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Consumers may access the free mobile website at KidsInDanger.org.
Updated: June 29, 2012 12:02PM
Dear Fixer: I completed a short sale of our Jefferson Park home in June 2011. It was a huge relief for me and my family.
Due to the horrible economy, we no longer could afford to pay our mortgage and care for our family. After purchasing our home, we did not refinance and buy frivolous things. We thought we were being responsible. We just hit a rough patch.
About four months after the sale, I noticed that Ocwen Financial Corp., which was our second mortgage company, had posted information to my credit report indicating we had a loan that was outstanding and delinquent. The loan had a different loan number than my original loan, even though it was the exact amount that should have been taken care of as part of the short sale.
I have all the closing documents, the approval letters and copies of the wire transfers to prove them wrong. After several attempts at disputing the information and hundreds of phone calls, I was told by an Ocwen representative that I was correct and that a fictitious loan was entered into their system, he could donothing about it, and I should seek legal help.
Dumbfounded, I spoke with an attorney who told me it could take years to resolve this. I am at an utter loss. We would very much like to move on with our lives, but I don't think Ocwen will allow us. This column is my last resort. I hope you can help us.
Norm Osimani
Dear Norm: It sounds like you got caught in one of those glitchy situations that seems like it should be simple to fix but somehow isn't. The Fixer was happy to pluck this problem out of that hopeless cycle and get it into the hands of someone who could fix it.
We brought your story to John Britti, executive VP and CFO at Ocwen, who took it to their consumer ombudsman's office. Within a few days, they straightened it out.
Apparently, the glitch occurred around the time of the short sale, when the servicing of your loan was transferred from Ocwen to another company. Ocwen got the $3,300 that was supposed to pay off your debt, but somehow, it was never recorded as such. They fixed this and are filing a satisfaction/release of mortgage. They also sent you written documentation, along with an apology. It may take several weeks for the erroneous delinquent debt to come off your credit report, but it will.
Vital KID information
Years ago, when The Fixer was a reporter in the old Sun-Times building, a woman called the newsroom upset about something she'd seen while driving past a yard sale.
On display, right on the front lawn, was a crib that had been recalled as hazardous. When the woman pointed this out to the seller, the seller refused to remove it. He acted like it was no big deal.
But it is a big deal. Faulty drop-side cribs and poorly designed portable crib/play yards have been implicated in dozens of infant and toddler deaths. With recalled portable cribs, the top rails have accidentally collapsed, creating a "V" in which the child can suffocate. With drop-side cribs, there have been numerous cases in which babies have become wedged between their mattress and the drop-side.
One of the most publicized cases was the death of 16-month-old Danny Keysar, the son of University of Chicago professors Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar. After Danny's death in 1998 in a licensed childcare facility's portable crib — which no one realized had been recalled — his parents founded the Chicago nonprofit Kids In Danger to publicize recalled children's products and try to get tougher standards for items on the market.
Now, KID has a new way to connect parents and grandparents with potentially life-saving information: A new mobile website that can be accessed from a phone or tablet to instantly check on whether a car seat, stroller, crib or other product has been recalled.
The innovation will be especially useful at summer garage sales or flea markets, KID's executive director, Nancy Cowles, told The Fixer. The first item that pops up is a search field, where the person can search by product type or brand.
There are millions of recalled cribs still in circulation. Cowles says she regularly finds recalled products on the resale market, something she always points out to the seller.
It's illegal for people to resell recalled products, even at rummage sales. But many sellers simply don't know, because they were lucky enough to not have a child get injured. "I don't think anyone does it intentionally," Cowles told us. "I think they just don't realize it."
Consumers may access the free mobile website at KidsInDanger.org.
The mobile website is also useful for people who are hosting a rummage sale: As you clean out your basement or attic to prepare, you can quickly check on what's safe and what's not.
Slamming the door
Last fall we wrote about a couple of Fixer readers, Andy Christmas and Hagen O'Brien, who lost $1,551 they'd paid to Family Security Door & Window for a security door and wrought-iron gate before the business suddenly closed. We pleaded with Family Security owner Robert Starr to give their money back, but he and his attorney said he wasn't financially able to do so. Luckily for Andy and Hagen, they ultimately got a refund from their credit card company.
Recently Family Security got more bad news: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against the company, Starr, his brother Michael Starr and two others. The suit claims the company took in more than $90,000 in down payments for orders that were never fulfilled — including some payments accepted at the same time the company was going under.


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By: News Release - Arkansas Game & Fish Commision
Updated: February 11, 2013
The eagle was found west of the city along Arkansas Highway 26. A reward of up to $2,000 is being offered for information leading to a conviction of the person or persons responsible for killing the eagle.
