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https://www.pureintel.com/citrus-greening-scourge-on-the-spread-in-california-and-texas/ | 2021-04-23T11:44:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039617701.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210423101141-20210423131141-00260.warc.gz | 0.925672 | 212 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__25691280 | en | Containing the deadly citrus greening disease has been an impossible task for growers worldwide. No grove is immune to this point. To that end, the USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is expanding areas quarantined for citrus greening in California, Texas, and even some parts of Louisiana.
According to a recent pest report from the North America Plant Protection Organization’s Phytosanitary Alert System, APHIS is adding portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties in California; all of Kleberg, Kenedy, and Webb counties in Texas; and all of Plaquemines and Saint Bernard Parishes in Louisiana to the quarantined area due to detections in plant tissue samples collected in multiple locations in these states.
APHIS is working in cooperation with the respective Departments of Agriculture as well as stakeholders from each state’s citrus industry in this effort.
The specific changes to the regulated areas in California, Texas, and Louisiana can be found at: | agronomy |
https://www.koshercrops.com/ | 2020-11-26T17:24:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141188899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20201126171830-20201126201830-00438.warc.gz | 0.929794 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__15154878 | en | The Jewish prohibition against consuming insects is an Issur d'Oraisa, a G-d given outlaw. So strict is this prohibition, it is mentioned five times in the Torah.
Unfortunately, in recent years, due to federal regulations and genetic changes caused by insecticides, there are increasing amounts of insects such as thrips and aphids infesting some crops. Obviously, many fruits and vegetables, especially green and leafy varieties, must be cleaned and checked before cooking or eating for the presence of small insects.
Kosher Crops takes the guesswork out of kosher produce consumption. We source farm fresh produce then clean, check and certify the produce to be Kosher.
We do not rely on industry standard triple washing or other leniencies.
Our well-trained staff ultra-wash the produce conforming to the highest standards of kashruth. Once cleaned, the produce is inspected adhering to the most thorough and comprehensive methods for checking greens.
Our certified mashgichim are tested regularly and our facility is inspected often. We are under strict Rabbinic supervision to ensure your produce is halachically insect free and kosher.
Kosher Crops is certified by the Central Rabbinical Congress (CRC/Hisachdus), the Star-K, and the Keystone-K. | agronomy |
http://dailymitzvah.blogspot.com/2009/03/carbon-fast-for-lent-back-to-land.html | 2018-07-23T00:25:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594675.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722233159-20180723013159-00170.warc.gz | 0.937067 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__186314689 | en | DAY 18 – SATURDAY 14 MARCH
“Buy food that’s being grown or produced locally using local shops and farmers markets where possible – see www.farmersmarkets.net. Bonus: Grow some of your own food.You don’t need an allotment or even a garden - grow herbs, fruit and vegetables in pots (window sill or garden). Or join others in your community to cultivate gardens together. Find out more in the fact sheet.” — Tearfund Carbon Fast for Lent
I live a short walk from an amazing farmers market, which I can wait to see start up again next month! I also noticed my otherwise very mainstream grocery store has started posting little signs like roadmaps with mileage estimates to note locally produced items. I was also intrigued by lettuce plants growing on flowerpots. Apparently one can pick the lower leaves so it continues to grow. I may see a living room garden in my future . . .
Today’s mitzvah: Use Local Harvest’s finding tool to locate farmers markets, family owned farms, and other sustainable resources near you. | agronomy |
https://bestvalued.com/products/husqvarna-budget | 2021-03-09T01:13:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178385534.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210308235748-20210309025748-00217.warc.gz | 0.872172 | 441 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__158181534 | en | The Husqvarna robotic lawn mower is gaining popularity in the United States with its advanced features and professional installation. Be it trimming soft landscape boundaries, running the blades on tall Florida grasses, the commercial robotic lawn mower at your rescue. The rainy season has commenced, and every household requires an automatic lawnmower to keep insects hiding in the grass at bay.
There is no rocket science associated with installing the remote-control lawn mower; you can do it yourself in merely 15 minutes. The model uses a guide wire to run the mower in different directions of the backyard. The base model does not have a mapping system; thus, the guide wires guide the Husqvarna lawn mower robot to map the area and mow it easily. The robotic mower comes with a DIY installation kit to make it simpler.
The Husqvarna lawn mower robot has immense flexibility to chop of 3.6 inches tall grass with ease and tackle the area of 4 acres without disturbing your neighbours. The mower silently mows the lawn without any ticking sound and is the best alternative to the traditional mower. The robotic mower is guided smartly to manoeuvre around your ground without any hassle. The automatic model also returns to the charging station when it requires battery recharge. The product functions on lithium batteries and weighs merely 20.7 pounds.
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http://donana1998.com/quality.html | 2020-02-18T11:06:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143646.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20200218085715-20200218115715-00125.warc.gz | 0.894926 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__97542047 | en | The Integrated Production Certificate of Andalusia guarantees an agricultural production system based on natural regulatory mechanisms, encompassing environmental protection, farm economy and social needs under the requirements established for each crop.
GlobalGAP certification guarantees transparency throughout the production process, from planting to the moment the product is removed from the farm, following the criteria of sustainability, respecting the environment, safety, hygiene and the welfare of workers.
The Tesco Nurture certificate ensures the best agricultural practices in fresh produce productions. This certification demonstrates that the product is grown and handled in compliance with all regulatory requirements, along with environmental protection, human health and food safety.
GLOBAL G.A.P. "GRASP"
Good agricultural practices apply not only to products, but also to people. The GRASP module complements the Global G.A.P. ensuring good social practices, including specific aspects relating to the health, safety and welfare of individuals.
The IFS Food certificate recognizes the establishment of the appropriate processes to guarantee the safety of the products, respecting the specifications of the clients and guaranteeing the processing, treatment, and handling of products, and the activities carried out during the packaging of fruit in the handling plant.
BRC Food certifies compliance with the requirements for food safety through a HACCP system, ensuring a documented quality management system and the control of requirements of the environmental conditions of the facilities, products, processes and personnel.
Do you need more information about our certificate documents? Visit the customer area or contact us for your inquiry. | agronomy |
https://farm360.org/product/coop-farming | 2024-02-28T23:53:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474746.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228211701-20240229001701-00814.warc.gz | 0.897993 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__149071842 | en | More than ever, there is need for deliberate investment of resources in agriculture to improve yield and ensure all year round availability of wholesome and cheap food through the use of more productive, efficient and sustainable agricultural practices. Farm360 now provides investment portfolio management platform through which individuals and corporate organisations can contribute in closing the investment gaps in the Nigerian agricultural industry.
We provided fully customized individually managed investment accounts to suit the investment needs of our clients especially in the satisfaction of the following key-benefit propositions:
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Invest in any of our farms today and secure a future of good returns with minimal risks on your investment happy in the knowledge that you are contributing towards food sustainability and security in Nigeria. | agronomy |
https://www.claudetx.org/myers-crop-insurance-agency | 2022-06-26T13:29:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103269583.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626131545-20220626161545-00082.warc.gz | 0.870016 | 87 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__226733258 | en | Myers Crop Insurance
Myers Crop Insurance Agency, LLC sells crop and livestock insurance to farmers and ranchers.
We are a service-based business that strives to protect our customers through risk management. We always put the customer first!
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https://www.notionplaza.com/gardening-hub | 2023-10-04T09:17:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511364.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004084230-20231004114230-00785.warc.gz | 0.862672 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__249242985 | en | Table of Contents
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http://didcot.com/forum/?read=36979 | 2018-07-16T06:55:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589222.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716060836-20180716080836-00128.warc.gz | 0.901361 | 79 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__260741194 | en | Posted By: jif
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Also, a gardener to weed and maintain a medium-sized garden on a regular basis. The ability to distinguish between weeds and plants essential. | agronomy |
https://onrooseveltisland.com/why-not-grow-your-own-hemp/ | 2023-03-22T02:17:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943749.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322020215-20230322050215-00366.warc.gz | 0.947479 | 1,672 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__280908882 | en | Hemp is a versatile crop that can be grown without problems or spending a lot. Find out more about why you should grow your own hemp!
by Sammy Lamb
for Assorted Ideas, Large & Small
Hemp, known as “King of the Fiber Plants” and the most durable material known to man, can be grown in almost any region on Earth. It is good for both soil and climate. So why not grow your own?
Hemp is a powerful plant that can provide us with food, medicine and other useful things. The plant is found most in Asia and the Middle East, where it has been cultivated for thousands of years.
If you chose growing your own, the first thing we’ll tell you is that you must live in a place where it is legal. In the United States, Canada and Australia, this is no problem, but check out local regulations.
The next thing you could want to know is, if you do not have any clue about growing plants from seed or cloning them or just do not have much time, you can benefit from ordering a hemp seedling.
But we recommend that you try growing from seeds; it’s easier than you might think!
So, you want to grow your own hemp?
If you’re not sure how to grow plants from seeds, don’t worry! It’s easier than you might think. You can, also, purchase hemp seedlings online or from a local store. But we recommend trying to grow them from seeds yourself. It’s a fun and rewarding experience, and you’ll get to see your plants grow from tiny seeds into tall hemp plants!
A step at a time
First, get your seeds. You can get them online or from a local store that sells hemp products. If you live in the United States, Canada or Australia you have no problem ordering from an online supplier. In other countries, it may be more difficult to find a supplier, but it is worth looking into!
The next step is to make sure that they are hemp seeds and not another seed or plant. If you know the scientific name for hemp – cannabis sativa – it’s easy. Look them up on Google and make sure your seeds look like real hemp seeds.
If you’re still not sure, all you need is a magnifying glass (or even just strong eyes). You should see tiny grooves in the seeds, which are actually cannabis sativa!
Once you have the hemp seeds, place them in a pot or flat tray filled with organic soil. Make sure that no weeds or unwanted plants are growing in your soil, as they will compete for sunlight and nutrients with your hemp plant.
Keep the soil moist but not too wet. Water it with regular water, not tap water or any other type of chemical. If the soil is too dry simply add some more organic soil to the tray.
If you want to grow your plant indoors, make sure that it has plenty of sunlight throughout its life (in most countries they can survive without direct sunlight for a few days). If it doesn’t get enough sunlight indoors, you can use a grow light.
Once the hemp plant sprouts, it is best to pick off any dead leaves so that your plant uses its energy for healthy growth. Try not to disturb the soil too much, since this will expose new roots to other sources of nutrients and can be harmful to your plant.
If you want, you can transplant the seedling into a larger container filled with organic soil and give it more space. If you do this, make sure to water the plant regularly and keep the soil moist – but not too wet!
After all, hemp is a weed – so if you don’t want yours to grow out of control, make sure you cut it back regularly. This will also help the plant produce more female flowers. If you are growing your hemp inside or with artificial light, make sure to give it at least 16 hours of light every day!
Best times for growing your own hemp
If you are growing outdoors, your hemp plant will die off in winter no matter how much sunlight it gets. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere the best time to start growing hemp is between March and May, while if you live in the Southern Hemisphere look for a warm spot between September and November.
You should start seeing hemp leaves within a few days or weeks of the seed sprouting (depending on the type of seed). Once you see leaves, it’s time to start fertilizing. You can find organic fertilizer in most garden stores, or in some places you can even make your own. Just be sure to use nonchemical fertilizers!
As long as you water your plant regularly, fertilize it with organic fertilizer and give it enough light, you’ll get a nice harvest!
By the way…
If a stray cat decides to pee on your hemp plant, don’t panic! Just cut off the parts of the plant that have been contaminated with cat urine and put them in a plastic bag. Vinegar is a great remedy against cat urine, so just dissolve some vinegar crystals in water and pour it on the parts of your plant that have been affected.
In case you accidentally let a dog pee on your hemp plant, make sure to remove the contaminated area as soon as possible and bury it several inches underground away from your other hemp plants!
After the hemp plant starts growing flowers, it’s time for harvesting. Pinch off the seeds you want to use for growing new plants or hemp oil, and put them in a cardboard box until they are dry. You can also use them right away for cooking!
Before winter sets in you might want to transplant your seedlings into larger pots so that they have enough space to grow.
Now you know how easy it is to grow your own hemp! All you need is a bit of patience and love.
Hemp oil contains several cannabinoids, some of which are known to have beneficial health effects. If you want to use hemp seed oil as a lubricant or for some other purpose you’ll have to press the seeds yourself. You can find more information on how to do so here.
If you’re planning on eating your hemp seeds raw just make sure they are fresh and have a mild, nutty flavor. If your seeds taste bitter or chalky you should consider roasting them – it will improve their flavor!
Want to use hemp oil as cooking oil? Make sure you pick a good quality organic cold-pressed oil. You can find all of our favorite hemp oils here.
We hope you enjoyed reading this article as much as we enjoyed writing it!
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https://www.gotcashback.co.uk/Stores/Gardening-Naturally/ | 2024-04-20T00:31:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00476.warc.gz | 0.887377 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__89386272 | en | Gardening Naturally is a comprehensive online store offering a wide range of gardening supplies, tools, and accessories to help enthusiasts cultivate their green spaces. To save on purchases at Gardening Naturally, I recommend using our cashback comparison portal to find a cashback portal that offers the best cash back rate and sign-up bonus, and consider combining it with credit card rewards.
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https://www.mestovstrechi.info/the-ultimate-guide-to-modern-and-traditional-culinary.html/ | 2023-10-01T18:02:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00136.warc.gz | 0.959074 | 652 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__273837760 | en | French tarragon can not be grown from seed, it should be grown from root divisions or cuttings. Stem cuttings must be six to eight inches long and positioned in moist sand. After 4 weeks roots should have formed and tarragon can planted outdoors the date of the last frost is the perfect time.. Preserve the soil moist till the crops are established then you can allow them to go nearly dry between watering. Tarragon like most herbs do properly with out excessive feeding a light spray with compost tea a few times through the growing season.
There are numerous different types of herbs on the market. As an illustration you’ve annuals, perennials, and biennials, identical to every other kind of plant in a garden. One factor you might not have realized however is that each single sort of herb out there may be totally different, and there are a LOT of them. They all have totally different needs as well, which implies you have to to do fairly a bit of analysis, and discover out which herbs want what sort of care.
Restaurant owner amongst other rewarding jobs.
It’s also essential that you simply contemplate availability of facilities in the institution that you choose. A superb establishment could have sufficient teaching kitchens. It should also have spacious courses that will permit particular person students to practice preparing food on their very own. They need to even have sufficient and big equipments that enable students to arrange meals on their very own.
As a garnish coriander leaves are an attractive ornament and taste crammed chunk, if anybody eats the garnish, to substitute the dark green coloring, child spinach, Italian parsley, or mustard leaves can all be used. For flavor substitutes, the closest replacement to the flavour of coriander is the saw tooth coriander. Every prepare dinner should resolve for themselves what will go well with the dish at hand.
Usually culinary are herbs with robust flavors.
Internships are also an important side of a very good institution. It should allow students to go to motels, resorts and leading restaurants. This will not solely give them real-time expertise, but industrial connections as well. Culinary careers are a really exciting satisfying and an equally rewarding expertise. And like in another path of career here too, to reach the top, one has to start out at the bottom and work hard to achieve the highest position.
Micro climate of the site The positioning’s climatic situation can also be essential. The type of soil that you will use is equally necessary. If you happen to can not produce a great soil, there will be tendencies you’ll fail in your herb gardening plans. Is this backyard positioned in the southern part of the house or does it receive common sunlight on a regular basis day? These are questions that it is best to reply earlier than you begin planting.
Nevertheless, all over the place they make use of some strategies. That is what, helps them to have the top result that may wow their customers and make them come back. For turning into a chef, that you must strive some ideas and creativeness. Learning these culinary delights and abilities will definitely amaze your visitors and household. | agronomy |
https://cc-creatives.ie/en-gb/products/lime-coconut-bar | 2024-04-19T03:55:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817253.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419013002-20240419043002-00410.warc.gz | 0.91464 | 105 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35164170 | en | The second of our tropically twisted chocolate bars, this bar is extra creamy thanks to it’s smooth Belgian white chocolate base, infused with lime and coconut bits for added texture.
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https://organiccrumbs.com/eating-the-way-god-intended/ | 2023-09-23T08:19:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923062631-20230923092631-00227.warc.gz | 0.982036 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__262052895 | en | Well…that’s what we tell ourselves we are doing. Recently, we started getting a CSA (community sustained agriculture) box. It is basically a bunch of organic farms that work together to provide people with fresh and seasonal produce. Fortunately for us, we live in CA where the growing season goes on all year. It has been an interesting challenge to come up with recipes that will appeal to all 6 of us with some of the things that have been showing up in the box. This week we had kale, mustard greens, turnips, and arugala among others. Tonight I made turnip fries, that tasted remarkably like zucchini and greens with bacon and onions. Yum! It was so good that I am going to use the leftovers as a soup base for tomorrow’s dinner…of course, I’ll have to blend up the wilted greens since two of the kids made a point to gag on them tonight…sigh. They do so well normally! Well, most of them do. Right now, we are just working on teaching Ramiah to stop complaining about the food before she has even tasted it. | agronomy |
https://www.mydairyfreeglutenfreelife.com/composting-the-easy-way/ | 2024-03-02T20:36:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475897.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302184020-20240302214020-00842.warc.gz | 0.952604 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__23652982 | en | Composting is an easy, fun way to recycle our consumables like food, grass clippings, and yard waste. It is so much better to compost all of those then sending them to the landfill. What exactly is compost? It is the nutrient-rich soil that is left over after tiny microbes and worms have their way with waste. Pretty cool, huh? Here are some tips so you can make sure you are composting the easy way.
It is easy to get enough kitchen scraps in just a couple days to start your compost pile. You can use a plastic bag, or invest in a countertop kitchen compost bin. Add in your egg shells, coffee filters, tea bags, fruits and vegetables. It is not recommended to add in dairy or meat as they attract vermin and animals to your compost pile.
Easy Peasy Compost Pile
In a corner of your yard, you can start building your easy compost pile. On the bottom, start with straw and brown waste which includes dead leaves, shredded bark, and cut up tree limbs – the smaller the better. Next, add in newspapers and glass clippings. At the top of the pile goes your kitchen scraps. Grab the hose and water your compost pile well. With a pitchfork, poke holes into your pile, and then water it again. Once a week you need to turn the pile so that it is evenly mixed. The compost pile should never dry out and should be kept damp like a wet sponge. In about 8 weeks you will have fresh compost to use in your planter boxes and garden.
Easy Compost Tumbler
Although a compost pile sounds like a lot of work with turning it all, it really isn’t. If you want something a bit easier on your back, invest in a compost tumbler. You can buy one for under $200 and they last a lifetime. Start with the same ingredients, water them well, and then give it a few good turns. If you keep it moist and turn it every few days, you can have nutrient-rich compost in as little as 4 weeks! How easy is that? | agronomy |
https://www.landscapemagazine.co.uk/countryside/2017/9/28/haven-among-the-nettles | 2019-08-17T22:48:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313501.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817222907-20190818004907-00040.warc.gz | 0.958419 | 1,839 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__198074241 | en | Despite its reputation as a garden menace, the stinging nettle provides a home for wildlife as well as having a host of beneficial properties
In neglected corners of gardens and fields thrive dense patches of one of nature’s best survivors, the stinging nettle. Growing tall and luxuriant, it can be the bane of the gardener, yet this verdant herbaceous perennial is one of the single most important native plants for sustaining wildlife in the British Isles.
Its armoured stems and leaves provide a safe home for the larvae of numerous butterflies and moths, and a hotel for a wide range of insects, including aphids. These, in turn, are food for other predators, from ladybird larvae to birds.
Nettles also have a myriad of applications in cookery and for health purposes. In addition, the tough fibres have been used to create yarn, rope and fabric for centuries.
There are more than 80 species of nettle worldwide, but only two are found in Britain. These are the perennial Urtica dioica, and the annual Urtica urens. U. dioica has male and female flowers on separate plants, while U. urens has flowers of both genders on one plant.
The wind-pollinated, greenish-white tasselled flowers with a cluster of four petals appear in May. Eventually they fade to amber or brown in September.
The leaves and stems of both varieties are a rich green, sometimes with the faintest hint of plum. They have serrated margins that grow like canines, becoming more prominent as the plant ages. Each leaf has a twin on the opposite side of the central stem, arranged in a spiral staircase formation so that all light below is blocked out. This is an evolutionary trick, called phenoplasticity. It ensures the plants, which can reach up to 6½ft (2m) high, shade out all the competition below.
Nettles grow in multiple conditions and locations, from cracks in paving slabs to hillsides 2,700ft (823m) high. However, flowering can be inhibited if the soil is poor or they are confined to deep shade. For these reasons, their ideal site has nitrogen-rich, moist soil on the edge of a pasture or stream.
The tough yellow nettle roots spread rapidly, attaching themselves to the soil at the nodes. These are buds which grow into aerial shoots just under the soil surface. New rhizomes are formed in later summer and autumn, and while frost and drought can restrict their growth, they will overwinter. The stems turn to a whitish-grey in winter and can decompose completely before emerging in spring. Both varieties spread in this way, and new plants will grow from the smallest root.
Nettles also reproduce via tiny green seeds, produced from September onwards.
U. urens puts out more seeds as it only lasts for one year. These germinate on bare soil warmed by sunlight, where they stay viable for up to five years. They will float on water for up to a week without being damaged. As well as being windblown, the seeds have bristly outer cases which can hook into the fur of passing animals. They can also be ingested by worms and extracted in worm casts.
New nettles appear from March, growing more quickly and strongly than surrounding weeds in order to stay above other vegetation.
It is the wild nettle’s name that highlights its most notable characteristic. Urtica comes from the Latin verb urere, meaning to burn, while the word nettle originates from the Anglo Saxon for needle. The plant has also been known as burn nettle or burn weed.
The sting is produced by hairs on the leaves. These are long glassy trichomes, single cells that are elongated to razor- sharp points. These trichomes are filled with silica, the material glass is made from. When under pressure, a swollen sac of liquid at the base is pushed up into the skin, like a syringe.
As brittle as fine glass, these hairs can break off into the skin, injecting concoctions of chemicals that cause a rash. This potion contains a combination of chemicals that include formic acid, histamine, which can trigger inflammation, serotonin and a neurotransmitter acetylcholine. There is
a fifth ingredient that is yet to be identified. How the cocktail works is currently unknown.
This jagged armour forms the perfect protection against grazing animals that might otherwise eat the plant. Research has shown that nettles in heavily grazed areas have more of the stinging spines.
A sheltered home
The spines do not just protect the plant, they provide one of the most undisturbed habitats on the planet for insects.
According to the Natural History Museum, more than 100 species of insect have been recorded feeding on nettles. These range from nettle weevils to aphids. Their small size means the insects are able to move between the spines without activating the sting.
The leaves are the primary food source for peacock, small tortoiseshell and red admiral caterpillars, which feed on nettles in large numbers. These larvae hide in silk webs at the top of the stems. Moths, such as the snout, the spectacle, the nettle tap and the mother of pearl, also lay their eggs on nettles.
With so many insects living on them, nettles provide a valuable food source for a host of predators, including damselflies and birds. These feed on the aphids, seeds and fresh spring growth. Blue tits can often be seen darting around the stems in summer. When the seeds are ripe, chiffchaffs, bullfinches and goldfinches
all feast on the plants.
Nettle leaves offer an arsenal of natural remedies for the garden. Rich in nitrogen, they are the perfect fuel for compost heaps. Here, if mixed thoroughly, they work as a natural activator, helping break down other plant materials. They are also useful as a sacrificial companion plant to vegetables crops, luring aphids away from other specimens.
Brewed up into a compost tea with water, they can be used as an organic plant food. To make the mixture, the leaves and stems, but not the seeds, are chopped up finely in a bucket. Rainwater is added and the bucket covered and left for two weeks.
The resulting brew is filtered through a sieve and diluted to one part to 10 parts water for use. It can be used as a plant spray for fungal infections as it contains natural anti-fungal properties, namely a compound called lectin agglutinin. Fruit packers have been known to add nettles to apple boxes to stop them going mouldy.
Far from being a pest to be destroyed at the earliest opportunity, the stinging nettle is a plant with a wide range of benefits, for both wildlife and people. A true survivor, it has earned its place in a quiet corner of garden or field.
Food and medicine
Over the centuries, all parts of the nutrient-rich nettle have been used for food and medicine. The root can be dried and used in tinctures, the stem and leaves made into soups or teas, and the seeds used for medicines. Nettles have astringent, expectorant, anti-inflammatory, haemostatic and diuretic properties.
Hippocrates and his followers found 61 remedies using nettles. Galen, a Greek physician in the Roman empire, recommended the plant for bites and wounds, bleeding, pneumonia, asthma and much more. In ancient Egypt, nettles were used for the relief of arthritis and rheumatism, with patients flogging themselves with the plants to stimulate circulation. This is a practice that continued into the Roman era. There are stories that Caesar’s troops whipped themselves with nettle leaves to keep warm.
In the 17th century, Samuel Pepys included a “very good” nettle porridge in his diary. Nettles featured regularly in the rural diet in the 19th century, with the tender, young tops used in soups, puddings, beer and wine. Today, nettle leaves make a tasty substitute for spinach, with the added benefit of more iron and vitamin C.
The nettles are used to wrap around Cornish Yarg cheese, giving it its unique white bloom and edible mushroom-flavoured rind. The leaves, which attract naturally occurring moulds, are brushed onto the cheese in concentric circles.
Leaves should always be harvested before the plants flower, as older leaves are thought to upset the urinary tract and may form bladder stones. The sting is lost once the nettles are cooked, frozen, or dried and rubbed through a sieve. | agronomy |
http://survivalcraftchartreusenarwhal.blogspot.com/2015/06/ | 2018-07-17T09:25:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589634.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717090227-20180717110227-00186.warc.gz | 0.914781 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__29402145 | en | - To grow cotton, find a humid area. This is where it will grow best :)
- Determine how large the area needs to be. For cotton, it should be large.
- Next, till the area with a rake to yield soil. The best way to do this is to have a row of water between two rows of soil. This will keep your soil damp.
- Fertilize the soil with saltpeter*. It can be obtained from sandy areas.
- Lay down your cotton seeds, one on each block.
- Build a fence around your cotton. The fence should be 2+ blocks in height to keep unwanted visitors out.
