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Welcome to View from Here, a travel blog, where I write about living in, traveling about and experiencing Hawaii as a malihini, a 12-year-resident of the Hawaiian Islands. My name is Kim Steutermann Rogers, and you're likely to find blog posts here about food--who doesn't like to eat?--and outdoor adventure. Like hiking through Haleakala on Maui. Diving with manta rays off Hawaii (Big) Island. Snorkeling Shark's Cove on Oahu. And paddling Napali Coast of my home island, Kauai. Not that I'm some, young, adrenaline junkie. Those days are long over. I just enjoy collecting life experiences. And that's why you probably won't find much in the way of shopping here, unless it's about a fantastic, locally-made product--like soap--and the charming, young, single-mother who makes it. Then, I gush on and on. Oh, as a warning, I can sometimes jump on my soap box and write about the realities of marine debris, Hawaii's endangered species--like humpback whales and Hawaiian monk seals--great book discoveries and the wonders of nature. And my dogs.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Thu 11/3/2011
It was dark until 6:41 a.m. at 22 degrees northern latitude--Kauai--when the sun finally shook off the night and rounded our side of the earth. Rain fell. Trade winds stood at attention. One dog didn't want to get her feet wet, and so I had to drag her, back legs stiff as 2x4s, outside for the morning walk. Then, the emails started. "Anyone have a weather forecast?" "It's lookin' pretty stormy down this way." "It's definitely Kona weather, no wind here." "Should we cancel or just go?" "Let's forget bikes and just go. Looks like it's clearing."
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Tue 6/7/2011
Last week, amid the sounds of water trickling through bamboo rafters and the cool touch of polished countertops made of beach glass, I joined the pampered people at the 3,000-square-foot Kapalua Spa, a ritual in which I strongly believe.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Fri 4/29/2011
As the sun set and the sky turned purple and, then, dark black, inside the Edith Kanakaole Stadium, the crowd found its seats at the 48th annual Merrie Monarch Festival. Twelve dancers vied for the 2011 title of Miss Aloha Hula. They would each dance one kahiko dance in the ancient tradition and one 'auana dance in the modern tradition, and by the end of the evening just before midnight as the rain fell hard outside, one would be recognized as Miss Aloha Hula.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Wed 2/16/2011
We met Hawaii Forest and Trail at the King's Shops in Waikoloa for a journey to the top of Mauna Kea and some stargazing. According to Jon, our guide, the night's plan would have us traverse Waikoloa Road—with a stop at Waikoloa Village to pick up dinner and, "most importantly, cookies"—and continue to Highway 190. We'd take a left, passing through a one-time native forest and now pasturelands, and then a right on Hawaii (Big) Island's infamous Saddle Road. We'd climb half way up the mountain, stop, eat, acclimatize, don jackets—really warm jackets—and head for the summit, where the temperature was predicted to be "about freezing," a full 50 degrees colder than when we'd started out at sea level.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Sun 2/13/2011
The King's Trail, also called the Mamalahoa Trail, once ran for 32 coastal miles from the village of Kailua-Kona in the south to the village of Puako in the north. The sign along Waikoloa Beach Road says it was originally built in the mid 1800s by prisoners and Hawaiians who paid their taxes in labor. It was used as a highway, of sorts, for pack animals. As such, it was stretched taut, in a straight line, with curbs of stone built up along the sides in order to keep the horses, donkeys and mules on the right path, just in case their riders nodded off to sleep during their long ride. I would imagine many of these riders set out at night to avoid the heat of the day, because there is absolutely no shade on the trail.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Sat 2/12/2011
I pull out my journal with my notes from the Hawaiian Legends concert and share the story of Peter Kalama, a Hawaiian man who ventured to the Pacific Northwest, also in the early 1800s, married the daughter of Chief Seattle and settled down in a place which was eventually named after him—Kalama. By the time we touched down in Kailua-Kona, I hadn't read a single word.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Mon 12/20/2010
I've heard the strokes of lomilomi described as long, gliding and deep. I've felt lomilomi practitioners use their hands, forearms, elbows and, even, feet. I've been told lomilomi may involve chanting, music, prayer and herbs, sticks and rocks. There's no easy definition, no one description, because lomilomi practitioners from each family or district or island followed their own, unique practice. What I've gleaned is lomilomi is a holistic healing art. In essence, it's not just about the massage.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Fri 10/8/2010
You know those days when you say, "Calgon, take me away"? I was having one of those kinds of days when I entered the elevator on the ground floor of Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach and punched PH. Seconds later, the elevator doors drew back on the penthouse floor and presented the Waikiki Plantation Spa. It felt like waking after a long work week realizing it was Saturday. You exhale. Your shoulders relax. You stretch. Sometimes, all it takes is the right environment to put a new spin on your day.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Wed 8/26/2009
I've heard many different definitions of lomilomi, the simplest of which is that it's a traditional Hawaiian healing art that incorporates massage. According to my Hawaiian dictionary, the definition of "lomi" is "to rub, press, squeeze, massage; to work in and out, as the claws of a contented cat." Generally speaking, the massage technique is characterized by long, deep strokes using the palms, forearms, fingers, knuckles, elbows, knees, feet--even sticks and stones.
Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Tue 8/25/2009
Sleeping Giant. Like any name or word in Hawai'i, this mountain which rests behind the town of Kapa'a has many stories, the most common about a giant named Nunui who helped a community build a temple, hauling rocks from the west side of the island. In return for his efforts, the villagers served up a feast fit for a giant, including this giant's favorite food—bananas.
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The city's best burgers, plus Schnipper's celebrates its second anniversary.
The events lineup promises burger, oyster, and grits bashes.
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text: USDA Expands Program for Beginning Farmers, Ranchers Ag Secretary Mike Johanns announces expanded program at Husker Harvest Days. Willie Vogt Published on: Sep 16, 2005 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print Getting a start in farming, or keeping young folks on farms and ranches across the country is a significant concern that's been raised at every Farm Bill Forum USDA has held across the country. Thursday, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns announced the expansion of a pilot program that's part of the 2002 Farm Bill that aims to encourage sellers to work with beginning farmers and ranchers. During Husker Harvest Days near Grand Island, Neb., Ag Secretary Mike Johanns announced expansion of the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Land Contract Guarantee Pilot Program to three more states - including Nebraska. The Beginning Farmer and Rancher Land Contract Guarantee Pilot Program is designed to offer a land seller a guarantee of payment if the young buyer has a hiccup in income during the life of the land contract. Johanns, who told a Nebraska crowd that he didn't get input into which states would be added to the mix, announced that the program will expand into California, Minnesota and Nebraska. Since 2003 the pilot program has been tested in Indiana, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Iowa. Each year up to five land contracts in each of the nine pilot states may be guaranteed. Here's how it works. The program provides the land seller a 10-year "prompt payment" guarantee of the sale to the beginning farmer or rancher. If the buyer does not pay an annual installment due on the contract, or pays only part of an installment, USDA's Farm Service Agency provides the scheduled payment or the unpaid portion to the seller. The defaulted amount then becomes a federal debt to the buyer. If the buyer does not restructure the debt into a repayment plan or other FSA-approved plan, FSA may use other means to collect the buyer's debt. The guarantee is limited to the total of two annual installments and also covers the amount of unpaid taxes and insurance for a period of two years. To be eligible for the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Land Contract Guarantee Pilot Program, the prospective buyer must: Be a beginning farmer or rancher and the owner and operator of a family farm after the contract is completed. Have participation in the business operations of a farm or ranch for at least three years Be able to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere without a guarantee to finance actual needs at reasonable rats and terms Have an acceptable credit history demonstrated by satisfactory debt repayment Meet other requirements of the program. Under the pilot program, the purchase price of the farm, ranch or other agricultural operation cannot exceed the lesser of $500,000 or its current market value as determined by FSA. The interest rate charged to the buyer for the 10-year term of the guarantee can't exceet FSA's direct farm ownership loan interest rate in effect at the time the guarantee was issued. Learn more about those rates at www.fsa.usda.gov/dafl/rates.htm. Check out the pilot program at www.fsa.usda.gov.


