My father in law started getting his homestead garden going pretty well, and when I say I’ve never tasted better produce I whole heatedly mean that. Food grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles awaymoderne wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 1:55 pm Went to the MLM Orchard harvest party at 29th and Highland. Got basket of asian pears tree ripened with hint of honey and butterscotch. Over 100 trees of apple, peach and pear. All free for taking. They have pole fruit pickers to use. Tree with green ribbons are ready to harvest. Apples will be in next month. Volunteers maintain trees, no insecticides, they use beetle lures and traps. Fertilized with invasive asian carp harvested in the Mississippi and dried and ground in fertilizer(or maybe ground and dried?). If you have only eaten fruit harvested a thousand miles away green and then shipped, you will be amazed what organic local tree ripened fruit is like.
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Always?Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 amFood grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles away
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
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Okay, obviously barring any significant environmental or ecological disasters on or around your land.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pmAlways?Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 amFood grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles away
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
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Was told once that wood garden ties contaminate the soil and you should not plant food gardens anywhere near them. Not sure how big of an issue it is but have always tried to stay away.Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:08 pmOkay, obviously barring any significant environmental or ecological disasters on or around your land.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pmAlways?Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 amFood grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles away
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
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JFC this comment is pedantic, even by your standards.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pmAlways?Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 amFood grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles away
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
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This site is a celebration of pedantry.chaglang wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:24 pmJFC this comment is pedantic, even by your standards.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pmAlways?Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 amFood grown in your own yard will always beat food from thousands of miles away
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
If you don’t like it, don’t post.
Looking silly because you made a broad claim that’s absolutely not true and that’s your knee jerk reaction to being called out is also true.
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Dear flyingember,flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:54 pmThis site is a celebration of pedantry.chaglang wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:24 pmJFC this comment is pedantic, even by your standards.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pm
Always?
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
If you don’t like it, don’t post.
You should put a greeting and salutation on your post. Otherwise it looks ridiculous.
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You always have the choice not to be a pedant. That's allowed.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:54 pmThis site is a celebration of pedantry.chaglang wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:24 pmJFC this comment is pedantic, even by your standards.flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:58 pm
Always?
If you lived in Times Beach do you think a personal garden produced food superior to other sources?
If you don’t like it, don’t post.
Looking silly because you made a broad claim that’s absolutely not true and that’s your knee jerk reaction to being called out is also true.
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Without help from City Hall, they’re rebuilding KC’s East Side one block at a timeFangKC wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:53 pm Developer plans rare market-rate apartments on KC's East Side
https://tinyurl.com/txmcmavCommunity Builders of Kansas City plans to build what it thinks is the first market-rate apartment project east of Prospect Avenue in at least 20 years.
The Rochester on Blue Parkway will be a $12.6 million project across the parking lot from the 4001 Blue Parkway Building, said Emmet Pierson Jr., CEO of Community Builders of KC. The four-story, 81,400-square-foot building will have 64 units.
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Community Builders of Kansas City has done extensive work on Kansas City’s East Side, including the office building on Blue Parkway, at left, a new apartment complex, bottom right, and a shopping center, top. Rich Sugg rsugg@kcstar.com
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politic ... gpucWyrACg...
It manages an $80 million portfolio of commercial and residential real estate with no signs of slowing down: The Rochester, a $12.6 million effort, will soon bring 64 market rate apartments to Blue Parkway.
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It's nice that the Star is taking an interest, but I do wish they would do a better job of connecting dots between the articles they are writing. For example, the city has definitely done a poor job of encouraging development on the east side - but I've also seen when they do spend money, they're accused of trying to gentrify an area.
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Beacon Hill, much? I consider that a success for market rate housing in the urban core. It was very controversial when it started with those renovated houses.chaglang wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:32 am It's nice that the Star is taking an interest, but I do wish they would do a better job of connecting dots between the articles they are writing. For example, the city has definitely done a poor job of encouraging development on the east side - but I've also seen when they do spend money, they're accused of trying to gentrify an area.
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That's still controversial to some extent - creating an HOA of expensive homes inside a neighborhood association of inexpensive homes is still baffling and indefensible. It took years for there to be any kind of functioning relationship between the two, and the fault lines were along race and income level. I'm not sure the people in the NA don't feel like the city didn't gentrify the neighborhood.DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 2:07 pmBeacon Hill, much? I consider that a success for market rate housing in the urban core. It was very controversial when it started with those renovated houses.chaglang wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:32 am It's nice that the Star is taking an interest, but I do wish they would do a better job of connecting dots between the articles they are writing. For example, the city has definitely done a poor job of encouraging development on the east side - but I've also seen when they do spend money, they're accused of trying to gentrify an area.
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I'm more disappointed that they didn't attempt to place the densest type of housing using townhouses on the entirely-vacant blocks instead of single-family detached houses. I would have preferred taller apartment buildings along Troost: 6-7 stories all the way from 24th to 27th. They still could have done some single-family houses on the vacant parcels in between remaining houses.
Those few townhouses they did build look too cheap. It' probably why they weren't popular.
Those few townhouses they did build look too cheap. It' probably why they weren't popular.
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On east side of 33rd & Paseo where they took years cleaning up brick rubble from demolished apartment is to be redeveloped as small apartments for people with disabilities and low income.
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Work is still going on the Regis. They've been removing the bricks from the exterior wall on the west side of the building, exposing the concrete core. Presumably the building was in too much of a state for tuck pointing, and they're taking them off and resetting them. For a couple of months now the terra cotta facades on the south (front) of the buildings have been partially removed.
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Apartments to be built on NE corner of 29th and Flora on vacant lot adjacent to Troost Lake park. Will be only for first year teachers with rent lower than market. Designer is a Leed architect with BNIM.
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Very cool. Glad to see a project built with teachers in mind
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City working on deal with Wise Owl Ventures to build 32 homes and a rec center at 18th and Agnes. Rather see multi family or row homes on 18th but still glad the city is beginning to develop the lots between 18th and 22nd that feel completely empty.
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Multi-family would be better seeing that there is a housing shortage. One could build quadruple the number of housing units.