- Watch your cotton grow :) Once it is finished, it will look like the below picture, and from it, you will obtain both cotton wads and more cotton seeds.
Hope this helped ;) | agronomy |
https://richlifemag.com/4-steps-to-creating-your-own-edible-garden/ | 2021-05-08T08:10:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988850.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20210508061546-20210508091546-00109.warc.gz | 0.938132 | 621 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__84202420 | en | Your cold season crops should go into the ground by late September. These are things like cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccoli, romanesco, kale, and potatoes that will generally start producing in about 60 days. If you’re on the East Coast, you’ll eventually be under snow, but you can grow a bit indoors—all the Italian herbs, basil, and cilantro are a few options.
Step 4: Maintaining your new crops
“After planting, you’ll want to water thoroughly so the soil is saturated, checking with your trowel or finger to see that the soil is moist a few inches deep. Following this you’ll water once a day–preferably in the morning–taking special care to ensure seeded areas don’t dry out until they’ve safely germinated and sprouted,” instructs Douglas. “As long as your soil is damp and the plants don’t look wilted, you’re watering enough. Remember that you’re growing healthy soil with living microbes and worms, which need a moisture to survive.” To get the best harvest possible, Douglas says you’ll want to feed your plants periodically. There are two ways to do this: You can add nutrients to the soil for the plants to take up in their roots, or you can dilute nutrients in water for them to absorb through their leaves. For either option, Douglas’s favorite brand is E.B. Stone Organics.
Notes on sourcing
Douglas is a fan of several organic seed companies based in the Midwest and on the East Coast, including High Mowing Seeds and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. “Locally, in Marin County, we love Fairfax Lumber & Hardware—they have the soil, compost, seeds, vegetable starts, fertilizers, and really everything you need to get started. The San Francisco Bay Area has so many great places, including a number of Sloat Garden Centers, Green Jeans Garden Supply in Mill Valley, and The Living Seed Company in Point Reyes Station—they’re all still stocked and have great heirloom seeds.”
Other metropolitan areas may not have as many accessible garden centers, but Douglas contends it’s not impossible to source your starts. “It might be a little different if you’re living in downtown Manhattan, but all you have to do is go up the Hudson and there’s the Hudson Valley Seed Company. Wherever you are, there are all these small retailers crying out for business.”
“We want to redefine how we perceive the landscape by turning it into a resource we can use to feed our families and still maintain a space for entertaining,” remarks Douglas. “We want to prioritize food in our landscapes and shared spaces—if nothing else this may inspire people to think differently about their spaces—particularly with what’s happening in the world today.” | agronomy |
https://oneearthtolive.wordpress.com/tag/urban-sprawl/ | 2023-02-04T06:52:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500094.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204044030-20230204074030-00008.warc.gz | 0.966596 | 1,172 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__92063290 | en | I watched the film Dirt! last week. Many of us don’t really consider dirt, and when we do, we look down upon it. We don’t like it when we are “dirty” or when other people treat us like “dirt”. Dirt is the lowest of the low.
But in reality, there is nothing more important that dirt, as it is the cradle of life here on Earth. We need high quality dirt, or soil, to grow food. Without any dirt, we could not grow any food, and without any food … well you get the picture.
Many of us think that dirt is limitless. This is not true. Not all areas of the Earth have dirt, and some areas that have it, only have a few inches. This dirt took a long, long time to develop. Once it is gone, it will take a long, long time to develop more. Poor countries that don’t have dirt, or have lost their dirt, do not have an effective way to feed their people. So they go hungry, or migrate to areas where there is dirt. These migrations can cause conflicts among those who do not want to give up their dirt to newcomers. Countries that have dirt, even poorer countries, have a way to feed themselves and enjoy much higher food security.
Here in the West, we are paving over a lot of our dirt. Cities continue to sprawl, roads continue to be built, and less and less land is available for farming. But here we don’t notice the impact that this has on our food supply; it does not impact where our next meal is coming from. We just go and buy our food at the grocery store, much of it imported from other countries.
But wait a minute. We know that we are using almost all the arable land on this planet to grow food. Is the land attributed to feeding us, land that is way off in other countries, poor countries even, now not available to feed the local people that live there? Does our requirement for the next mall, the next suburban development, trump another country’s ability to feed its people?
So given how important dirt is – how are we treating it? Not very well I am afraid. A lot of our dirt has been lost due to conventional farming practices. When a farmer tills a dry field on a windy day, a lot of the dirt is taken up by the wind, blown into the sky, never to return. Dirt is also lost due to irresponsible irrigation practices that allow dirt to wash away into our streams and lakes and oceans, never to be used again. When we tear down a forest on a mountain, the dirt that remains can very quickly be washed away, without the network of trees and roots and plants to sustain it. On top of all of that, much of the dirt that we do have remaining is subjected to a host of chemical additives, such as fertilizer and pesticides. Unfortunately, nitrogen in fertilizer isn’t even completely absorbed by the plants – up to 70% of it gets carried away to lakes and oceans, creating algae blooms and reducing the oxygen content in the water. Fish stocks decline, aquatic life suffers. This is what has directly caused the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which is estimated now to be the size of New Jersey.
We also add pesticides of course, as we don’t want those pesky pests eating up our crops. But pesticides kill more than just the pests; they also kill beneficial bugs and organisms that provide some of the life giving properties of the soil.
On top of all this, we plant vast mono-cultures of single crops. This ensures that the same nutrients are continuously drained from the soil, decreasing its health. Mono-cultures also invite more and more pests, as they provide a limitless feeding ground. So, we add more and more pesticides.
The result? We now have less dirt. We have dirt that is not nearly as healthy as it was 2 generations ago. We are using almost all of the arable land on Earth, yet continue to sprawl our cities, growing out instead of up. We buy food from a world away, perhaps impacting the food security of the local people of that country. We don’t know where our food comes from, and we don’t know about the importance of dirt
We are treating dirt, well – like “dirt”.
Alternatively, organic farming cherishes the dirt. It is all about dirt! Everything begins and ends with the quality of the dirt. Dirt that has been farmed organically has much more life within it, holds much more water, and releases its nutrients much more slowly – just how the plants like it. Organic dirt also holds much more carbon. If we all farmed organically, just think of the carbon sink we could create! Organic farming could contribute to reducing the carbon from the sky, which we so desperately need right now.
As for managing pests, that can be done organically as well. Instead of applying chemicals, there are several other natural alternatives:
- Grow strong, healthy plants in strong, healthy dirt, so that they are more able to naturally defend off pests
- Plant companion plants that deter pests (like marigolds and onions around your vegetable patch)
- Rotate plants every season to mix it up and confuse pests
- Introduce pest predators, such as ladybugs, into the mix
- Watch over and care for your plants, noticing early when there is a pest problem, so that action can be taken
So the next time you see a pile of dirt, do not scoff. Be happy and thankful for it! | agronomy |
http://www.dunneiv.org/why-you-should-mulch-your-vegetable-garden-this-summer-abundant-city-a168584049b292be.html | 2018-04-22T01:00:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945484.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422002521-20180422022521-00537.warc.gz | 0.774061 | 77 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__186807339 | en | Why You Should Mulch Your Vegetable Garden This Summer Abundant City
Mulch Vegetable Garden
Vegetable garden fence ideas landscape traditional with bark mulch. Stylish straw mulch vegetable garden 17 best ideas about hay bale. What is the best mulch for a vegetable garden?. Shredded wheat straw for vegetable garden mulch garden snips. | agronomy |
https://leaf.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/dr-marcelo-galdos/ | 2023-03-21T11:05:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943695.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321095704-20230321125704-00181.warc.gz | 0.850229 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__226206270 | en | Dr Marcelo Galdos
- Areas of expertise: Soil science
- Faculty profile link: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1584/dr-marcelo-galdos
Marcelo is a University Academic Fellow in Modelling Food Security and Climate Impacts in the School of Earth and Environment. He uses environmental sensors, process-based modelling, Earth observation and spatial analysis to assess the impact of land use change, land management and climate change on the sustainability of food, fuel and fibre production. Marcelo’s group measures and models greenhouse gas fluxes, carbon and nutrient dynamics, and forest, crop and livestock production to support the development and implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies using a systems approach. | agronomy |
https://swandairy.com/hay-season-101/ | 2023-12-08T18:31:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100769.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208180539-20231208210539-00104.warc.gz | 0.954275 | 941 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__283585432 | en | It’s getting close to that time of year: hay season. Making hay is a staple of many farmers’ and ranchers’ lives. We know when May comes around, it’s time to harvest and prepare for the colder months coming. It may seem like an easy process on the surface, but farmers and ranchers have a lot of decisions to make when it comes to this all important (and incredibly useful) grass.
During the warmer months, the cattle graze on grass. This is where they get some of their necessary nutrients. Once the cooler weather hits, the grass goes dormant, and farmers need to supplement their diets with forage. To help prepare for colder weather, many farmers plant, harvest and store forage earlier in the year.
The farmers then use this hay in a couple different ways: to feed to the cows and to provide ground cover. Providing the cows with hay to eat gives them the nutrients they need, and giving them hay on the ground gives them warmer places to lay.
Types of Hay
There are many decisions that farmers make when it comes to their winter plans. While many people outside of agriculture think of hay as a general description of what farmers feed their cows when it’s cold outside, there is actually more to the forage fed than people realize. This is where those all important decisions come into play.
We feed both dry hay and baleage. Hay is dry cut and baled, whereas baleage is baled wet and wrapped in plastic. Baleage has a higher moisture content than hay which allows for fermentation of the forage. The fermentation allows for a more easily digestible forage for the cows that is high in the nutrients needed. Baleage also has a couple advantages over dry hay. It has more nutrients and is less likely to be ruined by weather, all because the process for making and storing it is faster. Because it is higher in protein and other nutrients, it helps the cows to produce more milk.
Beyond choosing whether to feed hay or a more moisture rich type of forage, farmers also need to decide which type of grass to plant in order to make the forage. While ryegrass, tall fescue, and prairie grass are popular choices, we use triticale. Triticale is a hybrid of wheat and rye and is becoming more popular among dairy farmers.
The process for creating hay and baleage or silage are slightly different, but still share some of the same steps. We will start with the full process for making hay: planting, cutting, tedding, raking, and baling.
The first step is to plant the grass. This is done in late summer for most people in Oklahoma. The grass is a cool weather grass, so it does not die during the winter, but simply sits idle until the weather starts to warm up. Once the weather hits 70 degrees, the triticale will begin to grow and produce. Just before it produces the kernels of wheat, or the head, is when we like to harvest for the highest feed value.
Once the grass has grown, it’s time to move on to the second step: cutting the grass. This is pretty self-explanatory and works much like when you cut your grass at home, just on a much larger scale. After cutting the grass, there are a couple steps that allow for the forage to dry before baling (for hay).
Tedding and Raking
Tedding and raking are two steps that help the hay dry without ruining it. Tedding flips the grass so it can dry more thoroughly. Raking is the final step in the drying process and pulls the hay into rows for easier baling.
Baling is the final step of the process. This is when the farmer packs the hay into either a square or a round bale and tied together with twine or netting. To make silage or baleage, we then wrap the forage in plastic to keep the moisture in the bales and keep the air out.
Hay takes a little longer since it needs to dry out before being baled. Silage and baleage however do not need to be tedded or raked, so the grass is cut and baled as quickly as possible to keep it from drying out.
For many people on the outside, hay seems like something inconsequential. However, the decisions and processes surrounding making hay, silage or baleage have a large impact on our girls and our operations. | agronomy |
https://cleanenergyrevolution.co/2023/07/29/agrivoltaics-growing-spinach-while-generating-solar-power/ | 2024-04-25T13:42:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297295329.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425130216-20240425160216-00760.warc.gz | 0.925036 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__204909183 | en | Could growing spinach while generating solar power soon become a common sight in North American gardens?
A new project in Canada is investigating the potential benefits of combining solar panels with crop cultivation, a practice known as agrivoltaics. Researchers at the University of Alberta are growing spinach under different solar panels to study the effects on both plant growth and electrical output.
Agrivoltaics offers a sustainable solution by using land for food and energy production simultaneously. This practice has the potential to address sustainability challenges such as renewable energy transition, global food security, and climate action. Additionally, agrivoltaics can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and optimizing water usage.
Agrivoltaics is applicable in both rural and urban settings. It helps people (especially city dwellers) to become more self-sufficient. City residents can grow food and generate electricity in their backyards and urban green spaces.
The University of Alberta project is a first step towards understanding the advantages of agrivoltaics, as researchers compare spinach growth and electricity generation under different panel conditions.
Agrivoltaics benefits both plants and solar panels. Solar panels are more efficient when they are cool. Placing plants underneath solar panels creates a cooling effect and helps the panels work better.
Meanwhile, leafy plants like spinach and lettuce need shade to grow well. The solar panels in this experiment provide that shade.
The first month of the study yielded promising results. During this time, the shaded spinach plants underneath the solar panels used up to 17% less water than the unshaded plants. Although the shaded plants grew slower than the unshaded plants, the shaded plants remained healthy.
The solar panels also generated 10 watts of electricity. This is enough to power devices like phones, tablets, lamps, or small appliances.
The researchers plan to publish their findings in a scientific paper. They also want to create a guide to agrivoltaics methods for the benefit of local government officials and everyday citizens.
Going forward, the researchers want to study how different panel arrangements and different weather conditions affect results. They’re also seeking funding for research on other plants.
Image Source: University of Alberta and PowerFlexEnergy. https://shorturl.at/bEV19 | agronomy |
https://thankyoufortherain.com/take-action | 2019-03-26T10:04:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204969.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326095131-20190326121131-00353.warc.gz | 0.947063 | 70 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__154581989 | en | Kisilu, Christina and their community are working to build climate resilient farming communities in East Africa. Find out how you can support them!
It is more important than ever that citizens organize and demand climate action. Get involved in the growing climate justice movement!
Spread the message of climate justice by organizing a film screening in your local community. | agronomy |
http://daughterofthegreatdepression.blogspot.com/2011/11/monday-november-13-1933.html | 2018-07-17T23:17:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589932.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717222930-20180718002930-00158.warc.gz | 0.946301 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__17617230 | en | Went to school. Daddy took us kids. Had History test. Graded our English papers. Stayed at Mrs. Raifert's.
|The dust storm (AKA "black blizzard") that stripped topsoil from desiccated |
South Dakota farmlands is the first in a series of bad dust storms that began in 1933.
The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major
ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to
1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled
with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other
techniques to prevent wind erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains
had displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that normally kept the soil in place and
trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. | agronomy |
https://www.horticultureguy.com/2011/02/scab-on-apples-and-pears/ | 2024-02-21T12:18:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00576.warc.gz | 0.930589 | 415 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__173108021 | en | Question: Hi – in 2010 we bought property with 15 grown fruit trees (cherry, pear, asian pear, apple, plum, peach, hazlenet, walnut). What product(s) should we use to care for them? Some of the fruit had brown spots on them (see below). Is there also a book you would recommend? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Anonymous gardener in Port Ludlow, Washington
Answer: Thanks for your question. For great reading on fruit production you can’t go wrong with the Ag extension Publications. These are from our local Agricultural extensions:
You sent two great pictures which I labeled with scab disease. They are different fungi that cause apple and pear scab but the treatment is fairly similar. First off good sanitation is essential. Remove all fallen leaves (and any diseased wood in the case of the pear scab) from the area (send off site to be composted or burn them if local ordinances allow it).
You need a sulfur based product like: Lime Sulfur (which is being phased out by the EPA so most manufacturers stopped producing Lime Sulfur and are just selling existing stockpiles), Copper sulfate or a neem based product like Rose 3-in-1 spray (don’t be confused by the “rose” in the tittle it works on other plants and trees as well) application rates and timing should be according to the product label but in general: Apply fungicides when leaves are separating, just exposing bud cluster. Repeat at 7-day intervals for 3 or more applications until weather dries. When in blossom, wait until 3/4 of petals have fallen before applying. Do not use lime sulfur on ‘Red Delicious’ or ‘Braeburn’ varieties. Homeowners should not make foliar applications to trees over 10 ft tall. Consult a commercial pesticide applicator for treatment of trees and shrubs over 10 ft. tall. (italicized text from WSU extension) | agronomy |
http://trishmcisaac.com/wanted-creeping-bellflower/ | 2018-02-18T18:08:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812247.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180218173208-20180218193208-00123.warc.gz | 0.937924 | 414 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__23278488 | en | Creeping bellflower Campanula rapunculoides
Our city has declared war on a simple little plant called the Creeping Bell Flower. I’ve seen wanted posters illustrating this criminal and city workers searching for this public offender.! Listed as a noxious weed, this pretty little purple bellflower is hiding behind fences and in fields in our neighbourhood. When I researched why such a beautiful weed is listed as noxious the only reason was “ This plant’s thick creeping roots can travel under fences, lawns and concrete, making it very difficult to control.” Learning this, I find myself in a quandary… I know where they are hiding Should I tell someone?
More research shows the bellflower attracts pollinators and is an edible herb. Its calcium rich leaves can be served in salads and the stems can be sautéed and and served as a side dish.
This nitrogen rich plant can also benefit other plants by releasing nitrogen into the soil upon decomposing.
Plants for a Future says “Leaves and young shoots – raw or cooked. Rich in vitamin C. A pleasant mild flavour. Root – raw or cooked. A nut-like flavour, very palatable. The young roots are best. Somewhat sweet, they are a pleasant addition to the salad bowl.”
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America by Lee Allen Peterson says this about this plant “The slender runners send down fleshy underground branches which can be chopped and added to salads or boiled for 20 minutes. The taste is slightly sweet, suggesting parsnips. Late Summer-Fall”.
So let me think… we have a beautiful plant that survives drought, is beneficial to pollinators, other plants and is edible from roots to flowers. Will I tell our city workers so they can spray it with herbicide?
Don’t worry Mr. Bellflower, your secret is safe with me…. until I’m ready to harvest you!!! | agronomy |
http://5smanagement.com/top-choices-of-growing-marijuana-outdoors-42/ | 2019-07-16T20:45:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524879.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716201412-20190716223412-00289.warc.gz | 0.945818 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__113582074 | en | Top Choices of Growing Marijuana Outdoors
Getting the Best Growing Marijuana Outdoors
Treating the dried buds at the very least a month to get in glass jars will enhance the caliber of your own goods When possible.audio Growing inside helps it be much simpler to continue to retain the temperatures stable. Discover somewhere where you are able to suspend the buds to dry for a day or two.
The Growing Marijuana Outdoors Pitfall
It’s crucial to remember if you are certain that your plants are womanly you need to use the SCRoG method. When plants really are excessively warm or don’t get adequate oxygen drop and they get started to droop their own color. As they grow take note that you are going to be using more and more drinking water.
Whether you’re developing cannabis or inside a system, accurate lighting could possibly function as probably the most crucial nutritional supplement to get healthier plant development. You need to be cautious regarding the dimension of these plants. Following that, your plant will possess drained a lot of the nutrients and you’ll want to add your body .
There is A bud seedling a group of just two leaves which is often known as a seedling leaf’ or’ cotyledon’. Contrary to other plants, cannabis crops grow rapidly out of light therefore as to grow and create buds and require a good deal of vitality at a quick quantity of time. Inside, the grower cannot hope to mimic the complicated atmosphere that is all-natural.
Expand rooms are maintained about 25C. Now, you ought to know that the plants are likely to continue climbing when they will have entered the phase that is budding. You have to keep a watch out for the trichomes as your plant starts to flower.
Where to Find Growing Marijuana Outdoors
The time to harvest is a problem of some debate. Harvesting is really a enjoyable thing.
You are going to demand a light source, to get started with. It’s really a big and occasionally contentious issue from the community that is developing. The large benefit is the fact that every clone will prove to become always a lady planti.e.
Growing Marijuana Outdoors Ideas
Don’t forget folks may look up and watch with your plant life should they’re sitting close to the window. With time, the Bill did raise the total amount of fertilizer. The scent so individuals adore.
What Is So Fascinating About Growing Marijuana Outdoors?
The reply will probably be dependent about which you need to possess from your marijuana crops. A good deal of folks locate the simplest, most convenient and fastest procedure to cultivate cannabis inside. You’re very likely to own to become marginally different or receive a health marijuana ID card to shield yourself if you wish to cultivate your own weed.
Furthermore, there are health bud seeds. If you grab the developing bug like that I did, also in the event you get started enjoying the practice of tending your cannabis backyard only for the interest of gardening, then you’re likely to should track down a dispensary or health marijuana group where you could be ready to contribute all of your extra buds. The very best outdoor spot for cannabis can be a location where coniferous is gr wing because they rise in acidic soil that preferred with bud.
Nutritional elements will have to be properly used throughout different phases of marijuana plants. Cannabis seeds need to have a hard shell. If you fall upon marijuana seeds that are white and little, they haven’t yet grown and will not grow. | agronomy |
https://drkatherinedale.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/organic-vs-local-milk-in-hong-kong/ | 2018-07-20T02:35:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591481.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720022026-20180720042026-00639.warc.gz | 0.948255 | 694 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__102554328 | en | Taking a break from the usual is also a good thing to do when it comes to food choices. Too often we can get into a rut of eating the same fruits, vegetables, proteins, etc. Even the products and brand names are repeated over and over again. One of the advantages of moving to a new country is that you are forced to re-evaluate all of the foods that you are eating. [There is only so much healthy shopping one can do at Gateway!] As well, because the familiar is completely absent, the need to make an educated selection becomes even more essential; and it becomes a good time to evaluate our choices, from an: environmental, nutrtional and “resilience” farming perspective.
In Hong Kong, the only Organic milk is imported from Australia or Canada. So, from an environmentally-sustainable perspective does it make sense for me to be drinking organic milk that is shipped in from so far away? Or should I be purchasing the milk produced right here in Hong Kong? I need to consider the greenhouse gases that are emitted during transportation. Yet, I have discovered that transportation is in fact responsible for only 1/10 of the greenhouse gas emitted during food production.
Rather than considering the greenhouse gas load, I turn to a concern with the farming practices used on the farms in each country. Paul Roberts, author of The End of Food, writes of the “resilience” factor: how sustainable are the farming practices over the long-term? Roberts explains that the farming land mass required to produce organic food is much greater than other methods of farming. As well, often feed and fertilizer for organic farms needs to be shipped in from overseas, thus adding to the environmental and financial cost of producing organic food. On the other hand a study from the UK states http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OAMCC.php that organic food is much less energy dependent and CO2-contributing.
So then, is Organic food only for the elite few who can afford the price and can afford the land mass required? Roberts professes there is a middle of the road; where food is grown locally, in inner-city warehouses or “vertical farms” http://www.verticalfarm.com/ , using minimal pesticides (this would a system closed to unwanted pests) and using appropriate amounts of fertilizer.
My dream is for a happy food source, happy: farmers, produce, workers, transporters and happy cows who love the food they are producing. As in the book, Water for Chocolate, http://blog.freshlevant.com/2010/06/intentional-cooking-with-love.html the mood and intention of the chef (and farmer?) dictates the effect of the food on the consumers body. Back in the 90s I worked with Happy Planet Juice company (I supplied them with web hosting and email addresses) – that’s what I am talking about, happy food http://www.happyplanet.com/. So if anyone knows of some happy cows in the Hong Kong area, please, let me know. Cause happy cows make me happy and make more milk! http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/01/29/2009-01-29_happy_cows_produce_more_milk_study_finds.html | agronomy |
https://californiakurobuta.com/exclusively-pasture-woodland-raised/ | 2024-04-24T16:53:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819668.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424143432-20240424173432-00316.warc.gz | 0.931005 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__1054412 | en | Our California Kurobuta pigs are raised exclusively in pasture and woodlands—a practice now almost unheard of in the United States because of the industrialization of agriculture. Pigs are by nature woodland animals (think truffle-hunters) and they thrive in pasture, too.
In this environment they have unlimited access to pasture plants, cattails and watercress, dirt, bugs, grubs, and roots.
Their diet is supplemented seasonally with fruits, nuts and vegetables from our neighboring farms and local grain producers. This makes for an exceptionally flavorful meat for you from happy, healthy animals.
Our pigs have never been fed corn, soy or a commercial hog ration.
They have never been given growth supplements, hormones, or antibiotics. | agronomy |
https://cookingandmore.com/cooking-the-land-of-olives-and-oranges/ | 2023-09-24T14:26:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506646.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924123403-20230924153403-00716.warc.gz | 0.909427 | 1,541 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__108706478 | en | If you have ever visited a farming kibbutz in Israel, you have seen a living testament to the drive and perseverance of a country that combines its physical and mental prowess to create a viable agricultural industry. Through the combined efforts of the farmers, government researchers, and private industry, Israel has transformed large areas of arid and semi-arid land into fields of flourishing farmland yielding enough crops to satisfy most of the nation’s food needs.
Two Israeli-developed technologies have helped the agricultural boom: the invention of drip irrigation and UV-protected netting. Drip irrigation distributes droplets of recycled water and/or water piped from the Galilee directly to the root systems of plants to maximize their growth while minimizing the use of Israel’s most limited resource—water. UV-protected netting shields crops grown during the hot desert summers and allows massive greenhouse production during the cold winter season.
An impressive example of this marriage between agriculture and technology can be seen at the Reform Movement’s Kibbutz Yahel in the Negev desert. What an awesome sight to behold: a formerly barren landscape now sustaining massive groves of pomelo trees (the cantaloupe-sized cousins of grapefruit), date palms, as well as dates, melons, onions, peppers, and other crops. The seeds of international relations and peaceful coexistence also flourish in those fields, because kibbutz members leave baskets of pomelos at the edge of the groves situated on the border with Jordan for the Jordanian soldiers to eat while on patrol.
Although Israel’s produce and floral exports have dropped sharply in the last few years because of international politics, its agricultural growth has been nothing short of miraculous. As the year unfolds, I would like to introduce you to some of Israel’s bounty in these pages.
Eat in good health!
Citrus fruits have flourished in the Middle East since before Roman times. In the mid-19th century an unknown variety of sweet orange was found on a tree that bore tart oranges near the city of Jaffa. This almost seedless variety, known as Shamouti or Jaffaorange, was successfully propagated and became internationally popular. By the 1960s more than 30% of Israel’s exports were agricultural—the vast majority being sweet Jaffa oranges. Today Israel grows a variety of citrus crops, including pomelos, kumquats, clementines, and Jaffa oranges, the latter harvested in late fall and early winter.
