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Fabia diesel, petrol price tags to differ
January 9, 2008
Chanchal Pal Chauhan , TNN
NEW DELHI: Fabia, the eagerly awaited premium hatchback from SkodaAuto, will be available in both diesel and petrol but with different price tags, unlike its siblings in the past. The petrol variant, with the 1.2 litre engine, is expected to be priced lower at about Rs 5.5 lakh for the basic model, while the premium model, loaded with a host of safety and luxury features, will likely be priced around Rs 6.5 lakh. The diesel Fabia, powered by a 1.4 litre Turbo Direct injection (Tdi)
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Skoda India to boost value luxury positioning, launch new products every year
January 26, 2016
Sharmistha Mukherjee , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Czech car maker Skoda Auto is looking to reinforce its value luxury positioning in the Indian market by launching one or two new products every fiscal in the next few years, Skoda India chairman and managing director Sudhir Rao said. The Volkswagen Group company has been in a consolidation mode in the recent past and did not roll out any new product last year. "2014 and 15 were years of consolidation for us; we streamlined our operations and...
Skoda launches Ambiente; Fabia next year
October 24, 2007
MUMBAI: SkodaIndia on Wednesday launched its luxury car Laura Ambiente and said it would launch its hatchback model Fabia in Delhi Auto Expo next year. To make Fabia in India, SkodaIndia, a subsidiary of SkodaAuto, would be ramping up its operations in Aurangabad unit, a top company official told reporters here. The Aurangabad plant has a capacity to make 30,000 units per year. Skoda's capacity is not running at full capacity, Skoda India Managing Director...
Fabia set to scorch the tracks soon
January 15, 2005
NEW DELHI: Skoda Auto India, the fully owned subsidiary of Volkswagen group company Skoda Auto, is planning to launch a slew of new products in 2005 including its long-awaited volume car Fabia. The company plans to roll out two new platform models in the current year: the Fabia and the new Octavia, which will be an entirely different and bigger model compared to the current A4 platform Octavia. Also on the anvil are a bunch of extensions and variant launches. Skoda plans to launch a...
Czech carmaker Skoda Auto shifts focus to big cars in India
September 26, 2014
Chanchal Pal Chauhan , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Czech carmaker Skoda Auto will concentrate on selling big cars in India and has ruled out plans to introduce its new compact models in this market, blaming uncertain business environment and policies of the country. Skoda, which has invested around 750 million euros in India, has put on hold fresh investments here. It has phased out the Fabia hatchback earlier this year and said there are no immediate plans to replace it or introduce other small cars. ...
Focus on lowering product cost to take on Asian rivals: Skoda
June 27, 2014
NEW DELHI: Czech car maker Skoda is focusing on lowering cost of product development and increased localisation for the Indian market to take on Asian rivals, as it seeks enhanced position in the value for luxury segment. The company, part of the Volkswagen group, also ruled out notions that it is scaling down business in India saying it has been consolidating its operations for an overall profitable sustainable business in the country. ...
Skoda may roll out cheaper Fabia variants
January 22, 2010
Gouri Agtey Athale , ET Bureau
PUNE: Skoda Auto, part of the Volkswagen group, is expected to change the market positioning of its Fabia compact car by rolling out cheaper variants ahead of the launch of Volkswagen Polo hatchback. Skoda is also adopting a top-down approach for its compact SUV, the Yeti, which will hit the Indian roads in the second half of 2010 with a 2-litre diesel engine. It will come with a smaller engine next year and a likely petrol version later. The Czech car brand is expected to cut Fabia's...
Skoda freezes Fabia, L&K
June 6, 2003
NEW DELHI: Skoda Auto India is all set to move to a completely-knocked down (CKD) operation at its Aurangabad facility by September. The company met 30 suppliers in the Capital yesterday to finalise a localisation strategy and is also open to sourcing components from the country for its global operations such as Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volvo. Speaking to ET, Skoda Auto vice-chairman Mr W Vahland said, "We have finalised our nationalisation programme and we will start CKD...
Skoda to launch Fabia, Octavia II
October 20, 2004
AURANGABAD: In an aggressive bid to more than double its sales, Volkswagen group company Skoda Auto India on Wednesday said it would launch Fabia and Octavia II sedans next year and make the Indian operations a hub for South Asia. The company aimed to sell 10,000 units in 2005 and would also start assembling luxury sedan Superb in India by the year end, which was being brought in as fully built units, Skoda Auto India Chairman Karl-Gunter Buesching told visiting reporters here.
Skoda cuts Fabia tag, may fuel price war
October 13, 2010
Pankaj Doval , TNN
NEW DELHI: A price war is expected to start in the competitive small car segment, ahead of the festive season. Days after Hyundai launched a new version of its i10 compact with only a marginal hike in prices, Skoda on Tuesday intensified the competition further by slashing price of the Fabia hatchback ? its entrylevel car ? by Rs 67,000 on the petrol variant and Rs 1.1 lakh on the diesel. In April, Huyndai had reduced price of its i20 model By Rs 40,000. The Czech...
Skoda to upgrade technology in petrol variants of Fabia
August 9, 2008
MUMBAI: Czech automaker Skoda said on Saturday that it is upgrading its technology in two petrol variants of Fabia car for better fuel efficiency. "We have decided to upgrade our current technology in two petrol variants of Fabia so that our customers get better fuel efficiency from our cars," Skoda said in a statement. Skoda said it is going ahead with the technology upgradation because of "fuel inconsistency" faced by the country. "We at SkodaIndia...
Skoda rolls out 'Rapid Altima' at Rs 8.30-9.97 lakh
March 1, 2014
MUMBAI; Czech auto-maker Skoda today rolled out a special edition of its mid-sized sedan 'Rapid Ultima,' priced at Rs 8.30-9.97 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) with additional features like parking sensors with a rear view camera, Garmin and Tom Tom navigation devices, among others. The new offerings, which comes both in petrol and diesel variants, will be available across all SKODA authorised dealerships from today for a limited period only, SKODA Auto India said in a release here.
Skoda takes a break from compact car, drives in new Superb
February 10, 2014
NEW DELHI: Czech auto-maker Skoda is taking a break from selling compact car in India as it is focusing on a financially sustainable business model, for which an organisational restructuring is being implemented to make it leaner and improve its after-sales service. The company, which today launched its premium executive sedan Superb priced between Rs 18.87 lakh and Rs 25.2 lakh, said its Indian arm has closed after-sales office in Pune as part of the ongoing strategy. ...
Auto Expo 2014: Skoda Auto chalks out new strategy, targets 4-5 % share
February 7, 2014
Ketan Thakkar , ET Bureau
GREATER NOIDA: After discontinuing the small car Fabia from the Indian market in 2013, Czech carmaker Skoda Auto India is re-considering the entry of the small car, as it prepares a new strategy for the company to make a transition from a niche player to a volume player in India in the mid-term . ET learns that the all new Fabia, which will be launched at the Paris Motor Show later in the year will be again part of the reckoning and the...
It is the end of the road for Skoda Fabia as sales crash
May 18, 2013
Ketan Thakkar , ET Bureau
MUMBAI: Czech car maker Skoda Auto India has pulled the plug on its premium hatchback Fabia, as annual sales of the car hit a five-year low of 3,343 units in FY13. ET learns that another 2,200 units of Fabia hatchback are scheduled to be produced before the company finally stops the production of the car by August 31. Launched in 2008,Skoda Auto India sold about 45,000 units of Fabia so far in its six years in India, the monthly volumes of Fabia...
Companies like Lakme, Talwalkars, Volkswagen, BMW and others offer freebies to beat slowdown...
