There are some simple tricks I’ve found can make my garlic last all the way until the new harvest is in. It’s not hard, but it takes just a little care and effort. Last year I was using up my last garlic cloves at about the time I was harvesting the new crop.
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This is a little video about my trip to Florida earlier this summer. It was the time I’ve always wanted to be in Florida–mango season. There was pounds and pounds of delicious free fruit to glean in the neighborhood. I also had some surprise fishing experiences in my brief time, including my personal best snook, that was also the biggest fish I ever caught (and only my second snook ever caught). I’m glad I got some fishing in before the red tide killed everything in Florida.
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Earlier in the season I made a video about an impulse purchase of rice seed. Surprisingly rice is grown in southern Missouri, but I’ve never tried it here. This upland rice supposedly doesn’t need as much water as a traditional variety, but we did have a drought this season. I’m hoping to be more successful in future years and start growing this staple that I eat a lot of throughout the year.
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This season was a drought year for the early 3 months or so. It was a struggle getting stuff established, and a bit frustrating to wait for rain and be disappointed so much when it didn’t come.
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Everybody has to shit, but in our culture and economy, human waste is nothing but a liability and potential health hazard. And what’s crazier is that we mix it with our drinking water and create an even bigger problem.
Well, at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, we don’t have elaborate plumbing and water systems to cart all our human waste away to be treated in a plant or dumped directly into the local river or ocean. We keep all our human waste on site, where it becomes a benign yet beneficial resource for agriculture. We not only save millions in infrastructure expenses, but we save water, we don’t pollute our drinking water, and we end up with a valuable soil amendment.
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If you doubt this problem with BT GMO crops, check out this article
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/new-research-shows-failin_b_14003604.html
that references a research paper on Bt resistance in corn earworm. Granted this is a different crop and a different pest, but the mechanism is the same–the Cry proteins that eat up the intestines the larval stage of insects. Larvae becoming resistant to Cry proteins will make BT ineffective as pest control in corn, and will make use of BT on organic corn crops ineffective as well. The resistance in the GM crops is the result of conventional farmers not keeping a portion of their fields in non BT corn, and to be a haven for corn earworms without resistance to BT to survive and pass on their genes. If all the corn is BT the next generations will consist only of BT resistant earworms.
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