1⁄2 cup sugar
1⁄2 cup water
2 teaspoons wildflower honey
2–3 drops orange blossom water, optional
2 navel or Valencia oranges
1 grapefruit or pomelo
2 Shamouti or Jaffa oranges
2 small clementines or tangerines
Raspberries or blackberries for garnish
- Cut the kumquats horizontally into very thin slices. Combine the sugar, water, and kumquats in a 1-quart saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. As soon as the sugar is completely dissolved, remove from the heat and allow the solution to cool.
- Add honey and orange blossom water to the cooled syrup and stir to combine. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Cut off the tops and bottoms of the oranges, grapefruit/pomelo, and clementines/tangerines. Following the curve of the fruits from top to bottom, slice away all of the peel and white membrane. Remove the fruit sections from the membrane.
- Place the fruit in a 2-quart bowl. Add the sliced kumquats without the syrup. Set the syrup aside.
- No more than 15 minutes before serving, pour 2 or 3 tablespoons of the reserved syrup over the fruit and gently stir the mixture.
- Serve in small cups or plates garnished with the berries and drizzled with additional syrup if desired. Serves 4–6
- Dissolving sugar in an equal amount of boiling water creates a simple syrup that can be flavored and then used as a flavoring agent or a binding sweetener for sorbets. It will keep in the refrigerator for weeks.
Olives and their oil—harvested after the fall holidays—were daily staples in the ancient Hebrews’ diet. Many references to the olive tree and its fruit appear in the Torah and Talmud, reinforcing the importance of the crop.
Cauliflower is both a winter crop in Israel and in the United States. No one will ever suspect that the creaminess in this sauce comes from neither butter nor cream, but cauliflower!
1 medium head cauliflower, cut into small florets, or a 1-pound bag of frozen cauliflower
1 1⁄2 cup water
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
4 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided use
1 large onion, cut into 1⁄2-inch dice
2 Tablespoons pine nuts
2 Tablespoons dark raisins
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 pound rigatoni
1⁄2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese or to taste
- Combine the cauliflower, water, and 1⁄4 teaspoon of salt in a 3-quart saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for about 15 minutes, until the cauliflower is tender.
- Drain and reserve the cooking liquid. Mash the cauliflower with a fork until it is relatively smooth. Set aside.
- Heat a frying pan for 20 seconds. Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil and heat for another 10 seconds. Sauté the onion for about 5 minutes, until it is soft and very slightly golden.
- Add the pine nuts, raisins, remaining salt, and pepper. Stir for about 2 minutes, or until the pine nuts begin to turn golden.
- Add the mashed cauliflower and 1⁄4 cup of the reserved cooking liquid. Simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring often, until the mixture is thick. If it seems too dry, add more of the reserved liquid to prevent sticking. Set aside until ready to serve.
- Add the pasta to boiling salted water that contains the remaining 1 Tablespoon of olive oil. Cook until it is al dente. Drain and place in a large serving bowl.
- Pour 1⁄3 of the sauce over the pasta and toss. Place the remaining sauce over the pasta, garnish with parmesan cheese, and serve. Serves 4–6 people.
- The amount of time it takes to cook cauliflower varies depending on the size of the florets and whether you are using fresh or frozen cauliflower. Therefore, when making a cauliflower-based sauce, cook the vegetable until it is very tender. Your finished sauce will be much smoother and creamier.
Tina D. Wasserman, a member of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, is the author of the new URJ Press book, Entree to Judaism. She also teaches at her own cooking school, writes a kosher cooking newsletter on the Internet, and serves as a culinary scholar-in-residence throughout the U.S. | agronomy |
https://trinityct.org/all-articles/first-grade-learns-about-agriculture/ | 2019-05-23T21:42:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257396.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523204120-20190523230120-00016.warc.gz | 0.977631 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__187134447 | en | Spring is here! It may not always feel like it, but the plants are pollinating and seeds are being planted. The first grade got a lesson in agriculture from teacher Mrs. Bender's father, Mr. Howe.
Mr. Howe works for Star of the West Milling Company in Frankenmuth, Mich. and as a background in agriculture. Currently, his company works with beans and wheat.
On Friday, May 10, Mr. Howe visited the first grade classroom to talk to the students about how crops are planted, cared for and harvested. He talked about how beans and wheat are used in items they eat every day,
Mr. Howe presented a slideshow about work on a farm, and even how Mrs. Bender used to help on her grandpa's farm.
The kids had time to ask questions about agriculture, what he does and about beans and wheat. They had plenty to ask. Afterward, they got to sample a product that uses flour from his company: Goldfish!
Earlier in the week, the kids planted wheat seeds and watching them grow in the classroom. | agronomy |
https://ntt-review.jp/archive/ntttechnical.php?contents=ntr201902fa5.html | 2021-05-14T19:25:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991207.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514183414-20210514213414-00519.warc.gz | 0.94501 | 2,261 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__115755491 | en | Feature Articles: Value Creation by Leveraging State-of-the-art Research Results
Initiatives in the Primary Industries (Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries) Utilizing Advanced Technology of the NTT Group
Currently in Japan, primary industries such as agriculture are facing problems including a shrinking working population, an aging working population, and a decreasing area of agricultural land. Agritech—which utilizes the Internet of Things, big-data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI), and robot technology in the agricultural industry—is attracting attention as a trump card to solve these problems. In this article, concrete initiatives involving agritech, focusing on utilization of the NTT Group’s AI-related technology called corevo®, are introduced, and future directions are discussed.
Keywords: agritech, AI, animal husbandry, rice cultivation
1. Increased focus on Agritech
Japan’s agriculture industry is facing problems such as a shortage of labor due to a decrease in the number of agricultural workers and low productivity. In recent years, attention has been paid to agritech*1—which utilizes the Internet of Things (IoT), big-data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI), and robot technology in the agricultural industry—as a key to solving these problems.
In particular, efforts utilizing AI have started both in Japan and abroad as support for and substitution of the eyes and brains of agricultural professionals (exemplary farmers), whose numbers are steadily decreasing. The NTT Group is also engaged in research and development and service creation of agritech unique to telecommunications carriers by utilizing its AI-related technology called corevo®. We are exploring its use for verification and demonstration purposes in the areas of rice cultivation, dry-field farming, and livestock farming as well as promoting social implementation of our agritech services.
2. Technology applications in the animal husbandry field
Applications of NTT technology in farming have been ongoing for some time, and one important area is animal husbandry. Two examples of such applications are described in this section.
2.1 Technology use in breeding cows
In farm management, it is very important to grasp livestock information on individual animals and herds such as the state of health and signs of estrus and labor required for efficient breeding in a timely manner. NTT TechnoCross is providing real-time visualized information via a data-analysis platform called IoT Data Analysis Suite—which identifies seven key behaviors (i.e., feeding, drinking, ruminating, moving, standing up, lying down, and standing still) from sensor information recorded by tags attached to cows—as part of a service called U-motion® provided by desamis Co., Ltd., a leader in the animal husbandry field.
We also provide a service to notify the farmer of a cow’s condition in terms of signs of estrus, disease (poor condition), and difficulty in standing up at appropriate timings by analyzing the accumulated data (Fig. 1). In particular, the effect of an alert function that promptly detects cows with standing difficulty (which risk sudden death if they cannot stand up) is significant in the beef cattle industry, in which individual animals are traded at 1 to 1.5 million yen (8000 to 13,000 US dollars). As the introduction of U-motion advances, more cases of cattle with standing difficulty are being detected and accumulated, and analysis accuracy is improving accordingly.
Moreover, if a dairy cow becomes sick, milk yield will be affected. Utilizing U-motion makes it possible to promptly detect and deal with diseases, and it is thus expected to have various beneficial effects such as minimizing decreases in milk yield.
Pastures of cow-feed grass also have a major impact on the amount and quality of milk. For example, when fog forms at the time the grass is being cut, the grass moistens, and the quality of feed for the livestock deteriorates; occasionally, all of the feed must be discarded. Also, if the feed has poor quality as a result of that moisture, the cows lose their appetite, and milk output falls. However, it is difficult to grasp the generation of fog because it is difficult to distinguish it from clouds, so expectations for new technology in the livestock field have increased.
Accordingly, NTT Communication Science Laboratories (hereafter, CS Labs), HALEX Corporation of the NTT DATA Group, the Japan Meteorological Agency, the Hamatonbetsu Evergreen TMR (total mixed rations) Center in Hokkaido (a cow-feeding-service center), and other bodies have collaborated in integrating weather-related big data collected from the meteorological satellite Himawari using techniques such as spatio-temporal data analysis by CS Labs (part of the corevo AI technologies) and the expertise of HALEX as a private weather company. The aim of this integration is to predict the risk of fog development and support decision making at grass harvest time before fog forms (Fig. 2).
2.2 Application to breeding pigs
There are various challenges involved in the breeding of pigs. One crucial issue is weight control before shipping because pig prices are determined by the weight of a pig at the time of shipment. Accurately grasping the pig’s weight is also important in managing a pig’s health. The required feed changes as piglets grow into pigs, and if the appropriate feed is not given at the appropriate timing, the pig’s health and the quality of its meat will be affected. Consequently, it is necessary to give feed that matches the body weight of the pig.
The method of weighing pigs at the time of shipment is to use scales exclusively designed for pigs to weigh pigs individually or to conduct a collective measurement. However, both methods are costly and troublesome and place a burden on pig farmers. Until now, the timing of shipping has been determined according to the age of the pig (in months) and the skilled eye (called mekan in Japanese) of an expert, so more experience of skilled people was needed.
In collaboration with ITOCHU Feed Mills Co., Ltd., NTT TechnoCross is developing Digital Mekan—which applies measurement logic incorporating corevo AI image-recognition technology to accurately estimate the weight of pigs (Fig. 3). Although Digital Mekan was originally developed as an application for smartphones, it is currently being developed as a packaged solution including dedicated hardware. It is almost complete, and a dedicated unit is being developed and set for early release.
3. Applications to rice cultivation
The agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries operate in step with nature, and consequently, they can suffer from damage peculiar to the natural world. One such example is damage from pests. On a global scale, it is said that 20–30% of agricultural production capacity is lost because of damage caused by pests and weeds. A loss on that scale amounts to a quantity of food for hundreds of millions of people, equivalent to the hunger population of the world. Meanwhile, the burden on farmers to come up with countermeasures such as dealing with climate change, diversifying cultivated crops, and guarding against invading pests from overseas as a result of internationalization of agricultural distribution, are getting ever heavier.
As a member of a project of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, NTT DATA CCS (hereafter, DATA CCS) is working with Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. to develop a diagnostic system to identify pests and weeds in rice fields. By combining image analysis utilizing AI technology of DATA CCS, the knowledge and expertise of Nihon Nohyaku on pesticide manufacturing, and the large amount of pest images possessed by Nihon Nohyaku, we are aiming to construct a system to provide real-time feedback of information such as potential pests, their respective countermeasures, and recommended pesticides to farm workers. This system, for example, will enable a farmer or an agricultural advisor to match a photo of a pest taken with a smartphone with images stored in a pest database (Fig. 4).
In addition, as a new initiative, we are developing a mechanism for discriminating the growth stage of paddy rice by using deep learning with images, focusing on changes in the shape of paddy rice. The rice-growing cycle is roughly divided into five stages: tilling, panicle differentiation, meiosis, heading, and ripening. To raise the yield, taste, and quality of rice, it is necessary to know precisely the timing of the start of panicle differentiation and to provide additional fertilizer*2 at the appropriate time. However, that timing is presently determined based on the long experience and intuition of exemplary farmers or by a more scientific approach such as microscopic examination. These approaches, however, are accompanied by the twin problems of a shortage of successors and the large amount of labor required.
In collaboration with Ibaraki Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station, DATA CCS has taken the initiative in constructing a mechanism to determine the start of differentiation of panicles by employing deep learning (a kind of nondestructive testing). In particular, each growth stage is classified using images taken by a fixed camera, and the shape of the rice at the time of capturing the image is determined. We are currently expanding this mechanism to cover other crops and deploying it in a wider region. We have already applied for international patents on this system.
4. Future development
Agritech is moving from the verification and demonstration phase to the social implementation phase. Under these circumstances, companies in the NTT Group have been individually promoting product development and deployment. From now onwards, however, we will accelerate the construction of a mechanism for linking each product and accumulated data in such a manner that will strengthen our competitiveness.
For example, with regard to rice cultivation, by linking together the above-mentioned mechanisms for pest and weed disease diagnosis, growth diagnosis, sensing technology and weather and map information of the NTT Group, and future forecasting technology under development in our laboratories, we aim to establish a total diagnosis and prediction service for rice cultivation (Fig. 5). Moreover, by coordinating the rice production utilizing ICT (information and communication technology) with the NTT Group’s digital food value chain linking agriculture and food , we are establishing a mechanism for supporting people involved in agriculture in terms of sales as well as production. By doing so, we aim to create agriculture that is profitable from the aspects of both saving labor and increasing profit.
Furthermore, we are thinking beyond simply exporting rice produced in Japan and are planning to expand into Asian countries where rice cultivation is as prosperous as in Japan. That is, we aim to roll out the above-mentioned rice production support mechanisms created in Japan under the concept of Made by Japan.
From now onwards, we will continue to contribute to the development of primary industries with a view to globalization with the aim of making the NTT Group a value partner that will continue to be selected by numerous companies.
All brand names, product names, and company/organization names that appear in this article are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. | agronomy |
https://happytailsranchnw.com/our-ranch | 2020-08-13T23:52:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739104.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813220643-20200814010643-00513.warc.gz | 0.962096 | 369 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__90319223 | en | We purchased our Land in Quilcene in 2002. It consists of 32 acres of pasture and 8 acres of trees. Over the years we developed our property with environmental stewardship in mind every step of the way. Starting with a formal farm plan with the help of Jefferson County Conservation District. Along with the Knowledge learned in the past from King Conservation district and Horses for Clean Water we dove in and got started.
While living in North Bend WA In 2004 we purchased our first 3 Scottish Highland Cattle. In 2006 we purchased our first bull and in 2007 started selling meat to our friends and neighbors. The meat sales has now expanded into a small business.
Our horses are a big part of our family Ranch.
In the summers we would load up the horses, dogs and cat and move here to work on the next project in the cue. The cattle stayed at our North Bend WA farm until we made the final move over here. Thanks to our dear friend Donna and her grandchildren who took care of the cattle while we were away.
Every year we picked a project. Building a cabin, barns, an agriculture building, fences, an arena, drilling a well, bringing in power, and the list goes on. In 2012 I was able to retire and we moved on to our land permanently bringing our cattle, 2 Labrador Retrievers, 3 quarter horses and our cat. While living in our one room cabin for a year and a half we built our home.
Our pastures are now fenced and cross fenced for rotational grazing and haying in the summer. Our ponds are fenced out of the pastures but open to wildlife to keep any pasture runoff going into the nearby streams clean. The manure in barns and sacrifice areas is picked daily and composted for spreading into the garden and pasture areas. | agronomy |
https://asimstore.com/making-farming-more-climate-friendly-is-hard-just-ask-europes-politicians/ | 2024-04-16T06:58:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817073.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416062523-20240416092523-00678.warc.gz | 0.950165 | 1,099 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45785649 | en | The farmers’ protests in Europe are a harbinger of the next big political challenge in global climate action: How to grow food without further damaging Earth’s climate and biodiversity.
On Tuesday, after weeks of intense protests in several cities across the continent, came the most explicit sign of that difficulty. The European Union’s top official, Ursula von der Leyen, abandoned an ambitious bill to reduce the use of chemical pesticides and softened the European Commission’s next raft of recommendations on cutting agricultural pollution.
“We want to make sure that in this process, the farmers remain in the driving seat,” she said at the European Parliament. “Only if we achieve our climate and environmental goals together will farmers be able to continue to make a living.”
The farmers argue they’re being hit from all sides: high fuel costs, green regulations, unfair competition from producers in countries with fewer environmental restrictions.
Nonetheless, agriculture accounts for 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s impossible for the European Union to meet its ambitious climate targets, enshrined in law, without making dramatic changes to its agricultural system, including how farmers use chemical pesticides and fertilizers, as well as its vast livestock industry.
It also matters politically. Changing Europe’s farming practices is proving to be extremely difficult, particularly as parliamentary elections approach in June. Farmers are a potent political force, and food and farming are potent markers of European identity.
Agriculture accounts for just over 1 percent of the European economy and employs 4 percent of its population. But it gets one-third of the E.U. budget, mostly as subsidies.
Why are farmers protesting?
For weeks, a range of farmers’ groups have taken to the streets across Europe, blocking highways with tractors, throwing firecrackers at the police and erecting barricades that have caused major transportation disruptions in Berlin, Brussels and Paris.
They’re angry about many things. Some frustration is directed at national leaders and proposals to reduce agricultural diesel subsidies in France and Germany. Some of it is directed at E.U.-wide proposals, like cuts to use of nitrogen fertilizer (which is made from fossil fuels).
Farmers are also angry at trade deals that permit the import of agricultural commodities from countries that don’t have the same environmental protections. And some farmers want more government aid as they reel from the effects of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change.
The protests embody the failure to win over farmers on the road to more sustainable agriculture, said Tim Benton, who heads the environment program at Chatham House, a research institution based in London. “This is a wider case of how, if we are to transition to sustainability, we need to invest more in ‘just transitions’ to take people along and allow them to feel better off, not penalized,” he said.
How have leaders responded?
In Germany, the government has backtracked on some key policies, including delaying a cut on diesel subsidies for agricultural vehicles.
In France, the government has offered an aid package of 150 million euros, or $163 million, to livestock farmers, temporarily paused a national plan to reduce pesticide use, and banned the import of foreign produce treated with a pesticide outlawed in France.
But on Tuesday, Ms. von der Leyen announced the scrapping of a E.U.-wide bill to reduce pesticide use, because, she said, it had become “a symbol of polarization.”
Later in the day, the Commission issued its recommended 2040 climate targets. While they won’t be formally proposed or voted on until a new Parliament is elected this summer, they send a clear signal about the political priorities of Ms. von der Leyen’s incumbent European People’s Party. The targets aim to reduce overall emissions by 90 percent by 2040. But they recommend nothing specific on reducing agriculture’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that comes mainly from livestock, nor on reining in nitrogen fertilizers.
Both methane and nitrogen have to be slashed significantly in order to meet the bloc’s climate targets, according to scientists advising the European Union.
Following Tuesday’s announcements, one European farmers’ lobby group, known as COPA-COGECA, declared victory. “The E.U. Commission finally acknowledges that its approach was not the right one,” the group said on X.
Why is it politically risky?
The center-right European People’s Party, which is the largest group in the European Parliament, has long enjoyed the support of rural voters. Lately, some of its environmental and trade policies have raised the anger of that voting bloc. Far-right groups, ascendant in several countries on the continent, have seized on that discontent.
“The looming elections are creating the opportunity for populist parties, which are using it against the European green agenda,” said Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based research institute who studies European energy and environmental policies. “We all have someone in our family trees who was a farmer, and food is an important part of European identity.”
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http://www.ashevilleravenandcrone.com/event/march-seed-plant-blessing-and-swap/ | 2020-08-11T07:40:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738735.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200811055449-20200811085449-00168.warc.gz | 0.868664 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__78261470 | en | - This event has passed.
March Seed & Plant Blessing and Swap!
March 16, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Herbalists of Asheville and surrounding areas – you are cordially invited to a free herb and plant swap facilitated by Asheville Raven & Crone.
Things to Bring:
*dried herbs – well labeled!
*spare seeds – labeled
*fresh cuttings – for rooting or for using (tie them into bundles)
*tinctures, tonics, and elixirs
*baggies, labels, jars, whatever you need to carry things away.
Donations for spare swap supplies are happily accepted!!
Leftover seeds and plants will be donated to Burton Street Community Garden. | agronomy |
http://xgcourseworkbyfp.northviewtech.us/new-light-on-the-origins-of-open-field-farming.html | 2018-09-21T00:44:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156690.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920234305-20180921014705-00129.warc.gz | 0.935475 | 728 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__197663077 | en | Abstractthe problem addressed in this paper is the proposition that 'classic' medieval open-field systems were laid out, parish by parish, by individual communities, each working independently of its neighbours, between about ad 850 and 1150. Harriet tarlo women and ecopoetics in the light of skinner’s “new nature poetry”, that the open form page-space is closer to an open field or a moorland. The history and goals of the humayma excavation project 1 brief history of the project, and plans for the future 2 project objectives. Farming goes vertical with the development of vertical farming, we have the chance to create the new green as we move away from open field farming,. This permitted the intensive arable cultivation of light soils on grain yields benefited from new and some fields in england tilled under the open field.
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Cultivars of this group are more important in new guinea than long, with thin, light-yellow skin and sweet flesh dwarf cavendish banana, musa acuminata. Kilele f1 for open field farming new light on the origins of open field farming due to outdated farming practices and a lack of resources, my community endured repeated cycles of poverty, an experience that inspired me to study agriculture“i grow my tomatoes in the open field because this lowers the cost of production. Course listings and gallery/museum visits expand the knowledge of the open field of painting today and it’s potential organic/sustainable farming.Download | agronomy |
http://www.bretontradition.com/en/our-company/ | 2022-07-01T19:04:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103945490.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220701185955-20220701215955-00499.warc.gz | 0.939686 | 493 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__52334470 | en | Breton Tradition 1944 is a company active in the agricultural and agri-food sectors since 1944. From livestock feed to ready-to-eat foods, from pig farming to meat processing, Breton Tradition 1944 and its subsidiaries have developed unparalleled expertise in their various areas of specialization. This innovative know-how has made us the North American leaders in natural and organic pork production.
Breton Tradition 1944 continues to innovate and to develop different, more effective, approaches to farming with a focus on respect for animals, people and the environment. Committed to maintaining the integrated production of natural and organic products and led by the third generation of the Breton family, the company upholds the tradition started by family patriarch Napoléon of looking to the future and staying ahead of trends.
In 1944, a hardworking farming couple decided to start up a business to sell products they would serve themselves. Seventy years later and after a series of acquisitions and reorganizations, the general store that Napoléon Breton and Adrienne Vallières opened has grown into one of the most highly regarded agri-food companies in Quebec.
Development of its four divisions – Les Aliments Breton Fermes et Meuneries, Les Viandes du Breton, Les Spécialités Prodal and North Country Smokehouse – over the years has positioned the company today to offer products and services corresponding to its core values and its vision of modern agriculture.
Tradition: Using today’s leading technologies, our teams strive to improve farming and food production methods while continuing to uphold traditional values.
Excellence: Quality has always been the main focus of the Breton family and our employees. Our unique know-how has guided our diligent, uncompromising efforts to embrace alternative approaches, and our philosophy has inspired excellence.
Passion: Believing in what we do, finding inspiration in our love for our work and striving to develop and refine our practices are values that continue to guide us on all levels of our organization.
Our Mission: Improve people’s day-to-day lives through our agri-food products.
Our Vision: For some people, natural and organic farming is a passing trend; for us, it has become a way of life. We have done everything possible to structure our operations with a single, common purpose: to promote widespread adoption of responsible approaches in the agricultural and food production industries. | agronomy |
http://www.ttgmice.com/2019/11/07/avocado-experts-to-descend-on-new-zealand-in-2023/ | 2019-11-17T12:54:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668954.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117115233-20191117143233-00395.warc.gz | 0.914596 | 377 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__69515112 | en | New Zealand will be welcoming international avocado experts come 2023, after winning the bid to host the 10th World Avocado Congress.
The five-day conference will bring thousands of the world’s leading avocado growers, researchers, marketers, innovators and investors to the destination.
New Zealand’s bid was led by Tauranga-based NZ Avocado, which represents 1,350 New Zealand growers, with support from Tourism New Zealand, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the New Zealand Embassy in Colombia.
NZ Avocado’s chief executive Jen Scoular said New Zealand’s team approach was integral to its win. This included six months of lobbying activity with key representatives of the international avocado industry, a VIP event for influential delegates hosted by the New Zealand Ambassador to Colombia, and a video message from prime minister Jacinda Ardern inviting voters to come and experience New Zealand first-hand.
Scoular added the congress will demonstrate New Zealand’s growing practices, food safety and quality systems, and the ethical treatment of growers and communities.
The country currently contributes two per cent of global avocado production, and is the world’s ninth largest avocado exporter. New Zealand was up against Mexico, the largest avocado exporter in the world, and Kenya, the sixth largest exporter of avocados globally, in the competitive bid.
Tourism New Zealand’s global manager business events, Lisa Gardiner, said in a statement: “This is a huge boost for our local avocado industry and a chance to showcase New Zealand’s horticulture industry to thousands of influential international guests. It also provides the opportunity to access innovation, global knowledge and science to support the growth of the sector.” | agronomy |
https://www.shirinpersia.com/en/saffron | 2024-04-16T10:01:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817081.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416093441-20240416123441-00101.warc.gz | 0.936347 | 889 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__144867250 | en | Saffron is a spice obtained from the stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower known as "true saffron." The actual Saffron plant grows to 20–30 cm and produces up to four flowers, each with three deep crimson stigmas. The stems and stigmas are collected and dried to be used mainly in the kitchen as a condiment and dye.
About 150 flowers together yield 1 g of dried saffron pistils; to produce 12 g of dry Saffron, or 72 g wet and recently harvested, 1 kg of flowers is needed. A freshly picked flower has an average yield of 30 mg of fresh Saffron or 7 mg of dry Saffron. It is very important that the stigmas are gently removed by hand so as not to damage them. Depending on the variety of bulbs and climates, the flowers are harvested between October and November.
How to recognize its quality
Saffron is not all of the same quality and intensity of color and aroma. This intensity depends on various factors, including the age of the plant, the climate and soil in which it is grown, the humidity to which it is subjected, and the time at which it is harvested: the optimal time is before dawn.
The classes into which Iranian Saffron is divided are:
- Sargol: product containing only the tips of the red stigmas, this is the class with the most incredible intensity
- Poushal: Product containing red stigmas plus a small amount 1-2mm of yellow styli. This class is characterized by a lower intensity.
- Dasteh/Bunch: Product containing red stigmas plus a greater 3-5mm of yellow styles than the Poushal, presented in small bunches that look like miniature bundles of wheat
- Konj: product containing only yellow styles; in this class, Saffron has a little aroma and little coloring potential.
