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		<title>Planting now</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/22/planting-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burnt orange zinnias, brilliantly fluffy celosia and showy zinnia swizzle cherry and ivory heading now for the LPLL garden beds. Thanks Mitre 10. Filed under: My garden Tagged: celosia, flowers, zinnia<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2989&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick round-up: Less glyphosate, more mind-dump.</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/21/a-quick-round-up-less-glyphosate-more-mind-dump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Valerian &#8211; Used by many to help with sleep. Flowering prolifically here right now, but there&#8217;s not much sleeping going on. For 9 months I almost had the perfect baby–happy, healthy and slept like a hibernating bear! From six weeks my little darling slept through the night &#8211; 11-12 hours. And now the bear has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2981&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides to the Food Crisis</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/18/two-sides-to-the-food-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/18/two-sides-to-the-food-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global food crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[starvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[via Food+Tech &#8211; Connecting Food and Tech Innovators Recommended on LovePlantLife.com While in Global Food News… A rather depressing/unsettling piece from The Telegraph linking the current political unrest in the Middle East and Africa with food supply issues. They point out that the surge in global food prices is hitting hardest the countries with an accelerating gap between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2967&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful capsicum mandala</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/15/beautiful-capsicum-mandala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you love great pictures of plants and landscaping, get Russian blog Landscape74 into your feedreader now. Filed under: Inspiration<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2953&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NZ Food Bill Madness</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/07/nz-food-bill-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[food policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please repeat after me: the NZ Food Bill does not make gardening illegal and it won&#8217;t be rushed in over xmas holidays. (Politicians have long summer holidays &#8211; not back until Feb 7) Nice to have everyone talking about food policy though! More on this later&#8230;. Filed under: Food, News Tagged: food bill, food policy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2937&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12 Medicinal Herbs I Grow and Use Often</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/04/12-medicinal-herbs-i-grow-and-use-often/</link>
		<comments>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/04/12-medicinal-herbs-i-grow-and-use-often/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feverfew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grow your own comfrey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lemon balm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peppermint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[st john's wort]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Images left to right from top: comfrey leaf; thyme; dill flowers; dried hops flowers; St John&#8217;s wort flowers; potted kawakawa; broad-leaved plantain; yarrow flowers; yarrow leaves; lemon balm; feverfew; aloe vera; peppermint.  There are masses of websites with info on medicinal herbs and quite frankly most of them are rubbish. Written by writers, not by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2859&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bring the noise: Summer is definitely here</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/03/summer-is-definitely-here/</link>
		<comments>http://loveplantlife.com/2012/01/03/summer-is-definitely-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cicada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To me, the arrival of summer is a real three stage process. There are three very clear, progressive signs that we are here. The first being the glorious arrival of flowering pohutukawa. The second, the brief sightings of my pasty-white legs. The third and final &#8216;yeah it&#8217;s actually really summer now&#8217; signal–the raucous behaviour of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2918&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2011/12/23/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wishing you the best of the festive spirit xx Anna Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2844&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being fair to Fonterra</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2011/12/12/being-fair-to-fonterra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I have noted with disdain, some of the activities of Fonterra that I have not found favourable. Because my Mama raised me right I thought I should give praise where praise is due. It has been announced that it will be mandatory to fence all waterways on Fonterra farms as condition of supply. Bloody [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2807&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary: My enviro-refugee destination</title>
		<link>http://loveplantlife.com/2011/12/11/hungary-my-enviro-refugee-destination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may have ranted on election night the desire to find another country to live for the next couple of years. And it&#8217;s taken me awhile but I have come up with a few options should I wish to run away. One option is Costa Rica, for reasons already discussed. Next on the list may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loveplantlife.com&amp;blog=4437931&amp;post=2801&amp;subd=loveplantlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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