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4 Things You Should Know About Organic Produce in 2017 Verily When you're grocery shopping, chances are that you still eye the two categories of berries and wonder: Should I buy organic? While the hype surrounding organic food may seem so 2010, new data released by the Organic Trade Association found that ...

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WILMINGTON Farm to table cuisine revolves around two interlocking ideas: environmental sustainability and good tasting food. Its the philosophy pushing the Wilmington food scene, but its also expensive.

As Chef Craig Loveof Surf House told Port City Daily in a recent interview, the philosophy has to do with how food gets on your plate.

If people want fresh tomatoes when theyre not in season here, that means putting them on a truck and shipping them from somewhere else, California or Mexico. The tomato that ends up on your plate has been sitting in a truck for a long time, and youve burnt a lot of fuel to get there. Its bad for the taste, and its lousy for the environment. You get the tomato you asked for, but you dont really get what you want, Love explained.

The idea is this: the closer the food is to your plate from the start, the better it is for everyone. But while the price of industrially farmed foods has dropped worldwide due to ever-increasing mechanization and declining oil prices,according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the costs of local and in particular local organic produce has risen.

In the American southeast, organic produce costs on between 30 percent and 50 percent more than conventional produce, according to the USDAs regional produce report (you can compare prices on fruits, vegetables and other products here). The same is true of local produce which, like organic produce, frequently comes from smaller farms without the economy of scale of industrialfarming, marketing and distribution.

The local organic produce that has been the foundation of farm to table cooking is expensive. That cost at the supermarket, let alone on the restaurant table can be prohibitive.

So what can you do? Grow your own.

In a coastal region with a high percentage of apartment living (about 40 percent of New Hanover County rents) and large swathes of sandy soil, not everyone will have access to a garden, let alone a tilled plot of hearty soil. But if you have room for a few planters somewhere that gets eight hours of sun, you can grow a variety of cultivars of tomato, squash (which will grow vertically), cabbages, peppers and a number of herbs.

Port City Daily set up a demonstration model garden, planting several herbs from Shelton Herb Farm and two kinds of heirloom tomatoes (Black Krim and Green Cherokee) from a local farm in Burgaw. (To prepare for the garden, we visited the Herb & Garden Fair at Poplar Grove on April 2. We spoke to several local farmers for background, and attended a lecture on gardening in southeastern North Carolina given by Meg Shelton, whos family runs the Shelton Herb Farm in Leland).

The investment is moderate: $75 for a shovel, compost, potting soil, plant food, planters and seedlings. The potential return is far more. According to Shelton, a single Black Krim tomato plant can produce 12 20 pounds of tomatoes (which sell, locally, between $5 and $6 a pound). So one tomato plant could net you at least $60 worth of heirloom tomatoes.

For the demonstration garden, we used organic plants, compost, soil and plant food. The difference in cost was about $3 for the soil, $2 for the plant food, and less than a quarter for the actual plants. Leaving aside the contentious debate between organic and conventional growing methods, it does seem clear that the cost difference ingrowing produce is less than the cost difference in buying produce.

At the recommendation of Shelton, the herbs and tomatoes were left outside in small planters for about a week. They were brought inside during the extreme winds last week, as well as during one violent thunderstorm. Otherwise, the plants were left outside.

This was done about two weeks after the last potential frost, when the nights are no longer going much below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. (The weather in southeastern North Carolina has been unpredictable this year, and several farmers we spoke to had different opinions. But in general Shelton said, early April is a good bet.) This process, according to Shelton, hardens the plants, toughening cell walls and preparing them for the shock of being transplanted into the ground or in this case larger planters.

Next, prepare a mixture of compost, soil and plant food.Whether youre planting in a garden box on top of sandy soil or using a planter, this mixture is important as it replaces the nutrients created by worms and microbes in fertile soil.

Before planting, it is important to shake loose some of the original potting soil, gently exposing the roots. Some plants like heirloom tomatoes also benefit from a small sprinkling of Epsom salts in the potting hole.

