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Columnist Marianne Rzepka gives some advice for gardeners who are itching to dig in the soil. It’s still too early for many tasks, but there are plenty of things to do that will get you ready for the coming growing season. [Full Story]
Columnist Marianne Rzepka interviews Royer Held, a local “seed-saver” who’s cultivating an extensive library of heirloom tomatoes. [Full Story]
Columnist Marianne Rzepka talks with Alex Young, chef at Zingerman’s Roadhouse, about Cornman Farms, his growing venture near Dexter. [Full Story]
Columnist Marianne Rzpeka writes about the advantages of installing a rain garden in your yard. [Full Story]
At the May 20 annual meeting of the Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane, or CARD, residents and government officials said that requested changes filed by Pall Life Sciences earlier this month with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality would allow higher amounts of the contaminant, 1,4-dioxane, in the groundwater. As a result, they said, the 1,4-dioxane, a presumed carcinogen, could flow northward and reach Ann Arbor’s primary drinking water supply at Barton Pond. [Full Story]
Master gardener Marianne Rzepka gives advice on spring-planted bulbs, with input from local gardeners Barb and Tom Kraft. [Full Story]
Master gardener Marianne Rzepka gives advice on how gardeners can get started, even though there’s still a few frosty nights ahead of us. [Full Story]
On one corner, fire and brimstone, on another, Girl Scout cookies. [photo]
The Detroit Free Press looks at a dispute between state legislators and the boards that manage Detroit’s two public pension funds. Lawmakers have introduced bills to bring the pension funds under the control of a Lansing-based nonprofit trust, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System. The article quotes Bob Stevenson, an Ann Arbor-based pension attorney, who says the Bing administration should restructure the existing boards: “Undoubtedly, the Detroit pension systems have been poorly run, but I don’t think the answer in my view would be to transition to MERS. I would find some means to keep these pension plans autonomous.” [Source]
The Eat Close to Home blog puts out a call for volunteers for Avalon Housing’s Edible Avalon project: “Edible Avalon is a great group that’s not only helping to build gardens in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area, they are teaching people how to garden and supporting them through their first gardening efforts. They are looking for volunteers to help mentor new gardeners at their garden sites 1-3 hours per week.” [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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