Saffron can be further categorized according to the international standard ISO 3632 after laboratory measurements of the content of crocin (the molecule responsible for the typical color), picrocrocin (the molecule responsible for taste), and safranal (the component molecule accountable for the aroma).
The saffron market
The international Saffron market is one of the most fraudulent in the world, full of very evident paradoxes and contradictions: this harms both consumers who often find themselves consuming a poor quality or even harmful product and producers who sell whole products at low prices. The stock of their product then undeveloped and not sold pure. For these reasons, Shirin Persia works to maintain a direct bridge between producers and consumers and wants to promote the knowledge and culture of this still so little-known product.
Shirin Persia saffron is sold in the "Dasteh" pistil format and is therefore presented in its entirety "two-tone" with the "Sargol" part, the stigmas, intense red, and the "Konj" part, the stylus, yellowish. This is the only non-counterfeit saffron format in the world and guarantees the total purity of the product.
A bit of history
The first documents that testify the cultivation of saffron date back to the Bronze Age, about 2500 years ago: it is believed that the cultivation of the precious bulb in Iran originated in the Zagros mountains in the western part, while currently the production of Saffron is concentrated in the region of Khorasan in the northeast. The first written records of the use of Saffron as spice date back to the era of the Achaemenid Empire present in Iran from 500 BC. It is easy to hypothesize that the Romans, who used Saffron to flavor game and flavor wines, and as an ingredient in a drug to combat poisons, began to use the spice following contact with the Persian empire and the Middle East. And spread its use in the Mediterranean area.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the spread of Saffron was greatly reduced. Only around the year 1000 was the cultivation of Crocus sativus reintroduced in Europe by the Arabs through Spain. From that time on, Spain remained the main producer, consumer, and importer of Saffron in Europe. | agronomy |
http://kosherscoop.com/2014/08/my-favorite-place-the-farmers-market/ | 2017-03-28T02:21:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189589.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00388-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.942371 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__234669824 | en | Summer is speeding by. Every year, when mid-August hits, this sense of urgency falls over me, as I realize that soon we will be heading back into homework, (ever wonder who dreads homework more? The mom or the kids?) rigid schedules, and colder weather. It makes me feel like I want to embrace summer, to stop and feel the sunshine and cool lake water, and just appreciate the joys of my favorite season. One of my summer highlights is visiting the farmer’s market (at least twice a week!) which is not far from my summer home. It’s walking straight into produce heaven. Sprawling fields of corn, long lines of tomato vines, and huge patches of fresh herbs surround the picturesque stand that is my inspiration. We shop by what’s in season, we cook according to when the fruits will ripen, and try new ingredients in so many different dishes. Homegrown garlic scapes anyone?
And here’s what all this market inspiration had me to make… Enjoy! | agronomy |
http://lumiafa.eklablog.com/helpful-home-farming-methods-for-newcomers-a150530358 | 2020-02-29T13:17:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875149238.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20200229114448-20200229144448-00301.warc.gz | 0.962987 | 614 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__121885965 | en | Helpful Home Farming Methods For Newcomers
These house garden recommendations are most readily useful for those who are about to start out as home gardeners. To begin with, when preparing to create a home yard, it is vital to pick a particular place in your lot. This area is determined by the sort of seed or crop you are preparing to cultivate, but the majority of the crops for garden somewhat share the exact same set of preferred outside situations which are full or near-full contact with sunlight.
It is also vital to create your area of crops near a sink so that it will be simple to maintain because you wouldn't require to move about that much. Of all house gardening ideas on the market, that is certainly one of the most crucial to take notice of.
Deciding which seed or plant to grow is one of the very important operations a gardener has to get because knowing which form is also going to offer an calculate of how big the backyard plan you should have. For instance, vegetable crops occupy small spots of land and are simple to develop while vine crops, such as cucumbers or watermelons involve greater spots of land and are far more hard to deal with compare to plant plants.
These home farming methods are simple to master but the most crucial factor in house gardening originates from number guide or from any suggestion out there. It will come from you. Each successful gardener has wólka weglowa pogrzeby or her own set of garden tips. These ideas is likely to be nothing if you'd not exert time and effort in to gardening. After all the work, you will have the ability to see and also virtually style the fruits of your labor.
Annually more and more folks use up house gardening, some feeling the requirement to spend less, garden to be able to give cheaper and healthiest food because of their families. Others select house farming as a means to relax, relieve stress and give their yards and homes with lovely live plants. There are many several types of farming and several good reasons to choose to garden.
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https://armfalcon.com/the-ministry-of-cooperatives-and-small-and-medium-enterprises-cooperates-with-bi-and-the-brebes-regency-government-to-maintain-food-commodity-inflation/ | 2023-05-28T18:35:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644506.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528182446-20230528212446-00048.warc.gz | 0.941483 | 750 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__168073670 | en | We will try to offer and encourage farmers to join a cooperative
Jakarta (Armfalcon.com) – The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) together with Bank Indonesia (BI) and the Brebes Regency Government, Central Java, have agreed to control inflation in food commodities, especially shallots, in an effort to improve the welfare of farmers.
“Shallots contribute to inflation and one of Bank Indonesia’s tasks is how to keep inflation under control,” said Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs Arif Rahman Hakim in a written statement received in Jakarta, Thursday.
Arif said the food group has had a big influence on the national inflation rate. Meanwhile, the government is targeting the inflation rate this year at three plus minus one percent.
In addition to controlling shallot inflation, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises also focuses on improving the welfare of farmers through farmer corporatization programs and factory sharing which will make it easier for farmers to process shallots so that during the main harvest so that prices remain stable.
The two programs can optimize shallot production results because the business ecosystem from upstream to downstream is reorganized by the cooperative.
“We also have a farmer corporatization program so that farmers can prosper, especially in Brebes where there are many pockets of poverty, so this at the same time raises the welfare of farmers so that they are released from the poverty trap,” he said.
Head of the Tegal Bank Indonesia Representative Office M Taufik Amrozi welcomed the priority program of the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises to improve the welfare of farmers in Brebes Regency through the farmer corporatization program and factory sharing.
By empowering shallot farmers in Brebes it is also hoped that it can help control inflation from the food ingredients group.
“We were recently asked to concern in the food sector, especially controlling food inflation because one of the main sources of problems is there,” said Taufik.
The BI Tegal Representative is also in the middle of providing assistance to garlic farmers. It is targeted that Tegal-Brebes Regency can produce garlic in large volumes so that domestic production can reduce dependence on imports.
“We will continue our efforts to help achieve food self-sufficiency by increasing garlic production. We also hope to work on the garlic’s potential more quickly so that (garlic) imports can decrease,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Acting Regent of Brebes Urip Sihabudin stated that his party would communicate intensively with the Association of Shallot Farmers (Gapoktan) in his area to be able to build formal institutions such as cooperatives.
This is because currently there is an offtaker for garlic products produced by farmers, namely PT Sinergi Brebes Inovasi (SBI), which will absorb shallot production from farmers.
“We will try to offer and encourage farmers to join in a cooperative. Because there are some benefits that farmers may not know when they join a cooperative,” said Urip.
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Reporter: Kuntum Khaira Riswan
Editor: Click Dewanto
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https://naturallysassyp.com/product/my-favourite-season-pumpkin-spice/ | 2022-12-10T01:02:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711637.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20221210005738-20221210035738-00796.warc.gz | 0.886095 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__1059206 | en | It is that time of year, everything pumpkin spice! We took our P.S. candle further, infusing fresh pumpkin, with earthy tones of oatmeal and chai spices.
Each candle order comes with a candle garden, to grow your own herbs. Herb Kit includes: peat pellet, herb seeds and instructions.
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http://www.foodpool.org/ | 2014-09-23T00:15:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657137841.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011217-00057-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.916028 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__117662635 | en | I don't know how to solve the world's problems, but I had some extra zucchini and I thought "maybe I can feed some people."
Meyer Seed Company of Baltimore is providing seeds to FoodPool West Towson
Thank you to Meyer Seed Company for donating vegetable seeds to FoodPool West Towson. Gardeners in West Towson will be using these seeds to grow fresh vegetables for themselves and for the Assistance Center of Towson Churches.
FoodPool has resumed operations
With the help of the FoodPool West Towson, FoodPool National is resuming operations. For current news, please visit our Facebook page.
We encourage all gardeners to continue making donations to your local food pantries. Thank you for your support. | agronomy |
http://www.mcclellanclan.com/2017/10/evans-field-trip-to-tanaka-farms.html | 2023-12-03T14:56:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203125921-20231203155921-00370.warc.gz | 0.975296 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__148685862 | en | Today Evan had a school field trip to Tanaka Farms. I helped drive and chaperone him and a classmate.
We started with a tractor ride around the farm.
Then went to pet the animals (Evan didn't want to go, but followed us in).
He wouldn't touch any of the animals.
Exploring the corn maze.
Climbing on a tractor before lunch.
Hay bales, of course, meant jumping.
The kids all picked their own vegetables (carrots, onions, radishes, and cilantro).
The kids got to pick their own pumpkin, but they had to carry it themselves.
Evan tried rolling his.
It got a little away from him.
Doing some exploring around the pumpkin patch.
More hay jumping before heading back to school.
Evan had a great time. | agronomy |
https://africanfoodrevolution.org/the-history-of-groundnuts/ | 2020-09-22T06:38:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400204410.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922063158-20200922093158-00303.warc.gz | 0.9386 | 432 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__180365443 | en | - 300 New Stands, Lupane Zimbabwe
Posted on 14 April 2020, by Makhosi Mahlangu
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) belongs to an important family Leguminosae. Groundnut is also known as peanut, earthnut, monkey nut, pinda, goober and manila nut.
Groundnut originated in South America specifically in southern Bolivia and the northwestern region of Argentina and the crop was later introduced to Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Islands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Spaniards and Portuguese.
Groundnuts are ranked as the thirteenth most important crop in the world and are grown on approximately 23.95 million ha worldwide with the total production of 36.45 million tonnes per hectare and with an average yield of 1.52 tonnes per hectare (FAOSTAT, 2011).
Groundnuts are widely cultivated in subtropical and semi-arid regions in almost 100 countries within the six continents of the world between 40° north and 40° south of the equator.
Peanuts are as popular as they are healthy. They’re an excellent plant-based source of protein and high in various vitamins, minerals, and plant compounds. They can be useful as a part of a weight loss diet and may reduce your risk of both heart disease and gallstones.
Peanut soup or groundnut soup is a soup made from peanuts, often with various other ingredients. It is a staple of African cuisine but is also eaten in East Asia, the United States and other areas around the world. In Ghana it is often eaten with fufu.
This article has been taken from Simbarashe Sibanda thesis entitled ‘Effect of timing of clay loam earthing on groundnut vegetative growth and yield parameters’ at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe.
Photo credits: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/seven-ways-to-incorporate-groundnuts-into-your-daily-meal/articleshow/50228959.cms | agronomy |
https://zenb.co.uk/pages/new-landing-page | 2023-12-01T09:55:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00155.warc.gz | 0.913916 | 776 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__293632044 | en | ZENB pasta is made using only 1 ingredient: yellow peas. Our peas are carefully selected, then milled, cooked, dried, and made into three shape variations: Penne, Fusilli and Macaroni.
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as it is high in protein, fibre, phosphorus and potassium, plus a source of iron.
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This legume has a culinary history dating back over 10,000 years and is a delicious part of cuisines around the world.
Immature yellow peas start out green, but as they mature into dry seeds, yellow peas turn yellow.
Yellow Peas are a greener choice because they improve the soil by fixing nitrogen and require less water to grow than wheat.
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ZENB Pasta is High in Protein
When enjoyed as part of a varied and balanced diet, protein contributes to the growth of muscle mass and the maintenance of normal bones.
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When enjoyed as part of a varied and balanced diet, iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
ZENB Pasta is High in Potassium
When enjoyed as part of a varied and balanced diet, potassium contributes to the maintenance of normal blood pressure.
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When enjoyed as part of a varied and balanced diet, phosphorus contributes to normal energy yielding metabolism.
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ZENB aims to effectively harness the goodness of nature to achieve more mindful food. For us, that meant creating ZENB Pasta with a single ingredient: the Yellow Pea.
Yellow Peas put amino acid into the ground, which is good for the soil, they also take less water to grow than durum wheat, therefore is the greener choice!
Yellow pea pasta is pasta which is made from dried yellow peas. Here at ZENB, we use 100% of the yellow peas in order to provide a great texture to our pasta, while creating a greener choice for the planet, as yellow peas require less water to grow than wheat.
ZENB Yellow Pea Pasta contains 44 g Carbohydrates per 85g uncooked serving. UK Government guidelines recommend that 1/3 daily dietary energy come from carbohydrates. Whilst 44g per serving is not considered low carb, yellow peas contain complex carbohydrates as opposed to the traditional sugars found in other pasta. Read more information on simple and complex carbohydrates here.
The Keto diet eliminates carbohydrates in order for the body to enter "ketosis". As yellow peas are fairly rich in carbohydrates, they would not be suitable for the Keto diet.
Yellow peas and chickpeas are not the same, although they are both in the legume family. Chickpeas are slightly bigger than yellow peas and can be eaten fresh as opposed to yellow peas which are harvested when dried. | agronomy |
http://watersilos.blogspot.com/ | 2018-06-25T09:41:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867644.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625092128-20180625112128-00158.warc.gz | 0.926252 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__215436071 | en | The easiest way to install Water Silos for grass is before you put the new sod.
- Water Silos (about 20 - 25 grams per square yard)
- Soil and any fertilizer you want to use
- Remove grass- You will need to begin with a clean area. Remove any grass or weeds left in the area you will be installing your new sod.
- Cover with soil- Ask a landscaper or wherever you bought your soil which type of soil is good for your area and the season. Cover entire area with soil and level it out.
- Apply Water Silos- You might find it easier to figure out how much Water Silos your area requires first and putting that amount in a bowl or bucket. This way you don't use too much or too little. Then divide up the area in square yards or whatever helps you. Add Water Silos by hand or cup and do it low to the ground to avoid wind blowing it away. Make sure to spread it evenly.
- Add sod- When adding the sod on top of the Water Silos try not to step on the Water Silos.
- Water your lawn- Water thoroughly so the roots of the grass can settle and so the Water Silos can retain maximum capacity. After the first week or two you can reduce watering to once every 15 days. Keep an eye on your grass. Different grass types, soil conditions, and weather conditions may cause you to water more or less. Getting some good rain will reduce the number of times you water your lawn a year. | agronomy |
https://www.raregreens.co/sample/ | 2022-05-23T16:55:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662560022.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220523163515-20220523193515-00695.warc.gz | 0.935615 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__183439276 | en | As an impact-making/impact-reducing organization, Raregreens seeks to be an answer to a persisting problem.
To be a bridge that transfers value directly from the market to the farmers. We believe that fresh and quality food should be accessible to each and every one.
At the same time, we take into account prevalent issues including climate change which drastically affect the agricultural and food industry. Acting on this, Raregreens provides agricultural solutions in the form of sustainable and organic farming along with manufacturing essential oils, flavours and fragrances.
We are driven by a social responsibility to cultivate food and manufacture products more kindly. With each of our initiatives, we try to encourage a change in ourselves that would directly impact a positive momentum for our future and its generations. | agronomy |
https://penceranchwine.wordpress.com/tag/planting-a-vineyard/ | 2020-08-06T07:03:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439736883.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20200806061804-20200806091804-00125.warc.gz | 0.958489 | 789 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__58088610 | en | Written by Blair Pence
‘Tis the question that the team at Pence Ranch has been asking ourselves over the last several months. What do we wish we had a little more of in the ground? What small tweaks in the vineyard could we do that would add value to our program? What else do we think our clay-based site is best suited for?
With only 6 acres of Chardonnay, and yet 30 acres of Pinot Noir, we decided that more Chardonnay was a natural choice because we are so enamored with the style of wine that our region produces. In our 2013 whites, we are already seeing a beautiful, fresh lemon-citrus, racy and nervy style of wine develop. When put into the hands of a winemaker like Sashi Moorman, who understands how to coax all the flavors from the grape while also preserving restraint, Chardonnays are magical and have tons of energy. These grafted 3 acres are a selection massale of various cuttings including Wente, Clone 4, 76, 96 and 548. While these 3 acres are much needed, this will certainly not be our last plantings of this varietal.
We have also decided to graft one acre of Pinot Noir to Gamay. Yes, Gamay, as in the grape that heralds from Beaujolais in France. Consistently one of the most unsung heroes of the red vinous world, Gamay makes very aromatic, pretty, soulful and highly drinkable wines. With excellent provenance coming from the original US plantings of Gamay at Seven Springs Vineyard in Oregon, our cuttings should yield a healthy crop and one that will work very well into our estate program.
The good news about these small changes is that with successful grafts (see photos below) happening now in the field, we should be able to see one ton or more of fruit this year! We cannot wait for the results!!
Written by Blair Pence –
Let’s start at the beginning…..why Santa Barbara county, and why did I buy this particular ranch for vineyard planting?
This is actually my fifth ranch in Santa Barbara County. The previous four properties were strictly for the sheer beauty and pastoral nature of old California. And for raising Cutting Horses, a special type of horse for cattle that is controlled without the use of reins. Cutting horses are most probably my first love, but more about that later…
What really attracted me to this site for its vineyard potential was the incredible range of slopes, undulations, aspects and orientations to the property. It is situated on a higher plateau than the valley floor and is therefore held together by thick clay and calcareous rock. Because the ranch is also 2 miles long, the diversity of terroir is easily evident. The south half is almost entirely exposed to the cold, ocean winds that consistently blow in from the Pacific with west, south, north and east facings. The north half is mountainous, oak-studded and far more wind-protected facing the southeast and east.
It is this variety in temperature, elevation and sun orientation where I knew immediately that I could grow great Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (so this makes Burgundian varietals my second love) on the south half. Read more about my love/obsession for Chardonnay & Pinot Noir here. I also realized the ranch’s potential for producing beautiful Syrah (on the north half) akin to what you might see from the Northern Rhône in France.
Looking at Pence Ranch, I fell in love with its land, its contours and its great complexity in topography and soil. And I know we can make delicious Chardonnays, profound Pinot Noirs and aromatically, flavorful Syrahs. | agronomy |
http://ottercreeklandscapes.com/all-season-care/3575489 | 2020-04-07T03:55:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371665328.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200407022841-20200407053341-00210.warc.gz | 0.92652 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__119473128 | en | Taking care of your backyard requires a lot of hard work, but don't worry. From now on, you can leave all your lawn and landscaping needs to the professionals. If you are looking for honesty and reliability, you have chosen the right company to take care of your precious lawn.
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https://angelcel.wordpress.com/2008/10/page/2/ | 2016-02-08T18:36:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701153998.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193913-00331-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.940591 | 307 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__112158200 | en | If you don’t have the room, or time, to maintain a full herb garden, it’s worth growing a few herbs on a sunny windowsill inside. Fresh herbs have an entirely different flavour to the dried varieties, so much so that once you’ve used fresh, you will probably never want to use the dried versions again. A herb that I use regularly is thyme. A culinary plant native to Southern Europe, thyme is widely used in European, particularly French cuisine – on poultry, fish, meat, vegetables, stuffings and in sauces.
Growing from seed could take up to a year. If that is too long to wait, buy a small plant from a garden centre and start by planting in a 6″ clay pot. Put plenty of crocks** in the bottom of the pot and use a light potting compost. (Thyme grows naturally on dry, sunny hillsides so you’re aiming to mimic those conditions).
There are several varieties, from plants like broad-leaved thyme that grows just 6″ high, to common thyme, reaching 15 inches. My favourite is probably Lemon Thyme. It has a delicious flavour and the plant, if left to its own devices, will form a mound of bright green foliage about 12″ high.
To care for your plant: Water sparingly, trim lightly and regularly to keep compact (obviously not a problem if you’re using it in cooking)!
**pieces of old broken pots | agronomy |
https://blog.eduonix.com/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-agricultural-industry/ | 2022-01-24T07:08:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304515.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124054039-20220124084039-00527.warc.gz | 0.949069 | 1,179 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__151857342 | en | Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way across various fields like sales, medicine, architecture, marketing and finance. And, agriculture being a major contributor to the Indian economy, is not untouched. As traditional processes used by farmers were not enough to satisfy the growing food requirements, it became necessary to bring automation in agriculture too. These days irrigating, securing and fertilizing crops are done using devices based on advanced technologies like AI, machine learning (ML), and internet of things (IoT). Read on to know more…
How is AI used for sowing seeds?
Artificial intelligence has allowed us to create optimal models for analysing the climate and forecasting weather. Bio-sensors (IoT) have even made it possible to check the moisture and fertility of the soil. Raw data is collected and various methods like Bayesian Networks and neural networks are used to predict the weather instead of using basic linear regression models. Notably, neural networks can compute and predict with non-linear dependencies of past weather trends. So, for necessary commodities like rice, wheat and maize, AI can be used to sow the seeds at the correct time as they mainly require heavy rainfall to grow and are usually grown during the monsoon season.
How is AI used for irrigation?
Watering crops at the right time is necessary in order for the crops to produce the correct yield. Watering on a large scale by a few farmers became a cumbersome process as they were not enough in number. Smart irrigation systems were introduced. These systems mainly have two components, a machine learning model to compute the amount of moisture in the soil and the implementation of hardware using IoT devices.
To design one, all you need are the following:
- A machine learning model to determine the level of moisture in the soil
- An IoT device having the following components:
NodeMCU – 1
Moisture sensor -1
Water pump – 1
Battery – 1
Socket – 1
Plug (2-pin) – 1
Switch – 1
Data cable and system for programming (e.g. Arduino IDE)
The code is written on NodeMCU and the hardware is implemented using Arduino programming.
How is AI used for crop security?
Securing crops can be done in many ways like analysing the weather and climate or setting up motion-detecting electrocuting fences. A motion detection security system can not only protect the yield from animals but also trespassers. A security system for crops based on AI uses mainly Python and OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library). This allows the programmer to segment the background and the foreground, individually being captured on a single camera to detect any change in frames. In case there is a sudden change in frames, the AI will proceed with the necessary repercussions (example: electric fence activation and activating alarms).
How is AI used in crop yield and price forecast?
The fluctuation in the price of the yield is the biggest thing that a lot of farmers worry about. Vegetables like green beans have a very short shelf life, which leads to irregularities in the pattern of production. AI startups and companies are using weather and satellite images to monitor the health of crops. With the help of big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, models can be built to detect pests and diseases, improving crop health by providing real-time analysis. Models are also built to provide real-time analysis on crop yield, output, the pattern of production in yield and also price forecast using previous data.
How does AI solve the shortage of skilled labour?
With a really small number of people entering farming, most farms face a shortage of skilled labour. Originally, farms used to require a large number of workers, most of them working seasonally to harvest crops. However, as humans have moved from an agrarian to an urban and suburban society, there has been a shortage of workers. This shortage was mitigated with the help of AI bots. These bots are used in many ways. They can produce yield at a volume higher and attain it at a faster pace than human workers. The bots perform tasks more accurately to identify and eliminate liabilities (example: an area of weed) and diminish costs for the farms by having a workforce that can possibly work 24 hours without having to take breaks.
Chatbots have also been in development. These chatbots will answer direct questions to assist farmers with what to do on their fields or pouring the right amount of water for example by distinguishing which patch of land is more dry or wet.
Companies Offering Services to Improve the Agro-based Industry in India
- NinjaCart – This company was started in 2015 to connect farmers to retailers directly, and aimed to provide fresh produce supply. They use data science and artificial intelligence to figure out solutions to problems like food wastage, inefficient supply or distribution, and low quality of food. They also use business intelligence tools to predict prices and neural networks to forecast the demand, causing a reduction in the wastage of food.
- Aibono – Founded in 2014, Aibono uses data instruments and predictive analytics. With a total funding of $5.5M USD now, it aims to improve processes to help farmers with their yield production. Aibono syncs real-time production with real-time consumption of fruits and vegetables having low shelf life by using predictive analysis, precision farming, and harvesting at the right time.
By and Large
With the increasing population, the demand for basic commodities is growing exponentially. The shortage of workers in the fields would eventually lead to farms being shut down and eventually facing a food crisis in the future. Automation in agriculture using artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT has let humans steer away from that gruesome future and into a fruitful one. | agronomy |
http://bensbotanics.co.uk/2021/12/23/the-sustainability-thing/ | 2024-03-02T10:23:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475806.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302084508-20240302114508-00356.warc.gz | 0.954098 | 3,355 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__187481030 | en | ‘Sustainability’ is very much the ‘in-thing’ at the moment. Horticultural media is full of it, and it’s a topic that is hotly discussed in gardening circles. So what is it?
Nobody seems to know.
Or at least nobody seems to have a clear, defined answer.
When you ask “what is sustainability” you get a series of words and ideas in response. “Wildflowers”, OK wildflowers are sustainability. “Water butts” are also sustainability. “Heritage seeds” seem to be sustainability too. “Growing your own” sooner or later appears in the list of concepts… don’t forget ‘pollinators’!
The respondent seems very happy with themselves, yet the question a remains unanswered.
Rather than wade in to the rather broad topic of sustainability I would like to look at a few of the things you meet when you talk about sustainability in gardening.
Water storage is a very popular idea in sustainability. As weather becomes drier there will be more and more pressure on our supply of clean water, so as gardeners it’s vital that we store as much water as we possibly can. Or is it?
Firstly there’s the issue of whether a warmer climate will bring drier conditions. Discussions about extremes in climate tend to look at dry regions becoming drier, but less is made of regions that already receive larger amounts of water getting even wetter. Of course it’s not this clear-cut, as changing weather patterns will likely mean that reliable weather events, such as the monsoons of Asia, become less reliable. We’ve already seen the effects of monsoons not arriving in countries like Bangladesh. Broadly in Europe we’re expecting the areas of higher rainfall to become wetter, so realistically plants in these areas are going to need to learn how to swim, and the need for supplemental water will be very low. We’re likely to see too much water in some areas and not enough water in others.