Tomatoes, as well as several varieties of squash and peppers, grow well vertically. This method keeps the ripening vegetables off the ground, but also puts a strain on the plant; using a trellis or a cage allows you to secure the plant as it grows. Secure the trellis or cage early, rather than later, to allow the root system to adapt to it.

What comes next? Vigilance and knowing your crops. For one example: Tomatoes are thirsty plants and can be watered every day, a herb like thyme can succumb easily to root rot, and doesnt need as much water.

It can seem overwhelming, but theres a great deal of information available online. Theres also a lot of local knowledge. In addition to information from the Shelton Herb Farm (in Leland), Port City Daily also spoke to the Green Seasons Garden Center (in Wilmington). Several local farmers hold informal information sessions at the Poplar Grove Farmers Market (off Highway 17 in Wilmington), which runs April 19 through late October.

A good general rule of thumb: dont be afraid to ask questions when and where you buy your seeds and plants. Finally, both New Hanover and Brunswick counties have Cooperative Extensions, resources centers for commercial farmers and backyard gardeners alike.

Sunlight, water and vigilance are all you need now. (Photo by Benjamin Schachtman)

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Every Wednesday from noon to dusk, a piece of the park, Lake Ella, is transformed into an organic food market called the Growers Market at Lake Ella. Started as an initiative in the community by Florida A&M Universitys (FAMU) School of Agriculture and Food Sciences and their FAMU statewide Small Farm program, the Growers Market at Lake Ella has managed to stay afloat for the last 13 years.

According to Jennifer Taylor, Ph.D., associate professor and coordinator of Small Farm Programs at the FAMU s College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, the Growers Market at Lake Ella was a FAMU initiative.

We were having a series of workshops about organic farming, organic agriculture, and what it was about. The benefits of organic farming and organic integrated management, all of these different kind of strategies that support organic farming systems, said Dr. Taylor.

The development for the Growers Market at Lake Ella, didnt stop at a meeting table.

They came to me and said, Well Jennifer we actually need a different kind of market, can you help us develop a market? continued Dr. Taylor.

According to Dr. Taylor, there are a total of four markets in Tallahassee, but what makes the Growers Market at Lake Ella so unique is it is the only organic methods market, where only organic farmers are able to sell produce.

The Growers Market at Lake Ella features many of farmers from surrounding counties who go through strategic planning processes to thoroughly execute a Wednesday at the market.

According to Annette Layton, owner and farmer of Little Eden Heirloom Farm in Crawford, Fla., preparing their produce for sell, is impossible to do at the last minute.

It really starts months in advance. Its going to take two to three months for this to harvest. Basically its an everyday thing, Layton said.

According to David Newman, farmer of Ripe City Urban Farm in Tallahassee, Fla., his Wednesdays begin with early morning preparation.

Wake up fairly early, harvest everything the same day, package it in some kind of bag. Whatever units, I sell each particular item and then put that in the cooler then put it in the truck. Then prepare all of the marketing stuff. It is pretty routine now, Newman explained.

To the average person, farming may seem like a heavy cross to bear, but to farmers like David Newman and Annette Layton, farming equals steady income and food sustainability.

It is literally a full-time job. This is the only job we have right now. Every now and then Ill do some art, Layton said

I got passionate about growing food in a healthy and sustainable way. This is my form or major income, I also get into real estate on the side, explained Newman.

At the Growers Market at Lake Ella organic food seekers get the opportunity to meet the farmers, without a third party, who nurtured and grew their food. For many of the produce buyers, attending the Growers Market at Lake Ella every Wednesday is more than just buying produce and going home, but also building relationships with the people in the community.

According to Bennett Hoffman, Little Eden Heirloom Farms frequently visiting customer, Little Eden Heirloom Farm is what brings him back to the Growers Market at Lake Ella.

They have great stuff, the people are nice. Thats why I like to come to the market because I like to know what I am getting and who I am getting it from, Hoffman explained.

The diverse love for organic food is what the Growers Market at Lake Ella used as a great tactic to bring the community together.

