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There has been much talk about the survival of the traditional media in the online era. Magazines have avoided much of the focus as it relates to the transition to their online presence. Why? It's likely because magazines are not a daily publication that has its weaknesses exposed by the more "real time" acquisition of information that the social web and search engines (to an extent) can provide.
Recently though there has been fallout in the magazine industry, as the venerable Conde Nast dropped some major publications. Along those lines major papers in the UK have introduced their version of having to pay for content. The latest and probably most recognized name to join the 'pay-wall' fray is The Eonomist. The Guardian reports


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Inspiring Spaces By Debi Treloar
I adore interiors that feel very serene and unpretentious, naturalness wins over perfectly polished for me. and I think each of these five beautiful rooms shot by photographer Debi Treloar are perfect examples of what I mean.
I believe this one is from Selina Lake's beautiful book. Stunning.
I was so super pleased to see that my friend Debi has a shiny new website and I really, really love it. Her work is exquisite and she's a beautiful person through and through. I only hope that someday again I'll be able to work with her because I'm already having a bit of Debi withdrawal, we did two books together and I got to know her so well that now I'm missing the experience of traveling and laughing and having long, meaningful chats and just working with someone so incredibly gifted. Debi, you're the bees knees.
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Olga@StardustDecorStyle commented
December 1st, 2012 at 10:12am
Mervi, aka tasselflower commented
December 1st, 2012 at 5:53pm
Really inspiring! I'm pinning these too. So pinnable. :)
My fave is that first one.
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Amberly commented
December 2nd, 2012 at 11:56pm
Wow. Amazing photos. The third one of the white bedroom is one of the most beautiful images I've ever seen. I also love the first shot – the potted plants, open window and the birdcage are so wonderful!
I am excited to check out her website now…
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Great use of up-cycling using the doors as walls. Was the green an original color or re-done? Any idea what color? Thanks.
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Carbon constraint and confiscation (CCS) record has prolonged been deliberate a middle-ground proceed to meridian change mitigation. It allows for a continued blazing of hoary fuels, namely coal, for appetite era though afterwards captures a CO2 before it can enter a atmosphere, pumping it low subterraneous where it is stored indefinitely. This would be a win-win conditions for both climate-hawks and a hoary fuel industry—if it were not so expensive.
Projects that simply constraint a CO and store it on site have proven uneconomical. Finding a blurb use for this CO2 severely increases a mercantile feasibility of CCS and, as a trade-off to assistance CCS along, a Obama administration has authorised a sale of CO2 to an doubtful buyer—oil companies. These companies siphon a CO2 into oil reservoirs, assisting to build vigour and raise oil recovery. This tactic has been used for decades though was never compared with meridian change slackening until now.
"By regulating prisoner synthetic CO dioxide, we can boost domestic oil production, foster mercantile development, emanate jobs, revoke CO emissions and expostulate innovation," said Judi Greenwald appearing before Congress in July. Greenwald is now a emissary executive of a Department of Energy's climate, environment, and appetite potency office; before fasten a DOE, she co-convened a National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, a consortium of hoary fuel companies, utilities, and officials that foster a process.
The Obama administration has upheld new manners requiring that all new spark plants contingency incorporate CCS technology. Republican lawmakers shot back, calling a manners "unrealistic" and portrayal a requirement as a newest source of Obama's "war on coal." To support in a transition, a DOE has so distant supposing $1.1 billion in appropriation for 6 CCS projects. The EPA has highlighted dual of these projects, receiving a total $858 million in sovereign funds, as a pivotal magnitude on a highway to emissions reduction. What was not highlighted was that both of these projects devise to sell their CO in sequence to make their indication commercially viable.
The irony is that in a routine of shortening emissions from energy plants, a Obama administration is radically providing subsidized prolongation feedstock to oil companies. The administration is also easing a regulatory weight compared with a process, with a EPA recently excluding CCS from a dangerous rubbish regulations. Using CO2 for oil liberation is distant from risk-free, however, and reductions in slip should be taken cautiously.
In 2011, an oil good operated by Denbury Resources blew out in Mississippi. Denbury had been regulating CO2 injection to boost a liberation rate on site and vigour had built to a indicate where a good caps ruptured, venting "carbon dioxide, oil and drilling sand for 37 days." In fact, so most CO2 was issued that it staid in surrounding lowlands, suffocating internal wildlife. As CCS record ramps up, a odds of accidents is firm to increase. Incidents like this are now rare, though they should offer as a warning that CO2 injection requires law and oversight.
The highway to emissions rebate will be rough and paved with ostensible contradiction. For now, it looks like a process directed during shortening a environmental impact of coal-fired energy will also effectively finance a country's oil producers.
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In 1958 Feenie and Zeke became the parents of triplets--Amie, Eric and Ted. Their births ushered in a uniquely satisfying period in the life of the Ziner family. They settled into an enormous old Hudson River Valley mansion in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Money was scarce, but space and a sense of life's possibilities were in ample supply. Joe, who became a printmaker, says of the life at Dobbs Ferry, "I was raised by working artists and so became one also. We never talked about money. We just learned how to do everything." And his brother Marc, now an advertising executive, agrees. "Mom and Dad," he says, "demonstrated their commitment to their children, their respective crafts and an unwavering love and respect for each other. In doing so, they gave each of us everything we need to live well, recognize, and even create good art." Eric, destined to become a blacksmith, identifies Zeke as his inspiration, "Growing up watching my dad working metal, I was amazed at the endless things that could be done with this medium. It became one of my life's passions and I am drawn to the material like a magnet." Eric is married to Melissa Greene, a ceramist whose extraordinary pots and bowls will be included in this exhibit. Her work reflects "the relationships between animals and the natural world, myths, rituals, women, families, daily life and the crafts of many cultures."
Each of the Ziner children learned not only how to "do" art but how to make it an inseparable part of their lives. "Growing up in a family of spatial artists has often led me to express myself visually," says Ted. "Art" according to Amie, a videographer and television producer, "is what we all did. I think of it as a spiritual process, a tool for self-exploration, and I absolutely believe everyone can access this process." Finally, it was Feenie who captured the exhilaration of the family's life at Dobbs Ferry in her book A Full House. "The house," she said, "made the improbable real and allowed everyone to believe in miracles."


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The available run/debug configurations are displayed in the drop-down list in the Run area of the main toolbar:
RubyMine provides the Run/Debug Configuration dialog box as a tool for handling run/debug configurations: create configuration profiles or change the default ones.
