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Wild foods are nutritious, free, and packed with flavor, but some people find the idea of foraging intimidating. In this webinar, we’ll look at common weeds and familiar garden plants, all of which are delicious, and within your reach. In these times, when people are anxious about so many things, including food security, why not turn your appreciation of plants into something more? This is not about fear. It’s about acquiring a new skill that will give you pleasure, security, and good, flavorful food for years to come.

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HORTICULTURE

Peonies Are the Prom Queens of the Garden and Don't Take Much Work

Lancaster Online

From the black-eyed susans to the marigolds, the plants surrounding Hilari Hinnant’s Millersville home are there to serve the insects. Her garden’s so pollinator-friendly, it’s earned certifications from three environmental groups.Still, Hinnant couldn’t resist the breathtaking, fabulous pink flowers she saw at the Philadelphia Flower Show. She brought a peony root from a vendor called Peony’s Envy and planted it months later.

North Minneapolis is Building a Super-Rad, Basketball-Themed Community Garden

City Pages

For the project, the Walker Art Center has teamed up with Youth Farm, a local nonprofit that employs food and gardening as tools for social and community change. The garden is the brainchild of Des Moines-based artist Jordan Weber, who is currently in residence at the museum. Titled Prototype for poetry vs rhetoric (deep roots), itwill honor the four tenets of Weber’s practice: self-empowerment and determination; soil and air cleansing; spiritual reflection and meditation; and medicinal and food supply.

Gardening Advice From Indigenous Food Growers

Yes Magazine

Many Americans are now experiencing an erratic food supply for the first time. Among COVID-19’s disruptions are bare supermarket shelves and items available yesterday but nowhere to be found today. As you seek ways to replace them, you can look to Native gardens for ideas and inspiration.“Working in a garden develops your relationship to the land,” says Aubrey Skye, a Hunkpapa Lakota gardener.

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JOURNALISM

A Journalist's Guide to Using Zoom for Community Engagement

Cortico via Medium

On March 14th, 2020, the New York Public Library closed all of their neighborhood branches. NYC DOE schools closed for the remainder of the school year the following day. On March 16th, the Local Voices Network hosted our first digital community conversation in partnership with the Center for Community Media at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. That conversation, featuring Census 2020 outreach workers from the Yemeni American Merchants Association, is an important time capsule.

Google Hides News, Tricked by Fake Claims

The Wall Street Journal

A Google search, at one time, could locate a news article on a man accused of attempted child rape, another on someone charged with fraud and still others on Ukrainian politicians facing corruption allegations. Googling certain keywords in March would find an article detailing the movements of two coronavirus-infected British tourists in Vietnam and warning others who visited the same places to take precautions.

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BUSINESS

Local Publishers: Forget Digital-First, Become Audiences-First

WAN-IFRA

Google’s Academy London space is a short walk from Victoria Station. At the invitation of the Google News Initiative team, this is where the Tables Stakes Europe participants gathered for their third physical meeting. Everyone enjoyed coming together for three days in a relaxed atmosphere just before the alarming news about the spread of COVID-19 reached Europe and the bad news really hit.

Print Ads More Vulnerable to Cuts Than Digital

MediaPost

Advertisers are more likely to cut their media budgets for print than for digital, making online outlets more significant for publishers amid the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic, a study suggests. Advertisers plan to cut their print budgets by an average of 37% during the first half of the year, given the health crisis, according to a survey of 38 companies by the World Federation of Advertisers.

Publishers Are Making a Hard Sell for Subscriptions

Digiday

News publishers aren’t mincing words in their messages to push subscriptions, directly appealing to readers to support journalism and even make up for lost advertising revenue. For example, The New York Times has run display ads reading, “In times of uncertainty, let facts be your guide.” It even appeals to some readers to buy a Times mug to support its mission.

Google's Digital-Ad Dominance Is Harming Marketers and Publishers, Says New Study

Ad Age

Google’s dominance of the $130 billion digital advertising market is harming advertisers, publishers and consumers, according to a new paper that outlines how the U.S. could bring an antitrust case against the internet giant. The analysis sets out how Google used a series of acquisitions to build a controlling position in the technology ecosystem that delivers ads across the web, and now uses that power to exclude competitors and monopolize the market.

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SOCIAL MEDIA

How to Get Free (and Real) Instagram Followers in 2020

VentureBeat

Since Instagram initially launched, it has gone through many changes. As with any social media giant, as time went on, Instagram morphed into an amazing opportunity for brands, businesses, and individual users alike to market themselves. It may have begun as an entertaining distraction/social network, but it has turned into a tool for brands to use to increase their value and reach more people.

Twitter is Testing a Feature That Limits Who Can Reply to Your Tweets

TechCrunch

Twitter today acknowledged that it has begun testing a new setting that lets users limit who can reply to tweets. The setting was first noted earlier this year. Similar to Facebook’s post view settings, the current implementation features a small glove icon in the corner. Tapping on it brings up a “Who Can Reply?” window.

Facebook Has Avatars Now. Here's How to Make One

CNET

Avatars, those cartoony, customizable versions of yourself, never go out of style. Now they've come to Facebook. The social network may trail years behind Yahoo, Bitmoji and Apple's Memoji avatars, but the newest Facebook addition is filling your newsfeed. Introduced last week, Facebook avatars let you create a character to resemble yourself, which you can use as stickers in comments, stories and Facebook Messenger.

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