April 17, 2013
Namrata Singh & Shubham Mukherjee , TNN
MUMBAI: Sign up for three months and get the 4-month membership free, screams an ad from Talwalkars. The fitness chain is not the only one luring consumers using the good old marketing mantra of discounts. Beauty salons have announced "happy hours" , while aspirers of high-end mobile phones are flashing iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones, thanks to equated monthly instalment (EMI) schemes and cash-back offers on some...
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Skoda cuts all discounts on Fabia while reducing discount on Rapid, Laura, Superb and Yeti
October 30, 2012
Chanchal Pal Chauhan , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Czech carmaker Skoda Auto has reduced discounts on its cars in India during the festive season, when freebies are usually showered on customers, in a bid to cut its dependence on such market practices, a top company executive said. Skoda Auto India, the fully-owned subsidiary of Skoda, has cut all discounts on its largest selling hatchback Fabia, while significantly reducing the discount margin on sedans like Rapid, Laura, Superb,...
Skoda Fabia to be localised further, made cheaper in sales drive
September 11, 2012
Ketan Thakkar , ET Bureau
MUMBAI: Czech carmaker Skoda will reposition its Fabia hatchback to make it more competitive with higher localisation and lower cost of ownership as part of a plan to garner 4% share in the Indian car market in five years. The firm, which has identified service and cost of ownership as its biggest weakness, is also changing its organisational structure as part of a new strategy devised after a series of meetings with the company...
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About City basketball and other matters
Some things that fell off my laptop the past few weeks.
* One coach told me before the season that this was one of the worst years for City League basketball teams. It looks like he was right.
In terms of good teams from top to bottom, this has to be one of the City League's worst years? After Allderdice, there isn't much. Perry is down. Oliver is down. Brashear appears to be down. Trying to find a third team to rank in the City League behind Allderdice and Obama is awfully tough. This week, it will likely be 3-6 Carrick.
* Shaler basketball player Geno Thorpe had a pretty big reputation coming into the season. I think he has only enhanced it so far.
I haven't seen Thorpe play yet this season (I'll see him next week), but it has been impressive what he has done so far. He scored 34 at Central Catholic the other night.
* I heard how talented Kason Harrell was before he got to Hempfield. He's now a freshman and scoring 20 points or more in a few games. Anxious to see this 6-2 ninth grader play.
* A senior player who has really impressed me this season is Plum's Nolan Cressler . Two years ago as a thin sophomore, he was pretty much an outside shooter and that's it. Now, the 6-3 senior guard does everything on the court and he has I would love to see his shooting statistics for the season. He doesn't miss much.
I've seen Cressler once and will see him again tomorrow when Plum plays at Woodland Hills in a big game. Cressler has signed with Cornell of the Ivy League. Wasn't Cornell in the Sweet 16 two years ago? I think he'll do well there.
* Micah Mason doesn't have much help around him this year at Highlands. Heading into the week, Mason was averaging 34 points a game. No one else on Highlands' team was averaging more than five. And it's not because Mason is taking 35-40 shots a game. There just isn't much to Highlands after Mason, although the Rams could still make the Class AAA playoffs.
* Keystone Oaks is opening some eyes this season. The Eagles are off to one of the best starts in school history at 7-1, and they are averaging 76 points a game.
* Two sports parent stories I have to comment on.
First, the funny one. I was at a recent basketball game, just as a fan, and was sitting behind parents of a player (I won't name the school, simply to protect the innocent). There weren't many people at the game so you could often hear the coach calling defensive signals to his team. He would often call "Blue 50." Like many teams, "50" is a call for half court man-to-man. And after a while, it was obvious that "Blue" meant his team was playing straight man to man, and not trapping.
Anyway, after about the fourth or fifth call, the wife turns to her husband and seems a little perturbed, or maybe just confused: "I don't know why he keeps saying that," she says. "There is no number 50 out there and neither team is wearing blue."
Most certainly a memorable parent quote.
Now, the sad parent story. How ridiculous it is that one problem parent constantly sends ANONYMOUS letters to athletic directors, school principals, school board members, the WPIAL and sometimes even other schools, trying to get a coach fired, just because things haven't worked out for their son/daughter. The letters are filled with hogwash and untruths. Of course, the parent won't sign the letters, thinking he is hiding, even though everyone knows who they are from. It has happened before and I know two schools where it is happening now. It's a sad, sad commentary on some parents. To those parents: "C'mon, man."
* I don't think enough is being made of what the Duquesne womens team is doing this season, at least in terms of the makeup of their team. Coach Suzie McConnell Serio's squad is 12-3 and talking about wanting to make the NCAA Tournament . And most of her top players are from the WPIAL. Of the eight players who have seen the most playing time, five are from the WPIAL - Upper St. Clair's Alex Gensler, Southemoreland's Vanessa Abel, Beaver's Carly Vendemia, Washington's Jocelyn Floyd and Baldwin's Belma Nurkic.
You'll be scratching your head to remember a local Division I college team who has done so much with local playes. The Robert Morris men had some NCAA teams with local flavor. What the Duquesne women are doing reminds me of Pitt's 1973-74 team that made the Elite 8. That team's top players were all from the WPIAL and City League. That year, there was a Sports Illustrated picture of six Panthers atop Mount Washington - Billy Knight (Braddock), Keith Starr (Quaker Valley), Tom Richards (Moon), Kirk Bruce (South Hills), Mickey Martin (Baldwin) and Jim Bolla (Canevin).
* The new WPIAL football conferences won't be released until Jan. 17. That's when the Board of Control will approve them.

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Both the residency and hospital utilize Electronic Health Records (EHR) over a wireless network. This network is accessible from the physician's home. The hospital library offers access to many electronic references, including Up to Date, MD consult, Visual Dx, and many electronic books. We employ electronic Residency Management Software that allows you to check your schedule, log procedures and duty hours, perform evaluations or request vacation time online. We understand that there are differences in the computer experience for our incoming residents and are prepared to bring everyone up to a high level of competence in using these electronic resources.
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I am a faculty-in-residence at 33 Harry Agganis Way (StuVi2) in apartment 2302. My weekly open hours are on Wednesday, 8pm-11pm. The weekly open hours involve making Sargent Choice recipes as the Sargent Choice Test Kitchen (SCTK).
There is typically a work study dietetics intern who helps with making these delicious recipes.
StuVi2 Sargent Choice Test Kitchen Schedule for Spring 2016 will be held on Wednesdays. The schedule is:
1/20: Dark Chocolate Quinoa Breakfast Bowls
1/27: Fried Cauliflower Rice
2/3: Sweet Potato Chickpea Buddha Bowls
2/10: Fudgy Black Bean Brownies
2/17: Roasted Tofu and Kale with Pine Nuts with Ethan Sobel playing the cello
2/24: Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Bake with Sarah McKinnon discussing voting in this year's primary & election
3/2: Karen's Famous Brown Rice Sushi with Emmet Golden-Marx discussing Observing the Stars and Understanding the Cosmos: An Exploration of Galaxies in the Early Universe
3/16: Vegan Cauliflower, Potato & Chickpea Curry
3/23: Blueberry Lemon Yogurt Cake
3/30: Mediterranean Baked Sweet Potatoes
4/13: Mexican Quinoa Salad with Orang Lime Dressing
4/20: Lemony Ricotta Pasta with Basil
4/27: Spinach Potato Nest Bites for Passover
***Sargent Choice Test Kitchen News Update***
Thank you to Alexa Lamanna for writing this article about the Sargent Choice Test Kitchen: https://alexalamanna.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/event-story-sargent-choice-test-kitchen/
The Sargent Choice Test Kitchen was featured in an article in BUToday: http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/sargent-choice-test-kitchen-serves-up-community/
The Sargent Choice Test Kitchen was featured in an article in the BU Daily Free Press:
A photograph of making Sargent Choice fudgy black bean brownies was posted in BU Today at: http://www.bu.edu/today/closeup/sargent-choice-test-kitchen/
I was featured in a video on the Boston University website about my work as a faculty-in-residence.
