Past Talks

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  May.10.2010 1:00pm EST

  Nutritious Gardening with Gayla Trail

  Veggie gardens. Pizza gardens. Micro-gardens. Growing the food we eat. Join the wonderful Gayla Trail, author of "Grow Great Grub" and "You Grow Girl", for a one-hour conversation on gardening. Bring your questions, ideas, tips, tricks and favorite photos, and we'll have a fantastic live Talk together!

• The Forum

  Raising our Kids & a Garden Too

  Welcome to The Motherhood Community Garden! Every year I learn a little more about gardening. Would love to connect with other moms who also like to dig in the dirt and make things grow.

  LATEST POSTED BY: Kayla S

  First Lady writes book on edible gardening Washington (CNN) – First lady, wife, mother, careerist, fashionista - Michelle Obama can now add "author" to her list of credentials. Obama has written a book that highlights one of her most visible initiatives as first lady: promoting better nutrition and edible gardening as a means for Americans to get and stay healthy. "American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities" aims to explore "how increased access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve the health of families and communities across America," according to a press release issued Monday by the Crown Publishing Group. "Mrs. Obama will describe how her daughters Sasha and Malia were catalysts for change in her own family's eating behavior, which inspired Mrs. Obama to plant an edible garden on the South Lawn - the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's "Victory Garden," planted during World War II." The first lady did not accept an advance for the book and will donate all proceeds to a charity to be revealed later, the statement says. Random House Inc., Crown Publishing Group's parent, will also make a donation to a charity. The book will be on sale nationwide starting April 10. Original article: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/24/flotus-writes-book-on-edible-gardening/

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  October.26th.2011

  

  182 Posts

  Pregnant or TTC

  A circle for women TTC (trying to conceive) or who are pregnant. Share your TTC stories, pregnancy woes and joys, your due date, etc. Come here for support! You're totally allowed to brag here, too.

  LATEST POSTED BY: Kayla S

  Hey parents, the third kid's a bargain USAToday.com - In a tepid economy, people look to save money however they can. One strategy? Not having kids. After hitting a high of 4.3 million in 2007, U.S. births tumbled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to about 4 million in 2010. It makes sense. Each year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture produces a study calculating how much it costs to raise a child to age 18. In 2010, the price tag was $226,920 — curiously close to the U.S. median house price ($221,800). Given how vexing housing has been, families are understandably wary of adding similarly-priced babies to the mix. But a closer look at these numbers shows that the real sticker shock happens when you have the first kid — something the vast majority of couples do. After that, the marginal costs decline considerably, to the point where the third kid — the one most families don't have — is downright cheap. That's good news for would-be bigger families because, despite vague talk of overpopulation as this planet crossed 7 billion inhabitants in October, Americans tend to undershoot, not overshoot, their preferred family size. Numbers tell the story To produce that $226,920 number, researchers survey about 12,000 husband-and-wife households each year. They've discovered that families with three kids spend 22% less per child than two-kid families. Single-kid families spend 25% more on their offspring than two-kid families spend on each of theirs. While 22%-25% doesn't sound like a huge difference, this is what it means on the margins: An 11-year-old who's an only child would cost a middle-income family $15,830 per year (a big chunk of that is to house him). According to the USDA tables, though, a family with an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old would spend $26,490 per year. Having a second child added only $10,660 to the tab. After that it gets better. A middle-income family with kids ages 11, 13 and 16 spends $31,070. The third kid costs just $4,580. Continue: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-10/family-parents-kids-spending/52484040/1

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  January.11th.2012

  

  80 Posts