Women's News | Venus Williams Rebounds After Near Miss | Urban Agriculture & Eating Local

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Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016

Venus Williams became a professional tennis player in 1994 at age 14. Venus has seven Grand Slam singles events on her victory belt and 14 more in women’s doubles, won with her sister Serena, 34. Venus, with five Wimbledon singles titles wins, became the first African-American woman in 2002 to "earn the world’s top ranking in tennis since the onset of the open era in the late 1960s."

In 2011, her tennis career slowed, as Venus Williams battled injuries and Sjogren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that results in joint pain and sometimes crushing fatigue. Under assault from the vagaries of life, Williams withdrew from the second round of the United States Open.

But she has regained momentum. . . 

Venus Williams Struggles In First US Open Match

Update: Venus Williams narrowly escaped defeat on Tuesday, in the first round of her US Open match with Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine, ranked 93rd. Venus had played 17 US Opens and never lost in the first round. Having reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, Venus was seeded sixth, her first top 10 seeding at the Open in six years. Read on at the New York Times

Read more Venus in-depth: Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016

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Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016

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Blake Little’s Super Sweet Art Photos

Blake Little’s Honey-Covered ‘Preservation’ People AOC Body Beat

American artist Blake Little’s show ‘Preservation’ is at LA’s Kopeikin Gallery until April 18, 2015. Moving away from photographing the ‘beautiful people’, Little is focused on skin and the human body in a vast array of subjects covered with buckets of honey. This diverse crowd of human shapes and skin colors evokes both sensuality and drama, as if frozen in time by the sweet goo.

IndieGoGo: Flow Hive Honey On Tap Directly From Your Beehive

Aussie father and son team — Stuart and Cedar Anderson — are revolutionizing honey harvesting with their new invention described as a ‘beekeepers dream’. The revolutionary new hive allows beekeepers to harvest honey without opening the hive, making it much easier for people and very much better for the bees, who are no longer disturbed during the harvest. The IndieGoGo film is very educational.

Although the campaign won’t close until April 5, it is already the most successful crowdfunding campaign launched outside the US on any platform. Today the campaign has raised $6,135,833 against a goal of $70,000.

Note that not everyone thinks the new invention in a good idea for bees. For an alternative point of view, read Going Against The Flow: Is The Flow Hive a Good Idea? at Milkwood.

Beeutiful Airport Eco News

Beekeepers Bob Redmond, John Woodworth and David Feinberg examine a hive at the Sea-Tac Airport in Washington state.

Bob Redmond, a beekeeper and executive director of the nonprofit The Common Acre, helped bring the idea to Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport after reading about a similar project at Chicago’s O’Hare. Sea-Tac helped get things going with a small grant and a 50-acre space. Redmond and his team now oversee 25 hives.

Redmond explains that the airport honey tastes ‘wild’ and ‘kind of woody and grassy’ compared to backyard honey that is typically ‘sweeter and more fruity’. The Common Acre beekeepers run an art exhibit in the airport terminal and sell honey in a shop. With all the focus on honeybees, Redmond reminds us that there are 4000 different species of bees.

For Redmond, the project isn’t just about bees, but is representative of how cities can best use their empty spaces to support urban agriculture as a whole.

We’re looking at increasing urban development and decreasing land availability, so we have to say, what is available? And are we really going to plant it all with grass?” he said. “Or are we going to plant something that can make a difference? via

Aerofarms Vertical Farm Comes To Newark, NJ

A superb new business is coming to Newark, NJ’s ‘Makers Village’ redevelopment project. Located in Newark’s ‘Ironbound’ neighborhood in a converted steel factory, AeroFarms will open the world’s largest vertical farm with plans to produce two million pounds of pesticide-free baby leafy greens and herbs each year.

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