RubyMine suggests the following ways to create a run/debug configuration:
- Create a run configuration manually on the base of the default one, using the Run/Debug Configuration dialog box.
- Save a temporary run configuration.
- Mind also the important note.
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- On the main menu, choose .
- Click the run/debug configurations selector on the main toolbar.
- Press Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10Shift+Alt+F10⌘+RControl Alt RShift Alt F10Control Alt R⌘ F8, then press 0 to display the Edit Configuration dialog box or select the configuration from the pop-up window and press F4F4F4F4F4F4F4F12 or Ctrl+Shift+EF4⌘ Down or F4F4F3F4.
- To invoke the Run/Debug Configuration dialog box for a Ruby script, Rake task, or a test template, press RunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationRunConfigurationControl Alt F7, then choose Create <name> on the context menu.
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Run/Debug Configuration dialog box, click
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The drop-down list shows the default run/debug configurations. Select the desired configuration type.
The fields that appear in the right pane, display the default settings for the selected configuration type.
If you want to change the default run/debug configuration settings, expand the Defaults node, select the desired configuration type, and modify it as required.
For the new run/debug configuration:
- Specify its name in the Name text box. This name will be shown in the list of the available run/debug configurations.
Specify whether you want to make RubyMine check existence of the instances of the same run/debug configuration.
If you want to make sure that only one instance of the run/debug configuration is currently executed,
select the check box Single instance only. In this case, a confirmation dialog box will show up
every time you try to launch run/debug configuration, when one instance of the same type is still running.
If you click OK in the confirmation dialog box, the first instance of the runner will be stopped, and the next one will take its place.
If this check box is not selected, you can launch as many instances of the runner as required. So doing, each runner will start in its own tab of the Run tool window.
To use an existing configuration as a pattern, create its copy by clicking the Copy button on the toolbar, then change it as required.
- In the Before launch section, define whether you want to execute some tools or scripts prior to launching the run/debug configuration.
- Specify additional parameters depending on the configuration type. Refer to the descriptions of run/debug configuration parameters below the Run/Debug Configurations section.
- Apply the changes and close the dialog box.
Important note for multi-project usage
If a project has been created in an earlier version of RubyMine, its run/debug configurations can be lost, when such a project is added to another project, already opened in the same window.
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Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1875–January 31, 1966)
Did you know Elizabeth was cast as Mrs. Willoughby, the wife of the Greenwich, Connecticut justice of the peace who re-marries Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in an episode of I Love Lucy. The following year she was cast in the recurring role of … Continue reading
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Do you enjoy writing? This is a chance for you to make some money at it over the summer, and add to your clip portfolio.
The right person for this position would have excellent writing and editing skills; the ability to prioritize projects, handle multiple tasks, and meet deadlines; excellent attention to detail; strong organizational, interpersonal, and verbal communication; knowledge of various word processing, spreadsheet, database, and electronic filing applications; familiarity with Google Documents and other Internet-based applications a must. A background in journalism, writing, or English is preferred. Reporting, blogging, video, and Web-related editorial experience is a plus. A writing and editing test will be given to finalists.
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Despite many positive and encouraging results in U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation over the last decade, a variety of problems and impediments have emerged which significantly reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of joint efforts. The causes of these impediments appear to be varied in nature, resulting from political, legal, technical, managerial, bureaucratic, structural, socio-historical, and other issues. The committee and the workshop participants acknowledged the complex and interrelated character of emerging difficulties and impediments to cooperation, noting that no single remedy will be able to solve these problems. It nevertheless seems quite possible and useful to describe the experiences and lessons of cooperation and to identify opportunities, strategies, tools, and resources that may be useful in overcoming impediments to cooperation.
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The counselors tried to keep the children calm before meals. They lined them up by cabin in front of the dinning hall and preformed various stunts to pacify them until the tables were set. Sometimes they sang songs with hand motions:
"Baby Shark do do do do do do, Baby Shark do do do do do do, Baby Shark. Mama Shark do do do do do do, Mama Shark do do do do do do, Mama Shark, Daddy Shark do do do do do do " The song continued to tell the story of a woman swimming who suffered a shark attack and flew to Heaven. It was an annoying tune with gestures that involved little more than clapping your hands together in a vertical snapping motion. The eleven-year-old campers loved it. They sang it repeatedly when they got home and their parents cringed.
"JELLY BEAN!" someone called out, "tell us a joke!"
A short brown-haired counselor stepped onto a crate in front of the children. "Do you really want to hear a joke?" she asked.
The children shouted back that they did.
Finally a verdictAfter spending 4 grueling days at trial we finally have a guilty verdict with a life in prison sentence. Praise GOD . Shelley may now rest in peace...brokenheart471989
"On the Case with Paula Zahn"If you are familiar with this TV program by Paula Zahn, she is doing a story on my daughter Shelley's life and death. It will preview sometime in the near future. Please tune in if you can so you can see her artwork and the story of her life. I hope it turns out well and that everyone can see what a wonderfully talented, beautiful young woman she was.brokenheart471989


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Birmingham boss Clark rages at Yeovil over behaviour
Birmingham manager Lee Clark intends to make a complaint against Yeovil after accusing them of poor sportsmanship in the two side's Capital One Cup clash.
Clark saw his side progress on penalties after a 3-3 draw at Huish Park, but was left incensed by Byron Webster's equaliser for Yeovil to make it 2-2 in injury time of normal time.
The goal came after Birmingham goalkeeper Colin Doyle had kicked the ball out of play following an injury to Blues defender Dan Burn and Clark felt Yeovil should have returned the ball to his side.
Having gone ahead in extra-time through Luke Ayling, the Glovers then immediately allowed Lee Novak to equalise unchallenged, but the act did not appease a furious Clark.
He said: "I might be wrong but my parents made me grow up to be a good sportsman, win lose or draw.
"I'm going to go down the right channels to complain. I think something has got to be done.
"It's always easy to give a goal back when you're leading. We were winning going into injury time."
Yeovil manager Gary Johnson admitted he told his team to play on and not return the ball from the throw-in.
He said: "I apologised to Lee Clark at half-time in extra-time because, on reflection, it was ungentlemanly. However, we get a bit fed up of teams kicking it out for their own players here when we're trying to get a goal back.
"I wanted us to play on but I didn't expect the Birmingham side to stand still, and didn't expect Byron to hook a goal in.