AGFC wildlife officer Sgt. Chesley Sigman said the eagle was discovered on Feb. 2 on private land. "Because the eagle was found along a highway, someone may have seen or heard something that will help in our investigation. We are hoping that anyone with information on who is responsible for shooting the eagle will step forward and provide information that will help us solve this case," Sigman said.
The identities of persons who provide information will be kept confidential.
Bald eagles are protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, both federal wildlife statutes.
Bald eagles historically occurred throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. It typically takes four or five years for bald eagles to mature, but many do not start breeding until they are much older. They may live 15 to 25 years in the wild. Bald eagles are large raptors with typical wingspans of about six to eight feet. Mature eagles have a dark brown body and wings, white head and tail, and a yellow beak.
A pair of bald eagles typically mates for life and builds a huge nest in the tops of trees near rivers, lakes and marshes. Nests are often reused each year, and with the additions to the nests made annually, nests are often four to six feet wide and may weigh up to 1,000 pounds.
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If youre anything like me, each time you go to the cinema you spend ages wondering what kind of treat to have....should it be ice cream?? OR chocolate?? OR toffees?? OR popcorn??
My idea behind these cupcakes was to try and incorporate as much of that cinema experience as you can at home...feel free to take them to the cinema with you but be prepared for a mass of questions on where you got them and how to make them as they smell divine!!
8oz butter
8oz caster sugar
6oz self raising flour
2oz cocoa
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
6floz milk
7oz cream cheese (I used mascarpone)
12oz icing sugar
4tbsp toffee sauce
small bag of toffee coated popcorn
Preheat oven to 180 degrees c.
First weigh out the butter and seperate it into 2 4oz containers.
Place one of these 4oz of butter in a bowl with 4oz of the caster sugar and cream until smooth. Beat the vanilla and 1 egg together and pour into the bowl. Add 4oz of the self raising flour and 2fl oz of the milk, mixing until well incorporated.
In another bowl cream together the other 4oz of butter and 4oz of caster sugar. Add 1 egg and mix well. Sift together the cocoa and remaining 2oz of flour before adding to the mix along with the remaining 4fl oz of milk.Add half vanilla and half chocolate mix to the cases. Swirl with a toothpick of skewer until you have mixed slightly. Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes and take out when a cake skewer comes out clean.To make the frosting, cream together the icing sugar, toffee sauce and cream cheese until well mixed. Pipe onto the top of the cakes using a large plain nozzle. Place some of the popcorn into a food processor/nut chopper... blitz until broken down quite small (this also eliminates the need for taking out the little hard bits of the popcorn) Empty onto a plate and sprinkle over the frosting until completely covered, tip cake upside down to loosen any bits and sprinkle again...continue until nothing more will stick. Add a final piece of popcorn as topping and enjoy xxHope you like them :)
Thursday, 30 December 2010
7 comments:
- Please Do Not Feed The Animals. said...
These look wonderful!
- 30 December 2010 17:04
- Muckyfingers said...
These look utterly amazing Debbie!!!! xXx
- 30 December 2010 17:20
- Rosie (Freycob) said...
- 30 December 2010 17:23
- Gem said...
I love the sound of these, and what a brilliant idea. I think I may have to give these a go myself, however I doubt they will look anywehre near as good as yours or taste as nice I'm a hopeless cook.
xxx - 30 December 2010 18:31
- Debbie said...
Is the toffee sauce just an ice cream topping?
- 30 December 2010 18:47
- Debbie said...
Debbie the toffee sauce was a jar from Sainsburys. One of those you microwave and use as a dipping sauce for deserts - im sure M&S do them too :)
- 30 December 2010 19:29
- maxine said...
These look really yummmmmmmmmmmy x
- 31 December 2010 15:04
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News of our recent launch of plant-based packaging has been storming the media for the past several weeks. Stories about our new packaging and its environmental benefits have shown up in what seems to be a never-ending list of news outlets, including the New York Times, USA Today, Triple Pundit, Packaging World, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and many others.
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Oikos Wins Best Plain Yogurt
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September 2010
A Great Choice for Kids
Today Show
Recently, on the Today Show, nutritionist Joy Bauer explained which naturally sweetened yogurts are healthiest for young children (September 21, 2010). Bauer suggests that when choosing naturally sweetened yogurts, it's best to get six-ounce cups with 20 grams of sugar or less, and four-ounce cups with 14 grams of sugar or less. She tells viewers that Oikos Organic, Brown Cow, and Stonyfield yogurts are all excellent choices.