According to Dr. Taylor, for the last 13 years after searching for a place to host the market, the Tallahassee community has welcomed the Growers Market with open arms.

I searched several places around town that would be a great place to have a market. Somewhere where the community needs to come and see and supportand we got that mix here [Lake Ella] and the people support us.

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Author and public speaker Tim Ferriss interviewed over 200 high performers and business leaders, and found that 80 percent of them meditate.

I liked how he described meditation is like taking a warm bath for your brain. Ahh, that sounds so good. Most of us love a nice relaxing bath. Why not take one for the brain?

I believe some of the reasons people do not meditate are:

Let me dispel some of these beliefs.

Meditation can be done pretty much anywhere, at any time, for any length of time and in many different ways. It is about finding a way that works for you personally.

My daily ritual is to meditate when I get into bed. Every night I decide how I want to meditate and for how long. Sometimes it could just be for a minute, other times an hour. Other times I listen to a guided meditation, occasionally I just sit in silence or soak up some soothing music.

One of my favorite ways to meditate is to visualize how I would like to see something play out in my life. My favorite experience of this is when I was preparing for my hike up Mt. Whitney. Every night I would visualize the hike. When I actually did the hike and made it to the top, it was if I had done the hike many times before.

The power of visualization is that the brain takes it in as if it is truly happening. Then the brain is working while you are asleep or doing other activities to make your visualization happen. This is why 80 percent of leaders meditate. They know it works.

So what is it that meditation does and why is it that people swear by it?

Here is a list of 50 different benefits that studies have shown on the benefits of meditation.

With this list, why would we not meditate? To help you get started or assist you in your meditation practice, here are some wonderful Android and iOS apps for you to explore: Insight Timer, Buddhify, Calm, Headspace, Mindbody Connect, Mindfulness App.

And speaking of technology, lets see what happens when we combine meditation with technology.

In your minds browser, clear your cache Now delete your historyNow navigate to a blank web page (Joyoftech.com).

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A woman meditates during a "sound bath" at the Conservatory of Flowers. (CBS)

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) As night falls on Golden Gate Park, people file in to the Conservatory of Flowers, past the exotic plants, carrying yoga mats.

They arent here for a yoga class, however.

What were trying to do is create an environment where people can unplug from the day unplug from their life for an hour, Guy Douglas explained.

Douglas describes himself as a sound practitioner and he wants to help people tune in the music of the spheres.

Were all carrying our own vibrations as we walk in here from our day. So its really an aligning of frequencies to kind of align you with these pure harmonics and tones very organic and astral, designed to take you out of your mind, Douglas said.

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Mindfulness is a hot commodity these days. The market around meditation and mental well-being has, in recent years, ballooned to more than $1 billion, with countless websites, YouTube series, mobile apps, and subscription services existing on top of your traditional in-person classes and studio memberships. With just a few finger taps or mouse clicks, you can find a whole world of self-help gurus and zen advisors that are eager to help you, oftentimes for free, enhance your self-awareness and better cope with negative emotions.

The sheer enormity of the industry is enough to overwhelm any stressed or anxious individual, to say the least. And thats precisely what drew me to Sway. The iOS app, costing just $2.99, is a different kind of mindfulness software. It uses the motion of the phone, as measured by the accelerometer, to try and put you into a relaxed and meditative state for about 20 minutes per day.

Sway is bite-sized mindfulness for medtiation novices

The idea centers on moving your phone around in a gentle circular motion, while lush nature sounds from the app help facilitate the calming effect. You can also walk at a steady rhythmic pace, while leaving the phone in your pocket. If youre moving too fast, or too slow, the app will alert you so you can adjust. In my time using the app every day for the past week, I found it be a pretty low-effort but surprisingly high-reward experience. Ive ended up using Sway about once every two hours or so to clear my head and write this article, it turns out.

