College students built this $250,000 home that has a hydroponic farm and indoor greenhouse
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Before your produce reaches your fridge, it goes through a chain of suppliers: a farm, a truck, a packing, washing, and sorting facility, another truck, until it finally reaches your local grocery store.
A new solar-powered home that grows leafy greens indoors skips most of those steps. The home, created by a team of graduate...
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We arrived in Israel Tuesday evening to sprinkling rain. It rained off and on Wednesday as we picked olives with the young people from the boys ranch. The usual olive picking technique is to put a cover under the tree and then hit the tree with sticks to make the olives fall to the ground. Then everyone joins in picking up the olives. Being novices at this job we were given bags and told to pick olives by hand. Our job didn't look nearly as fun as what the boys were doing but we did out best. One of the counselors told us the young people help pick the olives, then the olives are taken to a olive press and the oil is removed. They are paid by the weight of their product and this is one way they support the farm. Everyone takes part in the work. We arrived to help in the picking right as lunch was being served. We were invited to join them. They had chicken cooking on the grill and all kinds of salads to eat. The food was all donated by someone. They even brought their grill and catered the whole affair at no cost to the farm.
After we picked olives for a couple of hours it began to rain harder and we decided to head back to the hotel to dry off and clean the mud off our shoes and clothes. Driving back to Jerusalem we saw one of the hardest rains we've ever seen in Jerusalem. It may have slowed down our touring schedule but it was something to celebrate since Israel needs the rain so badly. Israelis get as excited to see rain as people living in Pensacola Florida do about snow.
This morning the sun is shinning and we are headed back to the boys ranch to tour the facility and to visit the Herodian, Herod the Great's castle that was built before the Messiah. Please pray for safety for us as we drive each day.


Not always, but a design will tie all the elements of the garden project together and will form the base of a contract. It is especially useful when larger projects are proposed.
Generally, the cost of fully landscaping an average garden will be similar to the cost of a new kitchen or a new car. Always remember to add the VAT.
Make a list of elements you would like in the garden, e.g. a patio, path, lawn, etc, take into account the age group of persons using the garden, and how they will use the garden; play areas for kids or raised beds for less mobile people, low maintenance gardens for busy people, also take into account the sunny and shady parts of the garden at different times of day when the garden is being used.
If you want your garden project completed in the spring book your contractor in the autumn. Secondly, most plants and material are available all the year round. The only other governing factors are extreme weather conditions like freezing, or excessively hot sunny days.
Small gardens can be just as much fun as larger ones. With careful planning your garden will be the envy of the neighbourhood.
Yes! Because clay is thick and sticky it naturally holds nutrients for the plants. Regular additions of bulky organic compost will allow the plants to access those nutrients and improve the drainage.
Grass seed is cheaper than turf, but the drawbacks are: germination is limited by the seasons, the seed bed is prone to being dug up by cats, other animals and birds. A turfed lawn is complete in a day or two and ready to use after three or four weeks.
Both organizations will only allow membership after the applicant has demonstrated an in-depth and qualified understanding of the industry, obtained over several years, a stringent vetting process has been carried out, references are checked, and the applicant has the correct level of third party liability insurance to cover the work done. This greatly reduces the risk of bad workmanship and contractual problems. We have all seen builders from hell on the TV!


The Meteorological Department Services issued a weather alert yesterday on the coming of very high temperatures which will affect all parts of the country starting today. Some areas such as Limpopo Valley will record soaring temperatures as high as 43°C.
The high temperatures are expected to subside by the end of the week and people are generally being encouraged to avoid extended exposure to direct sunlight.
In light of these developments, I strongly urge poultry farmers to be wary of heat stress which usually affects chickens and results in cannibalism and death through heat strokes in severe circumstances.
Farmers should therefore provide their flocks with constant supply of plenty and clean water and keep chickens under shade.
To read the full Press Release with contact details for the Met Department, please follow the link: Weather advisory_16 October 2017.


