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HELP! Best Cut of Beef for Chili?
Hey Peeps,
So I've been working hard on my chili, but I'm having a big problem with the cut of beef. It's not tender enough, for different reasons!
I'm now using two cuts: chuck, and shank. I'm cubing the meat against the grain in pieces about 10mm thick, lightly salting it about 15 mins before giving it a quick sear, adding the stock, and letting it simmer for about 2.5 hrs, covered on low. The chuck is drying out--all the fat and connective tissue seems to melt out, leaving it sort of tender, but it it crumbles when eaten, resulting in a rather dry and mealy mouth feel. On the other hand, the meat from the shank cut is too rubbery. The shank has a lot of connective tissue; if I leave it in, I end up with a mouthful of rubber gristle. Do I need to add the cuts at different times? Am I doing something wrong?
Every once in a while, when I'm out at a restaurant, I get a bowl of chili that has this really succulent beef: it's got tender, marbled fat running through each piece, and it's just delicious. How do I get this? They won't tell me!
I used short rib in one batch, and that was pretty good, but it's very expensive and a lot of work.
Thanks for your help.
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re: chicgail
Stringiness is minimized by cutting it in thin slices across the grain.
re: paulj
That's true and it's what I do when I braise brisket for other purposes. But with chili, you start with the brisket cut into chunks. It's rather difficult to cut each chunk - after hours of cooking - into slices. And besides who wants thin slices of meat in their chili? The whole point is to get the meat to fall apart and with brisket, falling apart means breaking into strings.
Is there something I am missing here?
re: sbp
I wonder if tri-tip is popular because it is
lean - meaning less fat to skim off the chili
not much connective tissue - requiring less cooking time
Basically those are characteristics that help in the limited time frame of competition.
Something like shank, cheek, chuck or even tail may make a more succulent chili, but requires longer cooking, and would benefit from chilling the fridge to separate the fat.
A steak could also be used, seared and added at the last moment, but wouldn't contribute much to the flavor or body of the stew.
re: paulj
Yes, I believe the competition circuit likes tri-tip because there's no time to skim off the grease properly. But I think it makes great chili, too. One thing I do is to braise shank in beer first, shred it, degrease the liquid, then add to the chili (small cube tri-tip) for the last hour. That way you get 2 textures.
It might be that you could lower the heat level and cook it longer. My favorite piece of meat is the "7 bone" part of the chuck for chile, but I've been successful with other (cheaper) chuck parts as long as I put it in the oven at a low heat. Simmering on the stove can end up being higher heat than you might want.
Few thoughts.
1. Chuck is fine, so long as it's well marbled.
2. I'd probably cube the meat a little bigger and make sure you're searing quickly. You don't want to actually pan fry the meat through.
3. Make sure you're not simmering too hard. You want the surface barely trembling with the occasional bubble, nothing more.
4. If any pieces are popping out of the liquid, be sure to turn them and keep them nice and moist, adding a little more liquid if necessary to keep everything more or less covered.
5. And I'd steer clear of an exact cooking time. Could take 3 or even 3.5 hours or more, just start using a table fork around 2.5 to see how tender the meat feels. After a while you'll get a sense for the look and feel of meat that is tender but succulent and not cooked to death.
6. If you're one for experimenting, trying pulling a cube or two of meat for taste-tests at half-hour intervals to get a sense of what's going on in your pan at various points in the process. Fun, educational, filling.
Hope that helps.
re: rjbh20
Would kindly disagree, rjbh20. If you're "working hard" at a dish and feel like you're failing it's not overthinking to simply ask if the ingredients are part of the problem. And different cuts will certainly lend different flavors and get tender at different times. Cheers!
Texas chili purists won't agree with this practice, but I like to sear steak (something tender with good marbling, like flap meat) to medium rare, then cut it into small cubes and add it to my chili right before serving. I love the flavor of medium rare meat in chili and this is the only way I know of to get it!
re: biondanonima
Ooh, that's a good idea. Sort of like a well-made stroganof, which in my mind has MR beef.
re: sandylc
tri-tip or sirloin tip - tender, marbled, texas chili meat
re: biondanonima
Shank is the best cut for chili so it's good you're using it. It forms the bulk of my own recipe when I can find it. All that connective tissue breaks down and enriches the stock without adding fat. How does it come to you in the store? If it's a cross-section with bone, cut the flesh off the bone and carefully trim off any silverskin and gristle before cubing and browning it. The bone should of course go into the pot with the meat during the simmering stage.