The app was conceived by interaction designer Peng Cheng and developed in partnership with digital design studio Ustwos Malmo, Sweden, division. You may recognize Ustwo as the brand behind breakout mobile game Monument Valley. That app was a blissful and meditative experience of its own, relying on mind-bending graphic design, cryptic narrative elements, and abstract and atmospheric sound design to create an otherworldly experience. Much of the same visual and audio aesthetics can be found in Sway, which employs minimalist colors and scatters sparse lines of text on-screen only when absolutely necessary.

Its Chengs philosophy, however, that gives Sway its power. The designer worked with Ustwo three years ago to develop Pause, a similar mindfulness app that had you tracing shapes with your finger on the phone screen. With these apps, Chengs design outfit Pauseable is trying to create the effect of simple meditation without the intense instruction and repetitious practice that makes modern mindfulness apps feel like chores. The goal with Sway is pretty simple: let anyone anywhere meditate using only the motion of their hand and a pair of headphones. Cheng tries to achieve this by treating the smartphone not as a detracting force you have to ignore, but as a tool thats essential to the process.

The idea of Sway is actually really simple: we want to bring the mind back to the body. Most of the time we use our body in a rather mechanical or automatic way, but the body is actually an amazing tool for mindfulness practice, Cheng says in a promotional video for Sway. Were using technology to sense human voluntary attention. The music and the visuals are just there to help sustain the focused attention, he adds. In fact, the visuals arent integral. Pauseable and Ustwo designed the app so you wouldnt need to look at the screen at all.

Its this embrace of the phone as an object necessary to this particular meditative practice and not just a window to an on-screen guide that sets it apart. Most apps of this variety, like the mobile mindfulness leader Headspace, rely on whats known as guided meditation. They ferry you, through voice lessons and illustrated graphics, like a teacher would. The goal is to help you learn the tenets of meditation and explore a number of ways to apply those lessons to your work performance or your diet or even your dating life.

The apps themselves are mostly there to gamify the experience letting you unlock new levels and earn rewards for hitting your goals and to act as databases for a multitude of different existing techniques for you to explore. In the case of Headspace, that means paying a subscription fee that costs anywhere between $6 to $13 a month (or a whopping $419.95 for a lifetime membership) to access a majority of the content. Its certainly an option for those looking to get quite serious about making meditation and mindfulness practice a big part of their daily routine.

But there is an inherent contradiction in relying on software to help you find peace of mind, when so much of modern lifes anxieties feel linked to our hyper-accelerated news feeds and dependencies on social networks and the steady drip of messaging notifications. If youre seeking a healthier and more mindful mental state, it seems more difficult to do so while staying helplessly tethered to a smartphone screen and LTE data connection. Of course, you can take your learnings from an app like Headspace and leave your phone behind. Or you could sign up for a good old-fashioned meditation class at a yoga studio. But it still begs the question: how at peace can these practices be when theyre impossible to access without staying plugged in?

Sway, at the very least, embraces the contradiction. It doesnt treat technology as a foe, but its not also completely dependent on it. It recognizes that our smartphones will reasonably be with us at all times. It then uses that fact to create a meditation system thats always at your fingertips, and devoid of the burdensome feeling of a gym membership. Of course, it may not be as intensive and thorough as Headspace, or as life-changing and rigorous as traditional meditation practice. But its bite-sized mindfulness for when the news notifications feel like an avalanche and Twitter feels like a vice, which is just when you might need the relaxation the most.

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As part of the agreement, eBay Inc will pay 0 million in cash and will transfer ownership of eBay.in to Flipkart, in exchange for an unspecified equity stake in the company.

Amid the continuous talk of whether it will acquire Snapdeal, Indias largest e-commerce player Flipkart pulled a coup by announcing on Monday that it will buy Indian business of the eBay Inc, as part of an excercise to raise $1.4 billion its single-largest to date from a consortium of Tencent, Microsoft and EBay.

As part of the agreement, eBay Inc will pay $500 million in cash and will transfer ownership of eBay.in to Flipkart, in exchange for an unspecified equity stake in the company, it said in a statement.

The investment by eBay is accompanied by a strategic commercial agreement with Flipkart. In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay is making a cash investment in and selling its eBay.in business to Flipkart. eBay.in will continue to operate as an independent entity as a part of Flipkart, it said in the statement.