A Sargent Choice Test Kitchen recipe, crispy baked zucchini wedges was featured on a Cindy's Kitchen video:
The Quad Let Me Just Tell You…By Nicole Seese • October 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Rochelle Li wrote an interesting article about my open hours for her journalism class:
Karen and Bianca were featured on Meal Makeover Moms' Kitchen in a blog post and podcast.
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Photos: Sergio Martinez Putting in Work For Miguel Cotto
By Giancarlo "Mr. Boxing" Oquendo / @MRBOXING1
WBC Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-2-2, 28KOs) had a workout for the media in Spain for his upcoming defense against former three division champion Miguel Cotto (38-4, 31KOs) on June 7 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Training side by side with Sergio was Kiko 'La Sensación' Martinez. Martinez will defend his IBF super bantamweight title against Japanese veteran Hozumi Hasegawa on April 23 in Osaka, Japan. The training session was held at the Centro Alcalá Adidas in Spain. Photos by Carolina Villafruela/Urban Fighters Community.
hope he's 100%Comment by Dr Rumack on 04-03-2014
I'll say it again, Cotto only beats a crippled Martinez. If Trout could handle Cotto's aggression with ease then a healthy Martinez can do it sleepwalking.Comment by ColdBlooded on 04-03-2014
People should remember, Martinez took much harder left hooks to the body against Chavez just fine.Comment by LADIV on 04-03-2014
[quote=el angel;14391867]midsection looks prime for the king's left hook.[/quote] just cause he took out a buster in delvin with a hook does not mean he is gonna take martinez out the same way. Different animal homeyComment by Dirk Diggler UK on 04-03-2014
I remember when they did the check weigh-in for Martinez-Williams II and Sergio was well overweight. It made Burner moist. We all know what happened in the fight.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (35)


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BRATTLEBORO Officials say high bacteria levels in some southeast Vermont swimming holes could be attributed to heavy rainfall.
Hi E. coli levels were found last week in 15 bodies of water in tests conducted by the Southeastern Vermont Watershed Alliance. The Brattleboro Reformer reported that the bodies of water were connected to the West, Rock, Williams, Middle Branch Williams and Saxtons rivers and the North Branch and Whetstone brooks.
The report said the elevated bacteria levels are often the result of heavy rainfall prior to test samples being taken. Similar findings were found after heavy rain in mid-June.
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Joy for Friday!
I noticed one of the young ladies from our church family post this quote on Facebook, "Shouting it from the roof top!"
Her proclamation, based on the picture she attached to her post, was conveying how good God had been to her.
As I read the post, numerous emotions swept through my mind. First, I agreed with her and whispered under my breath, "Amen sister!" But then a sense of holy pride flowed over me. I was so excited for this young lady and her family! I've had the pleasure of watching the entire family blossom under the blessings of God!by
Sheriff Adonai, The Encounter at Rock Pointe
I am excited to announce the release of, "Sheriff Adonai, The Encounter at Rock Pointe"! Let me take a moment to clearly explain what this book is about and how it came into existence.
In 2011 we released the first Sheriff Adonai book, "The Showdown at Rock Pointe". The cover of that book depicted a sheriff and was a darker orange color. Then, in 2013, we released, "Sheriff Adonai, The Gift of the Stranger's Necklace". The Gift of the Stranger's Necklace was the EXACT same story as "The Showdown at Rock Pointe"; we simply changed to a different publisher, so the name and the cover of the book had to change.by
The Red Christmas Thread – by D. Keith Jones
A long time ago God Almighty was seated on His throne with a single bolt of yarn in his lap. With the delicate fibers of twine stretched through his fingers, He cast His eyes upon the ocean, using His personal reflection, brought forth from the surface of the waters, as a pattern for His latest endeavor. With the sun beaming down from the heavens, He designed a creation that would live with Him in sweet harmony and perfect fellowship.
They say we were created in His image—that we possess, while at a miniscule level by comparison, many of our Father's attributes. Using the dust of the earth as a foundation, our Heavenly Father breathed life where there was nothing; as stitch by stitch, row by row, every detail of our earthly body was woven intricately into the DNA of our existence by the Master Craftsman.by
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Question #2 – Is this book a lot like the first book? Yes and No….This new book is much the same as it is a fictional novel and continues to tell the story of Misief Stone. However, the book is very, very different in many ways. This book has a story line that is more complex, has more drama, more romance and is over one third longer than the first book. The first book was 240 pages and the new book is 344 pages, with over 15,000 more words. While I am very proud of the first Sheriff Adonai book, (The Gift of the Stranger's Necklace), I am super pumped about this new one, (The Search for Havenwood).
In my opinion, my writing has developed and improved since the first book, and there is not another story like this on the market. I guarantee you that you will not see foresee the ending of this book until you turn the page and read it! This book is definitely not predictable or like anything you've ever read. Enough said……….or I will give it away!
Thank you so much for your questions and interest in the new book. I will make certain to let everyone know the minute they arrive at my home!


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|Latest News
|Dec. 14, 20159:38 PM PT10:38 PM MT11:38 PM CT12:38 AM ET5:38 GMT1:38 PM 北京时间10:38 PM MST12:38 AM EST11:38 PM CT9:38 UAE0:38 ET3:38 - Witten caught five passes for 40 yards on Sunday.
Analysis: It was his third straight game with at least four catches, but he didn't exceed 46 yards in any of them.
|Dec. 7, 20155:37 PM PT6:37 PM MT7:37 PM CT8:37 PM ET1:37 GMT9:37 AM 北京时间6:37 PM MST8:37 PM EST7:37 PM CT5:37 UAE (+1)20:37 ET23:37 - Witten of the Dallas Cowboys has become the second tight end in NFL history with 1,000 catches, joining Tony Gonzalez.
Analysis: Witten's second catch for Dallas on Monday night against the Washington Redskins allowed him to reach the milestone. It was a 7-yard grab of a pass from Matt Cassel in the second quarter, resulting in a first down. Witten already was one of only two tight ends - Gonzalez is the other - with more than 10,000 yards receiving.
|Nov. 22, 20152:48 PM PT3:48 PM MT4:48 PM CT5:48 PM ET22:48 GMT6:48 AM 北京时间3:48 PM MST5:48 PM EST4:48 PM CT2:48 UAE (+1)17:48 ET20:48 - Witten broke Bob Lilly's franchise record for consecutive games played with his 197th today in the Cowboys' 24-14 win in Miami.
Analysis: Witten had two catches for 27 yards so it wasn't a memorable game for the superstar.
|Oct. 25, 20154:33 PM PT5:33 PM MT6:33 PM CT7:33 PM ET23:33 GMT7:33 AM 北京时间4:33 PM MST6:33 PM EST5:33 PM CT3:33 UAE (+1)19:33 ET21:33 - Witten caught six passes for a season-high 73 yards Sunday.
Analysis: Witten has now gone five straight games without a TD.
|Oct. 4, 20158:51 PM PT9:51 PM MT10:51 PM CT11:51 PM ET3:51 GMT11:51 AM 北京时间8:51 PM MST10:51 PM EST10:51 PM CT7:51 UAE (+1)23:51 ET2:51 - Witten caught five passes for 57 yards Sunday.
Analysis: Witten is up to 238 yards on the year.
|Sep. 25, 20151:48 PM PT2:48 PM MT3:48 PM CT4:48 PM ET20:48 GMT4:48 AM 北京时间1:48 PM MST3:48 PM EST3:48 PM CT0:48 UAE (+1)16:48 ET19:48 - Witten is probable for Sunday's game against Atlanta despite two sprained ankles and a sprained left knee.
