Santa Rosa youth grow career and life skills in neglected garden

Good News Notes: “When Curtis Short and his wife Patricia Seddon first saw the space where they were asked to help young adults with special needs and disabilities create a garden, they were dismayed. The small fenced area was a tangle of weeds, with only a rose bush and several small fruit trees — plum,…

Goodbye herbicide, hello weed-zapping farmbot

Good News Notes: “Farmers may soon have an alternative to spraying their fields with chemicals.” Two startup companies are combining “to develop a high-precision robot that can kill weeds with a zap of electricity.” “Dick, a weeding robot, can already remove unwanted plants with either a micro-dose of pesticide or by physically crushing them, but…