buckets-and-plastic-twine/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/92901/sidewalk-bitter-melons-in-two-buckets-and-plastic-twine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first saw these vines a month ago on a nearby sidewalk. They are growing in plastic buckets with an elaborate plastic twine trellis supported by a tree branch. Initially I misidentified them as morning glory. Recently, I saw how tall and thick the vines had become, and that they are in fact bitter melon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cucumber and eggplants, too</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90721/cucumber-and-eggplants-too/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90721/cucumber-and-eggplants-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[railing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have experimented with all sorts of summer vegetables and fruit this year. The cucumbers grow incredibly fast (maybe 2 weeks from tiny shape to full size salad material). And like the watermelon, the vines grow easily up the railing and onto the green curtain net, providing a lot of shade. More slow growing, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbor’s small pot of okra</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89997/neighbor%e2%80%99s-small-pot-of-okra/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89997/neighbor%e2%80%99s-small-pot-of-okra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been passing this pot of okra for a weeks as I walk to the station. It’s great that this small pot is at eye level. A few days after I took these photos, they were harvested. I wonder how the neighbor cooked them.]]></description>
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		<title>Rice in buckets outside Waseda campus gate</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89779/rice-in-buckets-outside-waseda-campus-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89779/rice-in-buckets-outside-waseda-campus-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing rice grown in buckets and styrofoam boxes always amazes me: focusing the national obsession with the main staple into a city scale. No one will get full from miniature rice farms, but I am sure that tending rice in the city makes residents appreciate eating rice even more. These buckets were lined up outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter melon green curtain</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89189/bitter-melon-green-curtain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sendagaya gardener is growing bitter melon on a mesh net for summer. You can see the prickly green vegetables (tastes great with ground pork). In the context photo, you can see how easy it is to grow in a small size pot on the sidewalk. I like how it covers the window, and dwarfs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing sidewalk rice in styrofoam box</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/87484/growing-sidewalk-rice-in-styrofoam-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what this sidewalk rice tastes like? Will the gardener make a special meal with it? It’s great to see how enthusiastic people are to grow the most basic Japanese food, using a recycled styrofoam box. This same gardener is also growing cherry tomatoes and ornamentals. I like the juxtaposition of street, plants, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating balcony-grown watermelon</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/86904/eating-balcony-grown-watermelon/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/86904/eating-balcony-grown-watermelon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In San Francisco, my garden is shaded and the cold summer makes growing vegetables very difficult. It’s been fun this summer to grow a variety of vegetables in our sunny high-rise balcony in Tokyo. This weekend I harvested and ate my first home-grown watermelon. It looks big in the photo above, no? Actually, the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning glory green curtain in front of 3331 Arts Chiyoda</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/86805/morning-glory-green-curtain-in-front-of-3331-arts-chiyoda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3331 Arts Chiyoda is a cool art space recently created by the Chiyoda ward government. They converted an old junior high school into exhibition galleries, art studios, and creative industry offices. In addition to a beautiful remodel of the unused school building, the ward also refurbished a small park at the entrance. Katsuhiko Hibino created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer vegetables growing on the sidewalk</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/84537/summer-vegetables-growing-on-the-sidewalk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking down a large boulevard in Higashi Koenji, I was surprised to see these potted vegetables on the sidewalk. In addition to ginko trees, this street has many azaleas between the vehicle lanes and the pedestrian sidewalk. In this spot, there’s a semi-permanent row of pots. But these eggplants and tomatoes are an extra row [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon grows vertically on balcony</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/82913/watermelon-grows-vertically-on-balcony/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/82913/watermelon-grows-vertically-on-balcony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My watermelon plant has produced an enormous amount of growth in just two months on the balcony. It was very easy to train the vines onto the metal rod balcony. Now there are two fruits the size of oranges. I love the shape of the leaves, and am looking forward to having a watermelon party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer raspberries in Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/77771/summer-raspberries-in-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This raspberry bush, supported by plastic poles and rope, remind me of my friend Chris Berthelsen’s amazing Fixes blog. It has all the classic elements: use of public space in unexpected way, display of citizens’ care and skills, recycling of simple materials to make something useful and wonderous. This is one of my favorite neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grapes forming in early summer</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/74844/grapes-forming-in-early-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/74844/grapes-forming-in-early-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several neighboring houses have grape vines that are old and productive. I saw this green-tinged grape trellis on my way to the sento one night recently.]]></description>