Analysis: He was a full participant Friday after being limited the first two practice days.
|Sep. 24, 20154:33 PM PT5:33 PM MT6:33 PM CT7:33 PM ET23:33 GMT7:33 AM 北京时间4:33 PM MST6:33 PM EST6:33 PM CT3:33 UAE (+1)19:33 ET22:33 - Witten dismisses the significance of his streak of 189 straight regular-season games - 196 counting the playoffs.
Analysis: Despite playing through two sprained ankles and a sprained left knee this week, Witten expects to be in the lineup Sunday when Atlanta visits in a matchup of 2-0 teams. He has missed one game in 13 seasons - Week 5 of his rookie year in 2003 with a broken jaw.
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Analysis: Though he couldn't back up his two-touchdown performance in Week 1, Witten will continue to play a major role in Dallas' offense with Dez Bryant out for a few more weeks.
|Sep. 14, 20153:54 PM PT4:54 PM MT5:54 PM CT6:54 PM ET22:54 GMT6:54 AM 北京时间3:54 PM MST5:54 PM EST5:54 PM CT2:54 UAE (+1)18:54 ET21:54 - Witten's second touchdown catch with 7 seconds left Sunday night gave the Cowboys a stunning 27-26 victory over the rival New York Giants.
Analysis: Witten finished with eight catches, tying Lance Dunbar for the team lead, and 60 yards.


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Complaint Review: Netzero, A United Online Company
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Netzero, A United Online Company Netzero has not been my provider for over 1 year, no contact from them and no bills. Woodland Hills California
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Changing Scale
Nothing like an injury to bring you up short, and make you reassess. It's been six months since I hurt my knee, and with lots of gingerly stepping here and there, and physical therapy under my belt, I feel ready to spring into action…he, he well sort of. Over winter, with more time to think, and pretend to be wiser, I have come to the conclusion that I need to, want to, cut back on my gardening endeavors. A variety of factors came together in my mind this winter, perusing garden notes, pantry inventory, and just plain being tired of being stressed out about weeding, etc., brought to my current garden plan of cutting back in some ways and changing how I am gardening. I grew a lot of food last year that we just didn't eat. Sure I can feed the surplus food to the hens or now the piglets, but in reality it represents waste, and a waste of effort that may be better spent in other areas.
I am going to make good on my yearly threat of using half my space for gardening and half my space for fallow/cover cropping. Using drip irrigation last year was a freeing practice. After years of doing dryland and bioextensive gardening, I am ready to
give up change to more intensive plantings and drip irrigation.
My experiment with sudan grass last year as a winter-kill cover crop was the cat's meow. So much biomass and so dead. I am weary of green manures that never die. Too much tillage, and always the potential that you get a wet year and end up with cover crop like this back one in 2010. No thanks.
Intensive is the word this year. I quickly learned last year that I was still planting too much at one time despite my strict succession planting schedule. Tiny baby seeds are so innocent, even tiny plants are innocent, my biggest downfall was harvesting and processing, those innocent little seeds and transplants grow up to be big demanding plants. So this year, I may plant as many plants or row feet of a vegetable over the course of the growing season, but I am going to break the successions into smaller bites. Smaller bites means less to harvest and freeze or eat, and represents a change in my mindset of freezing 10 gallons of snap peas (or whatever), I may end up with 10 gallons, but they will be in more manageable quantities spread out over time, not several gallons at a whack.
So without further ado, here are my plans (not set in stone, my family still doesn't believe that I will actually plant less) but I'm pretty much sticking to the paradigm shift and breathing a sigh of relief. One less guilt trip to contend with. I'll start with the main garden pictured above and just move from west to east to give you an idea of our layout. I use my tiller for my bed shaping/row width so in my garden binder I just use ruled notebook paper, and each line represents a row. It's easy to jot down variety notes and dates with this format, and the margins are wide enough for more long-winded notations. This garden has nine rows including the fallow outside rows, leaving seven rows to plant if we choose. In this garden we will only plant two rows and work on stale seedbeds (weed the soil not the crop) for the remaining rows and sow to a late summer sudan/field pea cover crop for winter.
Next up is Greenhouse 1, we usually start planting in this greenhouse because it has power, and we can consolidate seed starting and planting. It's a nice space to be in during late winter, while unheated there is still some solar gain even on a cloudy Pacific Northwest winter day. We treat this growing space just like an early garden, greens successions, early potatoes, snap pea, carrots and beets planted in successions, and some summer onions like Walla Walla Sweets and Red Long of Tropea that can just be harvested as needed.
Sugar Sprint peas from transplants.
This entire row is devoted to quick succession salad blocks, and some later maturing early cabbages, kale and broccoli. I just move south down the row when the next succession is ready for transplanting, in this row is arugula, tokyo bekana, joi choi, kohlrabi, cabbages (3 varieties), kale (4 varieties) broccoli, and one small block of romaine lettuce. As blocks age out, I will just amend and plant again to a fast growing crop.
Succession planting keeps you moving, these little plants will soon be ready to transplant.
Directly adjacent is Greenhouse 2, which suits warm weather crops better, although I do grow some cool weather crops in here on occasion. This greenhouse has six rows also to play with. The plan this year is to work on the cleaning up the weed bank in rows one and six and planting those to overwinter brassicas. Not so much for winter protection because the poly will come off come November, but more to neaten up the outside garden space and allow us to plant a complete cover crop outside, without a row in the middle needing harvesting.
In order to use plastic mulch and drip irrigation we prepared the entire space even though we have only planted about two and a half rows. The tomatoes (red row) and strawberries are all planted, and a few zucchini and slicing cucumbers are planted in the cucurbit row, leaving room for later successions of melons, butternut squash and a few more cucumber plants at a later date. I have to say I am not entirely convinced that the red mulch makes a difference over other colors, but I have a roll of it, and I am determined to use it up. Truth be told, I am so enamored with the results of the Sunbelt weed barrier I am using, that I will at some point probably invest in that, something that can be used for many years.
The final space is our square garden that consists of twenty-two rows, and will be easy to divide in half. One half will be planted, and the other half fallowed and cover cropped. Next year we can swap. The plan is to plant less potatoes and winter squash, and probably skip a year of flint corn, since we just didn't eat as much of those items this past winter. The jury is still out on sweet corn too, I've got two months to decide on that one, and possibly the corn space just may go to popcorn this year.
So the plan is loose, but it feels right at least for this year. As long as I take care of my garden space by cover cropping, it would be easy to scale up if the need arises. Even though I will be doing less gardening it is kind of exciting to be doing something different with the garden spaces this year.
Garden Notes March 13, 2016
All those little tiny seeds I wrote about back in February had to be dealt with this past week. Either by transplanting in their final home or in the case of teeny tiny little herbs and flowers, potted up to the next size with fresh soil.
A true testament to how wet our winter has been, it took almost two weeks for the soil to dry out enough for basic tillage after reinstalling the poly cover. Last year after our extremely dry winter, the soil dried out in about 5 days.
I experimented last year with sorghum sudan grass as a cover crop in the greenhouse and in part of the garden. My early planting in the greenhouse was perfect, it supplied a good smother in late summer early fall and kept weed seeds from germinating or getting much of a foot hold and grew tall enough to provide a good amount of biomass. One note of interest is that an early summer cover crop of buckwheat suppressed the growth of the following sorghum sudan cover crop. The sorghum sudan on that side germinated fine, but grew much slower and was about twelve inches shorter than the side of the greenhouse that had grown vegetables all spring and summer when the first hard frost knocked it out.