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Good Housekeeping
For back-to-school season, editors at Good Housekeeping suggest feeding your kids nutrition-packed snacks that they actually like! In the magazine's Septepmber 2010 issue, our low-fat Mango Honey makes the top 50 list of suggested lunchbox-worthy and after-school snacks.
Yogurt and Tennis: An Unlikely Love Match
Our CE-Yo, Gary Hirshberg, was recently interviewed about Stonyfield's US Open sponsorship on the popular cable television channel CNBC (September 2010). Gary explained the connection between playing tennis and eating a healthy, preferably organic diet. He also mentioned that in order to get people to purchase a premium, organic product, you have to get it in their mouth first—which he noted as one of the reasons we have such an enormous sampling!
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Alternative Medicine Magazine
The September 2010 issue of Alternative Medicine Magazine features a line up of Greek yogurts, listing a variety of categories from Best Fat-Free to Best Exotic Fruit (September 2010). Our Oikos Organic 0% Fat Chocolate Greek Yogurt won first place for Best Dessert—it was compared to cheesecake or mousse, sans fat and calories!
August 2010
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Stonyfield Café Heads to the Big Apple
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Our CE-Yo, Gary Hirshberg, talks all about healthy lunch box additions in a recent CNBC segment titled "Lunch Box Wars" (August 2010). Gary mentions that healthy snacks are now outselling unhealthy snacks and that yogurt is the number one–selling healthy kid snack in the category. Gary shows viewers our YoKids Squeezers and suggests that they can be frozen, stuck in the lunch box, and thawed just in time for lunch.
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Looking for a healthy frozen treat to give the kids? Editors at Parenting Magazine suggest our new Strawberry-licious Organic Frozen Yogurt (July 2010). It's low fat and full of belly-friendly probiotics. "Kids'll love chowing down on the fresh new berry flavor," mentions Parenting.


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In an interview on the show's premiere airing on Showtime Wednesday night, USADA CEO Travis Tygart said he was "stunned" when he received the offer in 2004.
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With this roadmap, there's no need to buy that 10-pound "Vogue" to see the newest fall makeup trends. Here's how to translate your favorite runway looks to real life
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They're still here from the summer fashion shows: bold brows. Thick brows help frame your face and help give you a bold look without a lot of makeup. You can get the look (seen at the Alexander Wang show) by investing in a good brow brush, brow powder, and castor oil (which helps your hair grow faster!). The key to achieving this look without looking unkempt is to make sure your brows "are groomed, have a bit of an arch, and are then lined to perfection with a shadow brush," says Ukaeje. Here's how to do define your brows like a pro:Step 1: Use a pencil to fill in any gaps in your brows. Cruz recommends Chanel Sculpting Eyebrow Pencil, $25.
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We recently bought one of the off the shelf entertainment units this hack emulates for about $400. Ours came with glass panes in the doors, which we presume enable us to use our remote controls for the DVD player and Tivo. We put our receiver, which gets very hot, and our center speaker in the ventilated cabinet. Wondering if the electronics get cooled enough and if the remotes can control components through the cabinet doors.
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how much did this whole hack cost? i think this looks so sweet and i wanted to make my own tv stand.
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Carbon-Sequestering Perennial Industrial Crops
Animal Forage, Biofuels, Deforestation, Food Forests, Food Plants - Perennial, Global Warming/Climate Change, Plant Systems, Trees — by Eric Toensmeier April 18, 2013
This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices, and is part of a series promoting my kickstarter campaign to raise funds with which to complete the book.
Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) is a common perennial industrial crop, though
typically grown in problematic monocultures. Photo Wikimedia Commons.
Industrial crops produce materials, chemicals, and energy. Some, like cotton, have been used since the dawn of agriculture. Others, like firewood, go back with our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Few of us pause to think where cardboard, rubber, fibers, solvents and biopesticides come from.
Currently much of the materials, chemicals, and energy that support our civilization are synthesized from fossil fuels. To address climate change this needs to end, and we need to learn to do without or use renewable feedstocks (raw materials). Of the biobased renewables used now, GMO corn may be the most frequently used, for example for ethanol and bioplastics. In addition to the social and ecological problems of GMO corn, as an annual crop it contributes to the release of soil carbon into the atmosphere. We must do the opposite, developing perennial and regenerative systems that sequester vast amounts of carbon while meeting human needs.
Comments (0)Integrating Livestock in the Food Forest
Animal Forage, Bird Life, Breeds, Food Forests, Insects, Livestock, Plant Systems, Working Animals — by Eric Toensmeier January 24, 2013
Cattle grazing under alder in silvopasture system
at Las Canadas, Huatusco, Mexico
Integrating livestock seems to be the best way to have a larger-scale food forest (anything over one hectare or a couple of acres). If done properly, livestock integration can greatly reduce labor and fossil fuel needs. It can create the conditions for happy and healthy livestock. Done poorly, it can ruin soils and destroy crops. Here are a few things that I've been learning as I travel around and view this aspect of permaculture in action (plus some important tidbits from reading).