"I think people should look at this. How many teams are going to kick the ball out for their own players in the last minute?
"I apologise to the Birmingham fans, staff and players, but this kind of thing is happening too often at the minute."


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H Drol: The Bodybuilder's Assistant
Bodybuilders are always looking for the latest and greatest way to put on lean muscle mass. This is simply the nature of the bodybuilding game. H Drol, a muscular enhancing supplement, is designed to improve the overall look and feel of your physique. Rather than continue to put on muscle mass at random, you can steer the production toward lean muscle growth. H Drol is the perfect bodybuilding assistant for anyone looking to increases the production value of their lean muscle mass.
The H Drol matrix hits your body fast, negating the hassle of absorbing the ingredients. There is no need to cut or score your pills to engage the activation of the ingredients. Instead, you just take H Drol and it goes to town on the inside of your body. Along with the maximum absorption, you also get to enjoy the sensation of the ingredients for a prolonged period of time. The ingredients stay in your bloodstream and they cycle throughout your body, rapidly and efficiently.
Individuals using H Drol have reported astonishing weight loss and muscular growth effects. Most have commented on the rapidity of the supplement taking effect within their system. Rather than waiting around for it to activate, you merely go about their business as normal, because it works that quickly. Every user that has taken advantage of H Drol has reported some increase in muscular results and strength. When you are ready to take your muscular results to the next level, H Drol will be here.
There are numerous factors that can play into the effectiveness of H Drol. To help you grasp some idea of how effective it will be for you, here is a list of those factors:
- Weight: Your overall weight will affect how effectively the ingredients are dispersed.
- Bulking vs. Cutting: The current cycle will affect your resulting muscular growth.
- Supplement History: The supplements you have taken previously will slightly alter the effects of H Drol.
- Physiology: Your body's reactions to H Drol can vary from someone else.
- Age: No one under 21 should take H Drol. It is too powerful and can potentially harm your development.
H Drol has been tested in a laboratory setting, and the results have shown it to be a high quality product. If you are a consumer looking to enhance muscular growth, H Drol is the perfect supplement to get you the body you want.
The Beach Body: Beware the Benign Effects
Countless individuals want to look good, feel great, and have a body that is irresistible to others. Regardless of gender, people want to look good in their bathing suits. They want their muscles to look ripped, but not actually be ripped. In the fitness world, it is known as the "beach body," something that only looks good, yet is unable to actually perform as expected. If you have a beach body, there are some hidden dangers you should know about.
One of the worst things about the beach body is the inability to actually perform intense exercises. Your muscles look like they should be strong, but they are nowhere near the level of strength they would be at if you actually utilized them. They are there for aesthetic purposes only, which can actually be dangerous for your body. When you go to use the your muscles, you may overexert yourself and damage them, causing potentially irreversible damage to your muscular tissue. Instead of a beach body, you are left with a broken one.
Working out for the sake of improving your image can be potentially damaging to your psyche. Instead of feeling great about your health, you are focusing on your personal image. Some individuals become obsessed with their bodily image and control it to compensate for something they are lacking in their life. This can lead them down the road to an eating disorder, where they must perfect the way their body looks at all times. Then, exercise has become the complete opposite of what it was meant to be:
If the individual is not performing exercises for the sake of producing real muscular results, they most likely are not eating a balanced diet. The lack of proper nutrients can potentially harm your system more than the actual exercises. After an exercise, your body needs the nutrients to repair any damage that occurred. If you do not have the nutrients needed, you will become catabolic and your body will leech nutrients from your muscle tissue.
Rather than continue to pursue a beach body image, you should be talking to your doctor about how you can actually produce some substantial muscle growth. This muscle growth will give you the body you want and will not put your system at risk of any harm. It is the best of both worlds, but it will take some effort on your part.
Altered State – True Muscular Gains
For those individuals out there that do not get enough from their current workout supplements, Altered State is here to rescue you from your supplement drudgery. Altered State utilizes a nitric oxide vaso-reactive shock therapy to push your muscles past their current limitations. Without Altered State, your body has specific set limitations that inhibit your ability to put on muscle mass. With Altered State, the only thing limiting your muscular growth is the amount of time you dedicate toward your workouts. The more you dedicate yourself, the more results you will see.
- Research And Results
It is very rare for a supplement designer to go through great research lengths. Normally, they will conduct minimal amounts of tests and studies, and then sell the product and grab up as much money as possible. Thankfully, Altered State has been put through over 300 research abstracts and studies, resulting in one of the most powerful fitness and nutrition supplements on the market. These studies concluded that Alter State's nitric oxide breakthrough is capable of dominating and destroying your current muscular growth rates.
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With Altered State, that all too familiar muscular pump will become as routine as waking up in the morning. You will find yourself aching for more frequent, harder workouts just to enjoy the sensation of plump, satiated muscles. All of those usual anxieties and worries of whether or not you can succeed and push through a whole workout will not hold you back again. Think of it this way: your body will ache and lust for the feeling of large, firm muscles. Altered State has been designed to force the individual into a situation where they want to workout and cannot say otherwise.
- Unrivaled Muscular Expansion
There are some supplements out there that only talk about getting you some muscular results. These are not the products that you want to take. You want the products, like Altered State, that get you the real results you have always craved. The difference here is in the ingredients and the research backing the product. Without a solid scientific basis, the product is nothing more than cheap-talk. Altered State can get you ripped, toned, pumped, and firm.
- True Effort Gets You Muscles
There is not a single supplement on the market that can get you results without some effort on your part. If you put in some time and actually work your muscles, Altered State will be there to help you out.
Swiss Navy, More than Lube
Swiss Navy in known for their lubes, but they have reached a whole new market. they have introduced two great products for the man who is looking to build muscle and increase their sex drive. Two Products that are helpful with sexual enhancement with men in the bedroom are Max Size and100% Testosterone Trigger.
Max Size male enhancement herbal formula is a unique formula of 20 all natural herbs including 500mg of Yohimbe (3% alkaloids) which delivers up to 15mg of Yohimbine HCL. Yohimbine HCL is the primary natural supplement listed in the Physicians Desk Reference to fight male impotence. Higher amounts have shown in studies to create side effects without increase in sexual performance and/or function. Each 2,000mg serving contains unique ingredients …(cnidium monnier, and xanthomelia scabrosa—found nowhere else in this product category are widely acknowledged as precursors for PDE-5 inhibition which serves as the body's building blocks to naturally larger and firmer erections). Swiss Navy upholds the highest quality standards and potency in an array of synergistic ingredients widely accepted as productive for this delicate subject. This product is a practical aid to use along with the penile exercise regimen of your choice. Over time, Swiss Navy male enhancement formula can exhibit improved results when taken daily as recommended for a progressive and natural sexual enhancement regimen.
