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Valerianella

Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones

Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones Studies have brought out evidence to support the theory of colony collapse disorder (CC...

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david e kelley

squirrel repellent

My opinion. These cute little creatures are a destructive nuisance in an urban setting. While we enjoy watching their antics, and they he...

Started by david e kelley

3 Nov 3
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David Brownlee

Food for Thought

This is just something I thought about. For the Vegans and the other type folk who want things to be "natural"....I think that is a bit ...

Started by David Brownlee

3 Oct 28
Reply by Gillian
John Walker

$500 challenge

I calculated what I would have to have spent at farmers markets and the coop to buy the potatoes, beans, tomatoes, corn, peppers and garl...

Started by John Walker

0 Sep 24
JC

Happy Birthday to Roger Doiron (Huffington Post article)

Leslie Hatfield article: Hip, Hip! Very Good (Food Policy) Fellow Visits White House Garden Source: www.huffingtonpost.com As I type up ...

Started by JC

0 Sep 12
Michelle W. Flannery

Survey: What Do You Eat For Breakfast?

I'm curious and I'd like to know what people are eating for breakfast. What do you grab as you're running out the door in the morning? Wh...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

151 Sep 7
Reply by Jeanine
Ivan Kinsman

River Cottage

For those of you who are interested, there is a good website that is trying to do a similar thing in the UK as KGI. It is run by Hugh Fer...

Started by Ivan Kinsman

0 Sep 6
Michelle W. Flannery

Forget "What I Did For Love," It's What I'm Doing For Gardening That Might Kill Me!

This post, and the title of this post, come from a brief exchange between Diana and myself earlier today. We were comparing notes on how ...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

21 Sep 3
Reply by Michelle W. Flannery
Marla Bays

What to do with all the eggplant?

I would like some ideas for eating eggplant. My husband loves it but I really don't so I grow it and give most of it away. We make eggpla...

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17 Aug 1
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David Brownlee

Food for thought

I've always wondered about the animal that went around our pond when we were frog-gigging. It was too fast for a deer and they were the f...

Started by David Brownlee

0 Jul 30

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Hello Glenn, I sow seeds for tomatoes sometimes in September. The plants live for 2 years, but it is advisable to replace them after one year.
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

You can refer any que

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

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