Comments (30)Success in Tough Times (France)
Animal Forage, Commercial Farm Projects, Demonstration Sites, Land, Livestock, People Systems, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Trees — by Steve Hanson December 24, 2012
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2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from income dependence to financial security and independence. Looking back over the last eight years at our mistakes and our successes in getting to this point demonstrates the value of an integrated approach.
When we arrived in France we had a single idea to provide us with income; that of breeding pigs and selling high quality organic free range pork and pork products. This worked well for three years but in our fourth year, 2008, a poor global grain harvest sent the price of grain skyward almost doubling the price from our local farmer. This gave us cause to rethink our future dependency on outside sources for anything which the global market could affect — this is of course everything!
So how do we remove ourselves as far from external influences and gain self-reliance at the same time?
Comments (14)Practical Plants Database
Animal Forage, Community Projects, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Medicinal Plants, Plant Systems, Trees — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor December 19, 2012
Fresh onto the interweb is a project that I had on my own things-to-do list for some time now, but this new site may well have saved me the pain. It's a great new plant database, with over 7400 plant profiles and the very cool ability to drill-down to suitable plants by ticking off what you're looking for based on the micro-situation of the spot you want to plant in (sun tolerance, water requirements, pH, soil type, etc.).
Being a wiki site, it's open for everyone to help improve. And, unlike similar databases I've seen, this one is permaculture-oriented. As the name suggests, it is profiling 'practical plants' — i.e. plants with a use — as opposed to just edible plants.
Take a look around, and let me know your thoughts via comments below. My first impressions are that it's an excellent start towards creating an extremely valuable resource.
Comments (18)Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate Climate Australia for September 2012
Animal Forage, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Medicinal Plants, Plant Systems, Seeds, Trees — by Susan Kwong October 11, 2012
This is the first monthly post for the research project about perennial plants and perennialising annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Growers are sending me information on a month by month basis, then this information is collated and published early the following month.
Comments (7)Fernglade Farm – Early Spring (September) 2012 Update (Australia)
Animal Forage, Bird Life, Demonstration Sites, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Land, Plant Systems, Trees — by Chris McLeod September 14, 2012
Writing the series about Food Forests has made me aware of how much interest there is in them and how they can vary from region to region, but it also highlighted to me just how difficult it may be for people to actually visit a food forest.
However, thanks to the wonders of the internet and YouTube, people have the opportunity to take a virtual tour of a food forest and see how it progresses over time without leaving their chair!
Comments (4)Food Forests, Part 4: Humanure (black water)
Animal Forage, Compost, Food Forests, Fungi, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Soil Biology, Soil Composition, Waste Systems & Recycling — by Chris McLeod August 11, 2012
Poo. We all do it. Even the smallest microbes do it. However, when you are connected to a centralised sewerage system, unless it stops working – which is not much fun – you don't have to think about it much at all. A quick flush and off it goes, somewhere else, to be processed at some distant location, somehow or another. It's all very mysterious really and for most of us it is someone else's problem. However, when you are not connected to a centralised sewerage system, it is inevitable that you'll become more acquainted with the stuff sooner or later.
Comments (18)Australian Researchers Look into Alternative Forages for Horses
Animal Forage, Biodiversity, Livestock, Working Animals — by Mariette van den Berg July 18, 2012
Browsing (feeding on vegetation other than grasses) may be an important aspect of the equine diet that is often overlooked, yet it may play an important role in the digestive health and the natural behaviour of horses. Scientists at the University of New England (NSW, Australia) are embarking on a research project to improve our understanding of an area of equine nutrition that is largely unknown.
Comments (2)Pasture Cropping: an Integrated Approach to Grain and Pasture Production
Animal Forage, Commercial Farm Projects, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Fungi, Land, Livestock, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Salination, Soil Biology, Soil Composition, Soil Conservation, Structure — by Joel Dunn June 30, 2012
Harvesting oats as green native perennial pasture grows up between the cereal rows (Seis, 2006) |
Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated land management system that seamlessly integrates cropping with pasture production, and allows grain growing to function as part of a truly perennial agriculture. Annual winter growing (C3) cereal crops are direct drilled into living summer growing (C4) perennial pasture grasses as the pasture sward enters the dormant phase of its growth cycle, allowing year-round growth and eliminating fallow and bare ground. This cereal production for grain and fodder is integrated with an intensive time controlled grazing system. There are important sustainability benefits of maintaining more perennial plants across agricultural landscapes, and the low input costs and flexible nature of the system make it attractive to producers.