Don't skimp on the simmer! Shank needs a long, slow cook to gelatinize the seams of tendon running through it.
This may be a touch over the top, but once in a while I can buy a whole Beef tenderloin fairly reasonably around here. ( Corrado's in Clifton, NJ or a local Hmart)
I stick it into the freezer to be used soon for a chili (or perhaps a goulash). I cut up the whole thing myself and it makes the most tender delicious pot of Chili!
No complaints! :-)
re: tangoking
Yup! :-)
Overkill, I know. But it sure tastes great and you can't beat the texture of the meat! Melts in your mouth!
I can justify the expense - this will serve a bunch of people and so it isn't all that much, compared to perhaps eating out or whatever....
I was told an awfully long time ago that the first thing to do is brown your meat, then add the chili powder or whatever dry seasonings you're using and fry all that together until the spices get dark and fragrant. Then you add the liquid. When I've done it that way with cubed meat - chuck or round, but tri-tip just got on my list (thanks!) - the chunks came out well-flavored and tender.
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It takes a special kind of community to support a farmer who wants to take an acre-and-a-half, road-base parking lot and nurture it into an urban farm with biodynamics. At Mountain Song Community School, a public charter school that follows Waldorf methods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, such a community exists and is pulling together to raise awareness concerning a priority for all of us — our food and how its grown.
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By Rebecca Briggs
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Biodynamic Association Executive Director Robert Karp recently drove from the BDA's home city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the Threefold Community in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Along the way he stopped to visit gardens and give talks on "Land, Labor, Capital and the Future of the Food Movement" at the Great Lakes Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Till Dynamic Fare in Columbus, Ohio.
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Now in its twenty-sixth year, the Community Farm of Ann Arbor (CFA) was one of the early adopters of community supported agriculture (CSA) and is a strong proponent of biodynamic agriculture. They began down the CSA path in the mid-80s by bringing Trauger Groh (who started one of the first two CSA farms in 1985 at Temple-Wilton Community Farm) to speak, after which they started their own CSA. CFA members are not simply consumers, but rather are true supporters of the farm, sharing in "a vision and a commitment to the health of people and the land" and providing both financial and moral support. Indeed, community support was critical to the farm's ability to secure land through a long-term lease with the Legacy Land Trust, which holds development rights to the land. Over the years they have hosted many apprentices, provided produce for nearly 200 members, and made a wide variety of improvements to the land to bring about the healthy, vibrant farm organism that exists today.
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Zingerman's Cornman Farms
Zingerman's began in 1982 as a delicatessen in Ann Arbor. Over the years it has become a nationally known specialty food store famous for sourcing from local sustainable farms, published a number of books on food and business, and established a unique business model known as the Zingerman's Community of Businesses (ZCOB). As they describe it:
In essence, and with due modesty, Zingerman's has become an Ann Arbor institution. In building on that success, the standard model would dictate opening dozens, or even hundreds, of additional Delis all over the country. Instead we decided to pursue a more unusual plan, one which we felt would allow us to build on what we'd successfully started while establishing positive growth opportunities for people within our organization. We chose to create what we call the Zingerman's Community of Businesses—a collection of Zingerman's businesses, each with its own food specialty, all located in the Ann Arbor area, each working to help make the shopping and eating in every aspect of Zingerman's more flavorful and more enjoyable than ever. In each business we've sought out a managing partner or partners so that there will be someone to bring the day to day passion and persistence that it takes to be really good at anything into play on a day to day basis. Paul and I are there to provide guidance, support, leadership and whatever else we need to do, which includes everything from writing this essay to lots of tasting, tracking down great food, contributing to the community, providing plenty of training classes, leadership work at all levels all the way through clearing tables and emptying the trash.
Through the ZCOB, independent businesses market under one label, meet once a week for partners' meetings, share their books openly, and often integrate their products and services (e.g. goat milk produced at a ZCOB farm going to the ZCOB creamery and then on to ZCOB restaurants).
The newest Zingerman's venture is Cornman Farm, which opened this May. This farm will integrate vegetables, goats, and cows and will follow all organic principles. Restored historic buildings on the farm serve as an event center, which can be rented out for weddings and other on-farm events.
By Jeff Schreiber
Originally printed in the June 19, 2014 Three Sisters Community Farm newsletter.