A weather year like this is pretty typical, and where the greenhouse really shines as garden. Going back through my garden notes, some years we haven't been able to plant outside until mid or even late June, more typical though is mid to late May. Two or three months on the early end is a lot of season extension, and well worth the expense if you want to avoid going to the store for your produce, and you like to garden. A recent ad in our farm paper for hoop houses like these were priced from $1.20 to $2.00 per square foot depending on style. Not bad considering how much food you can grow in a structure like these during the shoulder seasons.
Planting list:
Early potatoes – Dark Red Norland, and Desireé
Packman Broccoli
Tokyo Bekana Chinese cabbage
Joi Choi Bok Choy
Kolibri kohlrabi
Parris Island Romaine lettuce
Basic Arugula
Almost Black & Chocolate Flake Sweet Pea
Direct Seed
Detroit Dark Red beets
Napoli carrot
Pot on
Gem Marigolds – Red, Tangerine, Lemon
Chocolate Lace Queen Anne's Lace
Now that seeding and planting season has begun, my goal is to start or plant something each week.
Some Seed Starting
Now that my daughter and I wrestled the plastic back on one greenhouse – ugh – we are waiting for the soil to dry enough to work for planting, and for a day when we have more help for the next one. Too. Much. Work.
The sorghum sudan cover crop winter killed as I had hoped and really protected the soil from our heavy winter rains. In December we received 25.4″ of rain, it's a blur now, but I don't think we had more than a handful of days without rain that month.
Now the tedious seed starting season commences. Lists of varieties and succession dates will be the job now.
Plants I seeded in early February are almost ready to transplant in the ground or be potted on in the case of slow growers like herbs and flowers.
Heat mat real estate is at a premium so I have to be on my toes when planning how to best use the heat mat to my advantage. The heat mats I have utilize 1020 flats, which means the flats are 10 x 20 inches. You can purchase inserts with many different cell sizes to maximize the use of each flat. I most commonly use 200 cell, and six-pack size that give me 48 cells per flat. Determining cell size depends on what each type of plant needs. Or actually how long that seedling going to be in the cell before you transplant or pot on is the most important. The heat mat supplies bottom heat for germination and usually runs about 20°F more than the ambient temperature. We start our seeds in an unheated greenhouse, where the temperature ranges from 30°F at night to as high as 100°F during the day with a few sun breaks. We don't use a thermostat, so we have to rely on our wits and paying attention to the weather to keep from freezing or burning up our plants. Most days the heat mat is off due to higher temperatures during the day even if it's cloudy or rainy. Definitely not a hands off system.
My goal always is to get the seeds germinated and off the heat mat as soon as possible and use that heat mat space to start more plants. If I use the 200 cell flats as opposed to the 48 cell for instance I can start 200 plants in the same time that I can start 48, and the sooner you can get the flats off the heat mat, the less it costs to use the heat mat. To make sure I am not wasting time though by being so efficient with my 200 cell inserts, I have to make sure I group my seeds in groups of plants that need the same temperatures to germinate and most importantly, seeds that have the same germination times. I does me no good to plant slow germinating celeriac that may take 21 days to germinate in the same insert with quick germinating bok choy or something of that nature. To remedy this, I simply took some of my 200 cell packs and cut them in half length-wise to give me 100 cells, and that will take up only half the flat. Many times I use the home-made 100's with each other and simply remove the fast germinating 100 insert when it's time, and then I can replace it with another, or 6 packs and still use that heat or actually not waste it.
Size does matter in determining what and how many seeds to plant. Fast germinating and fast growing peas can be started in a 200 cell insert too, we just need to move them out sooner than some other plants. By starting peas in a flat instead of direct seeding we can shave off about a week of worry in case the weather turns on us. With a hoophouse you make your own weather, so to speak. And a 200 cell flat works out perfect for our pea system. We use hog panels for pea trellising, simple to move and install, a couple of t-posts and some scrap twine and you have an instant trellis that lasts for years, and can even keep a hog in too. Note: if you are growing tall peas you might want to use a cattle panel to give your peas enough trellis height.
Hog and cattle panels come in 16′ lengths, and it just so happens that 32 row feet of peas (a row on each side of the panel) is about all I can keep up picking during the growing season. So how many peas do I need? First I determine plant spacing which can be found either on the seed packet or in a seed catalog under the culture box. I usually plant peas about 2″ apart, so I need to know how many inches I have to work with. I figure it out like this: 16′ (hog panel length) x 12″ (number of inches per foot) = 192″ / 2″ = 96″ Perfect, I need 96 pea plugs (or seeds if direct seeding) per side of my hog panel trellis. If you round up, and I always do with live things, a 200 count cell insert is perfect for pea starting. Simplified, one flat of 200 starts is needed for each panel, this is good to know if I want to increase my plantings, or if I need to squeeze another succession of peas in on the heat mat. I could use less cells and give the peas more room, but then I would need 2 or 3 more flats to germinate the same amount of starts.
Our peas we planted the other day are already showing signs of germinating, so we really have gained about a week with just this crop alone.
I learned my lesson long ago to not be in too much of a hurry, one year with grow lights on my plants allowed me to start plants too early. I ended up with a lot of plants and cool, inclement weather. Now I wait until our greenhouse has enough natural light to sustain the seedlings and it seems to coincide with proper conditions for planting when the plants are ready.
A couple of rules I stick by:
♥ Organic potting soil for seed starting. It has a little bit of organic fertilizer and when the plants get started they don't miss a beat. It also is less troublesome than seed starting mix when it comes time to keep the flats properly watered. For plants that will be in the cells for a month or so, we add extra fertilizer to the mix before filling the flats.
♥ I make sure my heat mat is working before I want to start seeds. Hard lesson learned by the Queen of Procrastination.
♥ I buy extra and seed more than I think I need so in case of some type of failure, I will have enough plants to fit my planting plans.
♥ Keep good garden notes, so I can see what worked and what didn't.
I think the hardest part of writing a blog post is a conclusion…no way to conclude a post about seed starting except to say Happy Seed Starting!
The Rest of the Larder Story
I think if I were ever to write a book, it would be about teaching people to discern deliberately about farmsteading, or how to live a more deliberate life. When we realize that three generations ago, many people were involved in some way with growing their food, or at least preserving it, it's easy to see how we have lost our way. On our journey to specialization and simplification we have lost many nuances of living close to the land. It's a no-brainer for me to understand why Jane can't be on deep bedding, but my beef cows can, to the casual observer though, Jane and my beef cows are cattle, and need the same things. That's true in the vaguest sense, but that is like saying a Prius and a 3/4 ton farm pickup are vehicles and can be used for the same thing. Following me? I don't say this to sound condescending, we all know what we know, I know a lot about farmsteading, and home economics, other stuff not so much. But I have seen that many times people assume that farmers are dumb, and that you can just start out with a piece of land and farm and grow your own food, it's easy right? What's to know? We all still have to put in our 10,000 hours making mistakes along the way.
What does any of this have to do with a well-stocked pantry or larder? A lot. Our larder is just an offshoot of how we live and farm, and our location. The larder will also be a reflection of how you cook and eat. We prefer moderation. I don't want to can everything, or dehydrate everything, ferment everything, freeze everything or eat everything raw. So we do some of all things, canning, drying, fermenting, freezing, storing and fresh. Many dishes from our kitchen are a combination of all these "preservation" methods.
(I should probably go out on a limb here and say we are not concerned with being "off-grid" except with our food supplies. I have friends who say they are off-grid because their freezers are kept at a friend's house and they pay a portion on the electric bill, I also have another friend who claims to be energy conscious by only keeping a small freezer for their preserved garden goods and purchased meats, but when pushed they cop to eating rotisserie chicken and many meals away from their home. I guess I believe that it takes a certain amount of energy to prop up a human, if you buy food at the store, that food is still being kept fresh, frozen or stored on a shelf that is maintained by the grid. So yes, you may have a small electric or gas bill, but a portion of your food is still using the grid, you just are paying for it each time you go to the store or restaurant.)