The Benefits of a Greenhouse Automation System
If you intend to conserve time and effort, a greenhouse automation system can help. This system makes use of an LCD screen to display a picked activity for 10 seconds. The display then restores itself to its previous state. As soon as the automation system is mounted, it is simple to adjust its setups. In fact, a well-automated greenhouse is a lot more energy effective than its manual counterpart. Keep reading to figure out more concerning greenhouse automation systems. The benefits of automated greenhouses are various. With the introduction of IoT-based surveillance solutions, the error price of data collection is reduced and also the flexibility of remote control is increased. On top of that, real-time data makes it possible for continual assessment of the plant growth setting. Traditional strategies struggle with high labor strength, reduced spatiotemporal resolution, and also absence of automation and company. Moreover, manual methods call for the drivers to invest a lot of time expanding plants. To enhance the effectiveness of greenhouse automation systems, farmers have actually applied IoT controller boards and modular cordless Datalogger systems to keep an eye on the temperature, moisture, and also other aspects. With a greenhouse automation system, you can keep track of and adjust the temperatures, humidity, illumination, and watering systems. You can monitor all of these settings with a main climate control computer. This permits you to tailor the interior conditions of your greenhouse to maximize your returns and also plant health. Without the support of a greenhouse automation system, you can just concentrate on growing crops and maximizing production. This is an exceptional alternative for smaller cultivators that do not have a large spending plan, but still want to make their life less complicated.


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by Jenny Maxwell
Work on a flower farm starts early, “at the crack of dawn when it’s hot, so that cutting can begin as early as possible.” Donna’s blooms are sought by florists in Atlanta and Columbia.
She also sells fresh-cut flowers at the All-Local Farmers’ Market (now Soda City) twice a month “Sunflowers are always in demand. And right now the biggest trend is green flowers. I can sell anything green.”
More from Donna:
On how she came up with the name “Floral & Hardy”:
Floral & Hardy was overheard as a slip of the tongue years ago and I thought “that would be a great name for a flower business.” In 1996, I was working for Rosewood Florist and had been growing flowers for a few years for my personal use. I began to sell flowers to Rosewood when I went in to work. That inspired me to try my hand at a business.
On the types of flowers they grow:
The flower we grow the most of is sunflowers. My favorite flowers that we grow are delphinium and anemones. They have short seasons because they like cool weather. But i’m amazed that I can grow them at all in this climate. The addition of coldframes to the farm allows us to grow flowers we normally would not be able to grow. We have had a lot of trial and error with growing in this hot climate. Sometimes it’s just a matter of timing, planting early or late in the season. If I have had a hard time growing something, sometimes i’ll try it in a different season.
On how to make a better bouquet:
I can’t say I have any secrets to creating bouquets. I usually just look for pleasing colors to put together. And I try to have something spiky with something round. That sounds kind of silly but it creates depth and is pleasing to the eye. I think a great floral arrangement is one with LOTS of MY flowers in it!


A notable technology gaining prominence in golf course upkeep is Nano Bubble Technology. This advanced method entails introducing nano-sized bubbles of ozone and oxygen into water, delivering a spectrum of advantages for the well-being of turf.
Aesthetically Gratifying Turf
Visual allure plays a pivotal role in attracting players and creating memorable experiences. Nano Bubble Technology contributes to turf aesthetics by stimulating lush, vibrant grass growth. The infused water results in uniform, vibrant turf, leaving a lasting impression on both players and spectators.
Elevated Stress Endurance
Upholding turf health in the face of environmental challenges is an ongoing struggle for golf course managers. Nano Bubble Technology provides a remedy by fortifying the turf against drought, heat, cold, and other stressors. The technology, achieved by infusing water with ozone and oxygen, enhances stress endurance, ensuring golf courses maintain their immaculate appearance year-round.
Augmented Nutrient Accessibility
Nano Bubble Technology enhances nutrient accessibility in the soil, promoting improved growth and overall turf health. Nano-sized bubbles facilitate nutrient movement into plant roots, ensuring efficient absorption. Golf course managers can anticipate robust, luxuriant turf even under demanding conditions.
Diminished Chemical Dependency
Reducing reliance on chemical inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides becomes achievable with Nano Bubble Technology. By enhancing overall turf health and resilience, this technology minimizes the need for excessive chemical treatments. Golf course managers can embrace a sustainable approach to maintenance, simultaneously reducing expenses.
In an era marked by water scarcity and environmental consciousness, water conservation is crucial. Nano Bubble Technology aids conservation efforts by improving water infiltration and reducing compaction. The nano-sized bubbles enhance soil porosity, allowing deeper water penetration, reducing the need for excessive watering, and mitigating runoff.
By harnessing the potential of Nano Bubbles, golf courses can elevate maintenance practices to new heights, ensuring impeccable turf and unforgettable experiences for players and visitors alike. This innovative technology’s ability to enhance nutrient accessibility, fortify stress endurance, conserve water, reduce chemical reliance, and create visually captivating turf positions it as a game-changer in golf course management.


