Planting a seedling is better than doing nothing, it's true, but it takes decades for a seedling to replace a tree, and that's if the seedling survives at all: In China's Great Green Wall reforestation program, up to 85 percent of the plantings fail over time, according to Yale Environment 360.
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I read it when I was feeling overwhelmed starting Seedling Projects.
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Unfortunately, plants are especially vulnerable to damage in their early seedling stages.
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The fruits, seedling Bramleys, have been left to turn red and sweeten.
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They are the ones who plant each seedling and package the finished product.
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Every child planted their seedling, and that was the start of Harlem Grown.
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As a thank you, the Arbor Day Foundation had sent me a seedling.
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Before joining, she was co-founder of Seedling, where she currently serves as chairman.
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"I'll take a GPS coordinate of the seedling as we plant it," Venter said.
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After the expedition, each child will pot a dawn redwood seedling to take home.
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She gave me the seedling of an idea that I could become a broadcaster.
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This caused the seedling to secrete chemicals out from its roots and into the growth solution.
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It also includes a plywood and veneer manufacturing facility, a cogeneration facility, and a seedling nursery.
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In 2008, Katie Stagliano planted a cabbage seedling in her family's backyard in Summerville, South Carolina.
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A green burial mixes your ashes with a seedling, wood chips and a special soil mix.
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"I want to transform mind-sets, and Africa," Ms. Sifa said, holding an organic carrot seedling.
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"Two or three years of drought in a row will kill a seedling," Barrows told WABC.
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Insomniac Games' Seedling was a simpler demo, letting players cultivate an alien plant on their own table.
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Indeed, the work itself, a slender, red metal sculpture, looks like a seedling sprouting from the cobblestones.
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It's weird to think you might be carrying the seedling of a little person in your gut.
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It is not possible to increase supply without going through the growing period from seedling to harvest.
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There are two buttons in back, though I only really need to use the trigger while playing Seedling.
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And for bragging rights: You can plant a seedling and return someday to find your own cocoa tree.
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When one lettuce head is ready for picking, the robot puts the seedling of another in the same spot.
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Diners must also transplant a seedling from the greenhouse to the garden spot where they have removed their plant.
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"The United States of America can no longer solve the employment problems of the rest of the universe," Seedling affirms.
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During that time, the Forest app plants a digital seedling that slowly grows into a tree on your phone screen.
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And the Russia probe that has grown from that seedling is hardly the "witch-hunt" Mr Trump says it is.
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But as the seed germinates, as a seedling develops, it proves to the individual that their actions made a difference.
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Apart from more expensive grafted fruit trees, all other trees at Hakima's nursery retail at 10 Kenyan shillings per seedling.
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Scraps of the same pink cloth tramped into the mud of a mass grave, human bones pushing through the seedling grass.
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Then, last month, home gardeners snapped up 2503,200 seedling plants in just two hours at a campus event in New Brunswick.
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How the seedling became the majestic flowering plant of Sontag's maturity is an inspiring story—though perhaps also a chastening one.
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It showed a beam of light shining through a slit in the ceiling of a cell and onto a freshly planted seedling.
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For Christmas trees, which often take seven to 2202 years to grow from seedling to harvestable size, the cycles are much longer.
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In 2016, Obama also clipped a seedling as a gift to the people of Cuba; it was planted during the Obamas' visit there.
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The Rio2016 website's blurb says it will "deliver a message for planet earth" symbolized by each athlete being given a seedling to plant.
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If you don't like where a seedling is growing, you can dig it up and plant it or a new tree where you like.
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The OXO Tot Seedling High Chair nabbed the number one spot because it has a sturdy tray and an easy to clean comfy seat.
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Irina Rozovsky: It's funny to look back at the very start of our conversation and detect the seedling themes that would blossom later on.
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A 5- or 3663-foot tree takes just under 10 years to grow, before they are cut down, sold and replaced with another seedling.
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And that chi will allow it to sprout into a seedling and grow into an almond tree and replicate itself a million times over.
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When I used my fingers to turn a page in my virtual Seedling scout book, the page would get stuck vertically halfway in the middle.
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If your imagination allows you to see this early stage seedling of a startup could one day be truly a company that changed something big.
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Basically, you cross an heirloom and a modern tomato, grow it to the seedling stage, and then screen it for the genetic markers you want.
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Children's start-up Seedling has released an adorable modern take on the classic teddy bear — one that interacts with your iOS device and uses augmented reality.
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Prior to Seedling, Nortman spent close to seven years at IAC, where she acted as the senior vice president and general manager of Urbanspoon and Citysearch.
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"I could have sold twice as many," said William T. Hlubik, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension agent for Middlesex County who supervised seedling production for the sale.
