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Slow Food Meeting for June 25th

Slow Food - Conway/Myrtle Beach Convivium   -   Jun 05, 2011 - By JP

Our next Slow Food Conway/ MB meeting will be held at member Dawn Miller's house June 25th at 5:30PM.   3rd meeting for Slow Food Conway/ MB. To select nominate and vote in officers.  Formalize and apply for membership with Slow Food USA as...

Cleo, Cher, and their babies

Rise&Shine Urban Farm   -   Jun 05, 2011 - By Susan_4

Just thought I would let everyone see the newest arrivals at the farm.  Both Cleo and Cher have at least twelve babies each.  I say at least twelve because I have not been able to count the fast moving darlings yet. This is what a heritage...

Are CSA's Worth It?

Victory Acres Farm and CSA   -   Jun 05, 2011 - By Farmer Eric

Everyone that I talk to thinks that more locally grown foods are a wonderful thing.Most people that I know want a local farm that will provide fresh, healthy, sustainable produce.But very few people realize all that goes into making that possible. Growing...

A great book!

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 05, 2011 - By Mary_5

Read this book!  Combining natural farming and traditional agriculture with the latest in scientific research may seem like a difficult thing, but farming and gardening hasn't ever been easier.  Less work, less cost, more production!  This...

Le Menu (what's cookin'?)

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 05, 2011 - By Mary_5

NEWS FROM THE FARM AND RECIPES While out on wild harvests we saw lark buntings again playing in the warm eveningtime.  The weather has finally warmed up (maybe because we finally built shelters for our plants?) and the birds (domestic and wild) are...

Ancient and modern wilderness preservation

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

Though the names of Roosevelt, Mills, Muir, Thoreau are known in the United States as advocates for conservation of natural resources, the first time natural resources were conserved by a government was during the reign of the Emperor Ashoka I of what is today...

Star watching for farmers

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

Look to the skies just before sunrise and you’ll see something interesting: the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter appear to be in a line!Though not actually in alignment, our perspective from Earth makes them appear so, but it is a good time to consider...

In a jiffy or a moment?

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

We use the words daily without thinking of them.But we have to remember that units of measurement have becoming increasingly standardized and based on units of ten.Long before meter / foot debate began, long before we were using dollars made of 100 cents, long...

Duckling's first swim

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

Big news in the bird world this week: ducklings are now being seen in parks across the front range! How do ducks stay dry in water? Ducks and other waterfowl have an oil gland at the top of their tails, from which they spread oil around all their...

Chemical communication - lessons from lobsters

At Home in Nature   -   Jun 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

In their examination of communication within lobster populations (Chemical Communication in Crustaceans 2011, Part 3, 239-256), Doctors Juan Aggio and Charles D. Derby found that chemical communication through both urine and blood emissions plays a large role...