When trying to increase sex drive you should also want to increase testosterone! 100% Testosterone Trigger:
- 100% Testosterone Trigger produces a lean ripped body. The ultimate blend to build a leaner body.
- A Supreme blend of 14 components to boost, stabilize, and free up testosterone
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Testosterone Trigger Uses:
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Creatine Supplement 4-1-1
Creatine Supplements are everywhere, but which one is right for you? Creatine is the most popular and effective bodybuilding supplement on the market. Everyone consistently using creatine is making HUGE, AMAZING gains! Anyone who is looking for big muscles, muscle growth, and quicker muscle recovery- look into supplementing with creaitne.
What is creatine?
Our bodies naturally make the compound, which is used to supply energy to our muscles. It is produced in the liver, pancreas, and kidneys, and is transported to the body's muscles through the bloodstream. Once it reaches the muscles, it is converted into phosphocreatine (creatine phosphate). This high-powered metabolite is used to regenerate the muscles' ultimate energy source, ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
Creatine is 100% natural and occurs naturally in many foods; therefore, it can never be banned from any sports or international competitions (unless they banned eating meat). Many foods especially herring, salmon, tuna, and beef contain some creatine. However, the very best source of creatine by far is creatine monohydrate because it contains more creatine per weight of material than any other source.
Creatine is bodybuilding's ultimate supplement, and for good reason. For one thing, creatine can significantly increase lean muscle mass in just two weeks. It is also responsible for improving performance in high-intensity exercise, increasing energy levels, and speeding up recovery rates. It's no wonder athletes who use it have such of an edge over those who do not. Soon nearly every athlete who competes will use it (if they don't already). Creatine's ability to enhance energy reserves in muscles comes from its muscle protein synthesizing action, while minimizing protein breakdown. This occurs because creatine has the awesome effect of super-hydrating muscle cells with water. It enhances muscles' growth too-making muscle fibers bigger and stronger.
Quite a few studies have been done on creatine to figure out why and how it works so well. There have been over twenty double blind (meaning neither the researchers nor the subjects knew who was getting what), placebo-controlled studies conducted on creatine in the past five years. They proved that creatine increased energy levels, resulting in increased strength, endurance levels, and recovery rates. Another unexpected benefit attributed to creatine was discovered as well: creatine accelerates fat loss, while building lean body mass!
Different types of Creatine:
Micronized creatine sets a new standard for creatine monohydrate supplementation by actually producing creatine micro-particles that are 20 times smaller than regular creatine powder. This process adds a small amount to the cost of the creatine that you buy, but it is well worth it!
Effervescent creatine is a popular choice for bodybuilder's and athletes. Many people prefer effervescent because it may give you less bloating, better taste, better absorption, and better solubility than regular powdered creatine. Also, the sugar in many effervescent products has been shown to help increase your body's uptake of creatine, which gives you even better results!
Liquid creatine products are supposed to be better for being absorbed into your body and better at not causing you to get bloated. Many people swear by them, but many people believe that creatine can not be stable in liquid form. If this is true, then liquid creatine products may be nothing more than sugar water. The jury is still out though!
Creatine Ethyl Ester HCL (CEE) is creatine monohydrate with an ester attached. Esters are organic compounds that are formed by esterification – the reaction of carboxylic acid and alcohols. However, regular creatine monohydrate is absorbed poorly by the body – and its effectiveness is dependant upon the cells ability to absorb it. The poor absorption rate of regular creatine monohydrate requires the creatine user to ingest large dosages of creatine to achieve desired effect. Because creatine draws water to the cell, and because most ingested creatine monohydrate is not absorbed, unabsorbed creatine will sit outside of the target cell with the water, and this will result in the "creatine bloat."
Kre-Alkalyn is "buffered creatine" that does not convert into creatinine prior to reaching skeletal muscle tissue. Kre-Alkalyn is a nutritional supplement that comes in powder form. It is packaged in a purple caplet that can be administered orally. Kre-Alkalyn is manufactured by All American Pharmaceutical Corporation and is registered under United States patent 6,399,661.


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When tasted last year, the 2008 Chardonnay Cuvee Indigene came across as somewhat monolithic, but it blossomed beautifully in the barrel and now from the bottle, it appears to be a striking example of Chardonnay from Peter Michael. Buttery, honeyed tropical fruit, spring flower, white peach and citrus aromas jump from the glass of this aromatic 2008. On the palate, it is deep, rich, concentrated and almost as big, full-bodied and layered as Peter Michaels flagship, limited production Chardonnay called Point Rouge. The stunning Cuvee Indigene has come on like gangbusters over the last year.
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Rich, exotic aromas of tropical fruit, fig, melon, spice and honeysuckle lead to a full body in this expansive wine. This gains mineral and subtle hazelnut notes on a long, lingering finish. Drink now through 2017.
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Bright yellow-gold. Precise, high-pitched aromas of citrus peel, quinine, white flowers and tarragon. Juicy, fine-grained and youthfully imploded, with silky pear and orange flavors and some youthful acidity accentuating the intensely mineral quality of this pungent wine. Not at all a fleshy style but seriously concentrated. Finishes tight and extremely persistent, with continuing floral and mineral qualities. 93(+?)
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Last week approximately 48 pounds of tomatoes made it into my kitchen (from our own garden and the farmer's market) and were either eaten fresh, or transformed into something delicious and safely canned.
Twelve pounds of those tomatoes became ketchup. I'm not going to lie, the process is much more involved for ketchup than mustard (remember when I made mustard?), but the results are spectacular, especially if you're interested in reducing the sugar and preservatives in your diet.
I used the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving recipe for tomato ketchup and learned a few things in the process:
What is your favorite way to use tomatoes? The season may be coming to a close, but I'm still dreaming.
rbaldwin on October 17 at 9:44 p.m.
This looks great! I am looking forward to trying this myself. Thanks for the info!
mbullock on October 19 at 8:42 p.m.
Let me know how your batch turns out! I hope you like the recipe.


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Thread: My little springtime blossom
June 7th, 2013 10:19 AM #31
Oh Angel, many congratulations to you and the proud Daddy.