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Hotel Guanahani Once you weather the short, white-knuckle flight from St. Maarten to St. Barthelemy--the small, chartered plane slipping through a narrow gap between two mountains to ease itself onto the runway and stopping just short of the narrow beach dotted with sunbathers--island time begins. A 15-minute van transfer over a lush landscape takes you to Hotel Guanahani, a perfect island getaway for small corporate meetings or incentives.
Set on its own 15-acre peninsula, Guanahani has two sandy beaches, one facing a tranquil lagoon, one looking out to the open sea. The hotel's 75 brightly colored bungalows, each with a terrace and lush, private garden, sprawl from beachside to the top of a breezy headland with spectacular views. Several bungalows feature private pools and private outdoor Jacuzzis. There are water sports, a full-service spa, and two lighted tennis courts.
For groups of eight or more, the hotel's off-season package (April through October) includes accommodations in an ocean-view room, breakfast and lunch or dinner, and use of the hotel's meeting room (at 500 square feet, it holds up to 22 people, classroom style). Rates this year began at $280 per room per night, and include airport transfers.
St. Barthelemy (or St. Barth) is part of the French West Indies, so exquisite dining abounds, including the Guanahani's two restaurants. Bartolomeo, a casually elegant restaurant with live piano music in the bar and al fresco dining on the terrace, is reminiscent of Casablanca with its ceiling fans and bamboo furniture; L'Indigo is a stunning, open-air dining space for breakfast and lunch, overlooking the edgeless pool and the blue Atlantic.
Boutique-style, duty-free shopping is a short drive away in Gustavia (U.S. dollars accepted everywhere). In the unlikely event that you grow weary of the hotel's beaches, the island is ringed with lovely white-sand strands and secluded coves (those on the south side face the Caribbean; on the north, the Atlantic). In the French style, many are clothing-optional.
Guanahani is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. For more information, call (800) 223-6800.
Jeffrey J. Maggerine, 32, sales manager for the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla., was killed in an early morning one-car accident August 14 in Orlando in the midst of the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting, hours before he was to participate in a press conference announcing the convention center's expansion plans.
Maggerine, who was the architect of a 25-year contract between the convention center and Reed Expositions representing about $2 billion in future business for the facility and the community, worked at OCCC for six years. Before that, he was director of sales and marketing for the Oncenter, Onondaga County Convention Center, in Syracuse, N.Y.
On Saturday, September 23, Frank Mullen, director of the Scottish Tourist Board's UK marketing department and of the Scottish Convention Bureau, died of cancer at the age of 42. He worked previously as marketing director of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board.
In his "adopted" country, the United States, Frank was an articulate and passionate advocate for Scotland, winning the respect and admiration of leading figures in the travel industry and, with it, their business and their friendship. In October, a memorial service was held in his honor in New York.
He is survived by his parents, Frank and Annie; his brother John and sister-in-law Margo; nephews Craig, Callum, and Paul; and his lifelong companion, Gerry.


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- Mar 12:
- Lilydale landslide families' $1M settlement approved
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- St. Paul agrees to $1M for Lilydale landslide victims
- Sep 5:
- Lilydale landslide that killed two kids couldn't have been predicted, investigators say
- Jun 21:
- St. Paul hires law school dean to probe fatal Lilydale park landslide
- Jun 13:
- Lilydale landslide 911 calls show desperate confusion
- May 29:
- Lilydale Park landslide: Silent auction will support families of boys killed, injured
- May 24:
- St. Paul begins search for answers after landslide that took two young lives
- Lilydale Park landslide: Injured boys identified
- Lilydale victims remembered, mourned at school ceremony
- St. Paul hires consultant to examine Lilydale landslide site
- Lilydale park erosion highlighted in 2009 study
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- With 2 children dead in Lilydale Park landslide, authorities begin asking why?
- St. Paul's Lilydale Park landslide toll at 2, as missing student's body found
In the desperate moments after a mudslide struck and buried several fourth-graders on a fossil-hunting field trip Wednesday in a rain-soaked Mississippi River park, the first St. Paul firefighters and police on the scene dug for them with bare hands.
Then, with shovels, they rescued one child buried waist deep and seriously injured in Lilydale Regional Park, along the river bluffs southwest of downtown St. Paul.
But their efforts for another were too late.
The child was completely buried and died. And the search for a missing third was called off late Wednesday night.
Authorities, saying the effort was now a "recovery," rather than a rescue action, stopped searching about 10 p.m., because of safety concerns; they resumed the search Thursday morning.
"There comes a point that it's presumed we can't save anyone else," said St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard. "Our goal was to rescue the savable people, and we did that."
A fourth child escaped the collapse on his own with just an ankle injury, authorities said.
The four had been walking with a larger group on a path tracing the edge of a bluff, when the path -- softened by recent rainfall -- collapsed beneath them; none of the children were identified Wednesday.
"Such an unbelievably tragic situation," said St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman.
The students were among 49 fourth-graders from two classrooms on the field trip from Peter Hobart Elementary School.
The school was offering counselors to students, parents and staff on Thursday.
The accident happened about 1:15 p.m. in the area of the park known as the Brickyard or fossil ground, near Pickerel Lake.
Toward the early evening, emergency responders temporarily halted work because, as the rain continued to fall in the afternoon, the area was too dangerous.
Later, lights were set up and emergency crews used fire hoses to wash away loose dirt as they resumed the search.
At Hobart Elementary School, parents of children who returned from the field trip were emotional as they picked up their kids.
"How do you know six days of rain is going to make (the ground) collapse?" asked Patricia Dudley, who emerged from the school with her son Patrick, 10. "You just don't know. Things just happen.
"I actually don't know what I would do except pray and cry if that was my child," she added.
Jose Herrera said he heard about the accident after he met his daughter, Samantha, at school.
"It's terrible. Incredibly scary," he said.
The site of the accident was about 800 feet from Cherokee Heights Boulevard, Zaccard said, and rescue workers reached the children via a muddy path. They then waded into the sand and gravel of a 50-by-50-foot hole created in the mudslide.
The children had toppled into the hole and debris swept down on top of them, Zaccard said.
The seriously injured boy was rescued after 45 minutes, Zaccard said. A Minnesota State Patol helicopter lifted him on a stretcher to emergency workers on Cherokee Heights Boulevard, where an ambulance waited to rush him to Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
The second injured child also was treated at Regions.
During the search for the first boy, rescuers found the hand of the buried child. It took another 45 minutes to an hour for that child to be dug out, Zaccard said. The student was pronounced dead at Regions.
Two firefighters also were injured. One was struck on the head by a falling rock, and the other suffered a back injury.
Zaccard said about 75 emergency workers from St. Paul and other communities took part in the rescue effort.
"This is tough on the rescuers," he said. "... It's young children that are here just to have a good time."
The St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department allows groups to obtain permits to hunt for fossils in the Brickyard, spokesman Brad Meyer said. It's a popular location for elementary school groups, he said.
Lilydale was the site of a brick-making operation from the 1890s to the 1970s. Decades of mining the bluff exposed layers of sedimentary rock, and fossils can be found on the ground.
The department has notified people who have permits for fossil hunting in the next two weeks that they are canceled, Meyer said. That time period is a minimum, as the city assesses the safety of the area.
"This collapse with this amount of impact is certainly unprecedented, although the rainfall is not," he said. "We're not actively monitoring or actively concerned about any other parks at this point."
The Twin Cities have received more than 3 1/2 inches of rain since Friday.
Mila Koumpilova contributed to this report. Mara H. Gottfried can be reached at 651-228-5262. Follow her at twitter.com. MaraGottfried or twitter.com/ppUsualSuspects.


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91pts 2012 Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir
92pts 2012 Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir
93pts 2012 Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir
93pts 2012 Cargasacchi Vineyard Pinot Noir
Novy scores:
90 pts 2011 Susan's Hill Syrah
90pts 2011 Garys' Vineyard Syrah
90 pts 2011 Susan's Hill Syrah
90pts 2011 Garys' Vineyard Syrah
SIDURI 2011 Siduri Parsons' Vineyard Pinot Noir,
Russian River Valley Score: 91pts
94pts "Cellar Selection" 2011 Siduri Keefer Ranch Vineyard Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley
92pts "Editors Choice" 2011 Siduri Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir
92pts "Cellar Selection" 2011 Soberanes Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
92pts 2011 Siduri 2011 Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
92pts "Cellar Selection" 2011 Garys' Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
2010 Siduri Soberanes Vineyard Pinot Noir,
Santa Lucia Highlands
The 2010 Pinot Noir Soberanes emerges from the glass with dark berries, spices, menthol, licorice and new leather. There is an attractive fleshiness to the 2010 that is quite appealing. This is the first crop from a newly developed parcel right next to Garys' but planted with a different row direction and tighter spacing than at Garys'. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2016.