On our website you'll notice a running tally of where we stand in meeting this year's budget. To see the details of this budget – what we spend your money on, how much we pay ourselves – check out the February 2014 newsletter.
This transparency is important to us, and is in line with the kind of CSA Kelly and I try to steward. To us, CSA is not just another way to sell vegetables, but rather an exciting and radical attempt at creating an alternative food economy that works for farmers, consumers, and the land.
When you contributed toward this year's budget, you did so not to buy vegetables. Nor does your contribution pay for our labor. Instead, your contribution supports and connects you to the farm as a whole. As intermediaries between you and the farm, we use your contributions and our skills to steward the whole farm and bring to you, as a gift, the farm's bounty.
Why involve you in the "whole farm?" Why not just let you buy individual items – like a bunch of carrots – from us, as you would at a grocery store or farmers' market? The reason is that a bunch of carrots – or beets, peas or carton of eggs – cannot really be disentangled from a farm that is healthy and whole any more than an organ or limb can be disentangled from your body. Everything on the farm is connected by complicated and ever-changing relationships: the carrots to the soil, to the compost that we put on the soil, to the materials we use to make the compost, to the animals that contribute to those materials, to the feed those animals eat, to our labor…and on and on. The farm, with all these complex relationships, is really more of a verb than noun – a living process that emerges from the interaction of all the parts (of which you are one!).
Your contribution gives you a stake in this whole, and together we build an economy out of it. Since we all have a stake in the stewardship of this common resource of the whole farm, it makes little sense that we would abuse it or push it beyond its capacity. Viewing the farm whole, together, is environmental activism. It is also social activism, but that's a topic for another newsletter.
While we're always striving to be more economical in all we do, the whole farm does have a limit, a point beyond which it cannot be pushed without breaking down into a loosely strung-together, unsustainable collection of parts. We, your farmers, determine this limit and set the yearly budget accordingly.
You'll notice, however, that we have not yet met our budget. And we have filled all available CSA spots; we've reached the limit of what we think the whole farm can handle. Our budget shows how we hope to make up the difference: after each week's CSA harvest we sell, if available, the "buffer" harvest – the extra we plant to account for loss – at the farmers' market or other outlet. We enter "the market."
We'd prefer not do this, to be honest. We'd rather serve only those with a stake in the whole and give them the option of taking what they need from the farm's full bounty. The market is cutthroat, risky, and does not recognize the whole farm. If it rains and no one shows at the farmers' market, the produce we've harvested is wasted (well, it usually becomes chicken food!). If (as happened this week) a restaurant changes its order at the last minute, we haven't "just" lost 10 lbs. of lettuce mix; the whole farm is affected. To compete in the marketplace, we'd need to focus less on the whole and more on our era's twin values of successful business: profit and efficiency.
But profit and efficiency have not shown themselves to produce food that really nourishes people. Nor does a striving for these things seem to bring about healthy environments or communities. Given these facts, it would seem sensible to explore alternatives like the kind of CSA you're a part of. Trying to make this alternative work is an exciting, messy experiment that we'll keep working on, together. We're glad you've decided to join the ride this season!
Farmers Jeff Schreiber and Kelly Kiefer met while working at Wellspring, a Milwaukee-area farm-based educational organization. In 2011 they started Three Sisters Community Farm on Kelly's family's land in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, a community-oriented farm serving the greater Milwaukee area. Through their community supported agriculture (CSA) program, farmers' markets, and other direct-to-consumer sales, they meet the needs of those who seek quality, organically-grown food, and a connection with the source of this food, while also treading lightly on the earth and providing for themselves a quality and balanced lifestyle.
Transformation Inside and Out
Studying Biodynamics at Evergreen State College – Part 2
By Karen Davis-Brown
Part 1, "An Agricultural Odyssey into the Future," described the year-long course offered at Evergreen State College on biodynamics and the students' ten-day journey to EcoFarm and a whole host of alternative agriculture destinations on the West Coast.
"So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
[We]* turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
And through the music of the languid hours,
[We]* hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey."
— Andrew Lang
Every odyssey involves transformation for its participants, in the way they perceive the world and other people, and in the new experiences and relationships that are part of their journey. The Evergreen State College students who journeyed to the EcoFarm Conference on the central California coast in January were no exception. And, as many of them were in the last semester of their senior year, the conference also provided a new doorway into how to think about and approach the future.
