Liz Berry
 
110 Second Graders in the Garland Community Garden
A few of the 110 Watson Tech Students at the Garland Community Garden - June 3, 2015 Today, members of Loving Garland Green hosted a tour of the Garland...
If Liz Were Queen     Jun 3 2015
Cleaning Up the Garden After the Flood
The Magic Carpet, fueled by the imagination of the children who sit on it, is now dried out and ready to be replaced on its wooden pallet platform which was...
If Liz Were Queen     Jun 1 2015
Garland Flood at the Garden and Other Garden Updates
8 AM May 29, 2015 - Bridge at Naaman School Road and Brand is Impassable. Believe it or not, with a barricade and a Squad car with flashing lights and a police...
If Liz Were Queen     May 29 2015
Productivity and Profitability of Urban Crops
This small blackberry bush at the Garland Community Garden has 204 blackberries maturing on it. Market Value of Harvest: $51.00 To illustrate the extreme...
If Liz Were Queen     May 28 2015
What Could a Blackberry Festival Mean for Garland?
Children from last year's Bremerton Washington's 25th Annual Blackberry Festival Only the most cursory of research efforts can yield positive proof of what...
If Liz Were Queen     May 27 2015
How to Create a Local Plant-Based Economy
It’s quite simple. Here are the steps: Find a plant that grows very well in your community—a plant that can be put into the native soil that only needs slight...
If Liz Were Queen     May 25 2015
TPP is one more reason to be a local yokel
A Member from the Local Yokel Urban Farmer's Party ONE MORE REASON TO BE A LOCAL YOKEL and furthermore, TPP may be a good reason to start growing your own food....
If Liz Were Queen     May 23 2015
Changes in Urban Design Can Improve the Quality of Our Lives
It’s time to tear down, that much I’ll concede—but tear down and replace, or simply tear down—that is the question. And I think this morning as I took this...
If Liz Were Queen     May 21 2015
On Fireflies, Beauty, and the Fragility of Life
“At that moment she was changed into a wonderful little elf.” from the book The seven wishes in Julbocken , 1907 by John Bauer illustrated by Swedish...
If Liz Were Queen     May 20 2015
Terra Preta: the ultimate soil
Chris Savage, Vice President Loving Garland Green Notes and More on Soil Improvement with Charcoal Last night, Chris Savage, Vice President of Loving Garland...
If Liz Were Queen     May 19 2015
Agriculture and Community in the USA Are Changing
Carol Garrison and Daniel Bell’s front yard urban garden here in Garland on April 27, 2014. Today it is even more lush and beautiful. Read more about them,...
If Liz Were Queen     May 15 2015
Making Our Local Communities Safer from Terrorist Attack
No, we can never be 100% safe, but there are steps that communities can take to offer protections against terrorist attacks. While flag-waving has value as...
If Liz Were Queen     May 11 2015
Reason is Difficult in the Presence of Fear
Artichokes in My Garden -- The Garden is a peaceful place to be. We've always had terrorists and likely they will always will remain among us and sadly we won’t...
If Liz Were Queen     May 9 2015
Arab-American Immigrants--Who are these people?
We would be better served as a nation if more Americans would step outside the box of stereotypical thinking and take a look at the bigger picture when it comes...
If Liz Were Queen     May 8 2015
Thoughts On Personal Choice
The more I see, the more I am coming to believe that our only hope/defense against terrorism is to increase our own education and understanding of the world we...
If Liz Were Queen     May 7 2015
On Communities, Myths, Half Truths and Outright Lies
It’s interesting and also can be frightening how myths persist in the face of facts but they do. With the recent incident at the Garland Cullwell Center, once...
If Liz Were Queen     May 6 2015
Creating Thriving Urban Neighborhoods
A Pocket Neighborhood Community Created by Architect Ross Chapin Last night I attended a lovely event in Oak Cliff with two members of the board of Loving...
If Liz Were Queen     Apr 29 2015
Monarch Caterpillars are in the Garland Community Garden
Three Monarch Caterpillars munching on a milkweed at the Garland Community Garden - April 25, 2015 Journey North reported that Monarch butterflies left their...
If Liz Were Queen     Apr 26 2015
The Lens of Historical Perspective Often Yield the Final Truth
Photos courtesy U.S. Library of Congress Who needs the ocean when you have DDT? Only years after the damage is done do we learn the truth about some...
If Liz Were Queen     Apr 25 2015
Snapshots from the Garland Community Garden
What's worse than a grandmother who shows you pictures of all her grandchildren? Answer: an enthusiastic gardener with garden photos The Mini Butterfly...
If Liz Were Queen     Apr 24 2015
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