Adam Lee describes 2011 as the coldest vintage he has ever seen. Nevertheless, the 2011 Pinots are very, very pretty, and also in line with previous years in terms of their overall quality. Severe selection was the only way to do that, and it is quite clear that is exactly what Lee did. A higher percentage of barrels ended up in the appellation wines, a testament to the exacting standards at Siduri. I tasted all of the 2011s as final blends, from barrel. Lee planned to bottle the 2011s in August, 2012, with the exception of the Soberanes, Rosella's and Garys', all of which are a scheduled to go into bottle in January, 2013. The 2010 Pinots spent 10 months in barrel and were bottled in August, 2011. Lee told me his parcels experienced heat spikes in both August and September, but judging by the wines, he made the right calls before and after. Timing, as they say, is everything.
2011Siduri Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
Siduri's 2011 Pinot Noir Sierra Mar sparkles on the palate with vibrant dark fruit, menthol, spices and licorice. In 2011, the Sierra Mar stands apart for its mid-palate pliancy, richness and depth, none of which was easy to achieve in this cool vintage. In 2011, Adam Lee chose three out of four clones he works with on the site for his vineyard-designate bottling, a choice that seems to be paying off big time. This is another wine that offers much to look forward to. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2016.
2010 Siduri Sierra Mar Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
Readers will find a wonderfully complete wine in 2010 Pinot Noir Sierra Mar. It is beautifully layered from start to finish, with gorgeous depth in its black fruit, leather, mint, licorice and spices. The Sierra Mar is one of the richer, weightier wines in the Siduri lineup. I am very impressed with the quality of the 2010, just the second crop off this newly developed site in the southern part of the appellation. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2015.
2011 Siduri Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
One of the more promising 2011s, Siduri's 2011 Pinot Noir
Rosella's shows the freshness of the year in its lip-smacking acidity,
although there is more than enough fruit to provide balance. Sweet dark
red cherries, flowers and spices come together in this impeccable,
refined Pinot. This is a terrific showing for the year. Anticipated
maturity: 2013-2016.
2010 Siduri Rosella's Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highands
An intriguing, high-toned profile of sweet red cherries, licorice
and mint emerges from the 2010 Pinot Noir Rosella's. This is an
especially bright, focused style of Pinot. A finessed, pointed finish
rounds things out nicely. The blend of five clones planted in this site
works beautifully here. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2015.
2011 Siduri Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
Although a bit understated, the 2011 Pinot Noir Pisoni is
nicely layered in this vintage. The 2011 is a relatively laid back wine
from the Pisoni vineyard, yet there is wonderful finesse and a nuanced,
textured quality to the fruit that is highly appealing. Sweet cherries,
flowers, herbs, spices and crushed rocks flow through to the pointed
finish. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2016.
2010 Siduri Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands
The 2010 Pinot Noir Pisoni is direct and frank. Layers of dark
red fruit burst from this energetic, focused wine. There is good depth,
but the aromas and flavors don't quite have the complexity or
delineation of the very best Pinots here. Still, it is impossible not
to admire the sheer purity of the fruit that comes off Pisoni.
Anticipated maturity: 2012-2016.
2011 Siduri Clos Pepe Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills
Another promising wine, the 2011 Pinot Noir Clos Pepe shows
lovely density and depth for the year. There is a purity to the fruit
that is quite striking. This is another pretty 2011 Pinot from Siduri.
In 2011, the Clos Pepe has a bit of whole clusters (something of a
stylistic departure for Siduri) that adds an attractive, floral
dimension on the finish. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2016.
2010 Siduri Clos Pepe Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills
93 pts
A great wine to end this tasting with, the 2010 Pinot Noir Clos
Pepe wraps around the palate with juicy dark red fruit, spices, flowers
and mint. There is a juicy, expressive quality to the fruit that is
highly appealing. This is a fabulous Clos Pepe, considering so many
2010s from this site are wilted, tired and heavily marked by the heat
spikes. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2026.
2010 Siduri Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir
The 2010 Pinot Noir (Santa Rita Hills) shows lovely roundness and
depth in its fruit. Dark red cherries, spices and licorice are woven
together nicely in this juicy, expressive Pinot. Once again, I am
struck by the sheer quality and deliciousness of an appellation-level
Siduri Pinot. In 2010, the blend is 60% Clos Pepe, 32% Cargasacchi and
8% Sebastiano. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2016.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills 2010 Score: 92pts
Supple in texture, this is a pleasure to drink, with a graceful mix of blackberry and wild berry fruit that's both generous and structured. Drink now through 2018.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Keefer Ranch Vineyard 2010 Score: 94pts
Fresh and snappy, offering ripe, vivid wild berry and raspberry flavors woven with mineral, floral and berry pie
scents, gaining and holding, with a long, persistent finish. Drink now through 2022. 247 cases made. – J.L.
2009 Willamette Valley Arbre Vert Vineyard Pinot Noir
The 2009 Pinot Noir Arbre Vert Vineyard displays earth notes, balsam wood, Asian spices, rose petal, cherry, and cranberry. In the glass it opens to reveal ripe, succulent flavors, a velvety texture, and greater complexity.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Willamette Valley Hawk's View Vineyard 2009 Score: 93pts
Light and refined, delivering a lovely, lilting mouthful of black cherry, red currant, coffee and delicate spice notes that remain transparent and elegant through the expressive finish. Drink now through 2017.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands Sierra Mar Vineyard 2010 Score: 92pts
Fresh and snappy, with ripe, vibrant black cherry, wild berry and red plum flavors, this defines pure, ripe dark fruit. Full-bodied and impeccably balanced, ending with a persistent finish. Drink now through 2018.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Russian River Valley 2010 Score: 91pts
Intense and pure, with vivid boysenberry and huckleberry flavors that are racy and complex.
Well-focused, long and persistent on the finish. Drink now through 2017.
From Allen Meadow's Burghound.com
91pts – 2009 Siduri Arbre Vert Vineyard Pinot Noir
SIDURI Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Ewald Vineyard 2009 Score: 90
A rich, savory style, complex and concentrated, with tiers of blackberry, black licorice, plum and savory herb touches. Full-bodied, ending with a pure, focused aftertaste of minerally, loamy earth. Best from 2012 through 2020. 147 cases made. -J.L.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Russian River Valley Keefer Ranch Vineyard 2009 Score: 90
Smooth and silky, with layers of ripe, rich black cherry and blackberry flavors that are full-bodied yet turn supple and subtle, finishing with a pretty burst of ripe berry, tea and floral scents. Drink now through 2019. 247 cases made.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills Clos Pepe Vineyard 2009 Score: 92
Ripe, rich, fresh and vibrant, this displays a tight, concentrated core of vivid wild berry and blueberry flavors, with touches of mineral and cedar. Medium- to full-bodied, this is firmly tannic, but in a good way. Drink now through 2018.
NOVY Pinot Meunier Sonoma Mountain Van der Kamp Vineyard 2009 Score: 89 | $25
Firm, intense and concentrated, with lively wild berry, floral and savory notes that are tight and compact. Drink now through 2015.
SIDURI Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 2009: 91 | $29
There's aromas of cherry rhubarb and plum jam in this full-bodied yet elegant red, which is spicy, rich, deep and concentrated, ending on cherry rhubarb theme. Drink now through 2015.
93pts Siduri 2009 Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands "Sierra Mar Vineyard"
Firm, rich, deep and concentrated, this combines power with finesse, with tiers of ripe berry flavors that echo plum, blackberry, raspberry and spice. Full-bodied, intense and persistent, with a long aftertaste. Best from 2011 through 2019.
90pts Siduri 2008 "Beran Vineyards Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
Polished and light on its feet, with pretty red berry and cassis flavors that dance easily past modest tannins on the open-weave finish. Drink now through 2016. 98 cases made.