Pasture cropping has already captured the imagination of the permaculture community because of its potential to make grain cropping compatible with permanent, regenerative agriculture. This review provides an in depth discussion of the development of pasture cropping systems in the NSW Central West, techniques and strategies of the system, environmental and economic factors, the dissemination of the technology around the Australian cereal-livestock zone, and potential future development and adoption.
Comments (9)Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
Animal Forage, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Trees — by Chris McLeod May 4, 2012
Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of the "bush bandit" removed most of the topsoil from the land hereabouts and sold it off to householders in Melbourne for their gardens and lawns. Whether this story is true or not, I can only state for the record that when I purchased the block it had virtually no topsoil. The land had a hard baked clay pan with the strength of structural concrete where water would run off during heavy storms and any organic matter that did collect on top of that clay wouldn't break down for years.
Comments (34)Tree Cotton – Gossypium Arboreum
Animal Forage, Food Plants - Perennial, Medicinal Plants, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Peter Myers April 5, 2012
You might have seen the cotton growing out west — around St George, Gundiwindi and Dirranbandi in Queensland, Australia, and Moree and Narrabri in NSW.
It's an annual crop — sown in the spring and harvested in the autumn — grown in flat plains country. The blocks are levelled by laser-guided machinery. However, they're not quite level: there's a slight slope from one end of the block to another, which allows flood irrigation.
Huge dams, in a country subject to long droughts, supply irrigation water. But these dams themselves take water from the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Comments (5)Constructed Wetlands Treat Waste Water with Weeds
Animal Forage, Biological Cleaning, Land, Plant Systems, Waste Systems & Recycling, Waste Water, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Mark Feineigle March 22, 2012
Effluent processing all over the world requires large amounts of energy and/or chemicals to treat the waste water, or the waste water is improperly filtered before being returned to the environment. There are a number of solutions to lessen the waste water load while at the same time producing a net benefit. Systems that include the collection of urine to be used as fertilizer and methane digesters that create fuel from feces [see 'Biogas' section at bottom of the just-linked article] are a couple of such solutions. Another solution — constructed wetland filtration systems for homes, communities, and industrial sectors — are efficient in both processing ability and energy requirements.
These artificial wetlands provide a near zero energy input way to treat local effluent with no negative side effects. The process is free of both chemicals and odours, provides habitat for wildlife, increases the diversity and aesthetics of any site, and, depending on the toxicity of the inflowing effluent, can potentially create a yield, such as fodder for livestock.
Comments (2)Stabilizing the Climate with "Permanent Agriculture"
Animal Forage, Biodiversity, Biofuels, Deforestation, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Food Shortages, Global Warming/Climate Change, Land, Medicinal Plants, Plant Systems, Regional Water Cycle, Rehabilitation, Soil Conservation, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Trees, Village Development, Water Contaminaton & Loss, Water Harvesting — by Eric Toensmeier March 1, 2012
Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil for long-term storage. This is why reforestation and protecting intact forests are such important parts of plans to address climate change. Conventional climate change science tells us that the planet's capacity for reforestation is limited, however, by the need to preserve land for agriculture.
But movements like agroforestry and permaculture show us that farming and trees are not mutually exclusive. From tree crops to contour strips of nitrogen fixing trees between bands of annual crops, there is a wealth of techniques that can give us the best of both worlds. These techniques, should a global effort get behind their implementation on a large scale, could have a major impact on climate change. They would also have numerous other benefits to the planet and its people.
A century ago, writer-farmers like J. Russell Smith coined the term "permanent agriculture" to describe food forestry and other farming practices that combated a key issue of their day — erosion and degradation of farmland. From Smith and his compatriots we in permaculture have taken the name of our movement, though our movement has grown to encompass much more than food forestry. Today these visionary ideas are more essential than ever, to address an environmental crisis on a scale Smith and his contemporaries could not have imagined.
Comments (4)Taranaki Farm Videos
Animal Forage, Animal Housing, Commercial Farm Projects, Conservation, Dams, Earth Banks, Fencing, Irrigation, Land, Livestock, Rehabilitation, Soil Conservation, Water Harvesting — by Ben Falloon February 28, 2012
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Taranaki Farm shows you how to move a herd of cows, a flock of laying hens, some sheep and a stowaway frog in only 20 minutes… and in the process, heal farmland and local community.
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Pairing Keyline Design farm layout to Polyface Farming methods makes Taranaki Farm genuinely unique in the world of sustainable/regenerative agriculture. Now with ten interlinked keyline dams and catchment road, drains and irrigation features, Taranaki Farm continues its investment in keyline design as a strategy for dryland water management which supports direct marketed, salad bar beef, pigerator pork and pastured chicken and egg enterprises.