So this means that water butts will be really vital in areas that experience drier conditions? Well here we come to the major fundamental, and seldom discussed, flaw with water butts; once they’re empty they’re absolutely useless until the next significant rainfall. Let’s do some sums:
If you have a standard 120 litre water butt (US readers stick with me here) that means that you have have the capacity to store 120l of water coming from your roof. Brilliant. Let’s say that it rains really hard on Monday morning and fills the water butt right up…
You’re probably not going to need to water your [outdoor] plants on Monday or Tuesday, but by Wednesday morning your plants need watering, so you take your trusty 10l watering can and water your plants, using 60l of water to soak your pots and the newly planted plants in the ground. It’s hot and dry on Thursday too, so you water all your plants again… and now you’ve used 120l of water and emptied your water butt. What happens to all your plants now if it doesn’t rain?
Now I’m not saying that the 120l of water you’ve stored isn’t of use; it’s 120l that you’re not taking out of the tap, and during a water shortage that is really important. What I am saying is that water storage relies on there being times when the used water is replaced, and if those times become infrequent you might easily find your water storage useless.
The idea of growing wildflowers in the garden has virtually nothing to do with any sort of sustainability. Natural habitats are under threat all over the world and too many plant species are being marginalised in favour of human development. This is undoubtedly a bad thing, so the answer is to bring the wild plants into the garden.
Firstly I must admit to a loose and casual belief that the boon in wildflowers in horticulture is part of a conspiracy to allow the increased destruction of our wild environments. It’s not exactly my dearest belief, but think about it this way; while gardeners believe that letting their lawns grow long each May for ‘no mow May’ actually makes a difference they seem blind to the destruction of natural habitats all around them. There’s a temptation to believe that because a species is growing in your lawn or in the cracks in your pavement that you are making a big difference. You’re not. No amount of gardening-goodwill towards native plants in the garden will ever make up for the destruction of pristine habitats. How anyone could think that a patch of ‘never winding wingle-wangle’ or a lawn full of ‘kiss me by moonlight in my favourite hat’ could ever compensate for the loss of intricate and ancient pristine habitat is beyond belief, and worst of all while the gardener is patting themselves on the back for their important efforts to sustain populations of wild plants they’re not getting angry about the wholesale destruction of our precious wild spaces.
I’m not for a moment suggesting that wild plants shouldn’t have places in our gardens. If you find the green flowers of ‘can of lager on the way to work’ works well with your Geraniums then grow it, and if the nodding flowers of ‘illicit affair with the milkman’ are a charming detail under a shrub then fine. Providing their cultural needs are met, and providing species are chosen with an eye towards potential future nuisance, there is no conceivable reason why native plants shouldn’t be grown in the garden. Just don’t lose sight of the plight of plants in the wild.
You may have enough room to have a wildflower meadow, and how nice for you. Wildflower meadows on a small scale are largely pointless, providing insufficient food for insects during the surprisingly short period of peak flowering. Think of it this way; a garden with the usual plants growing in it is like a supermarket; food varies in quality and in its health benefits but is generally predictable and reliable. By comparison a wildflower meadow is like a giant food fair, full of wonderful nutritious food but only for a certain time, so while it’s possible to gorge yourself and store some food for lean times it’s not necessarily practical to rely on it. This is a blunt analogy but broadly suggests my point; helping pollinators is about more than just providing a giant meal in summer.
Please don’t go looking up the wildflower names above…
I admire the naivety of people who think that gardening can still be done ‘the old way’. These people haven’t realised that it’s not 1930 any more; modern life brings enormous pressures on time and labour is realistically too expensive to bring in a gardener and get them to do things without powered tools. If you want a gardener to trim your hedge with shears then it will cost you… time is money!
Machinery certainly helps make life easier, but comes with a responsibility. Petrol machinery is generally frowned upon as it’s gives out pollution (although weirdly the same people who complain about petrol consumption will happily jump into their car to go on a not-exactly-necessary pleasure trip), and battery tools aren’t up to the rigours of heavy usage. For smaller gardens battery tools are absolutely the way to go; 20 minutes battery life on a tool you only use for 10 minutes means no issues of ‘running out of juice’, while 20 minutes battery life on a tool you use for several hours a day is useless. Yes you could have more batteries, and because each battery takes a long time to charge you then need a load of battery chargers… not all of us have that sort of money to blow on equipment! “Ah yes”, the reps tell you, “but over the life of the machine the cost is no different from buying petrol.” Well firstly that’s wrong because you’re still having to pay for the electricity, and secondly who on earth buys all the petrol they will need for a machine all at once?
But I digress.
The issue with machinery is less about what it is and more about how it’s used. The best zero carbon emission machine is still not being used sustainably if it’s being used unnecessarily. It’s how you choose to use the tools at your disposal that matters. I’ve found a good way to look at it being to think of the noise of a machine as a major nuisance; how can you effectively do a job causing the least nuisance to people nearby? Little things like preparing your work site so you’re able to use a machine efficiently makes a huge difference, and if it’s possible to manage the garden in such a way that a machine of any kind is needed less frequently then that should be considered a good thing.
The Peat Free Debate
This is a perennial favourite in the tempestuous discussions about sustainability. Peat is an excellent carbon store, and damaging it releases some of its carbon to the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. OK, that’s hopefully fairly well understood; we need to protect peat bogs and their habitats.
There is a small but growing range of peat free composts available to UK gardeners. Some of these are excellent, many are OK, and some are terrible. Much depends on the ingredients of the compost and how it is blended. I won’t go over too much of the same territory that I covered in my post about compost, but in short peat based multi-purpose compost was one of the great horticultural revolutions of the 20th century, and replacing them will not be easy.
Firstly there’s the matter of ingredients. The good peat free composts are based on fine bark or on composted plant matter (although there is a wool compost that is good in some areas- more on that shortly). These composts aren’t the most nutritious themselves (neither is peat) but have a good structure and hold air and water well. Greenwaste composts, composted kitchen waste and garden waste like grass clippings etc, are more nutritious but are heavier composts and tend to hold too much water and too little air.
This brings us to the second point, which is how composts are used. The revolution with peat multi-purpose compost was that you could sow seeds and root cuttings, pot up your plants, improve your soil and even grow plants in pots permanently, indoors and outdoors, with compost from one bag. Potting your plants into greenwaste composts rarely works out well… yet greenwaste composts make excellent soil improvers for lighter sandy soils. The logical thing would be to differentiate between the different types of composts- to abandon the idea of ‘multipurpose’- and to educate gardeners to make their choices about what kind of compost they need. If someone needs to improve their soil and pot up some plants then that would mean buying two different composts, one for potting and one for soil improvement, but that isn’t really all that difficult…
There is still the problem of the supply of raw ingredients. Bark to make bark-based composts relies on forestry activity, but if there’s a drop in the production of timber then there will also be a drop in the production of bark-based composts. Bracken composts well and is used by at least one company that I know of, but what if weather conditions make it harder to harvest all the bracken one year? Greenwaste is always going to be the most plentiful but most compost currently bought goes to into pots so this is arguably the least useful resource.
There is an answer, but gardeners aren’t going to like it: we need to grow fewer things in pots. This isn’t just limited to growing plants for display but it also means dramatically reducing how much compost is used potting seedlings. It means looking for alternative ways to raise our vegetable plants, it means a rethink about what we grow and how we grow it. It probably means a return to direct sowing under cloches outdoors, and the reintroduction of the ‘nursery bed’ for young plants. If you have space for only two or three tomato plants then buying them as seedlings, even grown in peat compost, will be far less wasteful than sowing 100 seeds, potting them all up, growing on the best two or three plants and throwing away the rest!
There are benefits to reducing our reliance on pots. Firstly water consumption will be reduced dramatically as we won’t need to water our pots every day (gardeners quickly learn that plants in pots need a lot more attention than plants growing in the ground!). Consumption of artificial fertilisers, organic or non-organic, will also reduce as plants in soil are better fed by the soil’s natural processes. We will also lose far fewer plants to vine weevil grubs, a problem particularly for plants in pots.
There are people who do not have access to soil for growing, and these people will have no choice but to rely on composts, but even here there are ways that gardening can be more sustainable. The first thing would be to go for fewer larger containers rather than lots of smaller pots; this will give plants plenty of room to develop their root systems and will make them less likely to die. Secondly growing more permanent plants like shrubs and perennials reduces the need to replace compost, providing plants are cared for appropriately.
Bringing this all together
I’ve mused over three elements of current modern ‘sustainable’ horticulture and have, I hope, shown that the issues aren’t actually straightforward. Now multiply this thought process across the whole of horticulture, from how we raise and sell plants commercially to how we maintain established gardens, and you can see just how enormous the question of sustainability truly is. To tackle the whole of horticulture and give clear, defined answers is absolutely impossible; what is appropriate in one garden would be inappropriate in the next, and so on.
Do we abandon hope and just carry on doing what we’re doing? No, but what we must do is step away from only learning gardening techniques and instead we must embrace the idea of gardening as an intellectual, even conceptual, process. We need to learn how to ‘think garden’, and then we can look at making meaningful changes to how we do things. There are advantages to engaging with this process; reevaluating how and why we do things gives us the perfect opportunity to question whether we actually want to keep doing certain things at all. Is the nice big lawn for the kids to play on actually important now they’ve left home, or would it be a good idea to make a new planting area for shrubs and perennials? Do we actually enjoy growing vegetables or would we get more enjoyment from having some fruit trees? If compost becomes scarce and expensive do we really want to do grow lots of summer bedding, or do we need to add more colour to our borders instead?
Sustainability will mean changing our behaviours and gardeners really don’t like doing that, but how arrogant are we if we assume that reducing environmental damage should be masterminded and implemented by others while we carry on doing whatever we want? We need to be ready to change how we, as individuals, do things. For some it might mean big changes while for others it might mean smaller changes, but the aim should be to introduce new practices and retire old practices to the benefit of the gardener, bringing positive changes to how we use our time and resources and to the benefits we reap, rather than facing the challenges of trying to do things as we always have while the gardening world changes around us. | agronomy |
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In this stage, takes place the cleaning of the fruits in order to remove any small dirt.
The olive fruits are crashed inside a stainless still crasher. The olive fruits are turned into a pulp.
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Organoleptic and chemical analysis control of quality. Olive oil is separated in batches according to its characteristics and profile. Conventional, Biological, PDO Kalamata, Fruity, Bitter and Pungent. | agronomy |
https://nationalfestivalofbreads.com/nutrition-education/for-kids | 2023-06-05T19:08:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652161.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605185809-20230605215809-00637.warc.gz | 0.855961 | 649 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__61174879 | en | Download printable versions of the wheat bookmarks
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Kansas Wheat Trivia
- It would require a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean to hold all the wheat produced in Kansas in a single year.
- One bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds.
- In 2013, the average American consumed about 135 pounds of wheat flour.
- Annual average wheat production in Kansas for the past five years has been about 340 million bushels harvested from 8.4 million acres.
- Approximately half of the wheat produced in Kansas is exported to other countries. Half is used in the United States.
- One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides 42, 1.5-pound loaves of bread.
Cross out the letters G, J, K, Q, U and Z to reveal good things wheat foods provide for your growing body.
G J C G O Q M P Z L E J X Z C K A K R B K O K H K Y D R G A J T E S Q U
G Z K J Q U F K I J B E G R Z Q U J K J L O K W J K F J A T Z J K Q U Z
K J G U Q G U V J I Q T A J M I N S K G J Z Q U Z J K Z J K Z U Q U Z J K
K J K Q U Z U Q Z J K U Q Z U J K J G J K Q U Z P Z R JO T KE I J N G
Scrambled Up with Wheat
Unscramble these words.
1. tproxe - selling products to another country
2. ceosnrev - saving the soil
3. ebmocni - cuts, separates and cleans grain at the same time
4. lubshe - wheat is often bought and sold by this unit of measurement
5. dahr der - class of wheat used to make bread
Beyond the Table
When you hear the word “wheat,” do you automatically think of bread, pasta and other wheat foods?
Did you know that wheat can be used for things other than food? Wheat and wheat straw have many alternative uses that make wheat a valuable crop.
Place an X beside the products that contain wheat.
____ particle board
____ pet and livestock feed
____ laundry detergent
____ packaging peanuts
Choose Grain Foods
What foods are in the grain group?
Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another cereal grain is a grain product.
Put a “G” beside those foods that belong to the grain group.
____ french fries
____ breakfast cereal
____ whole wheat bread
____ sweet potato | agronomy |
https://growingupveg.blogspot.com/2010/11/late-fall-baby-carrot-harvest.html | 2022-10-07T10:15:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338001.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007080917-20221007110917-00659.warc.gz | 0.986868 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__269619911 | en | Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Late Fall Baby Carrot Harvest
Today in Minnesota, we had unseasonably warm weather. These days we are spending as much time outside as possible with the thought of a long cold winter looming. It was the perfect opportunity to harvest the last carrots from the garden.
This was our first year with our raised bed gardens, and I've learned a lot. It is nice to still be able to harvest this late in the season. Next year I will NOT be planting baby carrots again. While they aren't a lot of work, it just doesn't make sense to grow such a small carrot in limited space.
The kids are excited about eating them and they really do taste much better than what you get at the store. Yes, these still need to be washed, but I can't wait to eat them! | agronomy |
https://www.metroquip.net/equipment-sales/saber-28-30/ | 2023-11-28T12:04:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00176.warc.gz | 0.902124 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__152655681 | en | SABER 28 & 30 DUAL BOOM ROTARY FLAIL MOWER
|With a reach of up to 30 feet, the Saber was designed for mowing canals and waterways or any other long reach mowing need. The solid secondary boom arm provides the strength, performance and stability needed to carry a 60″ rotary cutter head that can cut material up to 5″ in diameter.|
Cutting head options
The Saber 28 & 30 is a premier mid-mount boom mower for a high horsepower utility tractor with a GVW of 10,250 lbs. The Saber 28 & 30 are ideal for cutting grass and brush on roadsides, irrigation ditches or waterways.
Engineered with the latest is high strengthen steel, this efficient boom mower can slice through material up to 5″ in diameter with the rotary head and up to 4″ material with the flail head. A nitrogen accumulator on inner lift cylinder allows the operator to control the boom arm smoothly during the cutting operation. when mowing around obstacles such as culverts and or guard rails.
Cylinders designed on the top of the boom weldments for reaching over obstacles such as guard rails, stumps, signs and waterways. Operator safety window made of 3/8″ polycarbonate provides a safe and clear view of the working area.
Boom mower head stows to the rear of the tractor for easy transport. Once positioned in the rest, the operator can secure the assembly with the electric travel safety lock. | agronomy |
https://www.eternalgod.org/editorial-1186/ | 2024-02-22T21:11:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00184.warc.gz | 0.960532 | 514 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__113009718 | en | Some time ago, I watched an interesting program, which showed how deserts like the Sahara only required water to blossom like a rich oasis. One could notice various grasses, herbs and plants growing without first having to plant or sow them. The reason is that the seeds are there now–being preserved in the dry sand until moisture arrives in order for them to germinate. The seeds from grasses, plants, herbs and trees are carried there by the wind. It is interesting that seed will keep “alive” for a long time if kept in a dry location. Scientists have found wheat in the pyramids of Egypt, which was over 3,000 years old. When they planted the seed in soil and watered it, it grew and produced more wheat. The same applies to seed in the desert. All that is required is water.
From this example, we can draw an analogy with humans. We know, of course, that God does the calling. When we respond, repent and are baptized, we then receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). The human mind has now been seeded by God with the fruit of His Spirit, and all that is required to bring the fruit to fruition is the working of God’s Holy Spirit in us. The process begins for us to produce and manifest the fruit of the Holy Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22, which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are all character attributes of our loving Father and Jesus Christ.
The more water you give to a parched desert, the more vegetation it will produce. The more of God’s Spirit we receive, the more fruitful we become. The key is to ask for more of God’s Spirit in order to produce more fruit to the glory of God. Luke 11:13 tells us: “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.” We must ask and God is faithful to give. Then we are in a position to produce the fruit of the Spirit to the benefit of our fellow man, so that, when they see these manifested in and through us, they may give glory to God.
Remember the principle: The more Holy Spirit is flowing through us, the more fruit we will produce. The real question is: How are we doing? | agronomy |
https://ecsense.com/ec-senses-oxygen-gas-sensor-sent-into-space/ | 2024-04-16T03:52:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00860.warc.gz | 0.960947 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142167071 | en | EC Sense’s TB200B-ES1-O2-25% Oxygen Gas Sensor Module was sent into space as a part of an experiment by German students.
Students from the Leibniz Unversity of Hannover were selected to send their experiment into space to the International Space Station ISS. The spaceshuttle launched on March 15th, 2023 with the Glücksklee experiment and EC Sense’s oxygen sensor on board.
The goal of the experiment is to study the symbiosis between clover plants and rhizobia bacteria in microgravity. The symbiosis between the plant and the bacterium leads to self-fertilization. Gravity normally plays a major role in plant growth. Therefore, the team will test self-fertilization and growth under space conditions.
To this end, the plants will grow on the ISS for 30 days and will be constantly monitored during this time with various sensors. Among other things, oxygen levels will be monitored with the TB200B-ES1-O2-25% gas sensor.
The clover was chosen not only as a symbol of luck, but also because it belongs to the legume plant family, which also includes peas and lentils. These foods are rich in protein, which is necessary during long space missions, such as a mission to Mars, to provide astronauts with a source of nutrition.
We are pleased to have been able to support such bright young minds on such an important forward-looking topic! | agronomy |
http://healthnewscolorado.org/2015/03/03/opinion-farm-to-school-efforts-benefit-children-schools-and-the-economy/ | 2023-06-09T01:51:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655244.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609000217-20230609030217-00109.warc.gz | 0.969195 | 778 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__190338864 | en | By Dr. Lyn Kathlene
In an era of rising youth obesity rates, chronic health problems related to diet, and the growing evidence that proper nutrition is essential to academic success, school meals are more important than ever.
Students who attend schools regularly supplied with local produce have nearly doubled their consumption of fruits and vegetables offered in salad bars. Local school and farm partnerships have also resulted in gardens on school grounds. This hands-on connection proves especially successful in getting kids to try new and different fruits and veggies; if they grow it, they will eat it! In fact, students have a 14 percent lower chance of being overweight or obese when they have the option of fresh produce at school.
There is also a clear economic impact: farmers who participate in Farm to School programs have seen an average increase in their income of five percent, which has a ripple effect on the state’s economy. Every dollar invested in these programs generates $2.15 of local economic activity.
Yet with 1,500 fruit and vegetable producers in Colorado, and many school food service directors who are engaged and willing to buy locally, schools can’t find enough local farmers able to sell to them.
Spark Policy Institute, working with the Colorado Farm to School Task Force, found that the two biggest hurdles to making Farm to School work are food safety and competitive pricing.
While many small- to mid-sized producers sell directly to consumers, such as at farmers’ markets, selling to schools requires they have formal farm food safety plans. This poses a big jump in costs and time. A recent study found that the average cost of implementing farm safety programs for farms smaller than 100 acres was up to four times more than for farms of at least 100 acres.
Similarly, it is difficult for smaller, local producers to compete on price against national distributors who source their food in large quantities from around the world. Moreover, schools rely on several federal subsidized food programs, which sell food substantially below market value.
To figure out how to address these barriers, Spark and the Task Force took a comprehensive approach. Research on existing federal and state food safety laws and regulations as they relate to schools, coupled with listening sessions in local communities and interviews with producers and school food service directors, identified challenges, clarified misunderstandings, and determined what’s needed to help schools and producers work together.
The outcome of this work is House Bill 15-1088, the Farm to School Grant Program. This program will make it possible for local farmers to sell their produce directly to schools by addressing the issue of complying with school food safety regulations.
The bill will also make it possible for growers to put local schools at the top of their “sell to” list. Grant funds can be used to help farmers meet costs that place local producers at a competitive disadvantage to school food vendors who source their products from outside Colorado or are otherwise subsidized. And once producers start selling to a school in a way that is profitable, they stay committed to that relationship because, after all, it’s their kids in the schools and their community.
Based on a solid understanding of both data and local realities, this investment of less than 0.01 percent of the state’s general revenue budget is well positioned to make a big impact. With the passage of this bill, Colorado can invest in our children, our schools, and our economy. The Farm to School Task Force and Spark have tilled the ground and planted the seeds, now we need Colorado legislators to grow and harvest the crop of methods that will make it possible for many more local producers to partner with schools.
Dr. Lyn Kathlene is a Director at Spark Policy Institute and serves as lead staff of the Colorado Farm to School Task Force.
Opinions expressed in Health News Colorado represent the views of the individual authors. | agronomy |
https://aypek.com.tr/fresh-products-packaging/lifepack-carry-bag-with-antifog/ | 2023-11-30T03:51:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00801.warc.gz | 0.944615 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__263362496 | en | Suitable for keeping all kinds of vegetables and fruits fresh, non-toxic, food grade material self-adhesive or sealable bags with zippers and anti-fog.
Advantage of anti-fog packaging bags is that they are very good to keep the product fresh giving fruits and vegetables a longer shelf life and giving a clear visibility to the different produces that makes it more appealing for customers to buy.
Lifepack® Carry Bag with Antifog packaging, similar to those with a modified atmosphere, whose function is to retain the humidity of the fruit inside the sealed container.
For the purpose of cost savings, most agricultural product/food processors use Lifepack® Carry Bag with Antifog to package fresh fruits and vegetables, keeping the products clean, reducing water loss, and providing convenience for carrying. Some agricultural product packaging films are also perforated to facilitate the breathing of agricultural products.
Lifepack® Carry Bag with Antifog that can more effectively extend the shelf life of products and reduce the deterioration of fruits and vegetables have a very strong potential in the market. Lifepack® Carry Bag with Antifog can more effectively prevent water loss and achieve/allow breathing effectively, as a result playing an excellent role in fruit preservation.
If you already have your brand and logo made we can use them as is or we can maybe help you with designing new fresh vegetable bags and all other product packaging you need. | agronomy |
https://femiknitmafia.com/can-urban-farming-reduce-food-deserts.html | 2024-04-23T19:55:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00491.warc.gz | 0.940554 | 1,582 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__106263952 | en | In the hustle and bustle of city life, it’s easy to overlook the importance of adequate access to fresh, nutritious food. Yet, for millions of urban residents, access to such food is not a given. They live in so-called "food deserts," areas where fresh, healthy, and affordable food is hard to come by. This phenomenon poses a serious threat to public health, as it contributes to poor diets and related health problems. However, urban farming – the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around a city – has emerged as a potential solution. It promises not only better access to healthier diets but also a range of other social, economic, and environmental benefits. But can it really help transform food deserts into oases of nourishment? Let’s delve into the matter.
Before we can address the potential impact of urban farming on food deserts, we first need to understand the depth of the problem at hand. Food deserts are not just about the absence of supermarkets or grocery stores. They are complex phenomena, shaped by a mix of demographic, economic, and geographical factors.
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Studies conducted by renowned universities and health institutions, and published in reputable databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, have consistently highlighted the harsh realities faced by residents in food deserts. People living in these areas often have to rely heavily on fast-food outlets or convenience stores where fresh produce is scarce. Not surprisingly, food deserts have been linked with numerous health implications, such as higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and other diet-related conditions.
The implications extend beyond individual health outcomes. Food deserts can exacerbate social inequalities, as they are often concentrated in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. These communities are not only deprived of healthier food options but also miss out on the economic benefits that come with a thriving food retail sector.
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Can urban farming be the antidote to the prevalence of food deserts in our cities? By bringing agriculture into the heart of the city, urban farming can certainly improve local access to fresh produce. Yet, its potential goes much beyond just adding another food source to the urban landscape.
Urban farming can improve the quality of food available to urban residents. Unlike supermarket foods that often travel long distances before hitting the shelves, urban farms can deliver fresh produce directly from farm to fork, reducing the time and distance between harvest and consumption. This not only ensures the freshness and taste of the food but can also increase its nutritional value.
Moreover, urban farming can be an effective tool to promote healthy eating habits. It allows people to see where their food comes from and how it’s grown, fostering a greater appreciation for fresh, wholesome food. It can also provide educational opportunities, particularly for young people, to learn about nutrition and sustainable farming practices.
Urban farming is not just about growing food; it’s about cultivating communities. By creating shared spaces for farming, it can foster stronger ties among urban residents, making cities more livable and vibrant places.
Community farms can serve as hubs for residents to come together, share knowledge, and collaborate on common goals. They can provide a sense of belonging and foster social cohesion among diverse groups of city dwellers. Additionally, they can offer valuable opportunities for skills development and employment, particularly in underprivileged neighborhoods.
Furthermore, urban farming communities can help democratize our food system. By providing residents with the means to grow their own food, it can empower people to take control over what they eat. This can ultimately lead to more equitable access to nutritious food and contribute to reducing food deserts.
The potential of urban farming to combat food deserts is not just theoretical; there are concrete examples of success from around the world.
In Detroit, a city once infamous for its food deserts, urban farming has begun to transform the city’s food landscape. The Detroit Urban Farming Initiative, for instance, has developed over 1,400 community and school gardens across the city, providing residents with access to fresh, locally grown produce. Similarly, in New York City, the Five Borough Farm project has helped make urban agriculture a recognized part of the city’s landscape, policy, and economy.
In the UK, Bristol’s Incredible Edible project has turned unused land into productive gardens, where fruits and vegetables are grown for everyone to share. The initiative has not only improved access to fresh produce but also fostered stronger community bonding and civic pride.
While these stories offer a glimmer of hope, it’s important to remember that urban farming is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It requires supportive policies, resources, and a community-centric approach to truly flourish and make a dent in reducing food deserts. As scholars and practitioners continue to explore this promising field, let’s hope that more urban landscapes will be transformed into abundant food gardens, providing fresh and healthy food for all.
The potential of urban agriculture to combat food deserts is well-established. However, realizing this potential will require more than just individual or community efforts. It will require a broader systemic change, particularly in policy-making.
Sound policies can offer the necessary support to encourage and sustain urban farming initiatives. This includes land-use policies, zoning regulations and building codes that accommodate and promote urban agriculture. For instance, cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston have enacted policies that allow urban residents to sell produce grown in their gardens. Meanwhile, in Detroit, the "urban agriculture ordinance" not only permits but also actively encourages farming within the city limits.
However, policy reform alone is not enough. It must be coupled with the provision of resources, particularly for low-income communities. This can range from providing access to land and water to offering financial support, technical training, and marketing assistance to urban farmers. Programs like the US Department of Agriculture’s "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative and the UK’s "Urban Farming Support Programme" exemplify this multi-pronged approach.