92pts Siduri 2009 Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands
Firm and well-structured, with a complex band of wild berry and blackberry, spice and floral notes. Full-bodied, gaining depth, richness and nuance, this ends with a return to the berry medley on the finish. Drink now through 2018. 1,855 cases made.
92pts CELLAR SELECTION Siduri 2009 Hirsch Vineyard Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
95pts Siduri 2009 Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir
94pts Siduri 2009 Garys' Vineyard Pinot Noir
91pts Siduri 2009 "Sierra Mar Vineyard" Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands
90pts Siduri 2009 "Pisoni Vineyard" Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands
89pts Editors' Siduri 2009 Pinot Noir Sonoma County
93pts – BEST BUY Siduri 2009 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
2008 Cargasacchi Vineyard Pinot Noir
2008 Sonatera Vineyard Pinot Noir


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June 20, 2011
Balaam Named Women's Soccer Assistant Coach
DAHLONEGA, GA – The North Georgia department of athletics and head women's soccer coach Chris Adams announced the addition of Stacey Balaam as the new assistant coach of the Lady Saints for the 2011 season.
February 4, 2011
Women's Soccer Inks 11 players for 2011 Campaign
December 30, 2010
Smith and Abrahart Honored by Soccer Association
December 1, 2010
Casey Smith Earns Back-To-Back All-American Honors
November 27, 2010
Women's Soccer Season Highlight DVD Available Now!
November 22, 2010
Casey Smith Named Daktronics First-Team All-Region
November 8, 2010
PBC Tournament Championship Game Highlights
November 7, 2010
Lady Saints Fall to Columbus State 4-2 in Title Game
November 7, 2010
PBC Tournament Highlights - #8 Armstrong Atlantic
November 7, 2010
One Game Stands Between Lady Saints and PBC Title
November 6, 2010
Lady Saints Keep Busy on Day Off at PBC Tournament
November 5, 2010
Trio of Lady Saints Named Peach Belt All-Conference
November 5, 2010
Lady Saints Conquer Pirates, Advance to Title Game
November 5, 2010
Lady Saints Poised and Ready to Battle Pirates
November 3, 2010
Women's Soccer Featured on PBC All-Academic Team
November 2, 2010
Lady Saints Advance Past Bobcats in Penalty Kicks!
November 2, 2010
Lady Saints to Take on Georgia College Tonight at 6 PM
November 1, 2010
PBC Tournament Opening Round Highlights
October 31, 2010
Lady Saints Set for Opening Round of PBC Tournament
October 30, 2010
#21 Braves Clutch Late, Battle Past Lady Saints in 2OT
October 27, 2010
Lady Saints Honor Most Successful Class in History
October 23, 2010
North Georgia Prevails 3-0 in PBC Battle of the Saints
October 21, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - #10 Columbus State
October 20, 2010
Lady Saints Unlucky Early as #10 Cougars Roll Late
October 19, 2010
Lady Saints and CSU Set for Wednesday PBC Battle
October 16, 2010
#25 Lady Saints Upended by #7 Armstrong Atlantic
October 13, 2010
25th-ranked Women's Soccer Dominates Hurricanes
October 13, 2010
Former Athlete and Athletic Trainer Saves a Life
October 13, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - Georgia College
October 12, 2010
Lady Saints Tame Bobcats, Win 10th Straight Game
October 12, 2010
Women's Soccer Stays at No. 25 in Latest National Poll
October 7, 2010
#25 Lady Saints Explode in Second-Half, Run by Trojans
October 6, 2010
North Georgia Today - Episode 2 - Casey Smith Profile
October 5, 2010
Casey Smith Snags Another PBC Defender of the Week
October 5, 2010
Lady Saints Crack National Ranking at #25 in the Land
October 5, 2010
Samantha Abrahart Tabbed as PBC Player of the Week
October 3, 2010
Lady Saints Keep Cruising, Upset 15th-ranked Mocs
October 1, 2010
Lady Saints Topple Panthers, Win Seventh Straight
September 30, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - Clayton State
September 29, 2010
Casey Smith Makes History as Lady Saints Roll Again
September 25, 2010
Lady Saints Keep Rolling, Top Lander 2-1 at Buzzer
September 21, 2010
Casey Smith Tabbed as PBC Defender of the Week
September 20, 2010
Casey Smith Earns Moe's Athlete of the Week Honors
September 19, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - University of Montevallo
September 18, 2010
Lady Saints Devour Falcons 4-0 in PBC Action
September 14, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - Newberry College
September 14, 2010
Lady Saints Tame Wolves with Second-Half Surge
September 14, 2010
Abrahart Selected as Moe's Athlete of the Week
September 12, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - USC Aiken
September 11, 2010
Bowen's Goals "Two" much for Pacers in PBC Opener
DAHLONEGA, GA The North Georgia womens soccer team opened Peach Belt Conference play with a bang on Saturday evening, playing host to USC Aiken and using three first-half goals to drop the Pacers 3-1 at the Soccer Complex.
September 9, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - Young Harris College
September 8, 2010
Lady Saints Explode Offensively, Top Young Harris 6-0
DAHLONEGA, GA The North Georgia womens soccer team broke out offensively Wednesday evening, scoring three goals in each half to run past Young Harris College 6-0 at the Soccer Complex in non-conference action.
September 4, 2010
Belmont Abbey Uses Late Goal to Sink North Georgia
DAHLONEGA, GA The North Georgia womens soccer team managed nine first-half shots in Saturday afternoons home opener against Belmont Abbey, but never found the back of the net in a 1-0 loss against the Crusaders in non-conference action.
September 4, 2010
Women's Soccer Highlights - Belmont Abbey
September 3, 2010
Interactive Soccer Media Guides Released to Public
September 2, 2010
Lady Saints Score Early, Topple Bobcats 5-2 in Opener
September 2, 2010
Soccer Teams Set for Home Openers on New Surface
August 31, 2010
Soccer Programs Set to Open Seasons this Weekend
DAHLONEGA, GA The first athletic event of the fall is just around the corner as the womens soccer team travels to Lees-McRae on Thursday afternoon to officially open the 2010-11 athletic year.
August 30, 2010
North Georgia Women's Soccer 2010 - Are you Ready?
August 23, 2010
Lady Saints picked 3rd in Preseason PBC Poll
AUGUSTA, GA The North Georgia womens soccer team has been picked to finish third in the Peach Belt Conference preseason poll according to the leagues head coaches released this afternoon from the league office.
August 20, 2010
Smith and Martin Tabbed as Preseason All-PBC
DAHLONEGA, GA The Peach Belt Conference has released the womens soccer preseason All-Conference team as Casey Smith and Kelsey Martin were named to the squad voted on by the leagues head coaches.
June 29, 2010
Women's Soccer Schedule in Place for 2010 Season
DAHLONEGA, GA North Georgia head womens soccer coach Chris Adams has announced the 2010 schedule that features eight regular season home contests, and four road games against non-conference opponents.


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3:30pm Friday 22nd November 2013 in News By Emma Rigby
A CLAMP down on inconsiderate and illegal parking is set to start as Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) takes over responsibility for civil parking enforcement in the former Vale Royal area.
Powers were transferred last week from the police to the council after the Department for Transport approved the move earlier this year.
It will put an end to the disparity which can see rule-breaking motorists on one road dealt with through the criminal courts, while on a neighbouring road the same incident would result in a fine.
Clr Lynn Riley, executive member for localities, said: "Motorists who park legally and considerately have nothing to fear from this change.
"The only difference they can expect is clearer, safer roads."
Council enforcement officers will carry out regular patrols to ensure that motorists comply with parking restrictions.
It aims to put a stop to vehicles blocking junctions, abusing disabled parking spaces and parking in loading restriction areas.
For the first six weeks, officers will only issue warning notices to vehicles parked in breach of such regulations in order to raise awareness of existing parking restrictions.
Clr Riley added: "The transfer of power from the police to the council will mean that the former Vale Royal area can benefit from an effective enforcement programme which is already in place in the Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston areas.
"This transfer will also free up police time to focus on fighting crime and at the same time allows the council to respond to the parking needs and concerns of the local community."
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In a modern entertainment industry dominated by the idea of "intellectual properties" that can be successfully translated into multiple forms of media, there is perhaps no greater success story than that of Bruce Wayne, the caped crusader known as the Batman.