Persephone is absolutely beautiful.
I love the name, absolutely adore it.
Welcome to the world (and the Nameberry family!) Persephone.
xx♥ Margaret Mary ♥
20. Name nerd. College sophomore. Identical twin.
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June 7th, 2013 12:56 PM #33
She is adorable and her name is stunning.~Mehri
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Congratulations Angel!! Persephone is so beautiful, and her name is fab. Elysia! Swoonerama.
Sounds like the birth went well.
Since you posted about it before (hope you don't mind me asking) how was the fear/pain aspect once you were in labor?
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Congratulations! Beautiful baby with a beautiful name.
June 8th, 2013 01:19 PM #39
@ Emma -- actually, once I got in there, the fear completely went away. As a matter of fact, I didn't even feel the contractions for a good long while. I didn't feel them till I was closer to 5 cm dilated and then they just hit really hard, which is when I had a low dose epidural. I hit 10 cm about 3 hours later at which point I told the nurse "Hey, I'm feeling new things so you should check me." They did, and an hour and a half later, Persephone was here. It didn't so much as hurt during the pushing as feel like intense pressure. It didn't hurt nearly as bad as I thought it might and the L&D nurse said she'd never seen anyone push the way I did. I ended up on my side holding on to my ankles with my legs pulled up.
All in all, I'm very happy with how it went.
Here's the photo link for the online announcement. http://www.conwayregional.org/SeetheBabiesMother, Hellenic Pagan Priestess, and Resident Greek name expert ^_^ Call me Dantea or Remy
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Persephone Elysia Willow -- June 5th 2013
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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
You can make your own teas from common herbs growing in your garden or to spice up store bought teas. A few common herbs you may have growing in your garden for your own home grown tea-bergamot, chamomile, lavender, lemon balm, lemon verbena, lemongrass, mint, rosemary, sage, stevia for sweetening, thyme. (Left image: Savory in foreground, thyme on left, edible day lilies in background.)
Bergamot, or bee balm, has a scent reminiscent of Italian bergamot orange. You can dry or use fresh, steeped for 10 minutes by itself or add to store bought black tea to give it the same type of flavor as Earl Gray tea. Bergamot was used as a tea substitute in the colonies after the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Its flowers are also a great bee attractor and come in white or numerous shades of red and purple. Native Americans used it as spice for fowl and medicinally for its antiseptic properties, headaches, fever, and upset tummies. Bergamot is of the mint family so can be aggressive in the garden. M. didyma contains the highest concentration of oil.
Chamomile is used in potpourri for its scent, in supplements, tonics and teas for its calming properties, in facial steams/hand soaks to soften and whiten skin. Use the flowers fresh or dried for tea.
Lavender leaves or flowers can lend a floral note to teas. Lavender tea is used to sooth nerves, headaches, and dizziness. Its use as a potpourri is legendary. It is also great to put in closets to not only provide great scent, but also protect clothes from moths. It is also used as an antiseptic tonic for acne or to speed facial cell renewal. Lavender is also a typical ingredient in Herbes de Provence.
You can also make a syrup from lavender to add to desserts, adult beverages, homemade sodas, and teas. Boil 6 stalks of lavender in 2 cups of water and 1-1/2 cup of sugar at a simmer for 15 minutes. Let sit in refrigerator overnight, strain into bottle and keep refrigerated.
Mint comes in many flavors-grapefruit, pear, pineapple, lemon, lime, and orange. There is even a chocolate mint! Mint will take over a garden if left to its own devices. Either put a ring around it at least 3 inches deep to keep it from spreading underground, cull runners frequently or put in a pot. Mint loses much of its flavor when dried so fresh is your best bet. Bees love mint flowers!
Other herbs that impart a citrus note are pineapple sage, lemon balm, lemon verbena, and lemon grass. Pineapple sage is used for depression and anxiety, to aid digestion, and is antiseptic and anti-fungal. Lemon balm tea is commonly used for cold relief and to relieve tension and depression. Fresh leaves have the best flavor. Lemon verbena is also used for cold relief, upset stomach, and is mildly sedative. It is a wonderful addition to potpourri and is grown as an annual. Lemon grass is a tropical plant which any part of the stem can be used as a tea. It is considered revitalizing and antiseptic.
I have not found a rosemary that survives the winter here in our Zone 6, but I keep trying. ARP and Barbeque are two types that are rated down to Zone 5 that I am growing this year. I am going to add some extra straw cover in early winter to give them more protection. I just love the scent of this herb and as an addition for cooking. Rosemary is thought to aid in digestion and joint pain. Use fresh or dried.
Thyme is thought to be beneficial for hangovers, digestion, coughs and colds, along with being one of the staple culinary herbs. Teas can be made with fresh or dried leaves. English wild thyme is the strongest for medicinal qualities, but any can be used. Thyme also comes in lemon, lime, and orange as well.
You can also add a fruit to your tea for a new twist. A neighbor recently shared that she had some blackberry sage tea that was heavenly. You can easily make this yourself! Use dried sage (left image) and either fresh or thawed frozen berries. Simply crush the berries for a teaspoon of juice and add to your steeping sage tea. Yum!
The only limits to homemade tea from homegrown ingredients is your imagination! Herbs have so many healthful properties. It just makes great sense to take advantage of their benefits and taste in warming teas. A beautiful finishing touch would be to add edible flowers or a sprig of the herb as a garnish.
Stevia is a recent arrival to the US herb scene, but has come on strong in popularity. It is a super sweet, super antioxidant, with zero carbs, and zero calories. Stevia is native to tropical regions; it is well suited to container growing. The trick with stevia is a little goes a long way. Add too much and it goes from sweet tasting to bitter.
If you want real tea, you can grow tea plants in pots. They are easy to grow. Otherwise, there are great herbal options!
For more tips on organic small space and container gardening, see Melodie's blog at www.victorygardenonthegolfcourse.com
The ripening time of a particular fruit varies from one location to another and from year to year, though the order in which varieties ripen stays roughly the same.
In this first part of our three-part series on fruit processing, we'll focus on figs, sea berries, shipova and cornus mas. Part two will talk about aronia, grapes, kiwi, nuts and paw paw. Part three will be about apples and pears.
Figs Aren't Just for Cookies
Figs are ready when the fruit fully droops from its own weight and is soft. The breba crop (over-wintering crop) typically ripens in August. In September the alpha (spring initiating) crop starts expanding and ripens in areas with hot summers, in October or November.
