News & Views
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Notes from Gary
Dec 30, 2021
Coming of Age
Depending on your family’s tradition, you may have participated in a “coming of age” ceremony such as a Bar/Bat Mitzvah,...
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Notes from Gary
Oct 15, 2021
AmpleHarvest.org and World Food Day
AmpleHarvest.org was launched in May of 2009. It was not yet a nonprofit, and it didn’t yet have any staff...
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Notes from Gary
Sep 8, 2021
Relaunched
Growing food. It’s a family thing. My grandfather was a farmer in Germany. As a child, my father grew food...
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Notes from Gary
Mar 20, 2020
Working Without Going To Work
In my prior posting about a week (now feels more like a lifetime) ago, when people were just starting to...
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Notes from Gary
Mar 13, 2020
A letter from AmpleHarvest.org to America’s gardeners
The nation, along with the rest of the world, is facing a monumental crisis. And like similarly scary and challenging...
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Notes from Gary
Mar 12, 2020
If They Told You To Work From Home, I’ve Done It For 40 Years
In 1976, I built a computer from a kit. It had 512 bytes of memory, connected to my TV’s rabbit...
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Notes from Gary
Jan 23, 2020
When is a Gardener Not a Gardener?
When an “accidental gardener” grows food they never planted. Visit any online real estate site and you are asked to...
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Notes from Gary
May 18, 2019
May 18, 2009
For most people, May 18 2009 was a lifetime ago. The President was Obama, we were listening to Black...
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Notes from Gary
Feb 20, 2019
How Did George Washington Carver Inspire Gary Oppenheimer to Create Positive Change?
I’m a child of the 60’s. The Vietnam War, women’s rights, civil rights, hippies, rock and roll – the list...