Gotham City's guardian superhero is the star of "The Dark Knight Rises," the summer's most-hyped blockbuster, and the final chapter in one of the most popular visions of the character to date.
Batman himself has been interpreted and reinterpreted in so many different ways across the various comics, films, TV shows and video games he is in that it would be impossible to list them all here, but there are always certain facts about the character that remain the same. He's almost always an orphan, and often left a multi-billionaire as a result of inheriting his parents' fortune. He has no super-powers of his own, instead relying on his physical ability, a laundry list of ingenious and/or wacky gadgets and his unbeatable intellect to save Gotham City from a wide-range of colorful maniacs.
While Batman was already a huge critical and financial success in comic books, films and television before Christopher Nolan brought his unique vision of Gotham City to the big screen, the director's Dark Knight trilogy has launched Batman (in this case a very serious Christian Bale) to greater mainstream appreciation than the character had ever achieved before, partly on the strength of the series' thoughtful takes on the twisted characters that populate his world.
"I consider myself a pretty big Batman fan. I read all of the current comics each month and I love the 90's cartoon show," said sophomore mechanical engineering major John Schneider. "Nolan's movies have done an exceptional job adapting the characters up to this point."
Previous film incarnations of Batman have each taken wildly different approaches to adapting the character to cinema. The first Batman film was a big-screen version of the campy 1960's television series starring Adam West in a goofy comedy. The next attempt, from director Tim Burton, returned the Dark Knight to his brooding roots and starred Michael Keaton in Bruce Wayne's pressed suits, though the series got progressively sillier (and more neon) through Joel Schumacher's subsequent sequels with Val Kilmer and George Clooney in the title role.
For some older viewers, like nautical archeology graduate student Sam Cuellar, the darker tone is a welcome change from the Day-Glo goofiness of the earlier movies.
"I really enjoy the newer films. Everything Batman that I grew up with as a kid was a little more light-hearted and cartoon-like," Cuellar said. "I think the new ones do a good job of showing a darker side to Batman."
Much of the hype of the Nolan films has surrounded their gritty and unsettling takes on Batman's famous rogues gallery. While the first film, "Batman Begins," featured grounded takes on two of the relatively more unknown villains R'as al Ghul and the Scarecrow, most of the praise for the series' baddies is reserved for Heath Ledger's unhinged performance as The Joker in "The Dark Knight." The role, Ledger's last before his death, earned him a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and praise from critics and audiences and won over fans who viewed the actor's initial casting with suspicion.
"The Joker is one of the most iconic and notable villains in any media, and Nolan managed to capture his comic book essence to a T," Schneider said.
The villains of "The Dark Knight Rises" have both been featured in Batman films before, but Nolan has reimagined them. Catwoman, the more familiar of the film's two new additions to the story and originally more of an anti-hero in the source material, became a more or less straight villain in Tim Burton's Batman Returns. Her secret identity, Selina Kyle, has kept her romantic ties to Bruce Wayne in all of her film incarnations. Bane, originally one of Batman's few intellectual equals in the comic books, was reduced to a mumbling steroidal mutant in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin," but Nolan has promised that his take on the character in "The Dark Knight Rises" is a Bane with brain.
Trailers for "The Dark Knight Rises" show that the new villain has big, bad plans for Batman and Gotham City. But despite a never-ending flood of set pictures, trailers and posters, not every Batman fan is so eager to hear what challenges Bruce Wayne will face this time around before the movie is released.
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This morning I went down to Boston's Fox 25 to be part of their morning news program. You can watch and share my appearance here.
It is always fun to go in there and serve as an expert on whatever topic they are discussing that morning and I've done it a few times now, but never to focus directly on parenting so it was extra fun.
They wanted me to chime in on a couple of recent current events that involved Dads and I was more than happy to give my opinion on the recent happenings with Huggies, Bobby Brown and Ryan O'Neill.
Wonder if we can talk them into make this a regular segment. I think it would work. What do you think?
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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
Last week in the garden we were stymied by excess rain (yet again). Beasties were eating our crops. I caught two groundhogs already, snacking on our kale. In the process of trapping groundhogs in a live trap, I accidentally caught a skunk. This happened last year and I wrote about it on my blog, SustainableMarketFarming.com. It could even have been the same silly skunk - it had a lot of white and not much black to its fur.
So, how to let the skunk out of the trap without arousing its ire? We brainstormed a bit and I told the crew what I did last year, using sticks to open the trap and a plastic sack to screen myself. One of the crew came up with a better idea, which I'm passing on, in case you ever need to know! She got a large piece of cloth, draped it over the trap and then delicately opened the trap by hand, through the fabric. It worked like a charm. The skunk ambled out. But then it turned round and went back in, back to sleep. Skunks are nocturnal, so I suppose it thought better of setting out in bright daylight to find a new place to sleep. We left the trap open all night, and in the morning it had gone.
The fabric was so perfect we are now keeping it in the garden shed in case we need it again. It was a large piece of knit polyester - thick, drapeable, washable, and not the sort of thing anyone would have wanted to make clothes out of!
Meanwhile we have also had a burrowing animal biting off our broccoli seedlings from flats in the cold frame. It isn't eating them, just cutting them down and stashing them in piles. My prime suspects are moles. Although carnivores, they apparently use leaves to line their nests. We tried hot pepper on the seedlings, the rain washed it off. We set the flats on landscape fabric. Now they chew through the landscape fabric. The tunnels are too big for voles or mice. We tried to fob them off with old lettuce, and spare kale seedlings. On my blog, I asked anyone who had ideas to please leave a comment.
I got a great response to my post from Joanna Reuter, who farms at Chert Hollow Farm in Missouri. She and her partner Eric run an inspiring website, and what sounds like an inspiring farm too, although I've never been there. Joanna suggested I could line the coldframe with hardware cloth. She also shared that they have had similar experiences with skunks in traps. Once when the trap was in a busy work area, they draped a sheet over the trap, tied a rope to it, and dragged it to a less busy area to release the skunk. She said she had read that skunks can't spray from within a trap because the trap isn't big enough for them to adopt the spraying posture. But they didn't want to test that theory! Nor do we!
Joanna also told me that according to the Missouri mammal book, skunks eat moles. So she suggested if we caught another one, we could release it near the coldframe…. That gave me a chuckle. I value skunks for eating ticks, but I can't quite see them eating a mole. Maybe Missouri skunks are really big. . .
Since 1991, Pam has been living in central Virginia, at Twin Oaks Community, an egalitarian, secular, income-sharing, work-sharing ecovillage established in 1967. There she helps grow food for around 100 people on three and a half acres and provides training in sustainable vegetable production for community members, practicing farming with awareness of ecology, finite resources and the future of the planet.
In my last blog post (Gourmet Garlic: Hardneck vs. Softneck) I discussed the differences between hardneck and softneck garlics. In the next series of blogs, I will be exploring the various types of cultivars that fall under the auspices of these two categories. I will begin with the Rocamboles, a highly regarded type of hardneck. Rocamboles are considered by many growers and garlic enthusiasts to be the caviar of gourmet garlic due to their exceptional taste. Common examples that I grow include German Red, Yugoslavian, and the hugely popular Russian Red.
Rocamboles require a relatively lengthy period of vernalization for proper growth, making them better suited for growing in colder climates. If you are growing Rocamboles in a climate with more mild temperatures, you will need to put your cloves in an artificial state of cold dormancy in order to obtain optimum results. Although a hardy strain, they do also need a rich soil matrix to grow to their full potential. The plants themselves are robust, with thick stalks and up to nine deep blue-green colored leaves. The scapes are quite long, and often will tightly curl at least twice before they begin to straighten to their full height of approximately six feet. The umbels themselves contain bulbils of varying size and number depending on the cultivar, but they are generally medium to large in size, and vary from a few to many in number. Rocamboles are usually harvested mid-season, after all the softneck varieties are out of the ground.
Grown successfully, Rocamboles will produce medium to large sized bulbs with a regular, slightly flattened tear-drop shape. The outer skins are a matte off-white, and mottled or striped with purple in patterns that vary among cultivars. The clove skins themselves range from a light tan to a deeper brown, often subtly striped or leopard-spotted with a deeper purplish hue. The cloves under the thick, easy-to-peel skins are medium-large and plump, and number from around six to 14 cloves per bulb, again depending on the cultivar. Double cloves are common with certain strains, further expediting easy peeling, but reducing the number available for planting come the fall.
