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Elizaray
outspoken
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Elizaray
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 Posted - Jul 04 2007 : 6:58:31 PM
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I think I am going to have to buy "Animal, Veg, Miracle" You ladies rave about it so!
I am looking at the area around our house and trying to find ways to forage more. I have found a few apple trees to pillage alongside the roads and a few berry patches. I am hoping to find some wild asparagus here in a few weeks.
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2007 : 12:23:06 PM
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Elizaray, you would LOVE this book, I have no doubt. Good luck with your roadside raids 
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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blueberries in alaska
outstepping
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Jo
hillsides of the Chugach
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Ellen
outstepping
124 Posts
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Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 11:28:05 AM
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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? |
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Ellen
outstepping
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Posted - Jul 08 2007 : 1:00:22 PM
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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
outstepping
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Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 12:37:55 PM
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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 |
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
680 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 8:33:56 PM
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So what books are ya'll reading now?
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Ellen
outstepping
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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Posted - Jul 29 2007 : 8:24:25 PM
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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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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
680 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 10:43:59 AM
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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 :)
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
AR
USA
1384 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 4:38:41 PM
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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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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
AR
USA
1384 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 4:50:21 PM
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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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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
680 Posts |
Posted - Aug 10 2007 : 8:31:43 PM
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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.
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Ellen
outstepping
124 Posts
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Posted - Aug 11 2007 : 3:06:45 PM
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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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marybeth
outstepping
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Marybeth
Washington
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 06:36:23 AM
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| 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 |
Edited by - marybeth on Aug 12 2007 06:54:04 AM |
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 9:52:31 PM
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This is worms that live in the apples.
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