So how does one pull that off meals that come from all your different stores? You get creative, and you learn what and how to store food in many different ways. It helps that we live in a great climate for year round harvesting, that is if you like root crops and members of the cole family. Pictured above is the bok choy in the first photo, above it are the first starts (hanging on their mouse-proof shelf) of the parade of successions that will be planted soon. This is the hardest part of the year, the days are getting longer and last fall's plantings of brassicas are starting to bolt, and the days are still short enough that new plants are growing slowly. Hurry up and wait. I don't want to damage the new young plants by harvesting leaves, since they need all the leaf surface they can muster to grow larger, and we have to practically gorge (darn) on the bok choy, kale and cabbage before they get bitter.
Yesterday's greens harvest became this morning's breakfast, along with some fried eggs. But to prepare this breakfast, I had to be mindful last July and start those kale seeds, then again in August I had to start the bok choy. Then you say a little prayer to yourself or whoever will listen, and you do your darnedest to watch over those winter garden plants as if your next meal depended on it.
You also make a backup plan. This is where canning and freezing come in. Some foods just taste better canned than frozen. Dark cherries canned, while not fresh, taste much better than their frozen counterparts, probably due to the fact that you leave the aromatic pit in and after some time in the jar, that almond flavor seeps into the cherries and juice and is a great wintertime treat. Canned carrots? Yeah, not my favorite to eat since we can harvest them weekly from the garden all winter long and not bother with canning them.
But as a convenience food (convenience as in cooked, not necessarily heat and eat) coupled with frozen cooked chicken, I have the beginnings of chicken curry potpie, which we love. I for one am not convinced that cooked food is dead food. Explain to me the difference in this jar of carrots, that were dug fresh, prepped and processed for 25 minutes in a pressure canner from carrots that were prepped and cooked in a stew for hours on the stove? A friend recently told me about trying a low oxylate diet that was helping with some of her food issues, so I looked into it, and was surprised to see that boiled carrots were lower in oxylates than raw? Which I think proves there are so many things we don't know about the foods we eat, and what effect they have on our bodies. Taking a moderation approach to how we preserve or not is well worth looking at, me thinks.
I am fortunate that I live in an old farmhouse that was built in the era of home food storage. These days of central heating and cooling along with the supermarket and refrigerated space have taken the food storage component out of house design. Couple that inconvenient truth with the fact that most people don't know what type of food stores well or how to store it, a well stocked larder can be somewhat of a conundrum.
What we store and where:
Basement fruit room – canned goods, ferments, ghee, onions, garlic, empty canning jars, & household supplies.
Unheated bedroom – Winter squash, dry beans in glass jars, dry corn in mesh bags, seeds in plastic storage boxes or totes.
In the barn – potatoes in a straw bale "root cellar."
Ferments are in a category themselves, room temperature, basement refrigerator? Personal preference takes over on that.
The easiest storage method in our climate for many things is the garden. Unless we get a doozy of a winter, most years we can leave carrots, beets, kale, cabbage, celeriac, parsnips, leeks, rutabagas and turnips in the ground and harvest as needed. While I know that can't be duplicated everywhere, it's worth pointing out for folks that are new to gardening or to the Pacific Northwest in general. But, if you don't feel comfortable leaving root crops to chance, you can always root cellar, or put up in some way.
Long term food storage is not a bad idea, each system has it's weak points, our weakest point is our freezers. I guess in the long run being prepared is what comes into play. I could can our meat in the case of a power loss, I have enough canning lids, jars, and propane to do that on a Camp Chef. Meat is one of those things that you just don't go out and harvest fresh like a salad. On the vegetable side we are continually trying to close the gap in our succession planting. Insurance comes in the way of some frozen vegetables in case we can't harvest fresh, and retraining our supermarket/restaurant thinking away from the green salad every day days to more roasted root salads, or braised greens. For us, it's a continuing journey that is constantly changing bit by bit each year.
More of the Larder Story
It's no secret that a big part of our "pantry" utilizes freezers. Of course cute photos of sweet porkers, chicks and calfies make for better blog viewing. Freezer pictures are a little boring, actually.
But this is the reality on the farm, the meat and other food items end up here. Growing up we had a small freezer, and kept the bulk of our meat, and frozen produce at the locker. Six miles away. Inconvenient as heck, except that my mom did the books for the store that served as the country store, butcher and locker, so you would assume that she would grab something from the locker while she was there on Saturdays doing the accounting. What happened though is that no one ever wanted to go to the cold locker and get all the unidentifiable stuff stored there. My mom worked full-time in town, so to stop at the locker on the way home in your town clothes was not a favorite thing either. Subsequently, I
think know a lot of what went in that locker got thrown away each year when butchering and harvesting time came. As we all know, its hard to stop that preserving train once its left the station. I swear my brother and I got more laughs out of trying to figure out what those unrecognizable globs of stuff were, since we were tasked to go to the locker and "make room". At least the meat was properly wrapped and marked so it was clear what year it was from. Needless to say our dogs ate well… . (I think my mom invented meatless Monday, we just didn't think it was cool, because really, when you raise beef cows… . Just sayin') The locker wasn't free either, I can't remember what the monthly rental was, but we had three, and they were terribly hard to deal with, it was colder than you know what in there, and it was like an archaeological dig in an ice field to find what you might be looking for.
As for having all our eggs in one basket, I worry way less about our freezers in the event of some disaster. Mostly because that little country store changed hands several times, and I still kept that locker rental going. Then the new owners decided to remodel and offered to keep our meat in their extra freezer there during the construction. One day we got a phone call, it seemed that all was copacetic until someone asked the store owner if they had a dead body in the basement. The dead body was our meat and theirs, someone had inadvertently unplugged the freezer during the remodel, and no one noticed. We decided to invest in a couple of freezers right then. So no, I don't worry much. Stuff happens, my desire to eat canned meat is pretty low, compared to having it frozen and ready to be prepared as we choose.
Which brings me to some of the details of how and why we freeze some things and not others. To simplify the description of my preserving style, I would have to say my goal is to stock ingredients, whole foods, not prepared foods, including soups. I don't keep freezer inventory, nor do I menu plan. It's all in my head, and if something happens to me someday, it will be someone else doing the food keeping, they can keep records if they choose. Because we raise our own, we know there is an end to the supply, if we run out of something, we run out, we don't just buy more to fill in the gap. Keeping a plan and inventory are just more chores that don't change the fact of what is in the freezer. It frees my mind up in all actuality because I don't need to "stick to the plan." To make it easier on others around me, I keep the food somewhat sorted and labeled if the item is not obvious. Frozen broccoli needs no explanation, just the year, something like romesco sauce or pesto does need a label in addition to the year. Today I'll concentrate on our freezer contents and follow-up on the next post with other items we can, store, or dehydrate.
What we freeze:
Beef, pork, chicken, soup bones, colostrum, butter, cheese, tallow, lard, bone broth, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, nectarines, melon, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, corn, mushrooms, snap peas, shell peas, corn, peppers, pesto, and romesco.
Without further ado here are boring pics of several of the freezers, taken with my phone so I didn't get all the shelves in the photos. We have five freezers, I took photos of three. Of the other two, one is full of whole chickens, the other flotsam and jetsam for pet food, not much to see in those. Keep in mind these are freezers for a three person family that eats three meals every day from the farm. We probably eat out five times a year total.
This freezer is our most used one and is in our basement. Berries, butter, bacon are in here. We don't eat bacon every day but I want to know where my bacon is all the time, since we stick to our rule of only eating bacon from the pig we harvest. I could eat bacon every day, but we like to think we're being responsible nose to tail eaters by sticking to our guns on that. Do I get wistful when I see bacon on everything and in every flippin' recipe? Yes, but that's living pretty high on the hog even though bacon is on the bottom of the pig. I didn't take a photo of the door, it contains bone broth, spices, flour, and colostrum frozen in various containers. I try to keep a spot open on one of the shelves to store things I might bring in from the other freezers that are in the shop. When I go shopping, it is to the shop.