Comments (1)Perennial Staple Crops of the World
Animal Forage, Food Forests, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Medicinal Plants, Plant Systems, Seeds, Trees — by Eric Toensmeier February 25, 2012
This article reviews perennial staple crops, a little-known group of species with tremendous potential to address world problems.
Ricardo Romero of Las Cañadas in perennial staple food forest featuring
peach palm, macadamia, air potato, banana, and perennial beans.
Perennial Staple Crops are basic foodstuffs that grow on perennial plants. These plant sources of protein, carbohydrates, and fats can be harvested non-destructively – that is, harvest does not kill the plant or prevent future harvests. This group of crops includes grains, pulses (dry beans), nuts, dry pods, starchy fruits, oilseeds, high-protein leaves, and some more exotic products like starch-filled trunks, sugary palm saps, and aerial tubers.
These trees, palms, grasses, and other long-lived crops offer the unique possibility of crops grown for basic human food that can simultaneously sequester carbon, stabilize slopes, and build soils as part of no-till perennial agricultural systems. Such production models seem the most likely of all regenerative farming practices to approach the carbon sequestering capacity of natural forest, because they can mimic the structure of a forest most closely.
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About three months ago, Tom Whittington of Land O' Lakes and other club members from across the Bay area began crafting wooden urns for veterans.
The average age of club members is 75, and 75 percent of them are veterans, Whittington said.
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The Florida National Cemetery holds a special service four times each year for all veterans who are buried without family present. But it would take an Act of Congress to give the Veterans Affairs Department the ability to purchase caskets for deceased veterans, Fox News reported recently.
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"We offer these first to our club members, then advertise and sell the rest to raise more money for more veteran urns," Whittington said.
The group also is working to create chapters dedicated to the cause with other woodworking clubs in the state and nationwide, he said.
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Production of the urns will begin again in January. If you would like to donate or for more information on the club, club members can be reached through the Woodcrafters Club of Tampa website.
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Mitt Romney at Avon Lake High School: Tweets, Yours and Ours
What are the people of Avon Lake OH saying about Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's Monday morning visit?
7:39 am on Monday, October 29, 2012
What a great learning opportunity for our high school students. It wouldn't matter if it is Romney or Obama - to be exposed to politics on this level is a great learning experience.
8:52 am on Monday, October 29, 2012
David, you are correct!! I think it is good to hear either candidate voice an opinion in a public forum, especially within our community. Be it Obama or Romney, both believe in a strong America and the right to voice an opinion concerning how to do it is something the students need to see. I LOVE America!!
12:05 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Interesting ... I see it as completely inappropriate in a school environment. That is the place to learn both sides, not a place for a partisan rally. If it were at the school, it should and could have been held after the school day, which would have been fine.
tom m
1:14 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
jt does that include obama at Kent State Or Obama at Bowling Green or even Obama at Ohio State (in which he brought buses to take students to the polling booths to vote early)
Jack Kelly
11:26 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Comparing a President or Presidential nominee appearing at a (high) school and a college campus is apples and oranges.
Lori E. Switaj
9:33 am on Monday, October 29, 2012
Alexandra, sign up for our newsletter and breaking news alerts. You'd get the info as soon as it breaks.
Myron Thomas
9:44 am on Monday, October 29, 2012
Wonder if he'll address the Avon Lake 9 mil levy and help explain that into his reasons for cutting education funding.
Reds fan
1:05 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Maybe you can explain where the funding will come from given we borrow $1 trillion a year from China already.
Remember this?
Candidate Obama: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic." (July 3, 2008)
Why is it $16 Trillion now??
tom m
1:12 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
when romney gets rid of the department of education it will free up its 73 billion dollar budget
Jack Kelly
11:25 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Why in the world would someone running for President of the USA address a LOCAL school funding issue?
How about having your STATE lawmakers address it. You know -- the ones (mainly Republicans) who've been ignoring FOUR separate OH Supreme Court rulings since 1997. Including the current Kasich administration.
Jack Kelly
11:27 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
"Maybe you can explain where the funding will come from given we borrow $1 trillion a year from China already.
Why is it $16 Trillion now??"
Really? You're seriously asking this? Oh...I forgot....die-hard Republicans refuse to accept responsibility or fact. Good grief people are stupid.
Reds fan
11:39 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Jack explain how the Republicans and not the Democrats are solely responsible?
Good grief. Democrats are the party of blame and lack of accountabilty?
Instead of silly comments, show us exactly how you think R's and not D's are responsible for the debt and deficits.
