November 2011
24 posts
Peter's Permaculture Scrapbook: The Well-Rounded... →
peterdilley:
So what is permaculture? What makes it different from: organic gardening? organic farming? sustainable agriculture? ecological agriculture? bio-dynamic farming? regeneration farming? forest gardening? Holistic Resource Management HRM? ecosystem restoration? sustainability? or natural building?
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What the Heck is "Blue Raspberry"?
Being of a generation that predates the removal of Red Dye #2, I’ve never gotten used to “Blue Raspberry.” It still creeps me out.
mentalflossr:
Who decided raspberry-flavored sweets should be blue? It all goes back to a deep red dye that was banned by the FDA.
Image: Jaroslaw Grudzinski / Shutterstock.com
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Off Topic. Kalashnikov: Old and New →
That the pen is ultimately mightier than the sword I accept on faith and hope. Still, the Kalashnikov helped ‘write’ much of the second half of the twentieth century and continues to edit the course of nations and lives in the twenty-first.
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What’s happening with “Big Food?”
(Illustration by Barry Blitt for Time Magazine, 2003, and yes, without permission.)
Andy Bellati of Grist and the blog Small Bites interviews former food executive Bruce Bradley. Bradley is the author of an eponymous blog on Big Food practices and the soon to be released thriller “Fat Profits.” A take-away guote: “…one of the main ways the processed food industry is trying to grow and defend...
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CSA = Climate Smart Agriculture
(Above image copied from a highly relevant article at FaceofMalawi.com)
It’s taken a while, but finally most Americans recognize CSA, at least in a food and agriculture context, as meaning “community supported agriculture.” On the international development scene it has a different meaning: “Climate Smart Agriculture.”
My post a few days ago on the potential impact...
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Off Topic: Things You Can't Do On Timpani →
“GENGHIS BARBIE, the leading post post-feminist feminist all-female horn experience, is the most recognized chamber ensemble of its generation and beyond….” And they wear leather.
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The wonders of the Internet.
(Click here for credits and to go to the Anglo-French source blog “Easy Does It.”)
I’ve long wanted to cater a Burns Night celebration but am reminded by the family that the last time I made Haggis (for a middle school international night some years ago) that even the dog wouldn’t eat it. I responded that it was because the dog was a corgi and bred for inferior Welsh food. (Smart dog. I’d...
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The latest symptom of climate change: more... →
Climate change may present particular challenges for California vintners. Starting as early as the 1960s microclimate mapping of the viticultural districts enabled an exceptional matching of varietals to vineyards. Additionally wineries created a market for varietals in contrast to brand names (i.e. Gallo’s old and missed “Hearty Burgundy”) or region or ‘chateau’. The...
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Peter's Permaculture Scrapbook: Blame Drug... →
Another post that should have been reblogged several months past but is effectively still current and will be for several years to come.
peterdilley:
By Maryn McKenna, wired.com | Published June 29, 2011 10:57 AM
There’s a new paper out in the CDC’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that makes a provocative claim: There is enough similarity between drug-resistance genes in E. coli...
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"A Sand County Almanac"
(image from Powells.com, the independent bookseller and Northwest landmark.)
notesformyfuturefarm:
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the...
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