Rocamboles tend to be the most highly regarded of garlic cultivars when it comes to taste. Although specific profiles differ somewhat between different strains, the majority are celebrated for their complex flavor which is characteristically rich, sweet and moderately hot. Although very tasty when cooked, the complexity of flavor means that Rocamboles are best enjoyed raw. Using them, in fresh salad dressings for example, really allows them to shine. And if their superior flavor isn't enough incentive for you to use them as soon as you can harvest them, keep in mind that, although one of tastiest of the gourmet garlics, they also have the lowest storage capability – usually lasting in good condition for only three to four months. Now you don't need an excuse to devour them first!
Nestled above an overgrown ridge-top meadow in the Appalachian Mountains, farmer Susana Lein proudly runs Salamander Springs Farm, a permaculture farm, homestead and "food forest," where living, healthy soil is considered the most important resource.
Working closely with her local farmers markets, town stores, and CSA members, Susana grows a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and numerous nut trees. All food is grown organically, in the traditional sense, using permaculture and biodynamic practices.
Her WWOOFers and apprentices, who often stay for an entire growing season, learn extensively about cycling local resources and energy, homesteading from the ground up, and practicing permaculture principles for sustainable housing, food production and local economic systems.
"From working with the soil, to building structures with straw or recycled wood, I know Susana wants to share every bit of knowledge she knows to make a better world," explained WWOOFer Kayla Lee Preston, who spent two full seasons at Salamander Springs. "Working with Susana was the most life changing experience I have ever received. She truly is one with the earth."
Salamander Springs Farm is completely off-grid: it is a rustic homestead where limited solar electricity exists and gravity-fed spring water, rain catchment systems, and ponds serve as the water resources. Susana has built a community where nightly meals are shared by candlelight under the stars and are centered on freshly picked food from the farm.
In 2001, Susana decided her land, which is surrounded by the hardwood Appalachian forest, needed rich topsoil. She began clearing a meadow, which now makes up her food forest, and built her kitchen from only recycled and salvaged materials. Over the next decade she built a solar house using locally harvested and milled wood. She dug clay from her farm and ponds to create a beautifully earthen floor and straw walls.
"This isn't just farming – it's a way of life," said WWOOFer Jacob Mudd, an aspiring farmer from western Kentucky with a homestead of his own. "It would seem foreign if it didn't come so natural. The experience is very holistic, very back to the land."
Her farm has inspired people from around the world.
"This farm shows what can happen when dedication, hard work, and wisdom combine to create a real farm that can actually be sustained," said WWOOFer Wade Archer, who traveled from Tennessee to stay at Salamander Springs. "I would put this farm on the Top Ten list of the most important farms to visit in the United Sates, and maybe the world."
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, USA (WWOOF-USA) helps visitors from around the world link up with over 1,800 organic farms across the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. WWOOF-USA is part of a worldwide effort to link visitors with organic farms, promote an educational exchange, and build a community conscious of ecological farming practices.
For more information, or to find organic host farms nearest you, please visit the WWOOF USA website.
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This year, I hope to obtain land to create my own patch of homesteading paradise. As I mentally gear up for the prospect of transforming a piece of raw land into a (hopefully) beautiful, abundant haven of food, animals, and handmade buildings, I am simultaneously seeking stories from folks who have been through (or more likely continuing to go through) that process. Though I am attracted to a rural locale, where development is less, the land is more open, and the restrictions fewer, it has been an enlightening and poignant reminder that not everyone is so fortunate to have access to such circumstances. In fact, it may not even be necessary to live in the country to eat well, grow delicious organic food in quantity, and live the good life.
This is a fortunate time for backyard gardeners and suburban homesteaders, as the literature dedicated to those folks in the suburbs who want to provide more for themselves has been on the rise. One notable book that turns the idea of needing lots of space to grow an incredible diversity and quantity of food on its head is Paradise Lot, by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates. Toensmeier and Bates detail the incredible story of the transformation of their 1/10th acre suburban lot into a slice of permaculture goodness, proving that you don't need huge amounts of space to do so, and that the suburbs can in fact be productive.
The book starts with the duo buying a duplex in Holyoke, Mass., where they soon establish a perennial garden full of multifunctional herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees. Incredibly, Toensmeier and Bates prove that permaculture principles are viable in a suburban setting, even when the forecast is grim, and that a small parcel of land can yield abundant food and nutrition, and even have a bit of space for a few animals, too.
Paradise Lot is no doubt a story of the journey and less of a how-to, but that doesn't mean the text isn't brimming full of valuable information and tips for the prospective suburban gardener and permaculturalist. Really, Toensmeier's plant knowledge is dripping from every page, and you'll likely find yourself reaching for a highlighter or folding every other page corner because of the abundance of excellent information. Perhaps most valuable is the massive inspiration the book imparts – that you don't need a whole lot of land to work some incredible gardening and food magic, and that anyone can turn even a scrap of abused land into something beautiful.
Another favorite book of mine geared towards home-scale permaculture and food production is Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden, which when combined with Paradise Lot, makes for an excellent two-punch guide to getting your land to be productive, regenerative, and beautiful. Hemenway's book is full of practical information that will set you on the path to a self-renewing garden. One of the main premises of permaculture – working with Nature, instead of against her, is always the goal, and Hemenway describes in detail how to make that theory a reality.
Gaia's Garden gets into the nitty-gritty of water management, guilds, forest garden design and layout, and recommended plant species suitable for a perennial food and medicine garden. Whereas Paradise Lot doesn't dwell on the instructions for replicating a regenerative garden, Gaia's Garden provides ample ideas and directives for creating healthy soil, making use of small spaces, and taking advantage of natural conditions. It's practical, based on a lot of experimenting, and overall it's an excellent addition to the library.
While I'm not about to move back to the suburbs to put these home-scale permaculture ideas to the test, I appreciate other people's work in experimenting with these ideas. There's a much better chance for getting our towns and cities across the country a little more productive and brimming with life with excellent books like Paradise Lot and Gaia's Garden around. (Both are available from MOTHER EARTH NEWS.) Maybe we can re-create Eden in the suburbs after all.
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The collaborative efforts of Terroir Seeds, The Xerces Society and Painted Lady Vineyard have spent the past 2 years growing southwest native milkweed seed to reintroduce the Spider or Antelope Horns milkweed (Asclepias asperula) to home gardeners, garden centers and native plant nurseries across the southwest. This story is especially poignant right now with the massive declines in Monarch butterfly populations and the resounding recovery push by several conservation groups alongside private citizens, students and scientists.
The milkweed plant plays a critical role in the monarch life cycle. Each spring Monarchs migrate across the United States, laying eggs on native milkweeds - the only food plants suitable for newly hatched monarch caterpillars. The North American Monarch Conservation Plan recommends planting native milkweed species to restore habitat within the Monarch butterfly's breeding range.
For the past 3 years, the total area occupied by overwintering Monarchs in Mexico has dropped by almost 50% each year, continuing a decline that has lasted for the past decade. The severe drought seen across Texas and Northern Mexico has been a large factor, combined with wildfires across the entire southwest. The biggest contributor is simply the loss of land that supports the Monarch's food source and hatchery – the Milkweed plant. Much of the land has been converted to commercial herbicide tolerant corn and soybean production or developed into housing. Overuse of persistent chemical herbicides and roadside mowing for weed control has also created loss of milkweed habitat and thus reduced Monarch numbers.
The Xerces Society is working to increase the availability of native milkweed seed and encourage restoration using milkweed in California, the Great Basin, the Southwest, Texas, and Florida. These are important areas of the Monarch's spring and summer breeding range where few commercial sources of native milkweed seed currently exist. Brianna Borders, Plant Ecologist, contacted us about growing out a small sample of Spider or Antelope milkweed seeds that had been collected in central Arizona to make it commercially available.