To ensure that urban farming initiatives are not just sporadic, but sustainable, it is also vital that they are built on a strong foundation of community engagement and participation. Communities should be involved in the planning, implementation, and management of urban farms, ensuring that these initiatives are responsive to their needs and priorities.
Urban farming holds immense potential in addressing food deserts, offering a fresh approach to improving food access, promoting health, and revitalizing urban communities. As our exploration of the topic suggests, it is not just a matter of growing food in city spaces but nurturing a whole ecosystem that connects people to their food, to each other, and to their urban environment.
However, as promising as it may be, urban farming is not a silver bullet for the complex issue of food insecurity. It must be understood and approached as part of a broader strategy that addresses the underlying factors contributing to food deserts, including socioeconomic inequalities, inadequate public transportation, and gaps in the food supply chain.
As we move forward, it is crucial that we continue to advance research in this area, documenting and learning from successes, challenges, and innovations in urban farming around the world. This research, published through reputable databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, can provide invaluable insights to guide evidence-based decision making, policy formulation, and practice.
In the end, transforming food deserts into oases of nourishment will require a collective effort. It is only through the concerted action of individuals, communities, policymakers, and researchers that we can make urban farming a viable and vibrant part of our urban landscapes, ensuring that all city residents have access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. | agronomy |
https://quadraat.global/projecten/karas-namibia-area-development/ | 2020-05-28T12:16:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347396089.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528104652-20200528134652-00239.warc.gz | 0.902162 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__42736561 | en | On behalf of Monate.Green, Quadraat Global provides project management and area development for a “Namibia Vision 2030” project in the Karas in Namibia.
This project involves the sustainable development of a hotel, restaurant, resorts, sheep farm with export facilities, a clinic, a university and awareness of the required infrastructure. Extensive sheep farming can be lucrative in the sparsely populated Karas region of Namibia. The the quality of the lamb produced here has earned world renowned fame. The project spans a planned area of approximately 30,000 hectares. 4,000 ha of which will be used for sheep farming, and more than 25,000 ha for wildlife, a luxury villa hotel and private resorts. The remaining area is designated for the clinic, university and facilities for staff.
A major contribution is made to the well-being and prosperity of the Karas population, by means of area development.
This project is a great opportunity for investors. Interested parties can contact the director of Monate.Green Ajé Oosterveen (0031-6-19202662 and [email protected]). | agronomy |
https://playathometeacher.com/2016/05/03/garden-makeover-patio-area-path/ | 2018-12-11T21:16:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823702.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20181211194359-20181211215859-00639.warc.gz | 0.982273 | 803 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__28268998 | en | We recently had some building work done to the back of our house which meant that our garden had ended up looking like a building site as things were dumped there. Craig had a week off work so we decided to start our garden makeover so that we could all enjoy spending some time outside over the summer.
The area below was completely wasted and quite dangerous for Sophie so we decided to start here.
Our garden has a path that follows the fence from the area shown above to the end of the garden. In the photo below, Sophie was desperately trying to follow the path to reach a neighbours cat but it was full of leftover materials from the building work so she couldn’t. We cleared the path and Craig built a shed so that we could store some of Sophie’s garden toys and trikes.
We have some stepping stones that cut through the flower bed and onto the path. I wanted to keep these because Sophie loves to sneak onto the path and I like the idea of having some secret paths and shortcuts for her. However, I still wanted to be able to see her so I cut back some of the plants and took out all of the thorny ones so that she wouldn’t hurt herself.
This area was full of brambles and holly bushes so we decided to clear it and make it more child-friendly. We took up the old paving stones that had been used for the path, so we could use them to make a patio, and laid some pavers that we had been given to create a new path. We still need to bed it in properly but we wanted to see how it would look.
Neither of us are good at gardening but I would love to get Sophie involved in growing some vegetables so we decided to make this area into a vegetable patch. Hopefully, it will get enough sun for things to grow. Craig built some raised beds and we created an area to keep our green bin, which is for gardening waste. We also have a greenhouse (which is currently being used as a storage area!), water butt and compost bin at the top of the garden, which we left by the previous owner so we are well on the way to being ready to have a go!
While Craig made the raised beds I weeded the flower bed on the other side of the path. With my limited plant knowledge, I am pretty sure I pulled out some real plants and ended up keeping some weeds but it looks tidier!
We moved the paving stones from the old path and created a patio area. But after taking the plants/brambles down at the start of the path, we were left with a dirty wall so I painted it white
I have wanted a set of festoon lights for as long as I can remember so I bought some to go along the wall and fence. We are planning on lowering the black cable and either putting gravel or some plants along the bottom of the white wall.
We bought a second-hand table and chairs set off a local Facebook selling site which just need a coat of paint. We still need to finish a few bits off but we now have a BBQ and dining area in our garden. I can’t wait for some sunny evenings so that we can sit out there and enjoy it.
We added some flamingos to the stepping stone shortcut on Sophie’s path. We will probably move these to her playhouse when it is finished but for now, she likes to give them a kiss as she goes past!
We tried to get most of the work done during Sophie’s nap times but sometimes we ended up carrying on while she played outside. I am planning on adding some blog posts with some of the activities I set up to keep her busy such as this dinosaurs and balance beam activity.
We are currently working on Sophie’s playhouse and play area so I will write a post about that when it is finished.
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https://agrimatghana.com/hermetic_storage.html | 2024-04-12T11:32:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00148.warc.gz | 0.920948 | 745 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__16996644 | en | Hermetic storage is a game-changing technology that has significantly improved the preservation of agricultural commodities. Hermetic storage methods prevent insects and pects infestation by producing an environment that is both gas-tight and moisture-tight. This approach is not only strongly established in old agricultural methods, but it also represents current innovation, particularly in the storage of grains, seeds, and other dry agricultural commodities such as cocoa using the below:
Agrimat's Grain storage bags are available in two sizes: small and large. These storage bags are designed to be used as liners inside sacks to aid in the storage and transportation of dry grains and seeds. By using these storage bags as liners, they help protect the contents from moisture, pests, and other external factors that could compromise the quality of the grains or seeds. This ensures that the grains or seeds remain dry and in good condition throughout storage and transportation.
Agrimat's hermi bags are a lower-cost alternative to Mobile Grain Storage. Made of lightweight yet durable polyethylene, it provides hermetic protection for dry agricultural commodities stored indoors. It comes in a variety of sizes and can be adjusted to fit different capacities of goods held in bags or boxes.
The Mobile Grain Storage Premium is flood-proof and hermetic, making it ideal for storing dry agricultural goods organically and for long periods of time. The flexible UV-resistant polyvinyl chloride has minimal permeability to oxygen, carbon dioxide, and moisture. The MGS premium features a gas sampling valve for monitoring relative humidity. The MGS premium can endure floods below the zipper line, safeguarding supplies against unpredictable weather conditions. It can naturally prevent infestation and mold growth by maintaining low oxygen levels and high carbon dioxide levels caused by insect and commodity respiration.
Mobile grain storage Eco is an envelope-like structure composed of flexible 200 micron polyethelene with an excellent gas barrier and resistance to ultraviolet radiation, intended for long-term indoor and outdoor use. For a few to hundreds of tonnes of grain in bags. Includes a reflective cover to defend against temperature gradients. Can be set up in locations with no infrastructure. No fumigation is required.
Agricultural commodities transported in shipping containers may be exposed to heat and moisture.
Condensation is a prevalent issue. Gastight Container Liners (GCL) handle the issue. Some commodities,
such as coffee and cocoa, require no further intervention, whilst others, such as milled rice,
may need to be shipped in a controlled atmosphere with CO2.
Hermetic storage has revolutionized the way staple crops such as rice, oats, and wheat are stored. It successfully protects these vital food sources from molds and insects, which are known for causing post-harvest losses. With hermetic storage methods such as Agrimat's Improved Grain pouch, Hermi bags, Mobile Grain storage Premium, Mobile Grain Storage Eco and Gastight Container Liner outperform synthetic pesticide-based treatments, particularly in hot and arid climates. These technologies not only keep grain moisture levels consistent, but they also prevent insect buildup, preserving grain integrity over long storage periods.
The impacts of hermetic storage on seed viability and quality are significant. Hermetic storage preserves seed germination capability and reduces quality losses by minimizing metabolic activity and infestations. This is especially important in smallholder agricultural systems, because seed quality can directly affect food security.
When it comes to high-value crops like cocoa, hermetic storage plays a vital role in preserving their unique qualities. Cocoa beans are susceptible to moisture reabsorption, mold growth, and insect infestation, all of which can degrade their quality. | agronomy |
https://www.sortsmart.ca/composting/tips-links/ | 2023-12-03T14:13:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203125921-20231203155921-00316.warc.gz | 0.931361 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__204977623 | en | You can help boost the activity in your composter by adding “old” or bought compost. Be sure to break up clumps and keep it from becoming compacted. The process needs oxygen to work well. Always compost in a container with a lid to keep out animals. Wire mesh at the base can prevent them from digging underneath the composter.
For more information on composting, check out:
Need more compost than you produce at home?
You can buy Prince George’s own NorGrow compost at the Foothills Boulevard Regional Landfill. Click here for more information
REAPS demonstration garden and workshops
The demonstration garden is located at 1950 Gorse Street (next to Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park).
The garden showcases various types of plants (perennials, shrubs, vines, vegetables and herbs) and flowers indigenous to the area. Highlighting the use of natural pest control methods, organic gardening and compost (fertilizer, topdressing, tea and growing medium). There are a variety of composters located throughout the garden giving garden visitors an idea of what is available locally so that they can determine what best suits their needs.
REAPS offers a number of workshops throughout the year. Composting 101 is a popular workshop in both spring and fall. | agronomy |
https://www.amishviewinn.com/blog/harvest-time-lancaster-county-pa/ | 2024-04-24T18:17:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00169.warc.gz | 0.922777 | 194 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__147787301 | en | Harvest time in Lancaster County is one of the most beautiful times of the year. Check out our latest infographic to learn more about the crops that are harvested near Lancaster, PA!
From the infographic:
“Harvest Season in Pennsylvania means serious business for the state. With Agriculture being PA’s leading economic enterprise, it’s no surprise that classic Summer and Fall produce represent a significant portion of the state’s annual agricultural income. Seasonal crops like Corn, Tobacco, and pumpkins are some of PA’s most well known cash crops. Crops like Corn and Pumpkins can attribute their popularity to their diverse array of uses for human and animal consumption.”
Experience The Harvest For Yourself
Want to see the beauty of Lancaster’s Harvest for yourself? Come visit us at AmishView Inn! Our rooms have stunning views of the surrounding farmland, giving you an up-close view of the local crops. | agronomy |
http://gardensinthecity.ca/pollinator/ | 2021-02-27T11:47:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358956.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210227114444-20210227144444-00072.warc.gz | 0.944155 | 2,702 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__3675191 | en | What is a pollinator?
A pollinator is a creature that helps fertilize flowers by moving pollen from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another. The honey bee is only one of many pollinators. Other types of bee, butterflies, beetles, and birds are all pollinators too.
We need pollinators.
Every apple, every almond, every maple key, and even every dandelion seed only exists because pollination has taken place. Many plants depend upon these creatures to carry pollen for them, and in fact, the pollinators and the plants evolved together. The pollinators depend upon the flowers for their food – pollen for protein and nectar for sugar – in return for their fertilization services.
Pollinators need us!
But now, I have found out some facts about wild pollinators that tell me
- both wild and domestic pollinators are in dire straits
- wild pollinators can thrive in urban environments
- each of us can, and must help.
To learn more read the information below, explore the links, or ask the crew.
Follow our story of transforming this front yard from a pollinator’s desert to a pollinator supermarket.
Things you can do:
Pollinators need pollen and nectar for food – native flowers are best.
They need nesting sites – bee and bat boxes, leave some soil exposed for ground dwellers, don’t clean up too much in fall.
They need water with landing places (islands) – perhaps a shallow dish with some stones in it refreshed regularly.
David Suzuki has a great article about creating a bee friendly garden: David Suzuki
Volunteer for pollinator friendly organizations. Help educate people. Support organic farms. Write to your MP and MPP to show your concern for pollinators.
The Canadian Wildlife Foundation has a great website about pollinators in Canada. More info.
Pollinators needs flowers, water, habitat – sounds like a great place for us to hang out too!
Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred from the anther (male part) to the stigma (female part) of the plant, thereby enabling fertilization and reproduction(fruit). This takes place in the angiosperms, the flower bearing plants. Angiosperms and bees appeared on earth at about the same time, and have evolved together. They need each other. No pollinators, no fruit, no seeds, no future plants. Oh my.
A pollinator is a creature that aids in pollination. Bees, insects, butterflies, moths, birds, bats. Many of them evolved along with the plants the provide their food. The pollinator moves pollen from flower to flower as it collects food for itself. Around the world there has been a dramatic decline of pollinators due to a number of factors: loss of habitat, increased pesticide use, and diseases.
One third of our food supply relies upon pollination. Check out this article from wholefoods: Article
But, even more importantly, many deciduous plants require pollination for reproduction. We need our plants for so much more than food.
Farmland is increasingly a huge monoculture. Even if the crop is something that supplies a food for pollinators, they only have a food supply when that one plant is flowering. In addition, the widespread use of pesticides affects good creatures as well as bad ones. Urban areas tend to have a much broader diversity of plants – everyone wants a garden, or at least a pot of herbs on their balcony. Also, urban areas tend to have pesticide by-laws limiting the use of pesticides. As a result, many creatures are actually surviving much better in the city than in the country. Check out this article from the UK.
And this ted talk: Ted Talk
Pollinators aren’t only bees – but lets just discuss bees for a second. There are 800 different species of bees in Canada. The honeybee is only one, and it is not native to North America. It is a domesticated creature, similar to a cow or horse, than can also survive in the wild. Most of these 800 different bees do not form colonies, do not make honey, and therefore have nothing worth protecting. Most of them can’t sting at all. Even if a bee can sting, it will do everything it can to avoid stinging you. It’s gonna die if it stings you. Wasps are a whole other story. Sorry. You can tell the difference because bees are only interested in flowers.
Pollinators and flowers evolved together and first appeared on earth about 140 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. In order to support the local population of wild bees and other pollinators, it is best to provide the foods that they evolved with – local native flowers. They find their food by flower colour, shape and scent. Many of the cultivated flowers in our gardens have been breed from local natives – however sometimes these flowers fool the pollinators. Sometimes they attract them, but don’t actually have the nectar or pollen for food, or have the nectar or pollen, but the shape of the flower has changed so that the insect can’t get to it. Bees love flowers from the Asteracea family (Daisy, Aster, Sunflower), Fabacea family (legumes such as pea, bean, and lupine), Lamiaceae family (Mint, lavendar and salvias), Rosaceae family (apple, cherry, rose) along with many others (carrot, geranium, verbena, sedums). Hummingbirds are particularly attracted to red flowers with tubular shapes. Butterflies like flowers that have a landing platform such as a cone flower.
There are 800 different species of bees in Canada – so you can imagine that there are many different nesting habitats for them. Many are solitary – they need a place to lay their eggs, and a place to over winter, but don’t necessarily have a home. They will likely find spaces such as existing holes in wood or the ground. One simple thing you can do, is leave at least some space in your garden as wild as possible over the winter, and cleanup only in spring. Leaf litter and fallen branches provide good winter protection. If you are interested in providing a specific home, bee nesting blocks are solid chunks of wood with holes in them to give wild bees a place to lay their eggs. We are investigating the possibility of providing bee homes to our clients. Please let us know if you are interested.
Pollinator Support Garden – Follow Our Journey
Here at Gardens in the City we’ve decided it’s time to take action to support pollinators. Although I’ve designed and installed many gardens, I’ve never done one with the specific needs of pollinators in mind. Well, here’s my chance to do one practically from scratch, and I’d love to invite you to follow along as we go. Like all gardens, this will not be accomplished overnight, but will be a dialogue with Mother Nature that will unfold over many years.
This is my new house – complete with shrubs planted in 1955. There isn’t a flower to be seen, let alone a native one, and the grassy lawn is a waste of water, time and worry. It is never used except for the weekly mowing activity. So, what should we do?
Bees, butterflies, hover flies and hummingbirds are all native pollinators with slightly different needs. They need places to live, places to reproduce, food for their young and their adult stages. That adds to the usual garden design requirements of attractive yet low maintenance.
Let’s start by looking at what we have to work with:
- house faces North. There is lots of sun right now, but the boulevard tree will grow large in time. (You can’t see the tree in the picture, it is behind the photographer.)
- the entire area is flat, but slopes slightly towards the street.
- the neighbours all have lawns, with some foundation plantings. I don’t think that they’d be happy if we removed all of this lawn.
- the soil is hard compacted clay
- existing plants: black cedar, yews, spiraea, and snow-on-the-mountain (aka goutweed). (OK, I lied, there are flowers, I just don’t like goutweed).
- the boulevard section has a youngish tree, and a ditch for rain run off from the street and sidewalk.
- in the backyard there is already an ancient crab apple (probably not long for this world), a large stand of mint and lemon balm, and some big berry bushes – so the backyard isn’t such a pollen and nectar desert.
Since it’s winter right now, I can spend some time to make some plans and do some research.
Making a Plan
The basic idea is to create a garden with 4 season interest to both humans and pollinators, remove the yews and replace them with flowering shrubs, increase the size of the existing bed, and diversify the remaining lawn away from a grass monoculture.
What do our creatures need through their 4 seasons? Nesting sites, over wintering sites, food for larvae, food for adults. Pollinators are mostly attracted by colours and scents. Expert advice is that they are more likely to be attracted if there is a larger stand of one type of plant, rather than a mix of plants. Humans want interest through a variety of texture and colour, without looking too messy year around. We are going to aim for an overlap of everyone’s needs with a perennial flower garden that has lots of local native plants in it.
Why remove the yews? Over the years they have gotten too tall and not been properly pruned. Also, they are gymnosperms they don’t provide any support for our pollinators. Instead, let’s plant some flowering shrubs that provide nectar, pollen and later fruit for the creatures that visit our garden.
What to plant in our garden? This is the fun part for a plant junkie like me. I start every garden design with a list of plants that I’d like to use on the site, and then whittle that down until it is reasonable for a garden. I am not going to plant only purely native plants in my garden. While there are good reasons to prefer native plants, I think that it is impossible to move backwards to before we imported all these exotic plants, and I need to have a garden that is also a show piece for our new home. As a compromise, I will choose plants that the animal kingdom is attracted to and can feed from.
We can enrich remaining lawn by adding small flowering plants – white clover, johnny-jump-ups, and small crocus. Since the advent of broadleaf weed killers in the 40’s, these little plants have been declared weeds. Before that our lawns were much more diverse. Clover fixes nitrogen from the air to make it available in the soil. Grass needs lots of nitrogen. Really, they are a pair of plants that used to, and should, co-exist.
We may also want to consider winter shelter, nesting sites and a water source.
This chart from www.pollinator.org helped show me what various pollinators are looking for http://www.pollinator.org/Resources/Pollinator_Syndromes.pdf.
Now its my turn to brainstorm some plants that will fit the pollinators preferences (above) and still become part of a beautiful garden pleasing to people.
Here is the “short list” (which you may notice is still way too many plants for my garden). To keep things manageable I can’t go into all the properties (desirable or not) of all the plants in my list, but I’ve tried to hit some of the high points.
Some great references:
Selecting Plant for Pollinators: A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners
In the Lake Erie LowlandLake Erie Lowlands a NAPPC and Pollinator Partnership Publication
Heather Holmes is an expert in native pollinators. Here is her website.
So how did it all turn out? In our first season we would regularly see one, lonely, bumble bee. I guess he wasn’t so lonely, in the next season we’d see half a dozen, and now we see many bumble bees in the garden. We’ve seen mason bees, sweat bees, leaf cutter bees, butterflys, and many other creatures. I get so much joy just watching these creatures going from flower to flower. Here are some pics.
I believe that supporting wild pollinators is terribley important. I learn more and more every day. Please ask questions, learn, and help spread the word. This problem needs everyone’s help. | agronomy |
http://www.bettagrains.com/ | 2020-08-13T20:33:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739073.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813191256-20200813221256-00414.warc.gz | 0.814941 | 2,957 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__91304596 | en | In Kenya beans are not just BEANS! Consumers know their bean variety and preference. Our market prices are private sector market prices and are the prices consumers pay.
Yellow Beans (A greenish bean) alias Kathika (Kenya), Soya Njano (Tanzania). Yellow Beans is commonly found in Africa countries, the bean is tasty and does not give gas. While greatly lacking in color when cooked the bean is an increasing great meat supplement in domestic household consumption. Yellow Beans fetches the highest prices. Retail Ksh133($1.33)/kg; Wholesale Price Ksh128($1.28), 90Kg Bag Ksh11,520($11.52). RATIN reports wholesale prices/kg at Kenya, Mombasa Ksh100($1.0), Uganda, Masindi, Ksh70($0.70), Tanzania, Dar, Ksh87($0.87), Rwanda, Ruhengeri, Ksh60($0.60), Burundi, Gitega, Ksh92($0.92), South Sudan, Juba, Ksh222($2.22). Farmgain reports Uganda wholesale prices/kg at, Owino, and Kisenyi Ksh89($0.89)/kg, Nakawa, and Kalerwe, Ksh92($0.92), Mbarara, and Masaka, Ksh81($0.81), Mbaale and Soroti Ksh76($0.76).
Mwitemani, Sura Baya (Kenya), Lukupa (Zambia), Iris (Zimbabwe), Pinto (USA), Romano (Turkey), is a cream bean with black strips that is very popular for Githeri (cooked mixture of maize and beans). The bean is very popular especially in Western Kenya as it is very tasty and is very popular with individuals with sensitive stomachs. Mwitemani Retail Price Ksh103($1.03)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh98($0.98)/kg, Ksh8,820($88.2)/90kg bag. Kenya Ministry of Agriculture reports 90kgs bag prices of Nairobi, Ksh7,500($75.00), Nakuru Ksh4,500($45), Mombasa Ksh7,420($74.2), Eldoret Ksh9,000($90), Isiolo Ksh7,400($74), Kajiado Ksh6,800($68), Loitoktok Ksh8,000($80.00), Kitale Ksh5,200($52), Meru Ksh6,700($67), Embu, Ksh5,000($50), Isiolo Ksh7,400($74),. Other prices/kg include Ethiopia, Addis, Ksh51($0.51). United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports Nebraska, Wyoming, Ksh6($0.61), North Dakota, Minnesota Ksh2.7($0.027).
Nyayo Beans (Long Red Speckled) alias Nambale, NABE 19, NABE 4, K132 (Uganda), Maluwa (Malawi), Kabanima (Tanzania), Lyambai (Zambia), Royal Bacara (Zimbabwe). Nyayo beans is an all season bean and is the most popular bean variety in restaurants, and small size food vendors. Nyayo bean is highly favored due to it rich red color when cooked with maize, along with it’s rich red stew. The Nyayo beans are mostly imported from Uganda and Tanzania. Nyayo Beans Retail Ksh113($1.13)/kg; Wholesale Price Ksh108($1.08)/kg; 90Kg Bag Ksh9,720($97.2); Kenya Ministry of Agriculture reports a wholesale price/90kg bag at Nairobi, Ksh9,800($98). RATIN reports wholesale prices/kg at South Sudan Juba, Ksh216.2($2.16), Burundi, Ngozi Ksh65($0.65), DRC, Kolwezi, Ksh117($1.17). Rwanda, Kimironko, Ksh68($0.68), Tanzania, Dar Ksh78($0.78), Mbeya, Ksh52($0.52). Farmgain Africa reports wholesale prices/kg, Owino Ksh59($0.59), Nakawa, Ksh62($62), Lira, Ksh76($0.76)/kg. Ethiopia, Addis, Ksh83($0.83)/kg.
Saitoti Beans (medium, red mottled) alias NABE-17 (Uganda), Lyambai (Zambia), Napilira (Malawi) Bilfa Uyole (Tanzania); Very popular with hotels and restaurants, and a favorite in household consumption. Saitoti bean shares similar features with Nyayo beans however it is characterized by being shorter Nyayo bean. Saitoti Beans Retail Ksh113($1.13)/kg; Wholesale Price Ksh108($1.08)/kg; 90Kg Bag Ksh9,720($97.2); Kenya Ministry of Agriculture does not reports the price for this commodity. AHCX reports price/kg at; Ksh76($0.76).
Rosecoco Beans (Pink or Brown Red Speckled /Cranberry Beans) alias Kayewa (Uganda) Kabulanketi (Tanzania); Popular in restaurant and household consumption, as it does not give gas. The bean has similar features to Saitoti, but is pinkish in color. Rosecoco Beans Retail Ksh127($1.27)/kg; Wholesale Price Ksh123($1.23)/kg; 90Kg Bag Ksh11,070($11.07); Kenya Ministry of Agriculture reports a 90kg Bag at Nairobi, Ksh9,800($0.98), Mombasa, Ksh7,800($78.00), Eldoret, Ksh8,100($81), Kisumu, Ksh9,600($96), Isiolo, Ksh8,500($85)/kg, Kisii, Ksh8,533($85.3), Busia, Ksh8,100($81.00), Kajiado, Ksh7,000($70), Kitale Ksh7,000($70), Meru, Ksh6,700($67), Taveta, Ksh6,300($63). Farmgain reports price per Kg, Owino, Kisenyi, Masaka, and Mubende, Ksh55 ($0.55)/kg, Nakawa, and Kalerwa Ksh58($0.58).
Wairimu Bean (Long Red beans); alias Uyole 96 (Tanzania), Red Wollayta (Ethiopia) Famous of its rich red color in Githeri (cooked mixture of maize and beans) and Madondo (beans stew). The Wairimu beans are mostly imported from Uganda and Tanzania. There are two Wairimu beans variety the shinny polished variety popularly know as Wairimu Royal. The ordinary variety is currently selling at Retail Ksh103($1.03)/kg; Wholesale Price Ksh97($0.97)/kg; 90Kg Bag Ksh8,730($87.30). RATIN reports wholesale prices/kg at South Sudan, Juba Ksh190($1.90)/kg, DRC, Kolwezi, Ksh117($1.17), RW, Rubavu, Ksh70($0.70), Gitega, BI, Ksh54($0.51)/kg, Uganda, Lira and Kasese, Ksh76($0.76)/kg, Tanzania, Iringa, Ksh73($0.73). AHCX reports price/kg, Malawi, Lilongwe, Ksh76($0.76). United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports Colorado, Nebraska Ksh3.9($0.039).