Though the lenses through which they viewed their shared experiences were unique, their essays and journal entries reflected a common creativity, enthusiasm, and awe that in themselves are awe-inspiring and give one great hope for the future of biodynamics on this continent. There were also common themes regarding what they sought, and accomplished, on this weeklong trek they made with each other, farmers, viviculturalists, food-related activists, and several other students.
The Places and the People
So many people, so many places, in such a short time! It is no wonder that student notes and reflections are in themselves a collage of thoughts, feelings, and intentions. As Rukha Fuerst (who had visited many of the farms previously, on her own personal journey) so aptly put it:
The image of the vortex or the spiral has been particularly potent for me. I felt like I was reaching the center of a spiral during the field trip. Over 10 days I revisited the majority of the people, places, emotional states, and body experiences in totally new ways. I saw lessons that had come to me about patience, compassionate communication, presence, and consideration, resurface.
While the journey south may have been a whirlwind of experiences, the time at EcoFarm seemed to be a focused center of centrifugal and centripetal forces. At this organic conference with a strong biodynamic component, the Evergreen students were able to get a concentrated dose of diverse biodynamic concepts and applications in the pre-conference event "The Farm as a Living Organism," as well as to see the wide world of organic agriculture in its many manifestations in the larger conference. Their capacity to be simultaneously inspired and to reflect critically on what they heard and experienced stood them in good stead as they moved from workshop to keynote to World Café and less formal conversations, and to the beautiful ceremonies in which they took part.
Visits to the many farms, gardens, and projects up and down the coast complemented the conference with intense and fast-moving "snapshots" of current efforts and future possibilities. Educational, social, environmental, and artistic initiatives blended at most stops in ways that both enthralled and challenged the travelers. These experiences ranged from the social commitment of John Jeavons and the Golden Rule Community to the diversified family "compound" of Frey Vineyards; and from the pioneering efforts of Camphill California and the Allen Chadwick Garden at the University of California at Santa Cruz (spiritual birthplace of many a biodynamic practitioner!) to the courses and trainings offered by Rudolf Steiner College in the Sacramento Valley. From small family farms to the meaningful Sufi ceremony shared with them by Wali Via at Wintergreen Farm, their trip home through Oregon came to a weary but satisfying end.
The Basics
Despite the diversity of people and places that the class visited while sojourning up and down the coast from Washington to Central California, they were presented with an impressive consistency and agreement regarding the basic principles of biodynamic agriculture. This was the case (no surprise, really) even where the operation was not explicitly biodynamic, confirming the observation that most of what Steiner gave us as indications we now know to be sustainable farming practice.
The primary biodynamic principle that was reiterated at almost every stop was the same one that Steiner used as the foundation for the Agriculture lectures – the importance of relating to any agricultural entity as an individual and whole organism. The connection was then consistently made, both at farms and at the conference, between this basic principal and others – the importance of diversity and rhythm, building soil and compost, applying biodynamic preparations, having animals, minimal inputs from outside the farm, the relationship between Earth and Heaven, and the lemniscates of the farmer's inner and outer work.
Rudolf Steiner often said that we should not take anything he said at face value, but to observe, examine, and be open to others and to the spiritual world in our Search. The students who shared this odyssey not only gathered information, they generated eternally living questions and participated in endlessly nourishing conversations that will stimulate and guide them for a lifetime. Ruekha followed up her comparison of the journey as a vortex with this observation:
I see the vortex shape in the cosmos, clouds, trees, animals, algae, people, skin, and DNA. Do our movements in the world follow the archetype of this shape? What about emotions? – Do emotions form the shape of a vortex? What about thoughts? Is consciousness itself a spiral? And what happens when we reach the center?
Good question.