The fund-raising excercise also involves Chinas internet company Tencent and the global giant Microsoft, who will provide Flipkart remainder of the $.14 billion funds. The deal values Flipkart at $11.6 billion, it said.

Amazon on its tail

Flipkarts existing investors include Tiger Global Management, Naspers Group, Accel Partners and DST Global. China-based Tencent owns social messaging app WeChat and has investments across various online companies like Practo, Ibibo etc.

The move is being seen as Flipkarts attempt to ready a warchest to acquire the rival Snapdeal to become large enough to fend off any possible competition from Amazon.

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The acquisition of eBay India will surely help Flipkart gain scale and help it compete better with the fast-growing rivals, especially the global giant Amazon, which is fast catching up to beat it in its home market. Earlier last month, Chinas giant Alibaba invested $177 million investment in Paytm Mall, along with $23 million by the private equity player SAIF Partners, in a bid to gain entry into the Indian e-commerce industry.

eBay in the bag

Flipkart expects the transaction to close later this year, upon which, it will acquire eBays buyers in India. Further, eBay and Flipkart have also entered into an exclusive agreement in which they will jointly pursue cross-border trade opportunities.

The combination of eBays position as a leading global e-commerce company and Flipkarts market stature will allow us to accelerate and maximise the opportunity for both companies in India, Devin Wenig, President and CEO of eBay Inc, said in the statement.

eBay is committed to winning in India in partnership with Flipkart. Our exclusive global trade partnership will allow eBay and Flipkart to reach even more consumers around the world, he added. eBays global inventory will be accessible to more Indian consumers, while its active buyers globally will have access to Indian inventory provided by Flipkart.

This partnership bodes well for Indian and global customers, sellers and the wider e-commerce ecosystem. eBay.in has built a strong presence in India over the years and we hope to take it to greater heights as part of the Flipkart group, Binny Bansal, Group CEO, Flipkart said.

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Vadodara/Goraj: Started in 1978 as a primary school by Anuben Thakkar, who aspired to become a nun but could not do so because of lack of college education, Muni Seva Ashram, nearly 30 kilometres from Vadodara, has become a model for village self-sustainability.Today, the ashram is spread over 350 acres and houses a school, cancer hospital, senior citizen centre, cow sheds among other things. But, it has been experimenting with green technologies since early years of its inception. The ashram established a bio-gas plant in 1983 for cooking food for the children coming there.Its efforts to become energy independent did not end there. Over the decades the ashram has worked to make optimum utilization of natural resources and it established bigger bio-gas plants, solar air-conditioning system, solar crematorium, solar cookers, and bio-mass gasifier.The kitchens of the ashram, that feed 3,000 people everyday, are a model for community kitchens. The ashram produces energy on its own for cooking the meals and does not depend on piped or bottled gas. The large solar dishes that grab the eye-balls produce steam for boiling food. And, the biogas that produced at its biogas plant in Bakrol village near Waghodia is bottled and brought for cooking. Ashram's trustee Deepak Gadhia says that the kitchens here have never used the bottled gas of the public-sector companies. Yet, they keep these bottles as a back-up plan. Gadhia is not the only one who has been serving in the ashram but, there are many more engineers like him who have left their jobs in multinational companies abroad and are serving in the ashram as social scientists.Gadhia claims that they keep experimenting with the technologies to make the ashram 100% self-sufficient. During one such experiment they discovered CNG from the gas that is produced from biogas plant. "Once we were trying to remove carbon dioxide from the gas that is produced in the biogas plant to pump more gas in the bottles and we accidentally discovered CNG from it," said Gadhia. The CNG that is produced now is used for running vehicles of the ashram. The large solar dishes also power a 100 tonne air conditioning system of the ashram through vapour absorption chillers. Few years back a solar crematorium was also made for the residents of Goraj village. It is claimed that these are the first solar air condit...

