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My mother, who just passed away at the age of 92, recorded in her memory book of her visits to Mother's Garden. She said there were "roses galore" and it was a favorite place to visit, especially on Sunday afternoons. Sounds like she would have been visiting there when it was still "new".

In 2012 the Waldorf School of Baltimore is adding an Experimental Composting Program - students collect composting materials from the school's gardens and the food waste from lunch and events. The waste is distributed between four alternative composting systems: a demonstration bio-digester; insulated tumblers; outdoor wooden composting bins; worm bins. The students are responsible for collecting the composting material. They measure waste and the by-products of composting, comparing the benefits of each approach. Hands-on learning, in the messiest sense!
Chaddie Hughes

There's a building right beside the metro station for parking. It's open 24 hours and it's free; no ticket needed or anything.
But I'm not sure if there are security guards there, so it's best not to leave your vehicle overnight.. Just for safety reasons.

The water is not safe for contact or drinking due to sewage contamination or run-off.
Please see the Baltimore City Health Department for more info.

My experience at Hamsa Yoga has lead me along a path to live a healthier lifestyle. The teachers are educated and the yoga classes are conducive to individuals specific needs. There is a sense of community and love at Hamsa that makes it a beautiful place to spend time.

This is a really fun place to visit for all ages ! Lots of animals, beautiful traditional buildings and barns, a farm museum, a "green design" Kids Cottage with a thatched roof, picnic area and things to plan on and with, a large garden....
Don't miss this.

This is an awesome store ! I've been there once, and plan to go back often. The building is an old mission-style home - bright and sunny, with beautiful dark wood trim. Products are displayed in a very attractive way, and even feature the forged steel artwork of local artist, Tom Hoyt of Ancient-gallery.blogspot.com. Upstairs there are some health offices and a community room where presentations can be made.

Simple Organics provides a great atmosphere, and while I was there I ran into people I knew and made a number of good connections. Troy Farwell, the co-owner is very knowledgeable in health and food and it shows in the quality of products that are carried and service received.

I am now also part of the "food buying club", so I can choose organic food and products in bulk for a good discount from an extensive catalog! Sincerely, Deanne Bednar

The saying once attributed to GM may now hold for China, at least when it comes to transforming transportation. What’s good for China may be good for the world.

there was time when it was difficult......

i love this garden's stage and diversity!!

OPEN HOUSE: Join us at RING, Saturday 8/13th, noon-2PM. Enjoy our beautiful neighborhood garden and some folk music by Arthur. Bring an old friend, make a new friend and become a member.

RING is located at 200th street at the Lt. William Tighe Triangle at Broadway, Dyckman Street, Riverside Drive & Seaman Avenue. Take the #1 or A train to Dyckman, aka 200th street. http://ringgarden.wordpress.com

Awesome place!

Groovin at the RING on Sundays in May: Come to RING on Sundays during May at 2 PM for free concerts by New York drummer Josh Gilgoff & "Glow in the Drum" (www.glowthedrun.com). Josh is the first musician to combine Western drums with West African shaker balls to create an entirely new technique in drumming. The FREE concerts will be held on Sunday, May 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th at approximately 2 pm.

Understanding your grudge because being not treated friendly, please still "Remember, we're talking about cheap metal folding chairs."

The comparison drawn is just beyond and tends to trivialise the dimension of atrocities during the "Third Reich". You seriously do not want to do that.

best wishes

More 'Little Mengele' than 'Little Buddha'!

If you have any interest in supporting businesses with a Buddhist, enlightened agenda I would highly suggest you seek elsewhere. While I can't figure out exactly what is going on behind the scenes of this establishment, I think it has nothing to do with what its name suggests - They call it 'Little Buddha' or 'Der Kleine Buddha'.

I'm allergic to milk and can't eat gluten and therefore frequent this place for bread and the like since there are no other shops nearby offering as wide a selection of Bio goods. However, I always hate entering this shop since the staff - particularly the owners - are some of the coldest, most unfriendly people I have encountered in Berlin. All the Tibetan flags and Buddhist paraphernalia adorning the place could never compensate for the personalities of the staff which are more reminiscent of Fascism than anything Buddhism espouses. But, as I said, my allergies trumped social preferences and I continued to frequent this establishment for over 2 years.

This has finally come to an end today after visiting a friend who was having a birthday party for his 4 year old. They planned a nice garden party but due to the rain they had to move it inside and simply didn't have enough chairs. My friend, who lives in the same building as a café called Greenstuff (they sometimes spell it 'Grreenstuff') - which has the same owners as 'Little Buddha' - said he would ask them if he could borrow a few chairs for a few hours. They have about 40 metal folding chairs which are chained up outside the café, never used or even unfolded, and never even brought inside the cafe at night, apparently just waiting until business starts booming and they'll finally be needed. My friend frequents this café, often buys his child ice cream there and said the owners would certainly recognize him and lend him a few of their unused chairs. I was skeptical based on my knowledge of these owners and their utter lack of generosity or any semblence of kindness or warmth.