The Future
Future plans for this amazing group of students range from the eminently practical to the ideal, from deeply internal work to external expressions of lifelong commitment to the Greater Good:
"I was able to make contacts with perspective employers and make real my ambition of compeleting a biodynamic apprenticeship upon my graduation." — Dianne Dotzler
"… "Biodynamic Principles and the Inner Path of the Farmer"…was a very interesting workshop to me because I'd just been studying the inner transformations of alchemy and then realized that everything that was being discussed about the inner path of the farmer was directly related to alchemy…. This workshop helped reinforce my understanding of biodynamics in relation to alchemy and the importance of working internally as well as externally." — Ian Dix
"This was my first encounter with a flowform; it is exciting to finally see one. I plan to do more research on them because I am fascinated with the vortex and spiraling concept of biodynamics, and 'enlivening the water.'" — Joelle Friend
"I find Henning to be an extremely charismatic and passionate individual. If I could figure out a way to obtain seed money, I would challenge myself to do exactly what Henning has already accomplished. A self-sustaining farm, living within his own means, and doing it biodynamically to boot!! He shared a few words with us — one of them, Oekonomia, meaning the stewardship of the farm and household based on natural principals. Those principles are in place to build natural and social capital. On the other hand, he shared the word Chrematistica, meaning the depletion of natural and social capital to build financial capital. These two words, one with the outcome of sustainability and the other of money really made me step back and think. If I am to pursue farming, who am I doing it for? Why am I farming to begin with? What do I want the outcome to be? These questions will be taken into sleep. " — Caitlin Spencer
"The trip was something I will cherish forever and I can't wait to find a home for myself somewhere sunny, with beaches and cute conventions that create community and serve really good, burning hot food. Oh, and surround myself with people who love dirt." — Ruekha Fuerst
"…in your mind you are a warrior. Work out of the power of your mind, heart, soul, and body and use the talents you possess to mimic and adjust slightly to the Omnipresent, looming influence of nature." — Dianna Schilling
Thank you, Sarah Williams and Evergreen State College, for making this course and this journey possible. You have changed lives in an exponential way! As more and more corporations and communities understand and accept the contribution that biodynamics can make to agriculture and society, parallel educational initiatives need to be developed across the continent. With the North American Biodynamic Apprentice Program (NABDAP) and other shared efforts, we can rest assured that they will blossom and grow!
* Lang said "Men" and "They," so this is a bit of author's license. — KDB
On the History of Controlled Heat Composting
Creating Humus on the Farm: The Controlled Heat Method of Composting
By Roland Ulrich
Excerpted from a newly published English translation of Roland Ulrich's Creating Humus on the Farm: The Controlled Heat Method of Composting (Outskirts Press 2014). The book is available through Amazon, Mercury Press, and, for quantity discount for booksellers and retailers, Outskirts Press.
Because this method is not so well known today, it can be helpful to learn how it came into being. Controlled heat composting is much older than one might think; one can trace its origins to the twelfth century. The Templars and Cistercians were ahead of their time, especially in their management of large farms and in their feeling of responsibility for the future of the earth and mankind. They knew about this method and they used it successfully. Ancient documents found in Spain and southern France testify to this.
Jean Pain was a modern pioneer of the organic movement in France; his use of this method influenced the development of permaculture. He wrote a book called Another Kind of Garden in 1979 (www.burlingtonpermaculture.weebly.com). As time went on, other people carried the development of this method, thus helping to preserve this knowledge.
Another of these outstanding personalities was Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (1899-1961), an important pioneer of biodynamic agriculture. He helped to birth biodynamics in the USA. With his knowledge of the controlled heat method, he successfully converted tons of city waste from Oakland, California into compost on a large scale and in a very short time with the aid of his biodynamic compost starter (a concentration of many types of soil bacteria), thus doing his part to adapt and preserve the method for us and future generations. As a microbiologist, scientist, practical farmer, and international advisor for soil fertility and compost economy, he made a fairly elaborate method understandable (The Compost Manufacturers Manual: the Practice of Large Scale Composting, Pfeiffer Foundation, 1956).
In addition to his other accomplishments, Dr. Pfeiffer developed a specific method of qualitative analysis, chromatography, to produce a picture or chromatogram, resulting in a picture of a substance or organism. The technique is used to research areas of agriculture such as nutrition, soils, and composts (Chromatography Applied to Quality Testing: The Art and Science of Composting, Dr. E. E. Pfeiffer, Biodynamic Literature, 44 pgs, 1956).
…The author of this publication has studied the principles of the controlled heat composting method many years. He has practiced and succeeded in modifying it for large-scale barnyard use. It has proven its value over many years of practical application. Although he makes no claim to the superiority of this method with respect to other composting methods, the product speaks for itself in the resulting quality and quantity of foodstuff produced; it is a fast and efficient method, thus serving as a great aid to good farm management.
Roland Ulrich, German born and bred, was educated as a gardener, forester, environmental engineer, and biodynamic farmer. His professional experience has been gained on three continents: Europe, Africa, and the United States. Since 1982 when he began to learn biodynamic agricultural practices, he has followed in the footsteps of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, who, alongside Rudolf Steiner, has been his spiritual and practical guide.