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		<title>First balcony cucumber is a beauty</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/71270/first-balcony%c2%a0cucumber-is-a-beauty/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/71270/first-balcony%c2%a0cucumber-is-a-beauty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo taken on May 20. At a celebratory dinner recently, we were served a tiny cucumber about this size with its flower still fresh. This lovely and seasonal bite was as delicious and memorable as more expensive luxuries like sea urchin. But I think I’ll wait for mine to grow a little larger.]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetable flowers on balcony garden contrast with parking lot below</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/70946/vegetable%c2%a0flowers%c2%a0on%c2%a0balcony%c2%a0garden-contrast-with-parking-lot-below/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[balcony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently started a blog category called “Flowers and Buildings,” which focuses on the pleasure of experiencing plants in urban settings. I think that both the plants and the buildings are more beautiful when juxtaposed together. This post focuses on my balcony vegetable’s flowers, set against the parking lot below and the cityscape beyond. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balcony vegetable garden</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/70453/balcony-vegetable%c2%a0garden/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/70453/balcony-vegetable%c2%a0garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I am experimenting with many types of vegetables and fruit in my balcony garden: kiwi, eggplant, watermelon, cucumber, bitter melon, corn, and lemon. Plus I have two types of thyme, parsley, rosemary, and basil. These photos are from May when I planted the starter plants in these soft fabric pots and coconut husk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain dairy farm (森林の牧場)</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/68217/mountain-dairy-farm-%e6%a3%ae%e6%9e%97%e3%81%ae%e7%89%a7%e5%a0%b4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[abandonment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the trip to Nasu in Tochigi two weekends ago, we visited a unique mountain cow dairy called Shinrin no bokujo (森林の牧場) that produces delicious milk and ice cream while addressing a crisis in Japanese forestry. The recycling company Amita created this dairy and another in Tango, northern Kyoto on the Japan Sea, as an ecological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice planting in Nasu, Tochigi</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/66604/rice-planting-in-nasu-tochigi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s always an adventure to get out of Tokyo and see rural Japan. Recently, TEDxSeeds executive producer Ito Hiromasa (伊藤 弘雅) invited me to join some of his friends on a day trip visit to an experimental “mountain cow” farm and Free Farm, which produces rice and vegetables, in Nasu, Tochigi. We were lucky to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefits of corporate gardens</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/63403/benefits-of-corporate-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great New York Times story about benefits of corporate gardens, including Pepsi-Co and Aveda. Improves worker morale, eating, health, and informal conversation across departments. Why doesn’t every company create a small edible garden? By adding native plants to storefronts and walls, and giving small plants to customers, corporations can brand themselves and create distributed habitat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pasona’s new farm and landscaped building</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/58938/pasona%e2%80%99s-new-farm-and-landscaped-building/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/58938/pasona%e2%80%99s-new-farm-and-landscaped-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some friends and I visited Pasona’s new office last week. They are a large Japanese staffing farm that had a highly publicized basement farm in their old Otemachi headquarters. This year they moved nearby to Yaesu in their own newly built, nine story headquarters between Tokyo Station and Nihonbashi. Pasona has unveiled a much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant takenoko</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/57621/giant-takenoko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These takenoko, or bamboo sprouts, surprised me by their giant size. Takenoko is a spring seasonal vegetable, but I wonder what you would do with this 1,800 yen mass of fiber.]]></description>
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		<title>Manga Farming</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/54409/manga-farming-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Department store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koshi Kawachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matsuzakaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagoya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pink Tentacle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sprout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visionary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Manga farming is a hilarious project that recycles old manga for radish sprout farming. This was set up by Koshi Kawachi. This was installed at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya. (Via Pink Tentacle).]]></description>
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		<title>Asia! online magazine publishes miso-making article</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/52410/asia-online-magazine-publishes-miso-making-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceramic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia! online magazine published my article about miso-making at my relatives’ Shiho ceramic studio in Tokyo.]]></description>
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		<title>Elementary school has new off-the grid, vertical garden</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/26294/elementary-school-has-new-off-the-grid-vertical-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visionary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windmill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco’s Sanchez Elementary School has created a vertical garden that is edible and off the grid. Solar panels and windmills provide electricity for the irrigation system, and power a weather station so that kids can monitor the climate and how it relates to plants. The kids learn about plants, science, and food by growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice in a bag kit, sold by Donki</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/25939/rice-in-a-bag-kit-sold-by-donki/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/25939/rice-in-a-bag-kit-sold-by-donki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grow your own]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father in law received a kit to grow rice, complete with detailed instructions in this attractive bag. Anyone who lives in Japan knows Donki, the abbreviation for Don Quixote, a chain of crowded shops full of the oddest merchandise, from electronics to clothes to food. Known for low prices, Donki is the inverse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A dandelion in Yotsuya</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/23756/a-dandelion-in-yotsuya/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/23756/a-dandelion-in-yotsuya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dandelion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honeybee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nectar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sidewalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a soft spot for weeds, and this dandelion I saw found a home in a sidewalk crack in busy Yotsuya. I admire the ability of weeds to place themselves, to exist and spread despite our best attempts at organizing our environment. The dandelion is exceptional because it is at once a food, a [...]]]></description>
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