I'd like to think I am organized, and have all my freezers empty before any harvesting starts, but ha ha, that never happens, except in the chicken freezer. This freezer has beef roasts and steaks on the top shelf (not shown), ground beef on the next two shelves, pork on the bottom shelf, and misc mostly bones for stock and some overflow frozen broccoli. I try to stick with my rule of meat below veggies and fruit, but to tell you the truth the only blood that gives me the willies is chicken blood, I would not care for that on my veggies or fruit, but beef and pork blood not so much. Still it's a good idea to store meat below your vegetables and fruit.
This is the door to the same freezer, unrendered lard and tallow (Bee I feel ya, this is just a small portion of fat I need to render), soup bones and some '14 cauliflower. I do freeze a goodly amount of broccoli and cauliflower, with the hopes we probably won't need it as long as we keep our successions going. It's easy to grow, blanch and freeze, so when the next crop comes in this usually goes to the hens. The dates really help with that, something I learned from those scarring locker experiences when I was a kid. I make stock each week, and find it easier to just store the bones and make stock as needed. But this is also a place where you could free up some freezer space by making your stock in one or two big batches, reducing and freezing or canning. We store chickens whole too, and break them down as we eat them. This again is a place to free up freezer space, by breaking down your chickens instead of storing the whole carcass. The way you approach your meals and meal prep really determines the manner in which you freeze your food.
This freezer has the oldest beef that we need to use first, mostly steaks, roasts, and organ meats and a few straggler ground beef packages. In the canning jar boxes are wide mouth half pints full of pesto, romesco, shell peas, & chopped garlic scapes. Bags of sliced nectarines, whole strawberries, and chopped peppers are in here also. I don't bother with pre-freezing anything on a tray anymore before committing the item to the freezer bag, everything still comes out of the bag just fine in the amount needed. Part of that may stem too from skipping the washing step since we are harvesting our fruits here and bring them right in and put them in the freezer. There is nothing to wash off.
This the door to the same freezer, corn off the cob, sauteéd chanterelles, and some wild blackberries. Nothing too exciting, but very useful nonetheless. By using freezer jars, I have these items in pre-measured amounts that come in handy for cooking. One thing I do that might not work for folks that purchase their meat, is that I thaw out ground beef and pork and make breakfast sausage and then refreeze the sausage. I say it might not work because one time we were out of pork so I purchased some very expensive pork at the "best" natural food store meat counter and had the pork ground to order. It got that off-smell within three days, and was a little slimy. Which leads me to believe that even though this was organic pork it still was handled along with many other animals and contaminants in a large plant. Which also goes to show you that it's not just what the animal was fed it is how the meat is handled after the animal is dead. I would eat a neighbors conventionally fed, small abattoir butchered meat before I would buy organic pork at the store. Lesson learned. Back to the as-needed sausage making thing, when I refreeze the sausage I freeze it in containers that hold about 5 days worth of breakfasts so we make sure we use it up in a timely manner just in case. I do the same with our chickens. I break down the carcass for three meals, a meal of oven fried wings, thighs and drumsticks, each breast is a meal, one for fajitas, one for stir-fry, and the backbone, wing tips and neck go into the stock pot and usually because I am sloppy on purpose with the knife I can pick one to two more cups of meat off the carcass when the stock is done, and that is reserved for chicken pot pie. Out of that chicken, usually the breasts go back into the freezer to be refrozen and used later in the week. Again, I don't know if I should go out on a limb and recommend this method just because it works for me, but I'm throwing it out there in case you don't want to spend a day breaking down 25 chickens. Mileage may vary.
Stay tuned for the next episode, I am off to take photos of what we're eating in the hunger gap in the way of fresh food.
Food Everywhere
That pretty much sums up this farmers life. Growing, harvesting, preparing, eating and storing food. A not so delicate dance of decrepitude, as food starts to decay immediately upon harvest and many times in the case of winter gardening, overnight after a hard freeze. Sigh. Where to begin? It is a chicken and egg thing. Humans have engaged in stopping the spoilage of food since they started eating. These days we have it a little easier with refrigeration. I have no desire to be off-grid, so you won't find any tips on how to get rid of your freezer or things like that. The grid we want to be off of is the supermarket food grid. I for one believe that you're not saving any power by not storing more food in a home freezer and instead buying food at the store. No, we don't grow everything we eat, but quite a bit of what we eat we do grow. Preserving takes many forms, freezing, a bit of canning, dehydrating, and fermenting all play a role in addition to eating fresh for many months, and growing specific crops that store well with added preservation tasks.
Our personal food system has evolved quite a bit as I alluded to in my last post. I grew up planting garden in May as soon as we could work the soil, then direct seeding everything just about, except tomatoes and pepper plants bought at the store. Then you would wait, you might get your first lettuce salad mid-July and the first ripe tomato in late August in our location. Meanwhile you concerned yourself with the march of fruits coming on, and those were preserved into canned fruit, jams, jellies, juice etc. I knew no one who dehydrated anything except Italian prunes when I was a kid. If you had a dairy cow, you would be churning the bounty of grassfed cream to beat the band and freezing your butter.
I still grow a big garden each year, the space has stayed the same but what we grow and how we put it by has changed the most.
Instead of dining all winter on canned or frozen summer vegetables, we grow varieties of different crops that store easily in the ground in our location or are candidates for root cellaring.
We grow crops that are meant to be stored dry, like flint corn, winter squash and dry beans. No electricity needed.
But, I think the biggest change in our preserving/eating habits has come about because we built a greenhouse for season extension. I know it may seem silly to some to build a structure to garden in, when maybe a cold frame or some wire hoops and row cover would work, but we just don't have the heat units here to ripen several summer crops that we really like, so for us a greenhouse made the most sense, it's pretty disappointing to babysit tomato plants all season and then as soon as the fall rains come, bam! Late blight.
Because it is serious garden real estate, we cram as many successions and different types of crops in the greenhouse as possible. Tomatoes take all summer to mature, and they provide shade and a microclimate in the greenhouse for cool weather crops too. In the photo above you see the tomatoes on the left and on the right a row of brassicas shaded from the hot afternoon sun and near the sidewall where a cool breeze blows. It may seem counter-intuitive to say the brassicas inside get a little more shade with the tomatoes and lower light due to the greenhouse poly. Make no mistake, it's hot in there, but outside in the garden those brassicas might be in a real hot spot.
Another benefit of the greenhouse that didn't dawn on us until reality slapped us on the face was that a greenhouse (as long as the doors are shut) is an excellent deer proof gardening space for some particularly sumptuous crops that eluded us for many years due to deer pressure. The sweetest to come to mind, is strawberries. Oh the joy, to have strawberries every week of the summer, instead of walking to the garden with colander in hand only to find that overnight the deer have eaten every last ripe strawberry! The next part of that saga is that deer
like love strawberry plants too as a chaser to their previous night's strawberry drunk. It smarts a little to have to stop at the berry stand to buy overpriced non-organic strawberries, when you already spent $$ and countless hours of labor tending your crop.
In all honesty I had wanted a greenhouse for years. I had no idea how I would use it other than "to grow things."
Now it's our everything garden space from late winter through to late fall. We start our seeds in there, we start our first regular garden crops in there, and we use it as a hardening off space to transition tender transplants for their life in the outside gardens. Who knew?
Next a peek in the freezers to see what we can see.
