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| Elizaray |
Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 1:15:11 PM
I know I absolutly love MaryJane's book. My fiance bought it for me as we walked through a Hastings. As we walked by the display (it had just been released) I promised myself I wasn't going to look to hard- I wasn't going to even pause. I desperatly wanted the book but we were on a VERY tight budget and I didn't want to torture myself. Without a pause, he picks up this beautiful book and walks casually over to the check out counter. It was a "Just 'cause" gift.
Each time I pick up her book I find a new something that I didn't see before or a new insight that seems to resonate with my life at the moment. I love to pick up her book.
I also love to hear what other people are getting from books because often a different way of seeing things brings even more insight.
So I have and idea/proposition. We "Out There" women should start a online book club. And since we all love MaryJane I think the initial book should be hers!
I think we should pick a day of the week to discuss the book and pick the next book. Of course we can talk about each book for as long as we want and could even start a new topic for each one if we like.
Let me know what you think and if you would like to join up
Elizaray |
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| Jen |
Posted - Aug 30 2007 : 8:40:32 PM
Not sure if I mentioned this book someplace else, but it's one I want to read again. I read it years ago from a different life perspective, and I think I'd have a greater appreciation of it now. It's called LAND CIRCLE by Linda M. Hasselstrom.
"A new kind of rancher and a new kind of environmentalist, Linda Hasselstrom embraces old values, most particularly, responsibility for the land born out of love for it. Speaking with an eloquent simplicity in these collected essays and poems, the author of Going Over East and Windbreak further explores her visceral connection with the land."
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Jen |
Posted - Aug 13 2007 : 12:24:51 PM
Wonder if your local Ag Extension office could offer some tips? When we lived in Naches, WA, some ag-oriented guys came out & sprayed a nicotine-based "organic" pesticide on the apple trees in our yard. They had to get the okay from our landlady, but they didn't charge her. With apples being big business in central WA, they wanted to keep those apple maggots in check.
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 9:52:31 PM
This is worms that live in the apples.
Elizaray |
| marybeth |
Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 06:36:23 AM
As Ellen says Maintenance etc. Always rake and clean up any debris left under the trees. Like begats like and a cover of rotting apples and leaves gives you a breeding ground for next year. Being outside is being |
| Ellen |
Posted - Aug 11 2007 : 3:06:45 PM
when ya say wormy is it the apple maggot worms or larva from the moths? One lives in the apples and the other in the bark.
Neither have a quick fix. A lot of it comes from simple no cost to you besides time...orchard maintenance. No apples left on tree over winter, apples falling on ground have to be picked up immediately, maintaining other nut or fruit bearing shrubs and trees nearby?
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Aug 10 2007 : 8:31:43 PM
My garden is not yielding too much right now. I got a good harvest of some carrots, but right now all my tomatos are still green. It seems to be a common problem this year. I looked online and found that tomatos like cool weather to ripen so I should be getting a boat load in a little while. I am soaking them tonight since I have a bunch of little ones coming on. My apple tree is ultra wormy but I don't know what to do about that. I don't want it sprayed, but how to break the cycle? It is as big as a two story house to spraying vinegar or something like that isn't really feasible. And since I rent I don't want to pay $$$ to fix someone else's problem. I didn't really plant much this year because I was pregnant and had a new baby during planting time. I plan on starting a much larger plot for next year. I need to turn the soil over this fall so the sod can compost down over the winter. I am thinking of buying that Weed-Stop fabric that MaryJane uses in her gardens because I am being choked out by common mallow and stranglevine.
Elizaray |
| Jen |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 4:50:21 PM
How's your garden going, Elizaray? I bet you're getting more out of it than I am from my big plot because I was so unprepared to deal with the bugs - but they'd better look out next year!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Jen |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 4:38:41 PM
Just now digging into Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza, as well as an organic pest control book - not very wild or exciting, but enlightening nonetheless...
Also, found a magazine that might be of interest to Outposters: Women's Adventure www.womensadventuremagazine.com
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 10:43:59 AM
Right now I am not really reading much of anything- Summer time is usually not my big reading season. Between my baby and the garden, housework and yardwork I keep pretty busy :)
Elizaray |
| Jen |
Posted - Jul 29 2007 : 8:24:25 PM
Sorry, speed readers, I'm still on Kingsolver. Told you I'd be slow - about a page & 1/2 per night, if I'm lucky! Have a pile waiting to be read next, so I'll let you know what I choose when I get there. Keep talkin', though - I'd love to hear about some new material!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Ellen |
Posted - Jul 29 2007 : 06:33:21 AM
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
What about you Elizaray?
editing in the on point show with jim harrison on his story, boston's npr on wburg.org
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/03/20070306_b_main.asp |
| Elizaray |
Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 8:33:56 PM
So what books are ya'll reading now?
Elizaray |
| Ellen |
Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 12:37:55 PM
Have ya finished reading Animal Vegetable Miracle? Here is more on the web from Kingsolver.
This is a podcast from the ethics of eating webpage.
Barbara is an easy listen.
how do you feel about the morals of food arena? are you choosing your nourishments with an earth spirit?
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/ethicsofeating/index.shtml |
| Ellen |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 1:00:22 PM
ooo and from the NYTimes on July4th by Marian Burros
The Debate Over Subsidizing Snacks SHIFTING THE ATTITUDES Is a corn field, like this one in Illinois, a symbol of the nation's abundance or its problem with obesity? Farm subsidies are an issue being debated now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/dining/04farm.htm
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| Ellen |
Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 11:28:05 AM
got another Kingsolver link with part of Animal, Vegetable, MiracleStalking the Vegetannual
A Roadmap to Eating with the Seasons for y'all from the orion magazine
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/239/
Y'all are the beeknees, thanks, for looking Jen and Jo.
How many of ya are looking at the topsoils in your neighborhoods//communities?
What do you see as the promises in the field?
Met ant new farmers?
Are there more farmers markets and coops/CSA's where people buy a share of a farmer's harvest and pick it up bi or weekly gaining popularity in your 'hood? Notice more roadside stands. Do you stop?
Do you know what is in the new farm bill? What would be in your ideal farm bill? |
| blueberries in alaska |
Posted - Jul 06 2007 : 11:43:48 AM
Elizaray, I used to ride over the side of my horse looking in ditches for asparagus in eastern oregon. I'd collect it and sell it to an elderly woman who lived by us in Oregon. Gosh I wish I had some of that asparagus now! jo
there's no place like home....
http://web.mac.com/thomja/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
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