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But Seedling actually started out in 2008 as a physical toy company first, selling a variety of craft kits around activities like gardening, painting and exploring.
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On the way back to the farm, I stop at the hardware store and pick up heat-lamp bulbs, extension cords, seedling labels, and egg-wash solution.
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Michelle Obama in 2009 took a seedling from the magnolia to the United States Department of Agriculture so that it could grow at the USDA's community garden.
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After four or five years, the seedling on the steep slope would have been just a few inches higher, sprouting needles in place of the embryonic shoots.
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Breaking up packed dirt with his fingers, federation advisor John James Gomez freed the roots of a tree seedling and held the small plant up for Lozano's examination.
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Forestry researchers have shown the effectiveness of finding the right "microsite" for a seed or seedling; in fact, it's why manual planting works as well as it does.
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It's also a great choice if you're going to be using your nozzle for other types of low-pressure jobs, like watering a vegetable garden or seedling patches.
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It powered the Industrial Revolution, two world wars, the postwar economic miracle and even European integration: The coal and steel community was the seedling of the European Union.
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The cosmetic chemist who already had the formula for the detoxifying silt gelée mask she proposed gets more than the innovator who has a seedling of an idea.
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Diagram showing the second experiment, in which a seedling had access to two different growth solutions, one influenced by a plant that had been disturbed, and one that hadn't.
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Download Sarah Weiner is a co-founder of Seedling Projects, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, which promotes sustainable food through events like its annual Good Food Awards.
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The researchers suspect that while the goats ruminate, they spit out the large seeds, often far away from the mother plant, increasing the chance of seed and seedling survival.
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One danger is plant fraud: You might buy a rare plant as a seedling, with the promise that its coveted leaves will eventually show themselves, but it never delivers.
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Kevin was a mentee for six years in the Seedling Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Austin, Texas, that provides volunteer mentors from the community for children of incarcerated parents.
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Before Mulartrick entered, dressed in a voluminous white dress with pink fabric flowers dangling from her hair, and got down to crouching seedling-style, everyone settled in along the walls.
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This was the challenge I encountered while demoing Insomniac Studio's (makers of Spyro, Ratchet, and Clank, and that new Spiderman game on PS4) new game Seedling on the Magic Leap.
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Hundreds of YouTubers are calling on their audiences today to donate money to the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation, with every dollar raised turning into a tree seedling in the ground.
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What stood out most in Seedling, however, was a pre-game sequence where I had to flip through a digital magazine that appeared on the table in front of me.
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The newly-merged entity began working on a digital strategy and in the fall of 2015 released its first creation, a make-your-own-adventure app called Seedling Comic Studio.
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In this climate, any seedling attempting to break through the ashes of New York's retail apocalypse is welcome, especially in men's clothing, which is historically underserved even at its peak.
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The RegisTree—a knotty trunk with a computer, camera, and printer embedded in its sapwood created by the artist Romie Littrell—presented me with options: aqua, digi, mycoverse, bee, seedling.
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In seventh grade, she told me she'd be assigning me a mentor; there was an organization, called the Seedling Foundation, that provided adult mentors for kids with parents in prison.
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One of the first services Phylos launched was a "plant sex test," which saves pot growers time and money by determining the sex of a seedling within a week of germination.
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"It's just amazing — everybody feels great because they actually saw the seedling, they grew it, we harvested it, made the sauce, bottled it, brought it back and ate it," Phojanakong said.
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At Thanksgiving, when the seedling phase of my divorce from the father of my three children was well underway, we agreed it was time for us to start spending holidays apart.
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"The government provides seeds and all relevant technical assistance to the beneficiaries, and then buys back one-year-old saplings at a fixed price of six rupees per seedling," he said.
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The Uruguay operations include more than 300,000 acres of timberlands in northeastern and north central Uruguay, a plywood and veneer manufacturing facility, a cogeneration facility and a seedling nursery, the company said.
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Ms. Sanders informed us that every seedling in the building had been tagged at birth with an RFID chip so that the state could monitor its progress from cultivation to retail sale.
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The erudition for which she is known was part of a passion for culture that emerged, like a seedling in a crevice in a rock, during her emotionally and intellectually deprived childhood.
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On a moist day in fall, or in the wake of melting snows in spring, a seedling appeared above ground—a stubby one-inch stem with a tuft of bright-green shoots.
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The prophetic brilliance of Coneheads comes in the form of jingoistic Immigration and Naturalization Service agent Gorman Seedling (Michael McKean), a villain who reads more like a contemporary politician than a cartoonish buffoon.
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The Uruguay operations include over 300,000 acres of timberlands in northeastern and north central Uruguay, a plywood and veneer manufacturing facility, a cogeneration facility and a seedling nursery, the company said on Wednesday.
