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Grow your own fruit, vegetables, grain and anything else you might like to have. Organic, of course.
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Community Supported Agriculture
Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, meats, or any sort of different farm products.
A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall. The number of CSAs in the United States was estimated at 50 in 1990, and has since grown to over 2200.
Home Canning - reminds me of Grandma's place
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Comment by Mark on May 24, 2009 at 9:14am
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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13701
"Specificity of the association of GM foods and specific disease processes is also supported. Multiple animal studies show significant immune dysregulation, including upregulation of cytokines associated with asthma, allergy, and inflammation. Animal studies also show altered structure and function of the liver, including altered lipid and carbohydrate metabolism as well as cellular changes that could lead to accelerated aging and possibly lead to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Changes in the kidney, pancreas and spleen have also been documented. A recent 2008 study links GM corn with infertility, showing a significant decrease in offspring over time and significantly lower litter weight in mice fed GM corn. This study also found that over 400 genes were found to be expressed differently in the mice fed GM corn. These are genes known to control protein synthesis and modification, cell signalling, cholesterol synthesis, and insulin regulation. Studies also show intestinal damage in animals fed GM foods, including proliferative cell growth and disruption of the intestinal immune system."
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Of course Obama and the U.S. Congress (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monsanto) aren't going to listen. They seem to have bought a Minister in Germany also:
"Under intense public pressure, the German Minister of Agriculture recently issued a prohibition of planting for Monsanto MON810 GMO corn. Unfortunately, two weeks later she permitted planting of GMO potato seeds. Amflora, a genetically modified potato manufactured by chemicals giant BASF (a joint venture GMO partner of Monsanto), was declared by the German Ministry as posing ‘no danger for human health or the environment,' The Ministry cited ‘in-depth examination' and talks with scientific and economic experts as basis for the reckless decision."
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Comment by curt on May 24, 2009 at 2:13pm
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I discovered something new & exciting today!
NEVER EVER use a strong coffee / dish detergent / salt solution on your young plants!
It will KILL THEM......and the suckers that eat their leaves. All in one.
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Planted a few new stalk beans just in case the others don't survive the ordeal.
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So sorry, Curt, but now I don't feel as badly about having inadvertently killed my little spinach plants. Anyway, it wasn't cold-blooded murder, just collateral damage type stuff. The intention was to wait until they were grown to kill and eat them. Uh.....
Just got back from the farmers' market. In addition to food, I bought 4 little bush bean plants, one cucumber plant, and one New Zealand spinach plant, which isn't really spinach but tastes like spinach. Maybe I'll have better luck this time. If not, I'll try planting broccoli. Like Ogden Nash wrote, "Broccoli, while not exoccoli, is within an inach, or being spinach." And I like it better too.
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Comment by Mouse on May 24, 2009 at 2:47pm
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That is so funny.
My leeks are all going to seed, I'm not so keen on leeks, why? Oh why?
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My salads are slowly recovering. The stalk bean plants were DOA. The new ones are just coming up. I need to set beer traps for the slugs. Such a shame to waste good beer on them. Them suckers have great taste! Finally did get my new camera, which is actually a cell phone. Figured it out and was able to upload a few pics, albeit on that old OS I never wanted to use again. Was able to move the pics from one partition to the other. So here are two pics of the amazing haning tomato plant ;
oops! wrong photo.
Sucker drinks a lot nowadays.
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Houdy, Folk!
Hope your doin' well. Just a short note on the brighter side of gardening and life. Office work can be such a drag. But when you come home, tired and fed up with the corporate world, telephones, computers and such, and your partner meets you at the door, plants a not-too-wet kiss on ya and says "babe, it's salad time, have a seat"....and you just know the salad you are about to eat comes from your very own garden......
it was fantastic!! This was the second best salad I've ever had. The best so far was one at the Brewery across London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Az. The Chef used Chikoree and a number of other offset tasting salad bits and bites + crushed salted peanuts and mini, wild strawberries.
Life is grand.
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Sweet, Curt! My patio doesn't have anything near ready to eat yet, but everything is growing well. I'm off to the farmers' market to see what delights the local organic farmers have harvested for me this morning. One benefit of being lazy is that more and more of the veggies I used to cook (usually sauteed or steamed), I've been eating without bothering to cook. Less nutrient loss, crisper, and tastier.
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Our farmers' market is once a month.
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We have a farmers' market here once weekly. No telling how 'clean' the produce is. My son, the chemist to be .....will soon be able to determine the degree of purity. I hope. I hope he develops interest in such matters. I trust he will. After all, he's my son.
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Yes, degrees of purity are so important. I think that, when I hear people say that looking for truth leads to madness. Not so.
My neighbours on both sides have gone mad with activity in the garden, one covering everything with more slabs and decking and cutting back the hedges at nesting time. The other digging up all surviving tree and shrub roots to raze the ground for planting. This evening I dined indoors to escape the smoke from their whatever.
Lamb chop with mashed sweet potato and oyster mushrooms. Time for coffee.
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