In the Pacific Northwest, our cool fall temperatures prevent the fruit from maturing. If this is your experience, you may be able to hasten the ripening in the fall, and pick that second crop, by applying a bloom fertilizer when the fruits are about nickel size late August or early September.
Bloom fertilizers are high in phosphorous, which supports growth of the reproductive parts of the plant. A fig fruit is an ovary, and the bloom fertilizer encourages it to start and keep expanding. Use a water soluble fertilizer, so the phosphorous is immediately available. Desert King is particularly rich tasting if you wait until the skin takes on a brown gnarly look.
Sea Berries are ready to harvest when the fruit starts to soften and you no longer taste the astringency. The ripe fruit will have a combination of sweetness and acidity.
The fruit can be harvested by cutting whole branches and then working the fruit off the branches into a bowl. Or pick the fruits from the plant if your bush is young.
Use the juice to make jellies, syrups, or to mix with other juices. The raw fruit and juice are not recommended for fresh consumption in large quantity, as the high vitamin C content can cause nausea.
Shipova, a natural cross between European pear and mountain ash, benefit from being harvested before they are fully ripe, similar to the pear. Look for color change in the portion of the fruit facing away from the sun, from green to yellow. Cut a few fruit open, and check to see that the seeds are mature, deep brown or black. Shipova have a pear flavor when fully ripe, high sugar content, and firm flesh. They dry very well, and can also be canned.
Cornus mas are ripe when the fruits readily drop from the tree or are soft and no longer astringent. Yellow fruited cornus mas will be translucent and incredibly sweet when ready to eat.
The fruit tends to ripen unevenly, so check your bush regularly to harvest them fully ripe. Laying a ground cloth down and shaking the bush to loosen the ready fruit can work. Or harvest the berries at the firm ripe stage when they have turned from orange to red (or from white to yellow in the case of the yellow fruited), but are still firm; they will finish ripening off the bush at room temperature.
Process berries that are soft when harvested right away—they don't store well. The red varieties vary in flavor, and are usually preferred for cooking, rather than fresh eating.
Apples, tomatoes and potatoes, Oh My! How is it October? Where did summer go? I honestly felt very busy and productive during the season of making hay while the sun shines. Yet here we are, beautiful comforting slowing Fall. In our area of North Central Idaho the leaves are turning, the days golden, and the nights comfortably star filled.
After our late September county fair, I annually feel we are on the work of living downhill slide. Peaches line the pantry shelves and my blackberry abused fingers begin to heal. Applesauce simmers scenting the weekends with cinnamon. This is our first full calendar year on our homestead, and I am realizing that October is not for rest.
Our six discovered homestead apple trees are bursting with yellow and fluorescent red globes of free sustenance. The wild turkeys meander daily across the yard. A third of the potatoes are stored in a garbage can between layers of newspaper, the remaining rows still upright and green with life. I have spinach sprouting in my birthday gift cold frame (rough cut timber and a re-purposed double pane sliding glass door.) The tomatoes are ripening for dear life in face of the cold nights, 15 pounds last weekend alone. 12 gallons of wild blackberries stacked like antioxidant bricks in the deep freeze.
My weekly list includes apple and pear picking forays to now wild trees around the county, my apple hoard now 6 large boxes. I have wanted a cider press for years, searching classifieds and yard sales alike. Thanks to social media and good fortune, friends from Peck, Idaho offered their turn of the century model free for the taking. The Elsbury family was kind enough to let us drag the behemoth out of their hayloft where the press and cast iron grinder was placed by tractor five years ago. They felt the press was akin to a quilt, meant to be used.
So the apple picking race is on, there isn't a tree within 30 miles safe from my cider desires. Armed with Jenna Woginrich's hard cider recipe and bees still churning out honey, Apple Jack is imminent. I can't say I don't have moments where the list seems too long and it's contents too perishable to be possible. But ten feet up in an apple tree with audible wing strokes as a hawk flies above on a fine October Sunday soothes my urgency, and reminds me that the gift of this life, of this sustenance making journey, is as sweet as Fall cider.
In America, there are wild Alliums known as wild garlic or ramps. The onions we cultivate in our gardens today likely originated from a wild Asian onion, but has been grown so long, the road back to the original is lost. Two thousand years ago, there were many varieties that we would recognize today. There were round onions, white onions, red onions, flat onions, long onions, keeper onions, sweet onions, spicy onions. Onions have been important for their perceived health benefits in times gone past and proven health benefits today as well as the fabulous taste they add to an array of dishes.
Onions are easy to grow, have little to no pest problems and are a perennial to boot! Onions have shallow roots, like to be moist, but can't stand being waterlogged. You should enrich the soil with plenty of organic matter before planting. As common sense would tell us, they also like loose soil. Organic matter helps this along. Onions can be grown in the ground or in pots. My perennial Egyptian walking onion has been growing in its pot for 8 years.
In the Midwest, seeds can be started indoors in early February and transplanted outdoors in March. Transplanting should be done 4-6 weeks before the last spring freeze for spring planting. Since onions are perennials you can also plant in the fall, October for our Zone 6/7 garden. For multiplier type onions or Egyptian walking onions, fall planting will provide a bigger harvest next spring and summer.
You can place them close together and pull for scallions until the bulbing onions are 5-6 inches apart. As the bulb reaches full size, you can pull the soil away from the top of the onion to help the bulb and neck cure for harvest.
You can also plant the bottoms of store bought onions. If you get enough of the bottom, the onion will take root and give you an onion next season.
Onions tell you when they are ready to harvest, when half of their tops fall over. What can be easier than that? Like garlic, they should be lifted rather than pulled from the ground and leave them in shade for about a week to harden. I use a trowel to dig under the bulb and pop them out. You don't want to nick them or they will not store well. If you do, keep them in the fridge and use them first.
So, how do you choose which onions to plant? The best bet is to talk to your local nursery to see which grow the best in your area for the ones that thrive in your climate.
There are 3 types of bulbing onions: short day, intermediate day, and long day onions. Intermediate and long day varieties have been around for a long time. Short day onions are relatively newcomers. Onions are sensitive to daylight hours. They start forming bulbs when daylight hours hit a minimum. For long day onions, it is 15 hours. For intermediate, it is 12-13 hours. Short day onions are 9 to 10 hours.