Creating Humus on the Farm: the Controlled Heat Method of Composting is a thorough and technical resource for individuals, particularly farmers, interested in how our suffering soils can be replenished and invigorated step by step in an efficient and effective manner.
Graindrops Launches in the U.S. Marketplace
By Rebecca Briggs
Communications Coordinator, Biodynamic Association
As we reported on our blog back in 2010, an innovative company called Graindrops was seeking to get started in the U.S. marketplace. This month, Graindrops finally launched nationally through Whole Foods Market.
Graindrops produces a unique probiotic beverage that is both gluten- and dairy-free. It is made using a traditional Japanese fermentation process called Koji, the same process used to create soy sauce and miso. The rice Graindrops uses to make the Koji is 100% certified Biodynamic®. The company's goal is to steadily increase its use of certified Biodynamic ingredients as the supply becomes available in the U.S. They have also committed to donating a portion of all their profits to support the work of the Biodynamic Association.
There's a lot of exciting momentum in the Biodynamic marketplace right now, with Graindrops just one of a host of new and existing companies committed to Biodynamic agriculture. Our spring issue of Biodynamics, for example, shares the stories of several of these companies. (The issue is available to BDA members online and is arriving in mailboxes this month.) Demeter USA, the Biodynamic certification organization in the U.S., has been working actively to help grow the Biodynamic marketplace. They've connected with many interested national retailers and organic food companies and are now seeking farmers to grow certified Biodynamic foods. You can find out more about Demeter's initiatives during several workshops this November at our 2014 Biodynamic Conference, "Farming for Health," in Louisville, Kentucky, as well on their website and in their Spring Gazetteer.
And if you are a farmer growing certified Biodynamic® grains, Graindrops would love to hear from you!
By Heather Thoma, LoonSong Garden
Originally published in the Society for Biodynamic Farming and Gardening in Ontario's May 2014 e-newsletter
Paul and I have lived on Manitoulin Island near the northern part of Lake Huron for just over 10 years, and have been cultivating connections through food, farming, gardening, and community education the whole time. We started LoonSong Garden the first spring we arrived, and we started our vegetable seedlings with Turtle Tree seeds before we even knew where we would plant them! We picked up our biodynamic preparations from Uli Hack that first spring as well, also before we knew exactly where they would go on the fields; we just knew we would be using them. We have farmed/gardened on two different farms: the first in Sheguiandah near the shores of Pike Lake, and the other where we have been for the last several years, in Little Current not far from the North Channel of Lake Huron, at the base of the Niagara Escarpment. This is where we live now as well, and which many people think of as the home of LoonSong.
While grains are a large-scale, full-time endeavor for Paul, gardening is something that can be more easily decentralized, and so I have scaled back the garden over the last couple of years. Rather than focusing on commercial growing and selling, I have instead focused my energies on education — supporting and inspiring others to grow their own gardens rather than depending on others to garden for them. Throughout the running of our CSA, attending markets, growing and milling grains, and using the biodynamic preparations and the planting calendar, education has been a key element of our work.
In the first few years after arriving, we helped to found the Manitoulin Community Food Network "to promote and support the awareness, production, and consumption of healthy locally grown foods." For many years this was a vibrant and diverse group, tackling issues and offering educational workshops, and meeting regularly for discussions and initiatives among farmers, health care professionals, teachers, parents, business owners, and members of the public. An annual Harvest Bounty Dinner was the Network's main event for several years, gathering up to 400 people for a local food meal along with entertainment or speakers, all organized by volunteer efforts. The Network helped to build great linkages between small-scale farmer and between farmers and eaters, weaving strong community connections.
I have worked with all of the of the seven First Nations communities on the Island (Wikwemikong, Whitefish River, Sheguiandah, Aundeck Omni Kaning, M'Chigeeng, Sheshegwaning, Zhiibaahaasing) over the years, helping to coordinate island-wide spring and fall Cross Cultural Local Foods festivals, which integrated learning about traditional gathering and cooking of wild foods with First Nations elders and learning and harvesting from local farms. I offer planting workshops with several of the First Nations communities each spring, to help build on existing gardening skills, support community garden development, and more recently to help the communities who are encouraging backyard raised-bed gardens for both young families and elders. When speaking about the Stella Natura calendar and biodynamic approaches with First Nations folks, they often remark that these are the ways that their aunties and grandparents worked in their gardens.