Lori E. Switaj
12:54 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Props to everyone who attended the rally today. Orderly crowd on the way in and out. Great reflection on Avon Lake and surrounding communities. And thanks to everyone who stopped to say hello and recognized Patch.
Victor Mooney
11:30 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Are you happy with the way things have gone for the last four years? Do you feel your freedom has been eroded? Oblamo actually states that he will work to substancially increase taxes! Obamacare----think! I know it`s hard----but you`ll have to use your brain---just a little.
Garry Kanter
12:59 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Yes, I am much happier with the direction our country is headed than when Cheney/Satan/GWB were in the White House.
I want more Supreme Court justices like Sotomayor & Kagan appointed, certainly not more like Thomas and Scalia.
And I look forward to tax rates on the wealthiest Americans returning to Regan-era levels.
Carl Jensen
2:31 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
VOTE...IN YOUR FAMILIES BEST INTEREST....THERE IS ALLOT AT STAKE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS....Romney/Ryan Rebublican Agenda basically proposes three big things: slashing Medicaid, cutting taxes on corporations and high-income people, and replacing Medicare with a drastically less well funded voucher system. These concrete proposals would, taken together, actually increase the deficit for the first decade and beyond.
Mitt Romney said at the first debate, that he had a "plan" for health care that included pre-existing conditions and the next day his campaign said that was NOT correct. So, GOOD LUCK in finding an insurance company who accepts pre-existing conditions! This applies to EVERYONE...not just seniors!.... Not even the over 55 seniors are safe if Medicare is slowly starved of funding as Republicans plan to do..... VOTE…in your families BEST interest…We all know what it has been like for our families and friends, since 2008, when wall street recklessness and the banks crashed the economy. We just cannot go BACK to the FAILED Bush Policies that Romney embraces, that almost sent us into a Depression!...
9:05 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Carl, Romney is not Bush, and that lame argument has grown stale since it's pretty much the primary Obama campaign issue... Blame everything bad during the last four years on Bush, and then assert that Romney is a Bush clone... That's a load of dung, and the voting public knows it... It's in the polls already... We all know, that a lot of what gets said during debates and during a campaign never gets followed up on... I mean, just look at all the Obama campaign promises of 2008... How many did he get done? None... Obama said if he didn't deliver in the first four years, that it should be a one term deal for him... Well, for once I totally agree with him... Just look at the last four years and ask yourself if you want another four years of the SOS? I, for one do not... It's all about the bottom line for me, and being able to pay my bills... And in the last four years, everything has gone up in price, and wages have gone down... New, good jobs are nonexistent... His policies have failed, he's lied on Benghazi, and he offers nothing new moving forward... No thanks...
joe consumer
6:08 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Dear America,
I know we screwed up your country and bankrupted it to our gain, but Obama couldn't fix it in just 4 years. Therefore we feel you should not blame any of us and just vote us back in for another try. Thank you
Reds fan
8:58 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
This another reason I am not supporting Obama this time. All the Democrats do is blame somebody else like they were not there the whole time voting on all the same stuff when they made it worse. Hey Joe - Obama voted for the budgets and to not regulate the housing market. He is every bit as responsible but he is such an immature baby all he can do is blame someone else.
"Barack Obama once promised to hold himself accountable, but now he's making excuses and blaming others for his failures. The 'great uniter' has resorted to dividing the American people against each other by creating animosity and scorn to win reelection. He doesn't have a record to run on, so he's painting his opponent as someone people should run from."
Don't fall for Obama's lies and false promises a second time. He is proposing more spending and more debt. We cannot afford Obama and our children can't take on any more debt.
9:32 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Excuses are Useless! Your boy said himself if he didn't fix this mess in three years he would be a one term proposition. That's the only thing he's been right about so far.
I'm waiting for Obama to blame this storm on Bush.
Ed Fisher
7:54 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The closer election day gets, the more apprehensive the voters become. Those who carefully assess the overall situation are hopeful that the President will prevail. The malcontents and know-it-alls want and need a "magic elixir" that will make the recovery instantaneous. We are slowly recovering from a catastrophic recession. One that will take many more years to overcome. We are slowly ( read: correctly ) making progress. Voters will decide next Tuesday. Do they want it NOW....or do they want it done RIGHT ?
Rex Smithers
9:37 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sure. By all means you "folks" want the "Transformation of The United of America", done right.
Sorry to say, us "The malcontents and know-it-alls" are not going to let that happen.
9:13 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
We would already be in a full recovery, save for Obama's domestic economic policies, which have pretty much killed the economy... He's a blamer, not a fixer, and for that alone he needs to go... Add the on-going Benghazi disgrace and coverup, and that just confirms my decision... I cannot support a man I don't have faith in to resolve the issues we face... I cannot support a man that I believe is a serial liar... Romney/Ryan 2012
Reds fan
9:43 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
What a joke. Look at what michele obama said last week. Obama is the KING of blaming others.
