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Sustainable AgricultureSustainable AgricultureSustainable agriculture resources. You may also find more information of food related topics here FoodBy supporting local, small family-operated farms, you become part of the solution to global food contamination, industrial agriculture and runaway energy and transportation costs. The food doesn't take two weeks to leave the field and arrive on your table, so nutrition is preserved. Locally grown food, much of it organic or naturally grown without petrochemical pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics or modified genes can be found in various communities in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks. FDA Targeting Raw Milk and Artisan Cheese ProducersFDA TARGETING RAW MILK and ARTISAN CHEESE PRODUCERS Earth Wobble?On December 21, 2012, I made an accidental, but startling, discovery as a result of initiating the installation of a small starter system for solar power. A brief chronology is below.
EATING LOCALLY, Part 43This ia a "TALE OF TWO VEGGIES". Yes, this is about a very sweet Moschata variety of winter squash known as Yamiken, and about an ordinarily very sweet beet known as the Zelenolistnaja variety. We grew both this year as we do every year where possible. OK, this year was a true test not only of gardening skill and perseverance, but of the ability of various crops to withstand the record-breaking heat wave and drought. EATING LOCALLY, Part 42Most folks do not realize that peanuts can be grown in climates much cooler than that of the American state of Georgia. We grow them in Missouri and they are grown much farther north as well. EATING LOCALLY, Part 41Got grape juice? If not, you can make your own from your own grape arbor or even wild grapes. I've done both and prefer wild grapes as they require least maintenance. If the vines are too high in the trees, you might need to cut down the vines and wait a year or two for recovery and grapes at a level you can reach. EATING LOCALLY, Part 40As a child I thought all radishes were either small spherical reddish spherical things called globe radish, or smallish white cylindrical things called icicle radish. Fortunately then I was rather ignorant in that area. EATING LOCALLY, Part 39Most people like sweet potatoes but only see them in the grocery stores for a short time in late summer through autumn each year, presumably because they have just been harvested by late summer, and an American tradition is that Thanksgiving dinner is not the same without sweet potatoes. SPIKING GRAIN PRICES RAISE SPECTER OF GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS(Editor's Note: The following article is from a topnotch Canadian website, "Global Research"; the URL for this article is http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?contact=va&aid=32298 and the general URL is http://globalresearch.ca). SPIKING GRAIN PRICES RAISE SPECTER OF GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS by Naomi Spencer Global Research, August 10, 2012 Email this article to a friend Bookmark and Share
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