I am currently coordinating the Manitoulin Child Poverty Nutrition Task Force, which has been an inspiring collaboration between First Nations and non-First Nations partners for over four years now. We created a community Food Security Directory, which lists food and nutrition resources across Manitoulin — farms, school breakfast programs, farmers markets, food banks, health center nutrition services, etc. (available at www.childpovertytaskforce.com).
I have initiated a Good Food Box (GFB) pilot project in the last year with local grocers, and began a fruit tree gleaning initiative to gather fruit for the GFB. The Task Force will begin working with local farmers to support them in contributing to the Box this summer, and a "Grow a Row" project is starting up for residents across Manitoulin to contribute backyard veggies to the GFB. Screenings of an inspiring film about a comprehensive school and community gardening initiative in northern Manitoba called "And This is My Garden" have ignited lots of community excitement about engaging families in gardening; this is a film you may want to see if you are interested in this sort of community work.
This month marks the seventh season I will participate as classroom farmer support for the Kids Can Grow program. In this program, teachers in six schools and community groups across the island work with kids and volunteer farmer supporters, to plant and care for 10-15 different types of vegetable and flower seedlings in classrooms or community centers, from Easter until mid-June. They then sell the seedlings at farmers markets and community events as a fundraiser, or plant them in their school gardens, which they then care for over the summer. This program is a great mix of returning students who get hooked on growing plants and keep coming back to participate each year, and new students who come into the program learning from scratch. It is especially inspiring to see the students teaching each other as they go, and to hear how they then go home and teach their parents as well!
To be able to do more in-depth facilitating of Goethean approaches with smaller groups, I have been teaching workshops through another organization, 4elements Living Arts, where a colleague and I have been working with local artists to initiate projects, events, education, and research that link the arts, landscape, and community. With outreach through this interdisciplinary organization, I have the opportunity to offer workshops that cultivate holistic observational skills regarding the farm landscape and integrate art and science in hands-on, creative projects.
We have grown in many directions here over the last decade, and are excited to see what new developments and deepening of knowledge will come in the next 10 years, here on Manitoulin or in our work in other parts of Ontario. Please be in touch if you would like to know more about any of these initiatives!


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Troç: Asking the hard questions about Albania's future
Daytime soap operas, national sporting events, and million-dollar game shows litter the airwaves everywhere in the world. There is one programme however that sets Albania apart and it has become the pride of a country in transition. Troç, or "Straight Talk", is the youth driven television show for youth, by youth. The show raises the standard on how broadcast journalism is done in Albania, and the reporters are all under the age of 18. Troç is the first of its kind as a national programme with news and viewpoints from 11 bureaus all over Albania.
Troç is a television programme where pressing national issues are courageously discussed in a country where media was censored for 45 years. All of this is accomplished by young people who are not afraid to ask the hard questions, and as a result are creating positive change.
Youth just want their voices heard and that is the exact reason why UNICEF and Albanian National Television (TVSH) co-created Troç." The first episode was launched in February 2001. Today more than ever, it is time to listen to these young voices. Many issues are affecting the next generation of Albanians (42% of young people are under the age of 19), such as challenges in the education system, high unemployment and pessimism about future opportunities. Often youth issues are overlooked by the general public including government and media. To make matters more alarming, youth participation in the transition process is low.
Troç has set out to engage youth to bring children's rights issues to the spotlight. Youth volunteers range from 13-18 years old, and they are responsible for a large part of the show's production. They shoot and report on stories that are important to them, edit footage, and anchor the show—valuable vocational skills. As part of a national movement that is regarded as a legitimate source of information, self-confidence in these young people also increases their understanding that they can make a difference.
It is not just the youth who benefit from producing the show. With 63% of the country's population watching it is one of the most popular programmes on television. The opportunity to teach and let young people tell their story will have far reaching affects on journalism in Albania. Soon to be seeking careers in the field of media, these youth will set high standards for the way information is disseminated in this country. Troç allows this by raising serious issues and creating a culture of Albanians who discriminate about what they demand from television.
A large scale project like Troç requires the support of funders, which currently include among others the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). To maintain a sustainable program, adult facilitators have also been trained in raising funds. It is estimated that at each of the local bureaus $2500 per year is needed to run Troç. Adult facilitators serve as advocates for the show and seek support from local Albanian corporations. The idea is that Albanian philanthropists will one day take corporate ownership of a project that is specific to Albania, rather than have it funded by international organisations.