Goals Change, the Old Orthorexic Mare Ain't What She Used to Be
Darn kids, give them a camera and of course they like to take photos of you when you're not aware. I'm fair game I suppose, and since I don't really look at the back of my head much, if at all, I was a little surprised to see I still had a fair bit of dark hair. I would like to think that I am a little wiser after all these years of gardening and larder stuffing. Each year I'm a little more satisfied with our food supply. Not worrying as much about food and how I store it as I used to be, and learning that being obsessed with clean food has a name, Orthorexia. You can read about it here. I'm probably in denial, but seeing these cool, vintage photos that I absolutely love, start to circulate on the interwebs really opened my eyes to how much my goals have changed in the last 15 years or so.
I love these old photos, but being someone who grew up with a fruit room exactly like these, I can see that the items while representative of the prowess of the makers, were staged for the photos, Gram's Instagrams if you will. Food Styling for pantry nerds. Apples and cut rhubarb and potatoes exposed to the light? Onions, squash and possibly celery down in the corner? All those things would be present at a farm home, but most likely kept in different areas for the longest possible storage. Gramma knew dark was the name of the game for potato storage, a thing I failed to pick up on when my old burlap bags gave up the ghost, I used modern white plastic burlap bags like I use for my dahlia bulbs, and guess what? I ruined my potatoes, they turned green in the root cellar from the whiteness of the bags. Lesson learned, pay attention to detail.
This is our fruit room, or actually one side of it, and I have actually seen it stuffed to the gills before with home canned goods from the garden and orchard. I've even stuffed it a few times myself. Those old root cellar photos used to be my goal, now I can see them as historical photos showing what was happening then, not what I need to do now.
These days, the shelves hold more empty jars than full. We have changed the way we eat and garden. I still can a few things, but not near what I used to do. We just have lost all desire for canned fruit, except chunky applesauce. Ditto for most canned vegetables, but I still really like canned tomatoes in all their forms. I grew up with the idea you planted your garden and then you canned or froze everything you could harvest in long marathon canning sessions to put that sunlight in a jar for the dark days. Necessity, and much better than going to the store for sure. But these days, some things have changed or at least they have for us.
I think where the orthorexia comes in, is in the form of over-correction. Depending on who you talk to they will tell you that you must eat the way they do. Raw, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, omnivore, gluten-free, fermented, fresh, etc. I get the proselytizing about probiotics, but you have to realize we eat a lot of raw food and dirt each day already, we drink untreated spring water, and I get the avoidance of factory farming of animals. So we've preferred to take a moderate approach, and keep some of the old and the new ways of larder stocking. As much as I would like to erase plastic from my life, it's nigh impossible to completely erase plastic in some form in the food storage arena.
I think if you go back through my blog you will find posts about making 10 gallons of sauerkraut at a time. That is how I learned to do it. Grow it, shred it, salt it, pack it, and you're done. Sometimes unlearning one thing means you learn something new, or change what you're doing a bit. Sauerkraut is a live food, what you put in the crock in November surely tastes much different than what you pull out in April… . The single most important thing about all these styles of eating and preserving? You and most of the household must like the product, no matter how good you believe it is for you or your family, if they don't like it, it's a wasted effort. None of us like lacto-fermented cucumbers, no matter how much brow beating we endure, we just don't like them. So we move on. And we make and eat vinegar pickles, and we enjoy them, down to the very last piece in the jar. That is what makes all the work worth it.
So now I try each year to make some kraut out of fall cabbages, but smaller amounts, and just relax and enjoy smothered cabbage as a vegetable side dish. Succession planting of different types of cabbage that mature at different time allows us some freedom from the old way of putting up.
People change the way they eat because they grow weary of eating the same thing. By expanding my gardening season I can expand my pantry too. I know too some of you are thinking yeah, easy for you to say, you live in zone 8, so I say read some Eliot Coleman, he lives in Maine, same parallel as here but a much colder gardening zone. "Well, then ignore what I have to say and go with what works for you." -Eliot Coleman His four season gardening techniques are not to be sneezed at no matter what zone you garden in. I would venture it's more the idea of gardening year round that turns off lots of folks, more than their climate limitations. Many make a greenhouse work for them in cold climates, with added row cover they fashion a greenhouse within a greenhouse ala Coleman and his four season farm.
Now in February maybe I am tired of cooking and eating smothered cabbage, and if I planned my winter garden and planted it in late summer or early fall, and the weather cooperated, I can make fresh kraut now with fresh cabbage, carrots and stored garlic, instead of dreading the 10 gallon slog through the October kraut.
Gardeners are gamblers for sure. I know the supermarket is a sure bet, but seeds are cheap and I have learned for sure that if I don't plant something, it is guaranteed I won't be harvesting anything. So I plant. Sometimes the stars are aligned and we have great abundance, some times the fare is meager due to pests and weather, but it is there, and still a good alternative if you have just a little bit of space to devote to winter gardening.
I can't say growing your own food will be guaranteed to be cheaper, many times it's not. The labor and space required for growing, and drying down dried beans or corn for cornmeal may seem silly when you can just go to the store and purchase these items. And maybe a little orthorexia is in order, after all we should fear some things, but we shouldn't paint ourselves into a corner either.
I hope the yearning for a full pantry like those depicted in the vintage photos never goes away, but rather the full pantry just takes on a different look.


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But the last time the Patriots actually made two selections in Round 1 was back in 2004.
Until Thursday.
After a furious start to the first round, which saw numerous rapid-fire trades at the top, the Patriots decided to get in on the action. First, they traded their 27th overall and their third-round choice (93 overall) to Cincinnati for the Bengals' 21st pick. With that choice, they then selected Syracuse defensive end Chandler Jones (6-5, 270).
Shortly thereafter, New England did it again, moving up from their slot at 31 to 25, swapping picks with Denver (they also sent the Broncos their fourth-round selection - 126 overall) to take Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower (6-2, 265).
This marks just the third and fourth times in the Belichick era that New England has moved up in the first round (2003 for Ty Warren, 2002 for Daniel Graham the others). Interestingly, the upward moves came just hours after the club denied - via the team's official Twitter account - an NFL Network report earlier in the day that suggested the Patriots were interested in trading up to the 12th pick owned by Seattle.
"I thought we had a good day today," Belichick told reporters immediately following the conclusion of the first round. "As usual, the draft always takes some interesting twists and turns. You just never know how it's going to go."
Belichick added that he was somewhat surprised he was able to climb the first-round ladder without surrendering either of New England's two second round selections (the 48th and 62nd overall choices).
Jones, as the head coach pointed out, was predominantly a defensive end for the Orange, whereas Hightower was more of a moving part in Tuscaloosa. However, Belichick added that he's excited to work with both players and see how they might be utilized in the Patriots system.
"Chandler's a little younger, has a little less experience, but a very talented player," he continued. "Smart guy, works hard, did a good job against some quality players.
"Hightower's been in a great program for a great coach [Nick Saban], won a couple of national championships, been the signal-caller for that defense. He played middle linebacker, inside linebacker off the line for Alabama in their base defense and nickel, but he also played defensive end in their nickel, opposite [Courtney] Upshaw. He rarely came off the field, defensively.
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Jones' sack numbers weren't eye-popping, but his overall skill set - ability to set the edge versus the run, as well as get to the quarterback - appears to have won over Belichick.
"No matter what I do, people will criticize," Jones told reporters during a late-night conference call. "Bill Belichick picked me for a reason. I'm excited and happy to be a Patriot."
"Coach Belichick is a genius when it comes to football, let alone defense, so, to play for somebody like that and gain more knowledge, after playing for Coach Saban, is only going to help me."
Jones recalled meeting Hightower during the Scouting Combine, and said the two joked about winding up as teammates in the NFL. Now, it's a reality.
"Can't wait to see him tomorrow," an enthused Jones remarked.
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