"See, but your president, he didn't point fingers," Mrs. Obama said, at a campaign fundraiser in New York. "He didn't place blame. Instead, he got to work, because he was thinking about folks like my dad and like his grandmother."
But one day before, on Thursday, Obama blamed the policies of "the previous president" for the ongoing weak economy.
Obama, take some responsibility, try and at least pretend to act presidential. name calling and blaming others is like my 5 year old always saying "not me" when she gets in trouble. Obama is the "Not Me' President.
Reds fan
10:54 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Beth grow up with your spam posting garbage. Does giving FEMA back to the states count as "getting rid of" or was that your pathetic attempt to make a political point. Why is it so terrible? Right now emergency services are more important to states affected than say Oklahoma or Montana.....localizing emergency services might just make it more efficient.
Obama proposed cutting FEMA's budget and you failed to mention that.
Oh and throw in woman stuff.....what a tool. Get lost. Women are smarter than yuo give them credit for. They care about jobs, the economy and their families future - one that shouldn't burden their kids with $20 trillion of debt.
Let me try your cheesy posting technique....
Why did Obama deny help to the Americans who were killed in Libya?
3:35 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Red Cross responds: You are NOT helping. "Items such as collected food and used clothing must be sorted, cleaned, repackaged and transported... which impedes the valuable resources of money, time, and personnel."
The RED CROSS does not want canned goods or diapers. They want cash. They will not be happy when Romney rolls in with a truck load of canned goods. He has been so busy calling FEMA and Republican Governors but he couldn't bother to call RED CROSS and asked them what they needed? If Romney had ever donated to the RED CROSS in all his life, he would have known that!
Joseph Robert
8:34 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Carolo, I agree. If Romney's team had done research to find out what organizations truly need, he would have found out the Reed Cross and Salvation Army and most other aid agencies DON'T WANT CANNED ITEMS. Instead, his team collected items that food he thought would look good on TV and in print media. Sadly, those donations will probably wind up in food pantries in Ohio -- not in NJ, NY, CT and other states where it is more needed.
Romney=Farce=Not ready to be POTUS!
Contact the Red Cross at www.redcross.org to see what THEY REALLY WANT, and
tell Romney to do the same!
9:17 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
@Beth: This trumps just about any other issue right now...
Joseph Robert
8:29 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Vote Early, Ohio!
Don't let extremist politicians try to suppress your vote! Every vote matters!
James Thomas
2:21 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
And Don't let extremist politicians STEP ON YOUR FLOWERS!!!
Victor Mooney
11:07 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Half of the fools in the world must post on this blog-----fortunately, folks with brains and a little common sense will prevail. After next Tuesday, you all will be able to tell us just how much you miss Oblamo. Sorry, but it needs to be said.
Ed Fisher
2:00 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
which group are you in ? the fools or the brains and common sense ? there are people posting on here offering opinions and facts to support them. it is inappropriate to refer to your neighbors as fools. the high horse you pontificate from may result in a long fall on election day. not sorry, it needs to be said.
Kim L
2:26 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Victor Mooney
11:07 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Half of the fools in the world must post on this blog-
and yet you include yourself in your silly comment by posting that brainbuster
2:22 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Ed, I prefer to let posts like Victor Monney's just hang out there in the ethos. He wrote nothing substantive to even respond to. So much for brains and common sense, huh?
2:29 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
LOL, good one Kim L.. At least spam has substance.


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These are hands-down the cutest things I've made. Ever. The fact that they are actually shaped like little itty bitty pumpkins just sweetens the deal. Oh, also? They are so freaking easy to make!
I've said before that I like bite-sized baked goods. Once you break out plates and forks and spoons, it becomes too much of an ordeal. Things like cookies, cupcakes, and mini treats are easy. You could grab one and walk away. Or walk back and grab more than one. Or sit down and eat a lot because they're so small you're allowed to eat more of them. Whatever works.
I had seen Bakerella make some pumpkin pie bites and swore I would try my hand at it, too. While I used a different recipe for the filling, I did use her idea of shaping the pastry dough into little pumpkins. Love it!
Also, I cheated a little bit. I used refrigerated pie dough. To a purist like me, it feels like I bought some Tollhouse Break-and-Bakes, stuck them in the oven, and pretended they were my own. But pie crusts have never been my forte so I'm totally fine with using refrigerated dough. Really, I am.
I drizzled melted vanilla chips on some. Adding some pecans or walnuts for garnish would also be cool.


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