The landscape of broadcast journalism is changing in Albania, and so are the issues that it covers. Thanks to the UNICEF supported Troç programme, young people are speaking out and are being heard in a television show that is original, edgy and is nothing but straight talk.


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What Does 'Off Label' Mean in 2014?
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by Tom Norton Years ago, while sitting in an Rx company lunch room, I was listening to one of the company's top sales reps discuss the commercial progress a recently launched prescription was making. The rep said that the product was selling "OK" under its FDA approved, indicated therapeutic area. However, he quietly said, "It's […]
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By Leela Barham. The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) set out their proposals for value-based assessment (VBA) in March 2014. VBA is what value-based pricing (VBP) has essentially morphed into. Much work is going on behind closed doors to inform responses as the consultation closing date of the 20th June 2014 […]
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Turkey is remains a key destination for foreign investment, and the next five years should see renewed interest from pharma multinationals, says a new report by CPhI Worldwide. Although the Turkish government's price referencing system and fixed euro-lira conversion rate have presented a major obstacle for pharma growth, the report states that these pricing challenges […]
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Is the hallmark of innovation higher drug prices? The three leading justifications for sticker-shocking drug prices in the US, from the biopharma perspective, are: 1) it costs a lot to bring a drug to market;* 2) drugs – even very expensive ones – are cheaper in the long run since they prevent complications, hospitalizations and […]
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By Leela Barham. There has been a lot of concern about the decision to give the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) the responsibility to look at "highly specialized technologies" (HSTs, or orphan drugs to you and me). That decision was taken just as the NHS across England was going through major reform […]
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Asthma in dogs is a chronic respiratory problem caused mainly by airborne irritants such as cigarette smoke. It usually causes coughing and wheezing in the affected dog. Read on and learn more about the symptoms, causes, and treatment of canine asthma.
The two hallmark symptoms of asthma in dogs are coughing and
The cough may or may not be productive and is often triggered and worsened by exercise and excitement. A coughing episode may also end up with
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Wheezing is the result of a narrowing of the airways so that oxygen has to squeeze its way through. A narrowing of the airways has the potential to cause respiratory
difficulties. If your dog is wheezing, therefore, pay careful attention to his breathing. Signs of breathing difficulties include:
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How-to recover deleted emails from Outlook 2007 for free
I created a video on my YouTube channel showing how you can recover deleted emails in Outlook 2007. I am pretty sure that the technique demonstrated will work with 2003 or 2010 as well but I've only tested it using Outlook 2007.
This technique will only work if you haven't compacted your PST file since the time you deleted the email you are trying to recover. The basic steps are to back up your PST file, then you use a HEX editor to "damage" the file by overwriting a small section of the PST file. You then use the great utility ScanPST.exe that comes with Microsoft Office to repair the PST file. When you then open the PST file in Outlook, the emails you have deleted since the last time you compacted will be in your inbox. If you have deleted a lot of emails since you last compacted it is probably a good idea to try this with a copy of your active PST file. Then you can just open it in Outlook alongside your main PST and just move the email you want recovered back into your main folder.
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Thanks for sharing the info and the video.
It might make for a better demo video if you open the PST file in the HEX editor after you delete the e-mails from the PST file.
As it is now, you:
...open the PST file (with all of the test e-mails in it) using the HEX editor
...open the PST file using Outlook
...delete some e-mails
...empty the Deleted Items folder
...close Outlook (which writes to the PST file)
...damage the PST file via the HEX editor
...save the damaged PST file (with all of the test e-mails in it)
...run the SCANPST utility
...repair the PST file
...open the PST file via Outlook with all of the test e-mails in it.
So - it appears that the version of the PST file that you damaged/repaired still had the deleted e-mails in it because that version of the PST file was still in RAM via the Hex editor. I'm not familiar with the HEX editor that you show (I use PSPad). I know that there are some editors that will automatically reload a file that was changed by another app. I could not tell from the video if that is what happened. So I suggest that you not keep the version in RAM (via the editor) that contains all of the test e-mails.
My guess is that you have tested this using something like this order:
...open Outlook
...delete some e-mails
...empty the Deleted Items folder
...close Outlook
...open the PST file using the HEX editor
...damage the PST file via that HEX editor
...save the damaged PST file
...run the SCANPST utility
...repair the PST file
...open the PST file via Outlook
But it did not happen that way in the video.
I know how hard it is to do things in perfect order in a video :-(
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