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You can turn yourself into Minnie Mouse, a deer, a traffic cone (yes, really, a traffic cone), a puppy, a pineapple, a fried egg, a seedling — the options are endless, and oddly specific.
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They brought in another Styles editor, Bonnie Wertheim, to hone the idea and saw their seedling pitch grow limbs, from one road trip to four, each produced by its own photographer and reporter.
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Seedling says each time an ailment is cured or a problem is solved, Parker's happiness levels increase, unlocking more AR features that can be viewed through what's called a magic camera on the app.
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Which is fine, because you're only supposed to play Seedling for about 15 minutes a day as you tend to your plant's needs, check in on it from time to time, and watch it grow.
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Inside are a handful of stark, graphic black-and-white symbols (a bomb with a seedling sprouting from it; a string tied around a middle finger) that strongly evoke meaning, without giving it all away.
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The chair — two examples of which today sit in the Milan apartment of the Canadian designer, curator and consultant — might be seen as the seedling for the design philosophy for which Bellavance-Lecompte is now known.
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Seedling says other in-app experiences also include giving Parker a checkup, using 3D touch to help Parker to take deeper breaths and test lung capacity, and helping Parker fight a stomach bug by squashing stomach germs.
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It takes a year or two to grow a viable seedling in a nursery and another six to eight before you can tell if it's a good one—that is, if it survives the rampant root rot.
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Tree takes the concept of virtual reality empathy to (literally) new heights, letting participants become a rainforest tree as it goes from its growth as a seedling to its death in a slash-and-burn farming operation.
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The last time I'd seen Groene was almost a year ago and he was showing me two stuck-together pieces of black cardboard, the rough-hewn seedling for the product idea that would become the Surface Book.
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Nyaradzo carries out between 17,000 and 20,000 burials each year, and since 2013 has given each grieving family a tree seedling, which they can plant at home or where they like, including at the cemetery, Fusire said.
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"We are taking old school physical toys and bridging them with new technologies in a way that is gentle and safe to create meaningful experiences for families," said Phoebe Hayman founder and CEO of Seedling in a statement.
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These are actually two similar varieties: W. Murcott Afourer, a seedling of Murcott (best known as the Florida Honey tangerine), found in Morocco in 1982, and Tango, bred from W. Murcott Afourer to be seedless even when pollinated.
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I was remembering my favorite part of planting: the moment when the seedling, as fragile as any lace-winged insect or hollow-boned nestling, somehow shoves the clods of earth aside and makes its way upward and outward.
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Sure, Seedling has an additional narrative about a galaxy on the brink and how these plants are the last surviving vegetation of a dying race, but the game could just as easily be summed up as a space botany simulator.
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Creating content that works on VR headsets — especially inexpensive Google Cardboard headsets — seems the next obvious avenue for many game makers, though Seedling CEO Phoebe Hayman is quick to point out that their products aren't completely reliant on a headset.
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With little experience beyond having watered tree nursery beds at the institute, Mohammed went to work planting an initial 2200,23 seedling trees, hiring local young men to help her carry water from a nearby stream to irrigate the young plants.
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On top of that, through the power of AR and cameras built into the headset that can map the surrounding room, the seedling can even become a part of whatever room its in, growing in and around nearby objects like a shelf or lamp post.
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Since 2013, she has sold at least 1.5 million seedling trees, mainly to local small-scale farmers, who are planting them as a way to boost their incomes from wood and fruit sales, particularly in the face of recurring droughts that have shriveled crops.
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Flanked by a smarmy sycophant (how much I miss Prig David Spade!), Seedling doggedly pursues the Conehead family in a parody of The Fugitive, hunting Beldar not because he's simply an extraterrestrial, but because he's an extraterrestrial who dared to illegally work in the United States.
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In fact, even if that tree turns out not to be a true Harrison but a close relative — perhaps a younger plant that grew from a seedling, as some in the contentious world of historic apples speculate it may be — that's fine by everyone at the company.
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Low precipitation in early and mid May in parts of Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, have impeded planting and seedling of the spring crop, but heavy rainfalls in late May significantly improved the soil moisture and relieved the drought, according to a monthly report released by China's National Meteorological Center.
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In one letter to Björk, he says, "I think that there is a connection in your work between self-care and care for other beings" while in another, trying to figure out an appropriate-ism for Björk (at her request), he sheepishly ventures "pan-eroticisim," a gleeful mirror to the seedling masks and album artwork.
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"You want to cover them well, and don't leave any air pockets beneath the roots," cautioned Olaf Eggert, the ranger responsible for this stretch of woods, as he held a seedling aloft, his forefingers scissored about halfway up the stem to demonstrate how deep in the earth the young trees must be buried to ensure their survival until spring.
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