a pleasant surprise from making beet juice was the way the juicer blade made perfect indents on the beet - perfect for a stamp - and with the deep beet color - a self inking stamp at that!
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at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley a frog rests on the leaf of an agave.
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in Chidambaram, a small temple town in Tamil Nadu, vendors sell fresh flower garlands on the streets for devotees to purchase as offerings to the gods.
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Crossandra infundibuliformis
also knows as 'firecracker flower,' these everblooming flowers are used to make flower garlands for the hair and for temple offerings
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a local seed packet of Crossandra infundibuliformis
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stringing together Kanakambaram for a hair garland.
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this gorgeous and sturdy cloth was woven from the fibers the Giant Nettle plant, Girardinia Diversifolia, native to Tibet.
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poppy pods
seed pods from various poppy flowers.
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a street cart in Tamil Nadu with many vegetable seeds. seed saving is a lost art and powerful political act.
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