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When you see a headline “Giant Man-Shaped Travelling Garden” and below it a picture of a plot measring 60 meters square planted with herbs in the shape of a man, there is clearly a problem. How can a large herb garden firmly rooted in the earth travel even a few meters, let alone from town to town as this giant claims to do? Obviously it cannot, but what this story is about is a crew of Japanese landscape designers that travel around during the summer creating their giant in different locations. Like a travelling circus, but using shipping containers rather than tents, they arrive at a site and plant their giant. The containers are then used to teach visitors about the medical uses of the herbs. The reason for the giant is that the herbs are planted in the areas of the body for which they are beneficial. As well as the education of their visitors there is an added benefit in that they use funds raised to go towards building playgrounds in developing countries. Read more..

In times of water shortages and hosepipe bans we are often encouraged to reuse “gray water” from our baths and sinks for the garden rather than just let it drain away into the sewers. But now it seems that this may not be such a good idea after all. Here’s a warning from the Health Mininstry in Israel that studies of gray water showed that it had often had very high levels of e.Coli bacteria.  “The Ministry said that the public could be in danger from infection if it uses gray water for private vegetable and fruit gardens, or even if it is used on lawns where children and pets play”. Read more..

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