I would have thought long day onions would be for further south, but this is wrong. The north gets the really long summer days (think of Alaska in June with no darkness). Long day onions should be planted in states north of the Oklahoma/Kansas border (approximately 36 degrees latitude). Long day onions are planted in states in the northern part of the US. Intermediate in the middle and short in the South. Short day onions are planted in the fall and form bulbs in the spring. Intermediate and long day onions are typically planted in the spring as sets, not seeds. Seeds require sprouting indoors and transplanting. So, if you want a sweet onion and live in the Midwest, Vidalias are not the best bet since it is a short day type. A better choice is a Walla Walla or a Sweet Spanish.
The other thing to keep in mind is that, like wine, onions pick up the terroir they are grown in. You can grow the exact same onion as you buy in the store or at a farmers market but have a different taste because of the differences in your soil.
There are many fun onions to grow besides the round ones. There are the flat disk like Borrettana Cipollini or the Red Baron onion that is a red scallion type onion. Of course, there is the onion made famous in French cooking, the shallot-French, Gray or Sante are well known varieties. Then, there are onions for keeping over the winter like Rossa Di Milano, Early Yellow Globe, Sweet Sandwich, and Granex Yellow.
Onions will also keep over another year. When onions I planted last spring did not get to decent size, I left them over the winter. They gave nice bulbs in the summer.
Another type of onion is the Egyptian walking onion. It is a perennial that you can pull year round. They do not form bulbs. They are about the size of a large scallion or leek, getting an inch or two wide and 3" long bulb. They also grow great in a pot. When they get their bulblets, they remind me of Medusa. Really cool. You just snap off the bulblets and plant them for more onions next year. They also multiply underground year after year. They are one of my must haves in the garden since they can be harvested year round. Their bulb is great as a cooking onion and their greens as a chive.
Onions are a great addition to the garden. They are perennials, easy to grow and have little to no pest problems. I really like the perennial type onions, the Egyptian walking onions and multiplier onions like potato onions. The Egyptian you can just leave in place and harvest from year round. The multiplier potato onion has a very long shelf life indoors for a storage onion. When you harvest it, just leave behind the smaller onions and they will multiply again for next year's harvest.
For more tips on organic gardening in small spaces and containers, see Melodie's blog.
Photos: top, Egyptian walking onion; middle, bulbing onion.
I wrote "In praise of West Indian Gherkins" on my blog on September 23, 2014.
After a few years of growing many varieties of pickling cucumbers and getting too many pests and diseases, we went outside the box in 2013 and tried some West Indian Gherkin seed from Monticello, where they used to be grown by Thomas Jefferson (and some of the enslaved people, no doubt). These are not closely related to actual cucumbers, but are used similarly. (They are not the same as Mexican Sour Gherkins, either.) I saw them growing in the Monticello garden when I was there for the Heritage Harvest Festival in September 2012, and they are certainly robust and productive in hot humid weather. This seems like a great crop for disease-prone gardens – no trouble with cucumber leaves turning yellow!
West Indian Gherkins are prolific and drought-tolerant, and show no sign of any of the many cucumber plant diseases or pests. Because the healthy vines cover the ground, there is no room for weeds, making it an easy crop to grow. Our pickles turned out well and are becoming quite popular! We grew even more this year. Next year, I want this to be the only pickling cucumber we grow! It is a rambler (long vines) so maybe a trellis would be wise if space is tight.
Because West Indian Gherkins are open-pollinated and don't cross with actual cucumbers (or watermelons, despite the look of the leaves), we save our own gherkin seeds, and a little money in the process. In late September this year, I harvested four 5-gallon buckets of gherkins (one for seed, 3 for pickling) from a 50-foot row we abandoned over five weeks previously. These plants survived that period just on rainfall, as we pulled out the drip tape back when we thought we were done. And there was only about 3-inches of rain, almost all of it in one week, with nothing in the other four weeks.
Before I saw these gherkins growing at Monticello, I had no idea of their existence. Now I'm starting to hear about them in more places.
William Woys Weaver, author of Heirloom Vegetable Gardening wrote about them for MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 2008. He discovered that they originated in West Africa, rather than West Indies, and that they can be pickled, eaten raw or cooked like zucchini. Read more.
Seed is available from Monticello, Seed Savers Exchange, Trade Winds Fruit and Reimer Seeds. These round cucumbers with soft spines are an unusual and attractive crop. When first forming, they look like miniature watermelons, and might lead to that old question "Is a cucumber a fruit or a vegetable?" Botanically a fruit, in the kitchen, a vegetable.
I've learned that West Indian Gherkin is resistant to some species of Root Knot Nematodes, so we plan to grow it in our hoophouse as part of our rotation of nematode-resistant crops for a bed there which produced some gnarly-rooted tomatoes this year. We'll get soooo many pickles! It's a very productive crop for us. I wrote about our struggle with RKN in the November/December 2014 issue of Growing for Market magazine. We have been growing a series of nematode-resistant cover crops in the winter and spring, and solarizing the bed in the summer. Now we're ready to grow some of the more resistant food crops and seed crops. After that, some resistant varieties of susceptible crops.
See my blog to read more about our nematodes.
Here is our first (baggy) attempt at solarization in the hoophouse.
Early this September the pickleworm arrived in our part of Virginia. This tropical insect, Diaphania nitidalis overwinters in south Florida (and maybe south Texas) and spreads up the east coast each year. It regularly reaches South and North Carolina in August or September. This is the first time I've seen this pest on our farm. I've read that it can reach as far north as Michigan and Connecticut some years. We're reassured that it can't overwinter here, and that we could get at most 3 generations. Sort of reassured.
The adult is a night-flying moth, which lays tiny eggs on buds and flowers. Despite the name, this pest likes yellow squash more than pickling cucumbers. (And winter squash, gherkin and cantaloupe can be colonized if necessary, as poor third choice crops.) We first found ours on Zephyr yellow squash and initially the neighboring Noche zucchini was untouched. But yesterday some of the zucchini also had holes.
Read more about the pickleworm on my blog. It looks like growing gherkins rather than pickling cucumbers will help us avoid damage from that pest, too.
The extension website publication Biology and Management of
Pickleworm and Melonworm in Organic Curcurbit Production Systems by Geoff Zehnder of Clemson U provides useful information.
For pictures of pickleworm damage, see Sunninglow Farms blog. They are in Florida and posted in April. I shouldn't complain too loudly. It was September here before we saw them.