To make a short story even shorter, my friend went to 'Little Buddha' and spoke to the female owner who was there and indeed recognized him. He explained her his predicament. She said she wouldn't help him. He pleaded with her and even offered to leave a 200 Euro deposit and pay whatever fee she wanted for rental just to not destroy his little child's birthday party. She again said that she wouldn't help him. When he asked why not, she simply said that "it's not what we do." Remember, we're talking about cheap metal folding chairs which are never used, and would be returned after two hours after being used for a birthday party of a child whose family are customers of theirs and live in their building! This is a store that offers a 5% discount to customers who live in the neighborhood so as to "support the 'kiez'" but they refuse to help a neighbor and customer with a gesture that would have cost them absolutely nothing?!

My friend, who, like me, is a foreigner, was obviously shocked but just attributed it to some different local norms which often makes living abroad so exotic and adrenaline-fueled. Reluctant to have to make his guests sit on the floor he figured he'd try another restaurant just across the street, a restaurant which he never frequents but which also had many empty folding chairs outside. Within a few seconds, the managers - who were either Indian or Pakistani - immediately agreed to lend him as many chairs as he needed. When my friend offered to leave a deposit or pay a rental fee they looked at him as though he were mad and just wished his son (whom they also knew by sight) a Happy Birthday and made no issue of it whatsoever - just as you would expect in a civilized community. It was only these pseudo-Buddhists that offered no help or compassion whatsoever. "Just give us your money and buy our products but don't bother us with any of your needs," you know, just like Buddha would have done.

This little incident just confirmed my long-held suspicions that this establishment - with all its pretense of Buddhist/Tibetan generosity and activism - is just some type of sham shell company covering something quite sinister. I've been to dozens of countries and frequented many Buddhist and Buddhist-themed restaurants and shops and I've never had the types of negative feelings that I get from this particular establishment. I'm not saying they're evil or Nazis but in the grand scheme of things I'd say they're far closer to Joseph Mengele's cruelty towards children than Buddha's selflessness and generosity, and I think calling themselves 'Little Mengele' would be far less-misleading than 'Little Buddha.' In short, If you're not into Mengele and all that he represents, I think you'd be well advised to shop elsewhere.

Der Donnerstagsmarkt ist ja tatsächlich nur ÖKO!! Wunderbar! Nette ruhige Umgebung, nicht so stressig wie andere Märkte. Es gibt alles was das Herz begehrt: Vom Kunsthandwerk bis zu einer riesen Auswahl verschiedener Apfelsorten! Und dass es angeblich so teuer ist: Pah! Das ist es auch wert! Umweltschonend und lecker!

great social commitment!

i love this garden's stage and diversity!!

OPEN HOUSE: Join us at RING, Saturday 8/13th, noon-2PM. Enjoy our beautiful neighborhood garden and some folk music by Arthur. Bring an old friend, make a new friend and become a member.

RING is located at 200th street at the Lt. William Tighe Triangle at Broadway, Dyckman Street, Riverside Drive & Seaman Avenue. Take the #1 or A train to Dyckman, aka 200th street. http://ringgarden.wordpress.com

Groovin at the RING on Sundays in May: Come to RING on Sundays during May at 2 PM for free concerts by New York drummer Josh Gilgoff & "Glow in the Drum" (www.glowthedrun.com). Josh is the first musician to combine Western drums with West African shaker balls to create an entirely new technique in drumming. The FREE concerts will be held on Sunday, May 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th at approximately 2 pm.

Come to our annual Spring Flea Market on May 7th, 2011 from 10 am to 4 pm (rain date - May 14th) and pick up a plant from our garden or an addition for your home or wardrobe. You might even find a perfect Mother's Day gift!

love and peace to you

To Tom Galvin My brother Dan and I took a very interesting tour of the Mt Wollaston Cemetery with you a couple of summers back and I was wondering if you be familiar with the magnificent elm tree situated on Hancock Street at Merrymount Park. The tree, while lovely to look at and providing a 125 ft canopy of shade, life giving oxygen and housing for birds as well as an asset to the neighborhood, is slated for demolition as part of the new middle school project. It seems the tree will stand in the way of the parking lot. I have been told by the mayor that the tree is in decline - although it has bloomed beautifully again this year. It looks like a bit of pruning would do it good. Because the tree is alone in its space It has been free of Dutch elm disease and has survived likely close to two hundred years only to fall to a bulldozer in the name of progress. Hugh Sidey wrote years ago in Time magazine of the tree's "cousin" transplanted to the White House grounds and which survives to this day. We should be making the effort to save the elm in its home town don't you think?

My brother, who lives near the tree site, and whose grandson will attend the future school,and I, would love to see the tree incorporated into the plans for the school. What better focal point of Merrymount memorial park than its historic tree. If you have information on this tree I would appreciate your sharing it with me so I may gather information for an argument to the tree's removal.

Thank you
Millicent Broderick
millicent0224@hotmail.com

It's a shame because dogs have nowhere to go to enjoy nature and the beach. Especially when it's hot and the summer. My dog is clean and healthy, I'm not introducing her to health hazards. It WOULD BE SO NICE to have a beach where DOGS were allowed and people realized how special it was because there are not ANY around. Haven't been there yet, would be curious if these dog feces comments are true. It would be a nice attraction for Bostonians if some rules were set in place.

I skated on this pond with my dad when I was a kid. I was impressed that he could skate so well. I remember that he fell backwards ( the ice was real chippy) and he bumped his head. It was very early spring, as I recall, and there were little brown bats that swooped around catching whatever insects were flying around at the time. I don't remember ever skating with my dad any other time in my life. I grew up in Wollaston. I idealized alot of my youthful experiences there. But it really was a fun place to live.

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