Kikara/Kakunzu or Sugar Bean – (Kenya), Kholophethe, Nyati Red (Malawi), Golden Starlite (Zimbabwe), Masavu/NABE11 (Uganda) is a white/cream maroon stripped bean often mistaken for Mwitemani. Sugar beans are imported from Uganda into the Kenyan market. Retail Price Ksh103($1.03)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh97($0.97)/kg, Ksh8,770($87.7)/90kg bag. ACE Malawi reports price/kg at, Malawi, Phalombe,Mwk373/kg, Ksh52($0.52)/kg.
Mwezi-Moja; alias Kabulangeti (Zambia) is a purple bean, and as the names (one month in swahili) indicates the bean matures very quickly. Mwezi-Moja is popular for fresh maize Githeri (cooked mixture of maize and beans) and Madondo (beans stew) as it takes a shorter time to cook in comparison to other beans. Retail Price Ksh113($1.13)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh107($1.07)/kg, Ksh9,630($96.30)/90kg bag. The Kenya Ministry of Agriculture reports price/90kg Bag at, Nairobi, Ksh5,400($54), Nakuru Ksh4,500($45), Meru, Ksh7,000($70), Taveta, Ksh7,000($70), Kitui, Ksh8,100($81)/kg.
White Butter Beans popularly know as Noe White in Kenya. Butter beans are grown in Kenya in Nanyuki, and some parts of Kitui. Butter beans are not grown much because they are crawling beans that decrease other crop yield when intercropped. Butter Beans varieties are white, brown,purple or black bean, that is popular for bean stew, it takes a shorter time to cook in comparison to other beans. Retail Price Ksh203($2.03)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh193($1.93)/kg, Ksh19,300($193)/100kg bag.
Black Butter Beans popularly know as Noe Black in Kenya. Butter beans are grown in Kenya in Nanyuki, and some parts of Kitui. Butter beans are not grown much because they are crawling beans that decrease other crop yield when inter-cropped. Black Noe is increasing becoming very popular because it is tasty and lacks of an after taste in comparison to the white noe. Retail Price Ksh203($2.03)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh193($1.93)/kg, Ksh19,300($193)/100kg bag.
Njugu Mawe (Swahili), Tsimbade (Luyha), Monkey Nut, Bambara Nut, Okpa (Igbo), Epa-Roro (Yoruba). While a nut, it is regarded as not to be a nut but a legume, and is rich in protein. Njugu Mawe is a traditional healthy food, that is highly nutritious often cooked with maize (both fresh, dry, or dehusked maize). Health benefits include reducation of anaemia, as it boost the blood cell producation. The prices are Retail Ksh183($1.83)/kg, Wholesale Ksh173($1.73)/kg, or Ksh17,300($173)/100kgs bag.
Gachuma/Kachuma Bean (Kenya), alias; Naser (Ethiopia); Very similar to Kituru/Gituru bean but is small round deep red kidney bean its small size and polished look sets it apart. This bean is season and may not be available all the time like the Nyayo bean. Retail Price Ksh97($0.97)/kg, Wholesale Price Ksh93($0.93)/kg, Ksh8,370($83.7)/90kg bag. Kenya Ministry of Agriculture reports a price/90kg bag, at Nairobi, Ksh8,800($88), Kisumu, Ksh9,600($96), Nakuru, Ksh5,000($50), Kajiado, Ksh, 8,000 ($80), Kitale, Ksh5,200($52), Taveta, Ksh8,100($81). RATIN reports wholesale prices/kg South Sudan Juba, Ksh216($2.16), DRC,Uvira Likasi , Ksh85($0.84)/kg. Rwanda, Ruhengeri Ksh70($0.70), Tanzania, Arusha Ksh86($0.86)/kg. Other Markets reports, Turkey Ksh206($2.06)/kg, Ethiopia, Addis, Ksh55($0.55)/kg. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports Washington, Idaho, Ksh2.6($0.26), Michigan, Ksh3($0.03).
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https://naturalblog.co/2016/08/30/reviving-mitcham-peppermint/ | 2023-12-11T05:11:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00111.warc.gz | 0.922319 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__149518350 | en | At our fields over the past couple of months in addition to planting our Lovely Lavender fields, we have been busy growing additional ingredients which will find their way into our skincare products.
The first of these products went on sale over the weekend, whilst we were at the Carshalton Environmental Fair (Carrot & Peppermint Shower Gel). Made with Organic Carrots lovingly grown by us and the first commercial Peppermint grown in Carshalton & Mitcham (once the thriving center of Peppermint production in the world and known as Mitcham Peppermint) since the last crops were cut in 1932.
We are committed to Reviving Mitcham Peppermint production in the Carshalton and Mitcham area. Fresh, Minty, Cooling and uplifting our Carrot & Peppermint shower gel enriches your skin with Vitamin E from the carrots, whilst cools you with the Organically grown Peppermint. Carrot and Peppermint Shower Gel will be available for sale online from tomorrow (August 31, 2016) . 2016 marks the re-birth of Peppermint production in Carshalton by Naturallythinking.
Over the winter we will be planting over 50,000 plants and propagating in our Polytunnels to revive production of Mitcham Peppermint Essential Oil in 2017. | agronomy |
https://www.processall.com/agrochemical-uses/ | 2024-04-20T04:19:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817474.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420025340-20240420055340-00742.warc.gz | 0.939915 | 1,122 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__178689607 | en | With the increasing population worldwide and reduced land usage for farming due to factors like urban sprawl, the demand for effective agrochemicals is on the rise. Currently, many companies in this arena are facing a wide variety of other external challenges too. Many of these challenges are directly tied to people’s concern about the usage of chemicals in their food and general fears of what they may do over the years to people’s bodies. However, farmers are also concerned about the increasing resistance of pests to agrochemicals. Add to this the Covid 19 pandemic last year and many analysts project the world to see some food shortages globally due to manufacturing plants being down last year. These external pressures are putting extra focus on the agrochemical industry and many companies in this arena are looking to improve their manufacturing processes.
One of the most common steps in the making of agrochemicals is the drying and evaporation of volatile chemicals from the final product. Processall’s plow mixers have been involved with the drying operations in the agrochemical industry for some time whether it be removals of water or organic compounds. They have helped manufacturers of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers with these drying operations. Products in this arena need to meet very tight specification levels set forth by the EPA and FDA with regulations on everything from Volatile Organic Compounds to hazardous chemicals measuring sometimes as low as parts per billion. It is for this reason that drying of compounds and removal of hazardous chemicals is vital to this industry. Additionally, blending operations are common in the agroindustry because farmers often want materials that have multiple properties when applying chemicals to their fields. Whether it be blends of dry powders or liquid dispersed compounds plow mixing technology has been shown to aid companies in this arena. Plow mixers can be also fitted with chopper blades which can help reduce the particle size of the granular materials. Processall’s technical team has additionally worked with companies to convert spent sewage and animal manure to be used as a natural fertilizer. Plow mixers have done this by serving as the vessel for reacting bases like caustic with the manure. Plow mixers can then concurrently dry the material reducing the need for multiple unit operations on site. Plow mixers have been shown to be even able to encapsulate agrochemicals which allow for materials to be time released into the soil and crops.
Processall’s employees have a long history of working with the agrochemical industry aiding in everything from initial testing to installation of the unit to maintenance throughout the life cycle of the unit.
Processall’s Plow Mixing technology gives manufacturers in the agrochemical arena a leg up on the competition. Listed below are some of the benefits of moving toward plow mixing technologies for agrochemical applications.
- The fluidized bed created by the mix gives a high heat transfer coefficient for drying and extraction of hazardous materials
- Being thermally insulated the unit does not cause any temperature spikes when performing drying operations
- Ease of clean to be able to transition from one product to another
- The fluidized bed creates greater uniformity in the mixes
- Customers can potentially observe upward of a 600% increase in production by moving to a plow mixer from a ribbon blender on dry blending operations.
- Ability to disperse powder into the liquid mixes
- Able to be manufactured to become a U1 pressure vessel for reactions
- Able to react materials together in a fluidized bed speeding up the rate of reaction for materials
- Ability to encapsulate materials and enable agrochemicals to have time-released properties
- Vessel jacket allows different media (hot oil, steam, or tempered water) to be used depending upon the thermal sensitivity of the product
- Optional chopper blades can help reduce particle sizes
- Ability to adjust between high pressure and low pressures depending on the steps in the process
- High-speed mix that is gentle enough to mix material as fine as dried oats without damaging the material
- Easy to scale up and predict mix, reaction, and drying times after lab testing
- Ability to remove water or organic solvents from material
- Vessels can be further outfitted to increase versatility:
- Mechanical seals – will allow the vessel to be pressurized as well as reach low vacuum (28 Hg)
- Liquid lances – allows media to be sprayed onto the substrate
- Ability to react, encapsulate, granulate, mix, and dry materials within one unit resulting in:
- Faster throughputs
- Reduced energy consumption
- Smaller footprint on the production floor
Agrochemical materials using plow mixers
- And many more
Processall maintains a fully equipped testing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio designed to provide customers with the data they need to develop their process, evaluate equipment, scale up, and identify the necessary equipment to maintain desired production volumes. We extend an open invitation to all potential customers to bring their product to our test center and get a “hands-on” experience with our technology and capabilities.
We also maintain a rental fleet that customers can utilize to do further testing at their facility or employ to minimize their startup costs for a new process.
Please feel free to contact us with all your material processing questions and our experienced industry professionals will help you find the right mixing solutions for your application. | agronomy |
https://www.caficultoresaltocajamarca.com/post/arabica-coffee | 2024-02-23T19:04:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474445.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223185223-20240223215223-00873.warc.gz | 0.942276 | 905 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__80846937 | en | Native to the mountainous regions of Ethiopia, sensitive to heat and humidity, it grows at altitudes above 800 meters and the higher the elevation, the better the qualities of the coffee bean tend to be. Arabica coffee comprises a large number of varieties depending on where it is grown: different soils, altitudes, climates, etc. Some of them are typica or bourbon. We can say that its characteristics are much more familiar to the tastes of the vast majority of people, such as perfumed, sweet, citric, acidic and with great nuances of flavor, of nuts, delicate in texture and a pleasant bitter touch. It is grown in higher altitude terrain, being the collection much more expensive and its level of caffeine is lower. Arabica coffee is grown throughout Latin America, in Central and Eastern Africa, in India and a little in Indonesia.
Arabica coffee in Peru
Peru produces almost exclusively Arabica coffee, thanks to its geographical location and altitude of its tropical areas that ranges between 800 and 2500 masl on average, it is produced from the north, center and south of the country. Of which more than 70% is of the Typica variety, followed by Caturra (20%) and others (10%). The average density of plants on the farms is 2,000 coffee trees per hectare, although according to the growing regions, this figure can vary considerably. It is not surprising, either, that the coffee growers have mixed within their plots up to five different varieties that are practically all. Peruvian coffee is produced in 350,000 hectares of coffee plantations in 210 rural districts located in 10 departments on the eastern slope of the Andes, being the regions of Cajamarca, Amazonas, San Martín and Chanchamayo, the three main growing areas. This last territory, Chanchamayo (origin of coffee in Peru), has traditionally been the coffee region par excellence, however, in recent times there has been a change towards the northern highlands of the Cajamarca, Amazonas and San Martín regions . And so, although Chanchamayo still represents 16% of total production, Cajamarca, Amazonas and San Martín together now represent 51% of national production. As most of the cultivation areas, 75%, are concentrated between 1,000 and 1,800 meters above sea level, coffee production in the country is totally manual and the cherries are still picked, to a large extent, by hand and drying in the sun .
Some of the Arabica varieties
Arabian Coffee in Alto Cajamarca
100% of our coffee production in Alto Cajamarca is of the Arabica species, of which the varieties that we produce the most are Caturra, Bourbon and typica, thanks to its adaptability to our producing areas, in addition to its quality and consistency in cup . As mentioned above, arabic coffee is a species that is adapted to higher areas, the higher the area where it is produced, the arabic coffee will be denser, the drink will be sweeter and more complex in notes, since at higher altitude the maturation is slower and the concentration of the components is higher. It is worth emphasizing that the coffee farms of our producers are above 1700 masl. Another important fact about Arabica coffee is that at higher altitude, less prone to diseases.
As we already mentioned, arabic coffee is a species with a great diversity of attributes, approximately 1000, which we can appreciate from fragrance, aroma and flavor: attributes such as citrus, herbal, fruit, chocolate, caramel, etc. Those attributes that generally appeal to the vast majority of people in the world make this species the most produced and commercialized coffee in the world. And as we already mentioned, I believe in the high tropic zones, like in our area, San José de Lourdes, Chirinos, La Coipa and others.
Some physical traits of Arabica Coffee:
- Golden brown (green coffee) have a greenish hue.
- Arabicas are flatter and elongated (although there are exceptions).
- Arabica coffee beans are larger.
Taste is something very personal and currently the market offers us coffees that are rich enough and different in variety, mix, roast and freshness for every palate and pocket. There is much to experience, taste and discover in the world of coffee. | agronomy |
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Electric High-Tensile fencing is an economical choice for the practical farmer. It's affordable, quick installation and easy maintenance means its a go to choice for larger rotational grazing systems. Each strand is 12.5 gauge 200,000 psi high-tensile steel. It's a great conductor of electricity. Post spacing can range anywhere from 12' to 45'. The number of strands can also vary greatly from 1 up to 6. This means that a fence can be built for almost any budget.
Electricity is Key to Wire Farm Fencing
While it is possible to build a smooth strand high-tensile fence without "juice", we always recommend it is electrified. Once trained, animals respect electric fences just as mush as more stout physical barriers. We recommend fence chargers that keep a minimum of 4,000 volts on your fence. If that sounds intimidating do not fret. Fence chargers produce a high voltage, low ampere current which is not dangerous.
A Road to Rotational Grazing
Rotational grazing is a system of pasture management where a larger field is subdivided into smaller temporary grazing cells. Livestock is rotated through these grazing cells which allows the rest of the farm to rest and recover. The result is increased forage production and animal performance. The flexibility to create smaller paddocks with electric fencing is a key component. | agronomy |
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- Pick them all on Labor Day.
- Set them on cardboard in the basement to ripen.
- Don't pick too soon.
- Don't pick too late.
- They must be chilled before the ripening process will start.
- Put them by ripe bananas.
My head is spinning from all the pear ripening information and I still am lacking one ripe pear.
Maybe our tree is a dud. | agronomy |
https://www.accountingweb.com/technology/trends/hurricanes-harm-to-crops-could-influence-farm-subsidies-debate | 2018-01-23T21:27:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892699.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123211127-20180123231127-00660.warc.gz | 0.950164 | 537 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__188318406 | en | Farmers across the country are racing against time to save at least part of a devastating harvest season.
In the gulf states that were directly impacted by the fury of Hurricane Katrina, farmers are rushing to save dying cattle, restore electricity and find scarce, and expensive, diesel fuel. Farmers in the breadbasket states need to move their corn, soybeans and wheat to export markets, but the just-opened Port of New Orleans is a transportation bottleneck.
The American Farm Bureau Federation predicts $2 billion in damage to farmers nationwide, the New York Times reported. The federation figured the Hurricane would force losses of 2 million tons, or 20 percent, of Louisiana's sugar cane crop. In addition, about 25 million pounds of milk at plants in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi could be lost over the next month if the plants don't start operating soon, Michael Danna, a spokesman for the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, told the newspaper.
In Indiana, agricultural economists from Purdue University are urging corn and soybean farmers to postpone their harvests to buy time for Mississippi River grain shipments to return to normal.
Sugar cane farmers are also waiting. Their fields must be dry enough to apply an agent that ripens sugar cane, but waiting too long could mean encountering winter frost, Danna said.
With serious troubles mounting for American farmers, the Times suggested that the Bush administration may have a harder time pushing through its plan to trim farm subsidies in response to pressure from the World Trade Organization.
"Without question, this makes the reforms that a lot of the rest of the world would like to see happen here in the U.S. a lot more difficult," said Clayton Yeutter, a former secretary of agriculture and United States trade representative. Trade talks are set for a meeting in December of the World Trade Organization.
In addition, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are looking for ways to cut $3 billion in Agriculture Department programs from the federal budget.
In recent weeks, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has been talking to farmers across the nation about reducing farm subsidies for two reasons: to open more export markets to American farmers and to comply with international free trade agreements. "There is a real conditioning going on here," said Keith Bolin, a corn and hog farmer and president of the American Corn Growers Association, who attended a session last week in Decatur, Ill., three days after the hurricane. "Get used to less, get used to less. That's the message."
The World Trade Organization wants to remove $280 billion in subsidies among the world's richest countries. American taxpayers and consumers paid $47 billion of that total to farmers last year. | agronomy |
http://www.plastic-machinery-china.com/news-taicang-city-successfully-held-food-637.html | 2020-06-01T15:39:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347419056.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20200601145025-20200601175025-00053.warc.gz | 0.902507 | 465 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__123105644 | en | The training was rich in content. First, the head of the Pacific Property Insurance Company (Taicang) introduced the safety hazards and related insurances in the grain drying center and proposed fire prevention measures. Secondly, the municipal grain purchasing department* gave a detailed explanation on the technical standards for grain drying and the policy of grain purchase. * Afterwards, the technicians of the production and management enterprises of the drying equipment reminded the precautions and maintenance of the grain dryer, the technical application of the heat pump heat source and the related maintenance and repair of the dryer. A detailed introduction.
During the training, Nanjing Tongli Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Co., Ltd. was specially invited to describe the process of coal-to-electricity reform in Donglin Village Drying Center, and analyzed the advantages of air source heat pump in energy saving and emission reduction. The city grain dryer information service platform construction enterprise was specially invited to explain the application of the platform.
The successful holding of the training class not only improved the technical level and theoretical level of the person in charge of the city's grain drying center, but also enhanced its awareness of fire prevention, providing technical support for the wheat drying service to be started in the city. "The production has laid the foundation."
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https://sedonaestate.com.au/harvest/ | 2020-01-19T10:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594391.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119093733-20200119121733-00178.warc.gz | 0.94209 | 346 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__100991455 | en | With autumn approaching, the most rewarding and equally challenging time has arrived for us. Choosing the best time for harvest is a fine balance between optimum Baumé and fruit flavour.
The climate of our picturesque valley delivers hot and dry summer days, but cool nights, which aid in slow fruit ripening and complex flavour development. But nevertheless, Mother Nature always manages to throw obstacles in the way to the likes of spring frosts, drought, rain and fires.
The welcoming end of the drought in 2010 started with an unusual cold October with snowfalls down to 350m! Hard to believe, but the young vine shoots on the estate were covered with a fine layer of snow. It looked pretty and the snow protected the young shoots from frost! Not long after, heavy rainfalls ended the 10 year drought.
The extremely wet conditions and shortage of chemicals in Australia caused the rapid spread of mildew in our vineyard. Sadly, most of our 2011 crop was destroyed. Only the Italian variety Sangiovese saw the end of this wet 2011 vintage.
Since 2012, we are enjoying less viticultural challenges and more rewards. The vineyards have been producing some exceptional vintages adding reserve-style wines to the estate range. Plus a new star is born!
As early pioneers in the region, we planted the Italian variety Sangiovese in 2001. We sourced the cuttings of this alternative red variety from the late Dr Bailey Carrodus of Yarra Yering. The vines of this unknown clone are thriving in our vineyard and have been producing great wines since 2010. If you love Sangiovese, a visit to our cellar door won’t disappoint (unless it is sold out!). | agronomy |
https://www.theopulentalpaca.ca/our-story/ | 2024-04-21T09:09:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00117.warc.gz | 0.96284 | 423 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__94449556 | en | Our story begins on Cape Breton Island in 1897, four generations ago, when Isabel’s great grandparents Hugh and Mary MacDougall (MacEachern) started their farm on 100 acres of land.
In 1996, we took over the farm business with three alpacas, two dogs and two cats! When choosing a livestock animal to raise on the land, we looked for an animal that was unique and different from the traditional farming livestock. Our focus was on an animal that would be easily maintained and work with our careers and existing family life. Thus, the idea of raising alpacas was born.
Over the next 12 years, we educated ourselves on alpacas, getting to know the animal husbandry around these exotic animals and mostly, learning about their luxurious fibre. Alpaca’s are an intelligent, gentle and compassionate animal of the camelid family. They come in 22 natural hues and have two different fibre types, the Suri and Huacaya. The Huacaya is the most common type with a crimp or wavy like fleece while the Suri has long, straight lustrous stands. We have been building our heard with a mixture of both fleece types.
THE “GRASS TO BACK” PHILOSOPHY
We quickly realized that our true passion was to farm. In 2010, we returned to build on our previous knowledge and experience. The discovery, that blending different fibre types with the alpaca was a key part of creating and advancing our products. We then added sheep to our expanding farm operation using the Romney for the quality of the fine wool as well as their calm temperament.
Today, we continue to produce a high quality and luxurious product that still promotes agriculture and living off the land in a unique way.
We strive to educate the public on the unique quality of the fibre.
From the beginning, we have operated as a family farm through the generations and currently we operate through the efforts of the entire family (Barry, Isabel, Caitlin, Madison and Grace). | agronomy |
https://dirtminers.com/topsoil/ | 2024-04-15T22:23:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817033.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415205332-20240415235332-00208.warc.gz | 0.875545 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__87602921 | en | Dirtminers is the top choice for screened topsoil and bulk topsoil delivery. Our topsoil delivery service is the go-to choice for professionals and DIY enthusiasts alike.
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in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. | agronomy |
http://santiye.tv/play/qJgA4n-sCE8/How_To_String__Sucker_Tomato_Plants.html | 2015-01-25T22:16:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115891802.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161131-00045-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.835424 | 3,302 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__92319216 | en | http://organichomegrown.blogspot.co.uk/ Our tomatoes are almost ripe, just a couple more weeks before we start seeing some big colour. I searched and found 10 great tips that you can use to get the most out of your tomatoes and grow healthy organic plants. From feeding to companion planting these tips will make you have delicious tomatoes for a tiny bit of TLC. Make sure to subscribe and like! Thanks
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Cucumbers are a type of vegetable that can be planted in pots. Plant cucumbers in a garden with help from a longtime gardener in this free video clip. Expert: Frank E. Buker Bio: Frank E. Buker, also known as Farmer Ed, was raised on a farm in Maine, and has a lifetime of experience gardening. Filmmaker: Alfredo Rodriguez Series Description: Different types of fruits and vegetables will require different planting techniques and care to properly maintain. Learn about food gardening with help from a longtime gardener in this free video series.
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There are easy and cheap ways to add height and structure to your garden with these easy to make structures and trellises
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If you've never bitten into a fragrant, vine-ripened, sun-warmed tomato harvested fresh from your own garden, you haven't tasted a real tomato. And once you do, you'll never again be satisfied with supermarket impostors. Fortunately, tomato plants are easy to grow, and they're one of the easiest plants to start indoors from seed. Here's how to grow your own tomatoes, from seed to harvest. Learn more: http://www.gardeners.com/Step-by-Step-Growing-Tomatoes-from-Seed/7902,default,pg.html
From: Gardener's Supply
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How we make our raised garden beds with our John Deere tractor and plastic mulch layer. Read more at http://frontporchfarm.net/garden/raised-beds/ ©Copyright 2010 Front Porch Farm, All Rights Reserved.
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We tried leaving two main stems on each of our tomato plants--and nearly doubled our yield! For more, check out our other videos: How to String & Sucker Tomato Plants: http://youtu.be/qJgA4n-sCE8 Indeterminate, Determinate & Semi-Determinate: http://youtu.be/TtBEL70I2tQ Tomato Q&A: http://youtu.be/qJgA4n-sCE8 Suckering Tomatoes (a review of the basics): http://youtu.be/a6htSKfUGXw ©Copyright 2012 Front Porch Farm, All Rights Reserved.
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We start our plants in compressed soil blocks we make each spring. For more information, visit http://frontporchfarm.net/2007/03/spring-and-soil-blocks/ and http://www.johnnyseeds.com/Assets/Information/110797346528710.pdf ©Copyright 2010 Front Porch Farm, All Rights Reserved.
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Looking good so far. Se ven bien.
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http://homesteadadvisor.com/ It's fast and easy to clone tomato plants. Let me show you how to clone tomatoes, so you can get free fall tomato plants. http://homesteadadvisor.com/
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STARTING TOMATO SEEDS IN A 128 CELL PLUG TRAY FOR THE GREENHOUSE
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In this episode of GardenRx, host Loren Nancarrow sets the record straight on growing prize winning tomatoes in your own garden. You'll learn how to ready the soil prior to planting, when and how to plant and you'll learn Loren's organic "homemade" fertilizer recipe. You'll learn how much to water and when, how to avoid Blossom End Rot and we'll introduce you to the Dreaded Tomato Horn Worm and give you a quick and easy method for controlling this crop destroying little critter. Basically, everything you need to know to grow world class tomatoes and possibly become famous.
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There are multiple ways to root or clone tomato suckers. For hydroponics, it needs to be done without soil. One of the easiest ways is with the use of growplugs. They hold a good amount of moisture, while still providing proper aeration. A couple of things to remember, keep them out of direct sunlight during the rooting process. And make sure you have some type of cover over them to maintain good humidity levels. Doing so will greatly increase your chances of success. Sleestaks rooting video.. http://www.santiye.tv/play/ERg0-rL6Gy0/How_To_Root__Clone_Tomato_Suckers_Using_Growplugs.html"font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 1px;" width="146" valign="top">
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip just 3 houses away to see how his neighbors raised bed is doing. John also discusses soil fertility and how you can grow larger plants and nutrient dense fruits and vegetables.
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Tomato plants can grow wildly during the early summer. Find out the best way to prune your tomatoes with the help of a garden professional in this free video. Expert: Ali Reynolds Contact: Outstandinginthegarden.net Bio: Ali Reynolds owns and operates a small organic nursery. She has a master gardener's certificate as well as a landscape and gardening certificate, and has gardened for more than 35 years. Filmmaker: Mike Phillips Series Description: Easy-to-maintain tomato plants produce great harvests for even novice gardeners. Prepare your tomato plants for a great harvest with the help of a garden professional in this free video series.