Last Tuesday, October 29th, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, announced the establishment of the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program. After a long wait since the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp farmers across the nation finally have a more consistent regulatory framework for growing, processing, transporting, and selling hemp.
U.S Secretary of Agriculture stated in an interview, “At USDA, we are always excited when there are new economic opportunities for our farmers, and we hope the ability to grow hemp will pave the way for new products and markets...We have had teams operating with all hands-on-deck to develop a regulatory framework that meets Congressional intent while seeking to provide a fair, consistent, and science-based process for states, tribes, and individual producers who want to participate in this program.”
The interim rule to be finalized in the Federal Register later this week, includes provisions for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to approve hemp production plans developed by states and Indian tribes including: requirements for maintaining information on the land where hemp is produced; testing the levels of THC; disposing of plants not meeting necessary requirements; transportation and licensing requirements. It also establishes a federal plan for hemp producers in states or territories of Indian tribes that do not have their own approved hemp production plan. A preview of the rule has already posted on USDA’s website.
Additionally, the USDA has also developed guidelines to be released concurrently, which provide additional information for sampling agents and hemp testing laboratories.
Once state and tribal plans are in place, hemp producers will be eligible for a number of USDA programs, including insurance coverage through Whole-Farm Revenue Protection. For information on available programs, visit farmers.gov/hemp.


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Types of Jobs
This cluster focuses on the production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing, and development of agricultural commodities and resources including food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other plant and animal products/resources. You might work on a farm, ranch, dairy, orchard, greenhouse, or plant nursery. You could also work in a clinic or laboratory as a scientist or engineer.
Some agriculture, food, and natural resources workers market, sell, or finance agricultural goods. For example, you might market products made from plants and animals or you might sell services that farmers and ranchers use to improve products. You could also work to conserve natural resources or protect the environment.
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The Key Elements of Great Homes
You will enjoy many benefits when your lawn is taken care of. You will have protected everything that is in your lawn against harmful pesticides and insecticides if you apply proper care to your lawn. When you care about your lawn, you also make it look more beautiful which adds value to your home as well.
Enough time is not found with people when it comes to caring of lawns. Some people do not have the right amount of knowledge on how to take care of their lawn. Hiring of a lawn care company to provide care services on lawns should be done by those people who do not have time for care. The best lawn care companies are not found easily also. There are many lawn care companies out there. Some limitations will have to be overlooked when you are searching these lawn care companies. These parameters are important because they are the ones that define the best lawn care company.
One thing you need to look at is their pricing. Different pricing is found with these lawn care companies because some are cheaper than others. You should first check the services that are provided by the lawn care companies that are a bit expensive than others. Quality services are not offered by the expensive lawn care companies although you should start with them. Few lawn care services are the ones that are provided by the cheap lawn care companies which do not make them be the best.
Another important thing that you should check is the reputation of these lawn care companies. If the lawn care company have a website, you should visit it. The website has a review page where the customers who previously worked with the company leave their reviews. The reviews are the ones that will help you understand whether the company has a good reputation or not so you should read them. People will even know the quality of the lawn care company deliver in gardens when they read those reviews.
When you decide to hire the services of a lawn care company, you should know the specific work that you need the company to carry out on your lawn. You will be able to explain your needs to the company so that they may offer you a quote that is a bit accurate when you know what you need. The lawn care company that is ready to listen to your problems is the one you should choose. The lawn care company that you will choose should also be able to provide all the services that you need for your lawn. Chemical methods should not be used to eliminate pests in your lawn the company should use the biological techniques.


