Jackie Salit, Independents. Eric Toensmeier: urban farms

The US elections saw a surge in the number of independents running for office in 2012...or did it?  Tracking candidates - Democratic, Republican or independent - is very difficult, doubly so because of the barriers to independents raised by the parties. Jackie Salit, President of independentvoting.com and author of Independents Rising, gives us a status report on  candidate suppression and overcoming it.

Can a waste-strewn vacant lot in Hollyoke MA fight unhealthy corporate food.  Eric Toensmeier thinks so and he owns the lot...Paradise Lot, the name of his book on an unusual urban garden tht is part of a national movement of edible gardens and healthy eating.

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