Photo Credits: Large pickleworm larva, Photo University of Florida; Hoophouse, Credit Kathryn Simmons; Root Knot Nemode, University of Alabama; West Indian Gherkins, Suzie's Farm
Summer gives way to Fall as the night air cools and the breeze comes out of the north. The summer garden's bounty is safely stored on shelves and in cellars. Time marches on. But wait! Could there be more to come from flowering plants on these crisp mornings? Yes! There will be another harvest and who doesn't love a good comeback? Especially when it's all said and done you're left with fresh, organic vegetables for dinner. Winner, Winner.
First came the grasshoppers, then the squash bugs and blister bugs, and as expected, blazing 100 degree heat and more severe drought; an all out attack on my garden. It was enough to make Mr. Green Jeans pack it in.
For the past month I battled the insects and the elements on a daily basis, finally getting some cooler nights and now, much to a grasshopper's chagrin, my garden is making a serious comeback. Take that you pesticide immune, genetically modified Frankenbugs.
Tomatoes, beans, peppers and okra are back in production after a month of stress and dormancy. The all-heirloom variety vegetables from Baker Creek Seeds, and my own seed stock saved over the past several years, have battled the elements and won. I'll take an assist by constantly watering the garden thru a drip and soaker hose system, and for liberal applications of garlic-pepper spray, Neem, BT, orange oil, Garrett Juice, and much hand picking and chicken scratching. Once I had picked everything this summer that was ripe, I turned the hens and a young rooster into the garden for a couple of weeks. The chickens rounded up the rest of the bugs and tilled up a few areas where I had harvested potatoes, onions, beans, carrots, chard and corn, plus added a touch of fertilizer. Now that's what I call round-up ready.
If there's one thing you'll always find growing in my garden, it's tomatoes. The old song is right; "there's just two things that money can't buy and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes." I love them all. Chocolate Pear (small pear-shaped fruit with a dark chocolate color and rich semi-sweet taste), Cherokee Purple (prolific bearer with large deep red and purple colors which have that homegrown tomato flavor, times two), Amazon Chocolate and Atkinson and I could go on forever. These heirloom varieties grow well in the hot and dry climate here in north Texas, and they'll produce fruit thru the end of the year if you protect them from the elements, water them and feed them. A few years ago we had fresh Cherokee Purple tomato slices with New Year's Dinner and I'm hoping for more of the same this year. I've already canned more than 50 pints of tomatoes, some with peppers and onions, so I'm hoping for another 50 jars by Christmas. Are you on my list?
I'm fixin' to plant lettuce, spinach, cabbage, chard and other cool season vegetables in the newly cleared areas. I've already added organic compost, corn gluten, molasses and blood and bone meal to the soil which I'm turning with a broad fork and keeping moist. I plant a few seeds of each veggie, then plant another round every week for 3-4 weeks. Hopefully it stretches out the "fresh from the garden" meals for a month or two.
Do your thing, Mother Nature. Let me know where I can help. Cold weather is coming so it may require covering everything in the garden with large sheets of plastic once December rolls around to get to one more harvest. I use four big pieces of plastic and bricks to cover four sections of my garden. Cover it at night, uncover it in the morning. Repeat. A second harvest of tomatoes, lettuce and beans on the way with some mild peppers on the bush. Will someone please pass the oil and vinegar?
Nothing is better than the nutrition-packed goodness of homegrown, non-GMO, organic vegetables. Fresh off the vine is best but don't kid yourself, an all heirloom vegetable pasta sauce with venison and wild pork meatballs would be worth the trouble as well.
Happy Meals, y'all. Happy Meals.
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There is a challenge going on in October that you should know about. It is the 10-Day Local Food Challenge that is being kicked off by Vicki Robin, author of Blessing the Hands That Feed Us. The challenge is to choose a block of 10 days in October 2014 and commit to only eating food grown within a 100 mile radius of your home. To sweeten the deal, you are allowed 10 exotics, which are foods you want but can't find locally. The exotics might include baking ingredients or the coffee you can't seem to live without.
In her book Robin relates her experiences eating only food grown within a 10-mile radius of her home for 30 days. She allowed herself 4 exotics: olive oil, lemons and limes, salt plus a few Indian spices, and caffeine. If you are serious about local food, and even if you are just curious about how someone could do that, you will enjoy her book. My book, Grow a Sustainable Diet, gets into planning to grow a substantial part of your diet, including the cover crops to feed back the soil. It also stresses the need to build community systems. What you don't grow yourself you should buy from local growers who have good soil building practices.
More than anything this challenge is an experiment in mindfulness. It gets you thinking about all aspects of what you eat. We are all responsible for how the earth is used to produce the food we consume. If you want the earth to be used in good ways, choose to eat food produced that way. For me, this seems like a fun, easy project, but that's because I have experienced Homegrown Fridays when I consume only what I've grown during the Fridays in Lent. I have already thought through what is important to me and what I can live without. I also grow staple crops and have written an article for Mother Earth News about that. My homegrown cornmeal cooked into a hot cereal topped with honey will be breakfast each day of my challenge. Learn more about me accepting the 10-Day Challenge at Homeplace Earth.
If you already have a garden, this is a good exercise to see how much it contributes to your overall diet. I know that by October the season is over for many gardens, but it doesn't have to be. Next year you could plan to have more to eat through the winter by harvesting from low tunnels or cold frames. You could also preserve more for eating all year or grow crops that can be stored without much fuss, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash, onions, garlic, peanuts, and grains. Many farmers markets now extend through the winter and some of the farmers have on-farm stores. If you have a CSA membership, taking the challenge will highlight what more is needed to complete your diet. If you enjoy the convenience of the grocery store, inquire about having your neighborhood grocery carry food produced in the neighborhood or at least within 100 miles or so.
While you are considering the origins of your food, besides the earth it is grown in, consider the workers who plant, tend, and harvest the food you eat. Are their working conditions acceptable to you? Besides being responsible for how the earth is used, we are responsible for the health and welfare of the workers who produce the food we choose to eat. If you haven't thought about these issues before, your 10-Day Challenge might be to become aware of the origins of your food and begin to align your choices with the conditions for the earth and for the workers that you deem acceptable. For those ready to jump into the 10-Day Local Food Challenge, visit the website to sign in and complete the survey. Choose your 10 days and your 10 exotics and begin the adventure! Tell them Cindy sent you.
Learn more about Cindy Conner and what she's up to at www.HomeplaceEarth.wordpress.com.
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