Painted Lady Vineyard is a small wine grower in Skull Valley, AZ where Fiona Reid has been growing milkweed and saving the seed for a few years, so she was the perfect fit for our reintroduction project! One of her passions is native plants of the area, with an emphasis on butterfly attractants. The Painted Lady is a beautiful, ephemeral butterfly that happened to visit the vineyard in droves as the initial vines were being planted, thus the name for the vineyard came about.
A California native plant nursery propagated the seeds into plugs, which were shipped to Painted Lady Vineyard. The tiny milkweed plugs were planted over a long and hot weekend in the middle of June 2012 after much work over many weeks preparing the ground to receive the fragile plugs. There were no financial rewards for any of the volunteers for the hours spent bent over in 100°F heat planting over 2,000 fragile plugs. Many of the people helping were native plant enthusiasts, some were butterfly lovers, but a significant number had were helping see a project to fruition on nothing more than the basis of it is the right thing to do. There were over 320 hours of volunteer labor, not counting Fiona's time, from start to finish.
In an email to everyone, Fiona said, "It has been an amazing community effort and I have had the pleasure of working with a great group of people, children included. As we began to close in on the finish yesterday I was almost overcome by the understanding that people don't have to involve themselves in such hard work – sometimes backbreaking work, sometimes knee-breaking work, and always hot work. They could sit at home in the cool, or an office somewhere, and do good for someone else. But none of you did that. You came knowing it was going to be outside in the heat; knowing you would kneel and bend; knowing you would get dust in your nose and eyes; knowing that – as Rachel Carson said – "there is something beyond the bounds of our human existence" that matters. You also know that you won't get any thanks from the butterflies that find all the little milkweed gardens that will eventually grow from this project."
She finishes by saying, "We don't get paid dollars for doing this. What we get is priceless. One day, in many gardens around this area and scattered throughout the southwest, the most ephemeral of creatures – a butterfly – will lay her eggs on the milkweed that has been grown there especially for her, and the stunning caterpillar that emerges will have all the nourishment it needs right there. Soon thereafter, through the miracle of metamorphosis, a monarch butterfly will continue the northward journey. We may only get a fleeting glimpse of this whole cycle, but that's OK – we just need, it seems, to know that we are part of a bigger whole that is life on earth."
Just over a year later, in July of 2013, we visited once again to check in the seed production and record some of the process. On this visit, we learned several things. First, milkweed is an on-going production plant, it doesn't set all of its flowers at once. There aren't a crush of seed pods to be bagged, but there are little bunches of pods that always need bagging, so it is seemingly never done. Second, there is no real seed cleaning equipment available for the small scale grower to process and separate the seeds from the floss. There is large scale equipment that costs as much as a house, but nothing for the smaller grower. Third, there isn't an established market for a regionally adapted milkweed seed of a specific species, as there hasn't been any available up until now.
Since then, we have almost sold out of all of Painted Lady's seed production, mostly to home gardeners but many garden centers and native plant nurseries are growing the seedling plugs or plants around the southwestern US. There is still Milkweed seed available! A number of school gardens, community gardens and Master Gardener groups have stepped forward to help re-establish the milkweed populations in their areas. We are honored to be part of such a project and amazed at the positive impact a decentralized, non-governmental, independent group of individuals that have mostly never met one another can have on such a large scale challenge.
One of our dear friends, Gary Nabhan, gave a talk at Prescott College recently in collaboration with Make Way for Monarchs and we will be extending our collaboration with several growers of almost a dozen more southwest native species of milkweed that is being grown in southern Arizona this year.
Stephen Scott is an heirloom seedsman, educator, speaker, soil-building advocate, locavore, amateur chef, artist and co-owner of Terroir Seeds with his wife, Cindy. They believe in a world of healthy soil, seed, food and people. Everyone has a fundamental need for vibrant food and health, which are interrelated. They welcome dialogue and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 888-878-5247. Visit their website and sign up for their Newsletter for more education like this!
After a year without honeybees, we have two new hives. Our previous bees did not survive the 2012/2013 winter. There has been a tree or two that needed to be cut down near the beeyard and you'd think that we would have gotten that done in the past year. It was the upcoming arrival of our new bees that motivated us to cut that tree and remove the lower branches of other nearby trees. It was a nice thing to do on a warm dry Saturday when it was still too early and wet to work in the garden. We took care of any other chores in the area that we had neglected when we previously had to watch out for bees.
During our cleanup of the beeyard I pulled an old metal wagon out to near the hives. It will serve as a bench to place hive bodies on when I'm switching them around, rather than putting them on the ground. The hive bodies can be heavy at times—all the more reason to keep myself in shape. Some beekeepers have gone to using medium boxes instead of deeps, but I don't believe there is enough room in the shallower boxes to maintain a cluster.
However, I am getting older and those boxes do get heavy. When time allows, I would like to build a top bar hive. Managing a top bar hive will bring new learning experiences, with the advantage that you only lift one comb at a time. The combs the bees build hang from one wooden bar at the top, with no wooden frames surrounding them. Given the opportunity, honeybees will lengthen the comb in a medium frame to fill out a deep box. You can see an example of that at Homeplace Earth. We keep bees for our pleasure. They pollinate things in the garden and give us honey—usually. I won't know the efficiency of extracting honey from top bar combs until I actually do it. Since we don't sell honey, the efficiency of honey extraction is not as much of a concern.
Meanwhile, I have all the equipment for the Langstroth style hives, so that is what is housing my two new bee colonies. I started them each in a deep hive body. Soon it will be time to add the second hive body to each colony. After they fill out that box, I'll put a shallow super on each hive to capture the extra honey. Since I had all the equipment in the beeyard left from the hives that we used to have, during the cleanup I prepared the boxes I will soon need and left them there with a hive cover on top. It is good to anticipate your needs and have enough equipment for an extra hive. You never know when you have the opportunity to capture a swarm. I wish you well with your bees this year.
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Reprinted with permission from the Organic Broadcaster newspaper, published by the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
Bramble berries—raspberries and blackberries—can be great additions to the diversified market farm or orchard. They are a favorite at farmers markets, in CSA boxes, and at pick-your-own operations. They are a perennial crop that will produce for many seasons if cared for properly. Successful bramble production depends on several factors, including soil and cultivar selection.
As organic growers, we know we must build and steward the soil to grow nutrient-dense, health-sustaining, disease- and insect-free crops. Healthy soil is especially important for growing bramble berries since half of each plant resides in the soil. What we see above ground is nearly a 100 percent reflection of what transpires below ground, in the soil environment. We can only do so much about the above-ground environment— temperatures, rain, winds, etc.—but we can do a lot about the environment in which half of our plants live.
Insects and diseases are not the primary cause of problems in berry production. Of greater importance is the environment in which the plants are grown, and no part of the environment is more important than the soil.
Brambles are adaptable and can be made to thrive in most soils. However, it will help us make the wisest site choices if we keep in mind the most basic biological needs of plants. The number one need by far is air. Neither you nor I nor bramble plants can function when this basic need is restricted.
The most expensive machine I have on my farm is a large Imants spader that aerates the soil 17 inches down. It is our primary soil-building tool. Long before I think about other nutrients, I think about air. No amount of NPK or other elements can make up for the lack of air—the most important plant nutrient of all. Faithfully using green manure crops, especially those with massive root systems such as Sudan grass and winter rye, goes a long way in rapidly raising organic matter and thus bringing air to the roots, even after massive rains. (Don't expect to read about air management because it can't be patented, bagged or easily sold!)
Practically all pathogenic soil organisms (animal and human) thrive in an anaerobic environment and are naturally suppressed in an aerobic one. That's true even of cancerous cells. By building aerobic soils, we not only favor our bramble plants, but also eliminate the environment that fosters root diseases—killing two birds with one stone. To top it all off, we also support the soil biology that in turn feeds out plants. Thinking ever more WHOLE-istically will lead us to craft our soils to enable them to produce healthy plants and a healthy return on our investment.
Minerals play a vital role in a plant's susceptibility or resistance to diseases. The American Phytopathological Society recently published an awesome 280-page book entitled, Mineral Nutrition and Plant Disease, authored by scientists from around the globe. Though academic by its very nature, this book provides great insights into plant nutrition, disease, and health. The bottom line from this book is that practically all diseases in plants, animals and mankind are caused or facilitated by mineral deficiencies or imbalances. This illustrates why the most important thing growers can do for the health and quality of their crops is to build, care for and steward their soil.
