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This June 22, 2022, photo provided by Jessica Damiano shows fruit and vegetable scraps in a planting hole in a Glen Head, NY, garden. As kitchen scraps decompose, they add valuable nutrients to the soil to nourish plants. (Jessica Damiano via AP)

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Alternatives to store-bought fertilizer are all around you
By JESSICA DAMIANO - Associated Press
Tue,06/28/22-9:08AM, 10 Reads
The cost of everything from gas to burgers may be rising, but home gardeners growing produce have found a way at least to avoid paying $4 for a pound of tomatoes.

Fertilizing those tomatoes — or cucumbers or flowers, for that matter — is another story, as the cost of soil amendments has been soaring.
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Tressie Corsi sits with her great great granddaughter Amelia Hollis on the porch of the house she has owned in Johnstown, Ohio, since 1972 to that she is giving up to make way for an Intel manufacturing plant during an interview Monday, June 20, 2022. Corsi and her husband raised four children and welcomed multiple generations of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, including some who lived right next door. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

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'Silicon Heartland' boon for Ohio, but families mourn homes
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AND PATRICK ORSAGOS - Associated Press
Tue,06/28/22-6:20AM, 51 Reads
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — When President Joe Biden applauded a decision by Intel Corp. to build a $20 billion semiconductor operation on “1,000 empty acres of land” in Ohio, it didn't sit well with Tressie Corsi.
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A Kashmiri pigeon handler feeds his pigeons from his rooftop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 17, 2022. The centuries-old tradition of pigeon keeping has remained ingrained to life in the old quarters of Srinagar where flocks of pigeons on rooftops, in the courtyards of mosques and shrines and around marketplaces are a common sight. Many of these are domesticated, raised by one of the thousands of pigeon keepers there. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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AP PHOTOS: Amid conflict, pigeon keeping thrives in Kashmir
By MUKHTAR KHAN - Associated Press
Tue,06/28/22-12:08AM, 73 Reads
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — As a teenage schoolboy, Syeedna Ismail Hussain Banday cultivated pigeon keeping as his favorite hobby in the heart of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Three decades later, though he went on to become a civil engineer and set up his own construction company, his untiring love for pigeons continues.
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Fisherman Guni Mazeras, 62, casts a net near mangrove trees in Vanga, Kwale County, Kenya on Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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AP PHOTOS: In Kenya, nearly a decade of mangrove restoration
By BRIAN INGANGA - Associated Press
Mon,06/27/22-10:22PM, 35 Reads
The village of Gazi Bay on Kenya's coast, just 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of bustling Mombasa and tucked away from the country's well-trodden tourism circuit, has gained traction in recent years as a model for restoring and tending carbon-sucking mangrove trees that now crowd its bright green shoreline.
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