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Lessons in Gardening
With so many kids at home schooling, now is a great time to teach children and young people the lessons of the garden. I am not talking about crop rotation or pest control I am talking about teaching them a love for nature, hard work, patience. Teaching how to bring a seed to life, feed their family, and that a tomato…
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Leishmania, A Flesh Eating Bacteria Carried by Dogs
Coming to North America...yet another thing to be aware of.
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Anybody seeing new shortages?
I noticed the last two weeks that the fresh veggies at our Trader Joe's seemed of poor quality and picked over. Also, they were running low on several packaged items. Never seen that before. My visit to our Fred Meyer Monday afternoon revealed not only several fresh veggies absent or in short supply - because of the…
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Small Farms
Good to see the news Recognize in small way the importance of small farms. And the unsustainably of corporate agriculture. https://apple.news/AZPj5BxRGQd2hDHoRITN3mQ
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Dog Food Recall, Oct. 27, 2020
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Is this real life or a horror flick? Defrosted worms
I don't know folks, seems like it is time to hole up until this year is over. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roundworms-allegedly-resurrected-russian-permafrost-180969782/
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More on the Murder Hornet (Good News)
From Mike Baker on Twitter: Entomologists have found an Asian giant hornet nest — the first located in the United States. They found it after capturing live hornets and attaching radio trackers. Plan is to eradicate it tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html
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Unclaimed property? be careful of scams, but it IS really possible you have money out there
Hey everyone, I got a letter in the mail about some unclaimed money I had from an insurance policy on a property I used to own in Florida years and years ago. I was dubious of course, and I've owned a lot of property in my life. The company offered to do all the filing for me and take 20% cut of the approximately $800 owed…
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Is it safe to use treated wood for raised bed gardens?
The answer to that question used to be a solid "no", but I recently came across this post by The Natural Handyman who says the old chemicals used before are not in use now. And it's safe to use pressure treated lumber. The Natural Handyman says: until 2003, the most common preservative used for pressure treated wood was…
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Severe crop damage in Iowa from derecho storm
Uh oh... a strange storm ripped across Iowa (happened last month) and has destroyed a big chunk of the food supply growing there. It happened last month, and I'm so surprised it didn't make bigger headlines. Iowa mostly grows commodity crops - corn, soy, hogs... And most of those grains are for animal feed - or ethanol?…
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American Botanical Council Bulletin on Milk Thistle Adulterants
The American Botanical Council puts out bulletins to notify practitioners, patients, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of plant products that may be adulterated with substances that are similar in appearance or action but not the actual product that is being marketed. This one is regarding Milk Thistle.…
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How to blur your house or homestead on Google Street View - and why you might want to
I think this could be useful to some members of the community. Google seems to know practically everything about you, so why not mess with it a bit for fun? LOL. But seriously, it could help security in some situations.
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Increase in new gardeners in 2020
@Marjory Wildcraft this article might give you some insight into who the new gardeners are in 2020. I think that it was interesting that many are highly educated & many don't have kids. I think, however that there may be many more who don't hold degrees (and have children) who were missed in the survey sweep. I can see the…
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Halloween 2020
How are you celebrating Halloween this year? Somehow it feels the whole of 2020 has been very scary and daunting.
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The truth about plastic
My 22 year old son just turned me on to this episode about plastic. I knew recycling isn't really happening but the extent that the plastic manufacturer's went to is infuriating. I found this episode very insightful and I'm getting my sewing machine out to create my own shopping bags.…
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Canning Jar Fraud!
Fellow canner's please be aware of this company (https://www.canninglid.com/). I recently ordered jars from them. First of all because it stated they were made in America, 2nd, it appeared that the price was for a box of jars & seemed about right price wise. I soon received a shipping notice from china post. When contacted…
