Little Brown Handbook Activity

exercise 28.5
1. Many colleges have started campus garden programs, that aim to teach students about the benefits of sustainable farming methods and locally grown food.
2. These gardens which use organic farming techniques, also, provide fresh produce for their college students.
3. A garden that is big enough to grow produce for a college cafeteria, requires a large piece of land.
4. Such a garden also needs a leader, who can choose crops that will thrive in local growing conditions.
5. Volunteers willing to work in the gardens every week, are essential as well.
6. Some campus gardeners distribute produce to the people in the community who live far from a grocery store.
7. some urban neighborhoods, are called " Food Deserts," because they lack grocery stores that residents can reach easily on foot.
8. the colleges may distribute produce with special trucks,  or veggie wagons, that drive through the Urban neighborhoods.
9. The Wagons deliver produce once a week, although, they may make two deliveries during peak harvest time.
10. A community garden planted during the academic year, will fare better in the southern states, where the growing season is longer than in northern states.

Exercise 28.7
1. Prices have risen rapidly, the government debated a price freeze.
2. A price freeze unlike a rise in interest rates, seemed a sure solution.
3. the president would have to persuade businesses to accept a price freeze, his methods depending on their resistance.
4. no doubt the president, his advisors having urged it, would first try a patriotic appeal.
5. the president, not his advisors, insisted on negotiations with businesses.

Exercise 28.6
1. American colonists first imported pasta from the English, who discovered it as terrorists in Italy.
2. After the English returned from their grand tours in Italy, they were called macaroni's because of their fancy air.
3. A hair styled called Macaroni, had elaborate curls.
4. The Song "Yankee Doodle," refers to this hairstyle.
5. The song was intended to make fun of this hairstyle before it was created into English.