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I had not heard of this new link of cell phone towers to CCD, but I believe that CCD is caused by a number of different things and is mostly limited to large scale professional beekeepers that put their bees on large semi-trucks and haul them all ...
November 23
Hi Strumelia, I thought you might be interested in this publication. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WhyBeesVanish.php I enjoyed your pictures of the hive. Regards Susan
November 18
My two year old has a couple of favorite movies he watches repeatedly one being the Bee movie with Jerry Sienfield as the voice of the main character, in that it shows that if it werent for bees all the flowers and pollination stops therefore basi...
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I think increasing pesticide usage, both in commercial agriculture and in home lawn use is playing a much larger part than cell phones. I read lots of articles written a few years ago claiming this cell phone issue as the cause of colony collapse....
November 9
Wow this is a really scary article. Thank you for posting it to keep us all informed.
November 9
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Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones Posted by: Dr. Mercola November 07 2009 | 26,681 views Studies have brought out evidence to support the theory of colony collapse disorder (CCD) among honeybees due to bioactive microwave radiation ...
November 9
Vegan organic gardening is a way of growing plants without adding any animal products, except what nature adds by herself. This is a place where people can describe their method of vegan organic gardening, exchange ideas and give advice to others.
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Where do you live and garden?
Greece
How long have you been growing food?
4-10 years
Dream garden travel destination:
Italy, England and France
Favorite foods:
everything vegan

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At 7:58am on May 31, 2009, Anh Collins said…
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At 8:54am on May 1, 2009, Penelope said…
I'm glad to hear that you are doing well. Your greenhouse sounds wonderful. We've had a pretty cold spring so far, even a few snowflakes this week! My root crops and peas are in and growing a bit, although stray cats dug up half of two rows. Annoying! My daughter and her family are going to a conference in Crete at the end of May; they're really excited. Take good care, happy spring, Penelope
At 6:28pm on March 25, 2009, Penelope said…
I haven't read your input in a long time. I hope things are going well for you. HOw does your garden grow this year?
At 2:01pm on March 3, 2009, Damomac said…
Hi Valerianella,
I'm a journalist in Greece writing an article about organic farming and would like to talk to you about your experiences of kitchen gardening here.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Damomac
At 3:18pm on December 9, 2008, Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal said…
I work myself with the help of a gardner and my kids. Well we have four sesons; extreme hot and extreme cold. In winters we do have lots of frost and sometimes heavey hailstroms. Our city Islamabad is located at the foot hills of Marghalla and Murree hills where heavey snow fall takes place during winters.
This is the period full of challenges, saving off season veges in a tunnel, such as tomattoes, chillis and eggplants is quite a difficult thing, but i do enjoy.
At 12:08pm on December 8, 2008, Kathryn said…
Hi well İ have been here now for 4 years. Shame about your oranges. The turks grow lots of olives and İ have picked them, sorted them and then pickled them. What they seem to do here is to cut each olive and then soak them in water changing that water every day for about 1 month. After that period of time most of the bitterness should have left and then you can put into a brine solution. You can add lemon or other flavors if you want and they store like that for along time. You can also place the olives under a layer of salt and as the salt disolves keep topping it up. You do that for about a month also. İts easy to do and worthwhile. Good luck with your harvest.
At 11:16am on December 8, 2008, Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal said…
Its pleasure knowing someone in Greece with such a lovely plantation.
At 9:11am on December 7, 2008, Kathryn said…
How long have you been in Greece and what kind of things do you grow on your farm? Do you have any olive trees?
At 4:30am on November 17, 2008, Kathryn said…
No you dont have to just comes straight out.
At 4:00pm on November 12, 2008, Kathryn said…
http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=372385 here is a picture of what İ was trying to descripe they sell here from 20 to 25 lira. You could probably find one there.
 
 

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now to try bean leaves - really nice green to use if you haven't got chard or spinach. My Chinese friends introduced me to this. you just have to take out the ribs of the leaf and use the soft green parts. yes, a little bit of work, but really wor...
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Those are really beautiful, Danny! :)
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I'll bet this place smelled wonderful. I love prunes, and have very fond memories off sneaking the unfinished halves out of my parents dehydrator when I was a kid. you know, moving around the ones left behind to make it look like I hadn't been the...
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One of my favorite books...I think I actually recommended that to you. They did start in the spring and I'm thinking that would be the right time for where we live. And it gives me extra time to do research about local resources.
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Kristi Birchenough added a discussion to the group Tomatoes
Ha ha!!! I can almost guarantee you guys haven't read a discussion like this yet!!! Ok, Growing Tomatoes on a Sailboat...I need some thoughts on this, I'm thinking ahead to next summer here and what I shall do to grow Tomatoes on our Sailboat that...
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I think this might need it's own category, don't you? Tomatoes are one of the most popular things to grow and we've been placing them in all kinds of groups, but the fact is we almost all grow them, and they have specific needs.
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That sounds awesome! You read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" right? I think they started in April if I remember correctly. Good book.. Rock on girl!!!
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I think that just made my decision... the carolinas aren't far enough south for me, florida or us virgin Islands here I come!
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Wow! That's beautiful!!!
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Sweet potato leaves, I bet if you threw a handfull of those in your blender with 3 or 4 pieces of fruit and a cup or two of water that would be a yummy smoothie! I do it with spinach, and you don't even taste it...yum!!! it's more fun that eating ...
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I saw a Useful Post on seed saving at the blog Simple Green Frugal Coop, written by coop member Gavin. The blog post gave an especially helpful tip about how to isolate members of the squash/melon/cucumber family, one flower at a time, using eithe...
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Our local squirrels learned to leave the back yard alone as I set the dogs out to chase them anytime I saw one back there, but the squirrels now know the front yard is fine... My problem is more the deer who love the Hostas in the front yard........
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Awe... lucky!!! How did you do that? I've tried growing it both on deck in summer and just a week or two ago here on the boat. It just gets spindly and sick looking, fails to grow and withers away?!. I'm not sure what kind of soil i used here in t...
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Good idea! I'm due for another batch... soon to come, "how-to photos"
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Would like to see pics of you rooting them and how they grow in water. I'm interested in trying this.
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