Cultivar Selection
When selecting plant cultivars (cultivated varieties) for your farm, there are several important aspects to evaluate. The Upper Midwest is one of the harshest environments in which to grow tender fruit like raspberries and blackberries successfully. We can have extremely cold winters—sometimes with a lot of snow, sometimes with hardly any. We can have ferocious winds. We have floods and droughts. We have extreme mid-continent heat in the summer. And, we have drastic fluctuations in all of these to the point where Minnesotans are heard telling their guests, "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute!"
Let's make one thing clear at the outset: there are no perfect cultivars for anywhere, much less for the Upper Midwest. Each choice involves a series of compromises. Finding the most suited cultivar for each area is best done by a process of elimination. My suggestion is for growers to become familiar with various cultivars by trying 10-20 plants, then deciding which best suits their needs and performs best in their area and soil. The issue of winter hardiness trumps all the others. If plants don't consistently survive to produce a marketable crop, there is little sense in growing them.
With raspberries and blackberries, winter hardiness concerns only summer-bearing cultivars because their canes grow up one year, must overwinter well and produce their crop the subsequent season. With the fall-bearing type, we don't care about cane cold-hardiness. Nearby fellow-growers and extension service can be valuable resources to help choose proven cultivars. For central Minnesota and similar areas the list of cultivars is quite limited. I share my experience with these later in this post.
Factors to Consider
Choose cultivars that will provide berries that match your intended uses. Ask yourself: Why am I planting my berries? What use am I planning for them? Do I intend to process them into wine, jam, jelly, juice, syrup, toppings, chutney, ice cream? Do I plan to sell them retail, pick-your-own, wholesale or freeze them for local processors? Do I want a summer or fall crop? Finally, what colors of berries am I looking for and why?
Also consider when you want to harvest berries. You have two choices: a summer crop, lasting approximately 3 weeks—the first 3 weeks in July in the Upper Midwest—and a fall crop, typically lasting 5-6 weeks—mid-August until the end of September. There is a much greater maturity span with fall-bearing cultivars than there is with summer ones. During the summer, these tender berries need to be picked at least every second day. The cooler fall temperatures give growers a bit more picking flexibility. However, with the advent of the SWD (Spotted Wing Drosophila) every effort should be made to pick ALL berries as soon as they are ripe.
Disease Resistance
When you have a choice, select cultivars that have genetic strengths against the major raspberry diseases. With the limited choices for the Upper Midwest, this is less of an issue than if we grew brambles in California or the Pacific Northwest. We have reasonably good genetics in the varieties listed below—especially the newer ones. Summer-bearing varieties will show their weaknesses more readily, possibly because the canes are around for two seasons. For example, Killarney is beginning to manifest some serious foliar weaknesses under certain summer conditions. With fall-bearing cultivars, the canes and foliage are around only for one season, so they all tend to remain quite healthy.
Fungal diseases can be largely controlled by cultural practices: soil stewardship, plant density, air circulation, proper pruning and trellising, and even harvesting. Viral diseases are best dealt with by securing clean stock, genetic resistance and eradicating nearby native brambles. All growers should apply regular nutrient and compost tea sprays throughout the season. The healthier the plant, the more resistant it will be especially against fungal and bacterial diseases.
Best Hardy Raspberries and Other Brambles
For many of these varieties, use the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Seed and Plant Finder to locate mail-order suppliers.
Raspberries: Summer Bearing (Floricane)
The canes of these plants grow up one season, overwinter, produce a crop the second season, then die and need to be pruned out.
Red: 'Nova,' 'Encore,' 'Prelude,' 'Killarney,' 'Latham'
Black: 'MacBlack,' 'Jewel,' 'Bristol'
Purple: 'Royalty,' 'Brandywine'
Raspberries: Fall-Bearing (Primocane)
Commercially, these plants are chopped or cut down to the ground in late winter or very early spring (before they break dormancy) to "force" the plant to grow new canes that produce their crop during the first fall.
Red: 'Autumn Britten,' 'Caroline,' 'Joan J,' 'Jaclyn,' 'Heritage,' 'Autumn Bliss'
Gold: 'Anne'
Black: coming soon (from Peter Tallman, Colo.)
Blackberries: Summer-Bearing (Floricane)
The canes of these plants grow up one season, overwinter, produce a crop the second season, then die and need to be pruned out. Generally we don't think about growing blackberries in Minnesota or Wisconsin because the bearing canes of even the most cold-hardy ones don't survive above the snow line.
'Doyle' – There has been some success with this extremely vigorous, thornless cultivar in the southern half of zone 4.
'Illini Hardy' is an erect and thorny variety. This is likely the most cold-hardy cultivar, and can be grown in zones 5 and warmer.
'Chester', a widely grown thornless cultivar, is superior to 'Illini Hardy' in a variety of ways, but a little less cold hardy. Best for zone 5 and warmer.
Find your zone.
Blackberries: Fall-Bearing (Primocane)
'Prime Jim' & 'Prime Jan': Both cultivars are extremely spiny and too late to produce a crop in zone 4, but worthy of trial for zone 5, which has a longer growing season.
My Cultivar Choices for Growing Raspberries
Raspberry, Summer, Red
For us at Natura Farms, located in the northeast fringes of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area in zone 4b (negative 25 to negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit), our most consistent performer has been 'Nova.' It has a round, bright red, firm fruit, with coherent small drupelets that pick easily and hold up well after harvest. The canes are sturdy, vigorous, and nearly spineless, the fruit is tasty, and the plant is resistant to most cane and foliar diseases. It can be grown also in zone 3.
Next come varieties like 'Killarney' (but very spiny and some foliar disease susceptibility); 'Latham' (a 100-year old Minnesota heirloom, mildly spined, good tasting cultivar, and can be grown in zone 3); 'Prelude' (the earliest to ripen, with very good flavor, that also bears a small fall crop); 'Encore' (the latest to ripen, nearly spineless, good flavored, with coherent, large berries) and 'Lauren' (not quite winter hardy enough for us, but we like its long season and good flavored, large fruit).
Raspberry, Summer, Black (Very spiny)
'Mac Black' is the latest ripening and all around best performer for us. 'Jewel' is mid-season with very large berries. 'Bristol' is the earliest ripening, an heirloom, with very good flavor, but is only marginally hardy for us.
Raspberry, Summer, Purple (Quite spiny)
'Brandywine' is unsurpassed for jam, jelly, syrup, toppings and pies because of its intense flavor and tartness. 'Royalty' is for those who love the taste of purple raspberries (the result of crossing blacks with reds), but want a sweeter berry. It is very productive and can be picked in the red (almost ripe) or purple (ripe) stage.
Raspberry, Fall, Red
'Autumn Britten' has replaced Autumn Bliss for us and is still our number one choice for its earliness, quality and yield, but there are a growing number of contenders, each having its specific attractions. 'Joan J' and 'Jaclyn' are two other great early varies. 'Caroline' is a superb, productive, mid-season cultivar with very vigorous plants and berries of intense flavor. 'Heritage' is the good flavored, firm, medium-sized, mid-late season workhorse that brought fall-bearing raspberries to the world scene in 1969. Before then there were no commercial fall raspberries. When the early fall cultivars start winding down, 'Heritage' kicks in and carries us through until the short days and frost end the season.
Raspberry, Fall, Yellow
'Anne' is for us the only yellow raspberry to grow. It is mid-season, highly productive, has sturdy canes, and is large-fruited, with excellent sweet flavor.
My suggestion is for growers to become familiar with all of them, by trying 10-25 plants, then deciding which best suits their needs and performs best in their area and soil.
For a chart of Berry Varieties at a Glance, see page 15 of the 2014 Nourse berry catalog.
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If your group is small (i.e. less than 10 in number) then you could join one of our free public tours held every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 2 - 3pm. For larger groups you will need to book a tour guide for your group.
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We can tailor your visit to Manchester Art Gallery to suit your needs and interests. Discover the ideas and stories behind the artworks and talk about them with a friendly member of staff from our learning team. This is your gallery and you don't need to know anything about art or have any special artistic skill to enjoy a visit. This tour is specially designed for groups that have never visited the gallery before. We can provide this tour free of charge for some Manchester based community groups.
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