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http://www.veseys.com In this video, Vesey's horticulturist describes the difference between determinate and indeterminate tomatoes as well as the best techniques for pruning and staking your tomato plants. Your FREE subscription to the Vesey's family of gardening catalogues https://www.veseys.com/ca/en/catalogue Subscribe to Veseys channel here! http://bit.ly/Y8gyVS Like Veseys on Facebook http://fb.com/veseys Follow Veseys on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/veseys Follow Veseys on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/veseysseeds/ Follow Veseys on Instagram http://instagram.com/veseysseeds Please Like, Subscribe and Comment :) Happy Gardening!
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Learn how to get 50-80 lbs of tomatoes from every tomato plant. Planting a garden can be a lot of fun but get a harvest is really what it is all about. Follow these steps to dramatically improve your tomato harvest. 1. Buy the right plants for your area. Talk with the Master Gardener association or university agriculture extension in your area. 2. Lay plants on their side so the tips will grow upwards. 3. Dig a trench and bury all but the top 3 inches. 4. Add 1/4-1/2 cup slow release fertilizer, like cotton seed meal, Osmocote, etc., to the trench. 5. Build a 5 foot high 2 foot diameter cage around each plant. 6. Cover cage on the sides and on top with "floating row cover" (a light polyester material) or plastic to protect from wind and weather until plants are large and strong and weather is warm. 7. Weekly apply water soluble fertilizer, like Rapid Grow or Miracle Grow, through a hose-end fertilizer applicator on the leaves. 8. When plants have set their first cluster of fruit, side dress with two to three tablespoons of ammonium sulfate and water well. 9. Pick tomatoes when 30% ripe to avoid the birds from eating them. 10. Do not put tomatoes in the refrigerator. Keep on the kitchen counter.
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Growing tall tomato plants? Here is a cheap way to make some tomato cages aka trellis to support the vines. I used scrap wood and kite string. (PS Flight of the Bumblebee is a classic and I stand by my choice) Thanks to Rafael LUKJANIK & Band for permission to use their music. Please visit their website: http://www.modern-classix.de/
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Keep your tomato plants "in line" by spanking them! It helps with pollenation, stimulates growth, and keeps them from misbehaving ;) We also talk about pruning tomato branches & suckers, the use of apple juice for "setting" tomato blossoms, and why blossoms sometimes fall off. Visit my blog: http://reaganite71.blogspot.com ☆ NEW: Check out my garden shirt store: http://reaganite71.spreadshirt.com/ My Facebook page for behind the scenes pics and thoughts & chats: http://facebook.com/reaganite71
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Subscribe to HD channel RTR-JAPAN: http://www.youtube.com/user/alexpitch Japanese farmers in Kagawa prefecture on the island of Shikoku grow watermelons that has shape not very common for these plants. Why are they cubic? Watch the Vesti report on Russia channel from Japan. Версия на русском языке: http://www.santiye.tv/play/2JNSpMhJLvg/Square_Watermelons_Japan_English_Version.html"font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 1px;" width="146" valign="top">
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Growing tomatoes doesnt have to stop just because leaves have fallen. Tim Bass is growing tomatoes indoors during the winter. Find out how. More...+++++++++++++++++++++ Chef Todd Mohr, CCE Certified Culinary Educator Discover the secrets of my "South of France Chicken" in a FREE Cooking Class. http://www.WebCookingClasses.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For the latest in Food News LIKE me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Chef.Todd.Mohr Follow what I say in 140 characters or less! https://twitter.com/cheftoddmohr Discover The 3 Secrets To Making Your Cooking A Winner Every Single Time! http://bit.ly/1mHHQQy Discover The 5 Secrets For Cooking Healthier Better-Tasting Food. http://www.HowToCookFresh.com A great sauce can save a badly cooked piece of chicken. http://www.Easy-Sauces.com Don't let your food spoil BEFORE you've cooked it. http://www.HowToSaveOnFood.com All of Baking comes down to 5 ingredients. HOW you mix them is what matters most. http://www.BakingHowTo.com
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John Evans shows the secret for growing healthy enormous World Record vegetables is organic Bountea compost tea.
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How to grow cucumbers in containers, seed selection, custom soil,fertilizer, watering, soil inoculant for increasing drought tolerance and nutrient absorption, mulching and vertical growing. www.DoomandBloom.net for articles, podcast schedule and to contact me.
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I did the fish once every two weeks when they were small. Once they got bigger and started producing:once a month. Epsom: I sprayed on the plants as soon as they flower and about once a week after that. In this video, I show you the progress of my tomato plants that were started from seed in February. Learn some easy, cheap fertilizing tips that have turned my tiny seedlings into a literal tomato jungle in my backyard garden.
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https://www.hollandvalley.ca/Soil?product_id=65 | 2023-09-26T01:36:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00584.warc.gz | 0.812229 | 77 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__189431192 | en | Triple Mix Soil (Price Per Yard)
- $60 per yard plus delivery charge by zones
- All prices are subject to sales tax
Triple Mix is a combination of top soil, compost and peat moss and it’s the universally accepted soil mixture. Great for flower beds or tree planting projects.
Tags: Triple Mix Soil | agronomy |
https://impactenclosures.com/spring-local-business-feature-atlantic-beach-urban-farms/ | 2023-03-24T19:09:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945288.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324180032-20230324210032-00757.warc.gz | 0.913059 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__95610591 | en | Spring Local Business Feature: Atlantic Beach Urban Farms
Just in time for Spring, we have the perfect local business feature for you. Atlantic Beach Urban farms has EVERYTHING you need to start a spring vegetable garden. Check out their awesome space in Atlantic Beach or click here to learn more.
“Atlantic Beach Urban Farms is a commercial aeroponic farm located in Atlantic Beach, Florida. THEIR team is passionate about sustainability, the health of people and our planet, and providing local, delicious food packed with nutrients. THEY grow indoors using aeroponic technology. Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in a mist environment without the use of soil or any harmful chemicals.” | agronomy |
http://www.globalsustainability.org/garcinia-diet-fad-a-ooost-to-sustainable-farming.htm | 2022-11-28T17:16:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710534.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128171516-20221128201516-00629.warc.gz | 0.948415 | 556 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__19750434 | en | Garcinia Diet Fad a Boost to Sustainable Farming in Indonesia
Sustainable Farming in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the government has always pushed for self-sufficiency through food grain farming. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always go hand in hand with sustainability. During the 70’s and 80’s, their agricultural productivity thrived and grew. But that came to a screeching halt in the 90’s, as it began to reverse and decline. It only got worse in the early 2000’s.
With agricultural productivity heading in a downward spiral, many serious risks arise. Their environment, their livelihood and their food security all become threatened. It’s vital that the government takes a serious look into their agricultural practices and find a solution to be self-sufficient, as well as be able to work, trade and cooperate within international markets.
It’s not a simple thing to do though. It’s tricky to increase agricultural production with crops like garcinia cambogia while minimizing negative effects on the environment. Both land and air quality need to be protected. If the environment suffers too much, there will be no possible way to increase production – it will only continue to decline.
Growing Garcinia (Tamarind Plant)
Recently, Garcinia Cambogia has been getting lots of attention and has hit mainstream news shows, talk shows and leading medical conferences and studies. There appears to be no end in sight for the demand of this product, which could be a good thing for Indonesia since the plant it comes from is native to Indonesia.
The tamarind plant produces a fruit that’s widely used for many things all over the world. It’s used for cosmetic purposes, used in condiments and even in the medical industry.
It contains hydroxycitric acid, which is the main and most important ingredient found in Garcinia Cambogia Extract. This extract is quickly becoming the most popular and most effective weight loss supplement that’s hard for stores and sites like AlivebyNature.com that sell Garcinia Cambogia to keep in stock.
From studies, it’s been proven to reduce appetite, burn fat and even treat some types of illnesses. Medical professionals who study and research traditional medicine have found that it can often help with many things, such as:
- High cholesterol
- Stomach ulcers
With its popularity on the rise, it would make sense to focus a decent amount of agricultural production on tamarind. The question that remains is how to increase that production, while also ensuring natural resources are protected and nourished. | agronomy |
https://rainwaterharvesting.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/letter-from-a-reader-the-thing-that-makes-the-world-a-nice-place/ | 2017-03-29T11:05:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190295.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00210-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.980777 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__203218268 | en | Letter from a reader – the thing that makes the world a nice placeApril 9, 2013
I have been an ardent reader of your articles which appears every Saturday in The Hindu (Habitat).
I have converted to become a farmer myself after nearly 20 years of Corporate service. We strongly believe in Organic Farming Practices and Sustainability, which of course, Rain water harvesting is one of major tool.
In one of our farms extending nearly 20 acres we did dig up some trench and ponds for water to be collected during rain about 18 months ago. The last two years have been frustrating for us with insufficient rainfall and not able to see results with our effort. Also we had several people laughing at us and ridiculing our work.
However, as we all know we received good rainfall on one day i e., on 6th morning in the early hours, it was for about one hour and approximately 35 mm of rainfall was recorded. The result, it transformed the entire area. There were no major top soil erosion thanks to various trench which cut across the farm. Two ponds exclusively created to collect water was filled to the brim.
I have no more words to express than few pictures attached herewith. I also acknowledge much I was inspired and motivated by writers and activists like you to work in this direction. I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks on this occasion.
Looking forward to hear from you.
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http://www.manufuture.org/info/structure/ | 2018-12-11T01:06:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823516.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210233803-20181211015303-00202.warc.gz | 0.890718 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__262412352 | en | The governance of the MANUFUTURE platform is ensured by the following structure:
High Level Group – HLG
As the governing body of the Manufuture Platform, it sets-up the strategy related to maintaining European leadership in Manufacturing.
It has developed the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).
Implementation Support Group – ISG
It coordinates all the work in the platform and provides the secretarial support.
Industrial Advisory Group – IAG
It oversees the strategic part of the SRA and Implementation plan and ensures its dissemination to industrial Stakeholders.
Mirror Group – MG
It should ensure the harmonisation of Manufacturing Research activities in Member States with those ones of the Manufuture Platform.
Working Groups – WGs
They have been established for the finalisation of the SRA.
National/Regional Manufuture initiative Group – NRTP
It aligns the European Manufuture Platform to the needs of the industry in the different regions and countries in Europe. | agronomy |
https://esiennalife.co.za/using-bark-nuggets-helping-mother-nature-improve-my-garden/ | 2024-03-04T05:28:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476413.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304033910-20240304063910-00433.warc.gz | 0.947644 | 365 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__89012180 | en | Using bark nuggets – helping Mother Nature improve my garden
There’s much more to using bark nuggets than just adding a beautiful look to your flower beds. Apart from the aesthetics, it is good for your soil in more ways than you can imagine. These are just some of the benefits of adding bark and mulch to your garden.
There is no better way to change the soil in your garden than by incorporating organic content. Organic bark and mulch eventually breaks down and add to the nutrient base of the soil. This makes the soil richer. In addition, it also improves the water-holding capacity of soil near the surface.
During your hot summer months, bark keeps the soil cool and moist. Mulch lowers the temperature of the soil, so less water is lost to evaporation. This protects the micro-organisms that are so important for the general health of plants. Likewise, during the winter months it keeps the root zone warm, protecting the plant life.
It also prevents soil being washed away from around plants during heavy rainstorms. It is done through softening the impact of the falling water and slowing it down. This ensures that it can soak into the soil before running off. Moreover, it promotes good root growth by retaining moisture in the root zone, where it is most needed.
Soils with organic mulch do not need digging, as micro-organisms do all the work. I know a mulch is working for me when the earthworms start getting more and bigger. Loads of earthworms helps to aerate the soil. This ensures that more oxygen gets deeper into the soil. In a few years, your soil will start to get darker and richer, and the worms will do the tilling.
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https://chzda.ru/en/related-products/grain-harvester-ud-300-m.html | 2019-01-24T08:40:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547584519757.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20190124080411-20190124102411-00312.warc.gz | 0.795934 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__124523136 | en | The grain shredder is installed on a bucket of 10-12 liters, or on another specially manufactured container. To obtain crushed grain of different fractions, sieves with holes of different diameters are used: from 4 to 6 mm.
A small-sized, grain hopper is equipped with a latch in case of clogging or filling the container into which crushed grain is poured or just to complete the crushing.
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http://www.minutes.fi/themes/september/grow-your-own/ | 2023-12-01T09:07:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00739.warc.gz | 0.985778 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__162478610 | en | It’s the most rewarding feeling to have something on your plate that you grew yourself. Even a few herb bushes can bring so much joy.
The luxury is of country life is to pick veg from the garden for every mealtime. Things are different in the city, but I do have some herbs and leaves in the backyard, and microgreens growing in my kitchen.
The latter is a new project. Visiting Berlin in spring, I talked to a guy who grew all kinds of organic seedlings and sold them at the food market. They were delicious! There was so much life in those green little things I would have liked to have some with anything I ate.
In many ways, it makes sense that food is grown in places where the land and care is just right. It makes sense that most of our food comes from farms bigger than my window box.
But you don’t have to build a farm around you to call yourself a kitchen gardener. It is not the quantity of what you can harvest that counts, but the idea of paying attention and being connected to the food you eat. Parsley and chives count. | agronomy |
https://www.leetail.com/copy-of-bourbon-el-bonete | 2023-12-11T16:34:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00872.warc.gz | 0.831207 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__261630965 | en | Chocolate, honey, almond, dried fruits
Finca Santa Ana
Acidity: Bright, apple, orange, grapefruit. Aroma: Candy, Chocolate. Body: Prolonged, creamy, juicy. Aftertaste: persistent and prolonged. Taste: Tangerine, lime, dried fruits, grapefruit, orange, chocolate.
Santa Ana is located like the Bonete located on the northeast face of the Moyuta Volcano. With approximately plants dating back more than 30 years, the Yellow Catuai is one of the varieties that shines the most. Its clay soil and moderate presence of rocks allow the plants to develop with greater freedom, thus generating unique and extraordinary notes produced on this farm.
HARVEST SEASON 2020/21
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http://www.jeffjett.com/for-sale/61-chesterville-road-moores-hill-in-47032/175-189444 | 2019-10-20T01:37:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986700560.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20191020001515-20191020025015-00473.warc.gz | 0.746579 | 90 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__217805770 | en | Country living on 60+ acres. Opportunity to further subdivide this property, offering road frontage on Chesterville Rd & off of Goff Ln. Enjoy the beautiful pond w/dock, fruit trees & farming community. Wooded acreage for hunting, hiking & nature! Dabble into farming w/apprx. 22 ac of tillable ground & plenty of room for establishing the farm life.
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https://shop.buona.it/en/buona-latte/ | 2024-02-22T00:34:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00018.warc.gz | 0.891155 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__93287222 | en | BBMILK THE BIO MILK PRODUCED IN ITALY
Quality and safety today, for tomorrow’s growth. This is always a good formula with BUONA. For our products. Our children. Our country.
WE LIKE THAT THEY ARE MADE IN ITALY!
- better food safety with stricter and more thorough checks at all stages of the production chain, from the field to the table
- the protection of biodiversity, the territory and the support of our food traditions, the result of the particular geographical position and the Mediterranean climate
- labour protection, with qualified and regulated personnel.
But the advantages are not limited to today. In fact, an Italian supply chain product increases the GDP of our country and allows its medium and long-term development.
WHAT DOES ORGANIC MEAN?
To be certified organic, a product must consist of at least 95% certified organic ingredients and this also applies to infant formula: in addition to the main ingredient, fresh cow's milk, vegetable oils, maltodextrins and lactose must also be entirely organic ingredients.
WHAT MAKES MILK ORGANIC?
- RUSTIC COW BREEDS and typical of the territory, more resistant than those selected.
- ORGANIC FERTILISATION with manure; crop rotation that guarantees soil fertility and reduces damage to the ecosystem.
- VEGETABLE FORAGE AND ORGANIC CEREALS to feed the animals, produced exclusively by the company itself or by organic farms in the same region, grown without chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides; no animal (responsible for BSE and mad cow disease) or GMO-derived meals are used. Growth stimulants are prohibited.
- ORGANIC PASTURE: every animal grazes freely in predefined areas (the number of animals depends on the available area of terrain).
- LESS DRUGS because in organic farms, antibiotics are used for curative purposes only, and preventive prophylaxis is prohibited.
QUALITY STARTS FROM THE RAW MATERIAL
Our BBmilk has less added sugar and is good because it tastes like MILK! | agronomy |
https://psmachinery.dk/index.php/en/the-company/about-us | 2023-12-10T01:45:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00558.warc.gz | 0.975646 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__56869875 | en | In 2006, I was staying and working on a cattle and crop farm in Canada.
It was here that I first got to see the magnificent Haybuster machinery in action and decided then and there that I had to get these machines home to Denmark.
In the spring of 2008, I managed to showcase the first Haybuster in Denmark.
The response was so positive that I subsequently secured an agreement to distribute Haybuster agricultural machinery in Denmark and so it was that PS Machinery was born.
The reliability of Haybuster, a company dedicated to making precision agricultural machinery for over 40 years helped me to develope PS Machinery with complete confidence of customer satisfaction.
PS Machinery has had a positive development since 2008.
In 2010, H-1000 Big Bite arrived on the Danish market and was followed in 2012 by the big brother H-1130. It is mainly used for chopping straw for bedding in cattle housing.
The latest machine introduced from Haybuster is the stone collector 3160 Rock-Eze, which came to the country in 2015.
On the 1st of October 2014, We expanded the company when we took ownership of Karl Ommen Machining & Tooling so we now have the ability to serve our customers with not only the very best of agricultural machinery but also maintenance, repairs and manufacture of proprietary Hardware. | agronomy |
http://www.altoona.psu.edu/now/news.php?value=4634 | 2014-08-21T00:24:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500813241.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021333-00449-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.921672 | 94 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__128784889 | en | PHOTOS: Ag Awareness Day 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 475 hits
Penn State Altoona hosted its annual Ag Awareness Day on April 17 for the campus community. Special events included a petting zoo, camel rides, Penn State Creamery ice cream, educational exhibits, College of Agricultural Sciences representatives, and Froggy 98. The event also included the Juniata Farmers Market, featuring local farmers.
Want to see more photos? Visit our photo gallery! | agronomy |
http://fra.lefa-cz.com/Product/charrue.html | 2023-02-06T06:59:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500304.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206051215-20230206081215-00179.warc.gz | 0.667243 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__172055024 | en | |Weight(Kg)||65 KG||105 KG|
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1. The plough is a basic implement for the preparation of land.
2. LEFA 1LX series Plough is directly mounted to the Tractors. used for tillage on dry cultivated or fallow land, especially on high yieldrsquo;s manure and virgin land.
3. 3 point linkage, Cat I | agronomy |
https://nachura.shop/en/blogs/nachura/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E6%AD%B4%E5%8F%B2 | 2023-12-03T01:00:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00441.warc.gz | 0.984969 | 262 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__284773405 | en | Today, coffee is grown in many equatorial regions and there are many varieties, all of which are said to have originated in Africa.
Coffee as a beverage is said to have originated in Ethiopia, and today a very rare wild species of coffee tree grows naturally in Ethiopia.
Coffee as a drink is said to have originated mainly in the Arabian Peninsula, across the Red Sea from Ethiopia, a landlocked country in Africa, across Eritrea. The roots of how to drink it seems to have been transmitted from Ethiopia.
Prototypes of coffee houses (cafes) Around the 16th century, coffee spread around major Arabian cities such as Mecca, Cairo, and Damascus, and then spread to Europe.
In Europe at the time, the custom of drinking alcohol was widespread, mainly in so-called izakayas, but as society shifted toward a capitalist economy, it was no longer possible to get drunk. Coffee, which has a stimulating effect, quickly emerged.
In 1650, England's first coffee house (cafe) was born, and it is said that 3,000 cafes were built in England alone in about 30 years.
In this way, coffee spread around the world and became a favorite.
pâtissier Yuhi Hasada | agronomy |
http://www.clarkarty.com/at-home/how-to-grow-watercress-at-home/ | 2014-12-22T01:17:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772972.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00156-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960918 | 1,987 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__31080917 | en | How to grow Watercress at home
Growing watercress at home is actually Very easy despite the myth that watercress needs flowing water in order to grow. Although watercress will grow with better overall results in clean flowing water such a a stream or a quiet river flow which is the watercress’s natural habitat, I have grown my own watercress without flowing / running water in containers at home with great results.
Growing Watercress At Home
There are very few situations in which watercress will not grow. All the watercress plant needs to grow and thrive – is just water and light (like most plants); but as the name suggests, Watercress does however need more water than other plants, but CAN be grown in pots and containers.
Almost anyone can grow their own Watercress at home. You will be surprised as to where you can grow watercress.
Watercress can be grow virtually anywhere so long the watercress plant/s have light and water. Whether you have watercress in a flower pot on a window sill, planted in a pot in your garden, or if even if you are lucky enough to have a flowing stream at the end of your garden, watercress is actually very very easy to grow.
Watercress is not only a source of fibre but it is also high in vitamin C. Watercress has a peppery taste which can be used in salads, as a garnish, in a soup or just on its own.
In this article I will take you through the process of how so very easy it is to grow watercress at home.
The way I personally discovered how to grow water cress at home was a relatively simple one by way of experimenting. I bought some freshly cut watercress which had roots on the stalks, and picked out each of the stems with roots on and planted them like another plant and gave them water … after all they are just plants like any other which grow. These plants took hold within a pot that I watered well and within weeks I had Watercress plants that were providing regular crops for our salads during the summer months.
I have later found out that you don’t even need to source watercress plants with roots on.
Within a number of weeks I had and abundance of fresh watercress that I put in sandwiches, eat in salads and even made watercress soup.
Without any previous knowledge of how to grow watercress. I began to grow my first watercress plants in March.
So onto the main subject… how to grow watercress at home for the first time:
Step 1 – Find some watercress first!
The best place I have found to find/buy watercress from is notfrom your local supermarket, but better still from a farm shop or similar. I say this for two reasons:
- It’s good to buy locally and support local shops
- Farm shops or similar, generally sell freshly cut watercress that still has roots on (although roots are not necessary at this stage)
You can of course get your watercress from your local supermarket, but for me buying watercress locally i.e. a farm shop or local market/veg supplier seemed a more the best way tp go for many reasons.
If you want to buy your watercress from a supermarket you may find that generally the cut watercress has less or no roots at all on the stems. (As it was pointed out to me in a comment below)… you can buy watercress by the bag from your local super market and place the watercress stems in jar of fresh water for a few days and change the water every day and discard any that turn yellow. In a short time you should find new roots appear. I have tried this and it does work from watercress bought from a supermarket.
However, for this article I got mine from a local farm shop… this is what a fresh bunch of watercress looks like bought from my local farm shop.
So, once you have found some watercress with roots on the stems (or used supermarket watercress and placed it in water for a few days), you will need to select the stalks that have roots – as these are the ones that you will be planting.
Try and select the stems with the most roots. These will be you main stems for planting as they will be the strongest and you will get far better results. But even stems that only have small roots are still worth planting. I have had a lot of success with planting cut watercress stems with few or small roots. They just take a little longer to establish.
Step 3 – Find a suitable container (with drainage holes VERY IMPORTANT) and fill it with rich compost
The container pictured below is one I had lying around which I actually drilled a few more drainage holes in, nothing major, just a few extra holes of around 5mm in diameter. (About 5mm across but 5 – 10mm will do… any latger and the compost will fall out).
Any deep plastic container will do even a bucket, but try and use a plastic container as terracotta for example will dry out too quickly. Just make sure your container has some drainage holes in the bottom to prevent the damp compost going stagnant. If the container cannot drain, then your watercress will not grow but will rot instead. In the container below, I drilled about 10 holes 5mm in width to allow for water drainage.
Once you have a deep container with drainage holes, you will need to fill it with some compost. Watercress grows naturally in flowing streams. Flowing streams provide a constant supply of fresh minerals and food for the watercress to grow, so I used half and half mix of shop bought compost and well rotted home made compost which is rich in nitrogen and nutrients. Basically watercress will grow in any compost (I have tried). As long as the compost is rich in nutrients, you can’t go far wrong. Once you have mixed your compost and filled your container, try and leave at least 3-4 inches from the top of the compost to the rim of the container as this will help contain your growing watercress.
Firm the compost down and give it REALLY good water… until the compost is literally saturated.
Step 4 – Planting your Watercress
Once your container has drained a little but still very wet, you can plant out your selected watercress stems.
Use a dibber a little larger than the size of the watercress stems to make holes in the compost.
Repeat making holes and inserting your watercress stems into the wet compost. When established, each watercress stem will take up a lot more space, so in this container I planted each stem about 4 inches (9-10cm) apart.
Step 5 – After Planting Watercress
After the stems have been planted and watered in, I placed the container in a cool and shady spot out of the sun.
You will probably find that soon after planting, the stems will have wilted… but do not despair! this is only temporary. After I planted mine and saw that they had wilted, I gave them some more water.. after all watercress naturally grows in flowing streams.
Water the container everyday to keep the compost wet. I used rainwater from a water butt, but tap water will do.
Step 6 – Established Watercress Plants
Providing your watercress stems had healthy roots, and you have kept the compost damp, you should after about 4-5 weeks have well established watercress plants.
Step 7 – Looking after your watercress
When and only when, the watercress stems have established themselves into growing plants and are producing new shoots should you begin to feed them. I used miracle grow as per the instructions on the packet, but any good quality plant feed should be fine. Feeding once a week or every 10 days should suffice, just remember to WATER your plants every day to keep the compost damp. IMPORTANT Watercress does not like stale or stagnant water.
Step 8 – Keeping your Watercress growing
Like most plants at some point they will produce flowers and watercress will also do the same. If your plants are healthy, you may notice that in time (once your watercress plants are established and you plants have been growing well and you have been reaping the rewards by cutting shoots regularlary), that the leaves become smaller and you may begin to see small buds forming… sorry I don’t have photo’s but hope to soon. If you see any one of these two things… this is what is going on.
- Your Watercress has is lacking in nutriments – your have not fed it enough.
- Your plants are wanting to produce flowers and goto seed.
- If your watercress plants are flowering, a way to stop this is to pick off the flowers to encourage more growth.
- Or let your watercress go to seed and wait for the seed pods to ripen, dry the pods (hope to have photos later) and then collect the seeds for next years sowing. After all watercress produces seeds just like any other plant.
Good luck in growing your very own watercress at home.. it really is very easy.
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