英语新闻视频：意大利果蔬种植网站 让你吃上自种菜

 Grow The Planet: Italian social network aids gardeners

　　If your hobby isn't reading, it might be gardening. A new social network from Italy is cultivating green thumbs across the globe. The website, called Grow The Planet, gives urban farmers a place to learn online, and share their veggies in the real world.

　　Grow The Planet is a social platform for do-it-yourself farmers. As urban gardens sprout¹ up across the globe, founder² Gianni Gaggiani is trying to connect them online.

　　Gianni Gaggiani, Founder, Grow The Planet, said, "It provides its users with everything they need to grow their veggies from seeding to harvesting. It gives a 360-degree view of everything that you should do."

　　A new social network from Italy is cultivating green thumbs across the

　　globe. The website, called Grow The Planet, gives urban farmers a place to learn online, and share their veggies in the real world.

　　The network was especially designed for those who weren't born with a green thumb. The platform provides a step-by-step, day-to-day guide for tending a garden. With only a few clicks, new users can design their garden online, specifying³ the actual measurements of their plot and the kinds of veggies they plan to grow. Since its launch in March, Grow the Planet has attracted more than 10,000 users, most of them in Italy.

　　Gianni Gaggiani, Founder, Grow The Planet, said, "Grow The Planet is Italian, it was born in Italy, because for us food is really part of our culture, something that makes us unique all over the world."

　　A new social network from Italy is cultivating green thumbs across the globe.The website, called Grow The Planet, gives urban farmers a place to learn online, and share their veggies in the real world.

　　The site's encyclopaedic approach to farming is making it easier for young professionals to reconnect with the land - telling them when to sow, how often to water, and when to expect their first harvest.

　　Leonardo Piras, Client Director, H-Art Web Company, said, "Even if we don't know the techniques, we're not experts, at least we can watch our plants, and see on a screen or cell phone what we have to do every day."

　　Site users can follow other users, search friends by name and share pictures of their gardens. A geo-tagging feature tells users which fruits and vegetables can thrive in their climate. This also helps farmers find each other, exchange seeds, swap⁴ vegetables, and promote a zero-mile diet.

新闻快讯：诞生于意大利的一个名叫“种植家园”的网站近几个月在欧洲一些国家和地区风靡起来，喜欢园艺和希望吃上自己种植的有机蔬菜的城市人既多了一项休闲的生活方式，也掌握了耕种的一些常识和技巧。“种植家园”网站的宣传口号是：用便捷、好玩的社交方式帮助大家种植有机蔬菜。相信“好玩”、“社交”或“有机”单个关键词的出现就能让不少人心动不已，更何况是集这几个词为一体。据网站创始人詹尼·加贾尼介绍，“种植家园”主要以形象生动的图画和详细的文字说明，向人们介绍各种蔬菜从播种到收获的所有详细信息，帮助生活在城市里、没有任何种菜经验的人们在自家花园或阳台，建起一片绿色的有机菜园。与此同时，网站用户还可以自己设立图表，将各自的种植经历按照播种、浇水、施肥、除草、收菜等步骤记录下来，供与他人分享和交流。另外，“种植家园”的地图功能还能将一些虚拟的活动现实化，比如寻找就近的用户交换种子或蔬菜，或者与他人一起将满足自家需求之外的蔬菜出售给当地商户。据了解，“种植家园”自今年3月设立以来，已经吸引了1万多名用户。网站第二阶段测试结束后，还将增加好友搜素、分享种菜照片等新功能。  

1 sprout   

n.芽，萌芽；vt.使发芽，摘去芽；vi.长芽，抽条

参考例句：

• When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角？
• It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。

2 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

3 specifying   

v.指定( specify的现在分词 )；详述；提出…的条件；使具有特性

参考例句：

• When we describe what the action will affect, we are specifying the noun of the sentence. 当描述动作会影响到什么时，我们指定组成句子的名词。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Procurement section only lists opportunistic infection drugs without specifying which drugs. 采购部分只说明有治疗机会性感染的药物，但并没有说明是什么药物。 来自互联网

4 swap   

n.交换；vt.交换，用...作交易

参考例句：

• I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
• This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。