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Mumbai, Apr 6 A committee of women legislators from both the houses of Maharashtra legislature has found many shortcomings in the security at `ashram' (residential) schools for tribal girls.

Also, in some places authorities were seen to be trying to suppress reporting of incidents of sexual exploitation, it said in the report, submitted today.

Even the food served to the girls was found to be of sub-standard quality.

The 13-member committee said in its report, submitted today, that in some schools, washrooms or toilets are far away from the dormitory, and were unguarded.

Rs 5,000 given to victims of sexual atrocities by the Tribal Welfare Department was too meagre an amount, and it needs to be increased to Rs 50,000, the committee said.

District consultative committees set up under joint chairmanship of district collectors didn't visit the ashram schools regularly, it said.

Cases of sexual exploitation and other atrocities should be tried in fast-track courts, it said.

Most of the ashram schools are located outside the villages and do not have proper access roads; in some schools the boundary wall is incomplete or broken, it found.

The committee of women legislators was set up in December 2015 following alleged sexual exploitation of two tribal girls at a school at Pandhurna in Wardha district.

The report was tabled by Minister of State for Women and Child Development Vidya Thakur in both the houses today.

The committee recommended that CCTV cameras should be installed in ashram schools, and armed women security guards should be deployed wherever possible.

It recommended amendment of rules so that guilty or negligent officials can be dismissed immediately.

There should be `Honorary Guardians' whom the girl students can approach if they have any problem, it said.

There should also be a toll-free helpline where the girls can lodge complaints anonymously, and local police should visit the schools regularly during night patrolling, it recommended.

Mumbai, Apr 6 A committee of women legislators from both the houses of Maharashtra legislature has found many shortcomings in the security at `ashram' (residential) schools for tribal girls.

Also, in some places authorities were seen to be trying to suppress reporting of incidents of sexual exploitation, it said in the report, submitted today.

Even the food served to the girls was found to be of sub-standard quality.

The 13-member committee said in its report, submitted today, that in some schools, washrooms or toilets are far away from the dormitory, and were unguarded.

Rs 5,000 given to victims of sexual atrocities by the Tribal Welfare Department was too meagre an amount, and it needs to be increased to Rs 50,000, the committee said.

District consultative committees set up under joint chairmanship of district collectors didn't visit the ashram schools regularly, it said.

Cases of sexual exploitation and other atrocities should be tried in fast-track courts, it said.

Most of the ashram schools are located outside the villages and do not have proper access roads; in some schools the boundary wall is incomplete or broken, it found.

The committee of women legislators was set up in December 2015 following alleged sexual exploitation of two tribal girls at a school at Pandhurna in Wardha district.

The report was tabled by Minister of State for Women and Child Development Vidya Thakur in both the houses today.

The committee recommended that CCTV cameras should be installed in ashram schools, and armed women security guards should be deployed wherever possible.

It recommended amendment of rules so that guilty or negligent officials can be dismissed immediately.

There should be `Honorary Guardians' whom the girl students can approach if they have any problem, it said.

There should also be a toll-free helpline where the girls can lodge complaints anonymously, and local police should visit the schools regularly during night patrolling, it recommended.

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A social fitness programme was conducted for the monks of Tango monastery on April 8.

The programme was initially started by the Ministry of Health to promote the importance of physical activity at the work place and to reduce non communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, among others.

The aerobic session is included in the programme. Aerobics is a physical exercise that includes rhythmicaerobicexercises with stretching and strength training routines. Besides boosting the immune system, it also helps in regulating blood pressure and cholesterol. A dietary plan is provided to the participants apart from the exercise.

Fitness trainer, Dorji Tsheten of Dosten Consultancy Service, said that it was observed that the monks do not get much physical activity in their daily lives and so he approached the principal of the monastery to talk about the health benefits of aerobics.

The programme is currently being conducted at the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, an Anim Dratsang, Gidakom hospital and the Anti Corruption Commission.

Due to the lack of funds, the programme is being carried out mostly in Thimphu. Dorji Tsheten said that he is interested to introduce such social fitness programmes in all the 20 dzongkhags in the future.

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