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Have you always wanted to run your own railway? Does your indoor model railway leave you with a desire to fill your nostrils with the smell of steam and hot oil on a winter's morning? If the answer to any of these questions is 'yes' then you probably need to build yourself a garden railway, and you certainly need to read this book! Peter Jones is one of the best-known names in the world of garden railways. In this highly illustrated book he guides you through the exciting world of model trains in your garden, from small-scale electric-powered locomotives to live-steam engines capable o

Bogor Botanic Gardens (BBG) was established in 1817 and is the oldest botanic garden in South East Asia. The garden has long been a centre for scientific research and has been the founding institution of a number of other research centres in Indonesia, particularly in the life sciences. The garden initially covered 47 ha but has expanded over the years and is now 87 ha. It has evolved over its 200-year history from a collection of economically valuable plants to the multi-faceted institute it is today, undertaking activities in plant conservation, research, education, ecotourism and environmental services. In recent years, it has strengthened its role in plant conservation through the establishment of 32 new botanic gardens across Indonesia. These new gardens are managed by local government and universities and supervised by BBG. In its bicentenary year, 2017, BBG organised a number of activities, programmes and celebrations and these are highlighted in thisarticle.

This essay explores the self-valorization of work in the context of community gardens to further the discussion toward a grounded theory of time and value, something that has been lacking within Chicana/o studies. Urban community gardens are pivotal to the environmental justice movement, and Chicana/os are playing a central role. This essay begins the process toward a reconceptualization of work, time, nature, food, and the body. It proposes a revolutionary logic of labor as realized through the reframing of time and value that seeks to reconnect community gardeners to the means of their own production and reproduction. Transcending capitalist logic and moving beyond the dialectic of productive and unproductive labor, community gardeners have the potential to transform estranged labor into affirmative labor. By creating gardens of sabotage, communities challenge capitalism by reclaiming the value of work and confronting orthodox notions of economy, work, citizenship, community, and time.

AbstractA garden city is newly built from the ground up. It is planned to secure maximum economic returns, beauty, health and recreation. Proper balance is maintained between residential, recreational, industrial and agricultural areas. It pags its own way.

The King's Garden is a half-hour documentary short that has one foot in the Bible and the other in the "volcanic core" of the Middle East conflict: the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Following multiple storylines and using the accounts of archaeologists, residents and legal experts, The King's Garden tells the story of how one impoverished village became the epicenter of the battle for land between Palestinians and Israelis – and shows how dangerously alive the past can become. Located just outside the walls of the Old City, Silwan is the place where the oldest archaeological remains in Jerusalem have been found. Many people believe that this slope of land is where King David built his palace and gardens 3000 years ago. For over a century, the local residents were on good terms with the hordes of archaeologists who came to dig in and around their village. But this changed in 1991. That is when a private settler organization known as ELAD - a Hebrew acronym meaning "To the City of David" – began using means of questionable legality to acquire Palestinian houses in the village. Using documents just released in Israel, The King's Garden reveals how successive national governments supported settler activity by giving them the titles to properties in Silwan for prices well below their actual worth. Today, ELAD runs the day-to-day management of the archaeological site, the City of David. Independent archaeologists accuse it of being a "a settler evangelical theme park" that offers discredited hypotheses about the archaeological finds as fact, and skews the history of the place to concentrate solely on the Jewish past. In addition, ELAD has settled about 500 Orthodox Jewish residents in Silwan. Violent clashes between the settlers and Palestinians are constant. In The King's Garden, we meet the widow and children of Samer Sirhan, the local "martyr" who was killed by a settler guard in September of 2010. He was never brought to trial. Meanwhile, the increasing tourist numbers at the City of David have led Jerusalem's mayor to create "The King's Garden Plan." To make way for the shops and restaurants that will be built next to the archaeological site, twenty-two Palestinian homes will be demolished. Events like these have resulted in an increasingly angry younger generation of Palestinians, who pass the time by throwing stones at Israeli cars. Fakhri Abu Diab, who, with a demolition order hanging over his head takes us on a tour of his soon-to-be- demolished village, tries to get the youth to protest in a non-violent manner. But he despairs with what he sees. And he is the one who asks the film's central question: What is more important: their past or our present? The King's Garden was produced with support from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

The results of studying the number of microorganisms in the air above various species of aromatic plants, elements of flower bed and landscaping in the VILAR botanical garden are presented. It is shown that there are less microorganisms in the air above a flower bed created from aromatic, medicinal and ornamental plants than in the air above the lawn by 1,4 times, and by 1,7–2,5 times than above the dirt and asphalt paths. The greatest antimicrobial effect was observed for Hyssopus officinalis L., Origanum vulgare L., Thymus serpyllum L. Due to the lack of specially trained personnel, mainly passive garden therapy is carried out.

"Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this new book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation. It explores new themes and contemporary trends, from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors, and how social media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience"--

The structure of our racial hierarchy depends on the power of color, particularly skin color, to signify racial difference and justify stratification. Color is an important element of culture, capable of communicating multivocal meanings. Dark colors have sets of cultural meanings like evil, magic, and night, but they are also associated with skin color and race. This article seeks to understand how material objects act as vehicles for ideas about color and race, particularly Blackness, in the absence of bodies or images of people, by examining the phenomenon of named varieties of dark‐colored plants. My data included interviews with daylily breeders and an online database of over 90,000 named daylily varieties. Systematic analysis showed that dark plants were frequently, though not exclusively, given names referencing Blackness. White or light‐colored flowers did not receive racialized names. Findings demonstrate that color carries racial connotations even in areas of activity and cultural production that appear to have little or no connection with race, human bodies, or human identities. I suggest that color plays an important and underexamined role in the process of racialization and the perpetuation of White supremacy.