It’s easy to bite off more than I can chew playing around with Garden Minder and planning my summer bounty. I did my best to restrain myself considering availability of equipment, time management, and growing zone. The app made it easy to create my gardens in my mind but the app won’t do the work for me – just remind me what work I need to do. So I already have a list of what needs to happen this week – let’s see how I do in getting it done. I’ve also laid out a meal plan for the week trying to include as much of what I think should be available locally but filling in with organic and fresh from elsewhere for now. I realize it will be a lot of good, hard work over the spring and summer to see results from the garden. We should be eating pretty darn well by summer, though, if all goes as planned. My concern is what to do once the garden is no longer yielding a crop. Where will my veggies come from then? I remember Grandma Emily canning and preserving many things when I was a child and she even taught me how to make strawberry jam albeit with a truckload of white sugar. I tried canning tomatoes from last year’s garden but not sure I want to be opening those jars at this point – they look more like a science experiment at this point! I figure a few classes in canning and preserving won’t hurt and will most likely be a lot of fun. Lucky for me, Sport Hill Farm up the road offers just that during the summer. (Note to self: make room in summer schedule for canning classes.) If I don’t yield enough for canning and preserving to last the winter months I can always hit the From Scratch Club swap – a homemade locally grown food exchange party. I haven’t seen or heard of any in the immediate area but maybe by then I’ll organize my own! If all else fails maybe I can swap with Aldo’s wife Edelweis – she canned 100 jars of tomatoes last summer. I’m beginning to see many options as long as I plan ahead. I’ll hit the farm stands again today to see if they’ve got anything new and make a plan as to where I’ll be getting my vegetable plants since seed starting is not on the agenda for me just yet (next year). Planning, organizing, executing, working, sharing – I knew all those years in Girl Scouts would come in handy someday!


When I visited my parents over Christmas, they gave me a few cloves of garlic from a bulb that had sprouted. (No, the sprouting garlic was not their Christmas present to me. They're not that mean.) I like to cook with fresh garlic, and it was already determined to grow where it was on the kitchen counter, so it seemed to me that only good things would come if I simply plopped the cloves in some dirt.
I drove home with five cloves of garlic sealed in a Ziploc bag in my trunk. I unloaded my back pack and box of Christmas treasures and left the garlic where it was, intending to plant it in a day or two.
And suddenly it was February.
After a weekend trip to Montana, I noticed that my car smelled strongly of garlic. I don't know if it was the sub-zero temperatures of the mountains followed by the warm spell that Spokane was experiencing that made the five forgotten cloves wake up and recall their true purpose as vampire repellent, but for whatever reason, I hadn't noticed the smell until then. My only passengers, my boyfriend and a hitchhiker, hadn't said anything. The odor took me completely by surprise.
The garlic had thrived in its dark, airless, plastic prison. The shoots were longer and a healthy green color. I resolved to plant them after work the very next day. Still, a week passed and the bag of garlic remained in my trunk. On Valentine's day I suggested to Dominic that we take his car to the movies. I drove with my windows down for a few days. Finally, I removed the grocery bag with the lively garlic and the plastic pots my parents gave me, and left it on the porch.
Finally again, I planted them indoors.
The cloves were not happy in their new home. In return for lovingly tucking them under a blanket of fluffy potting soil and giving them a sunny window, their pretty green stems turned yellow and they stank up the living room. Thinking it was the warmer temperature that caused this downturn in their health, I banished them to the front yard.
I can see them from here, looking down from the living room window. Wilted and colored like a bruised apple, it is obvious that they have lost the will to live.
The garlic incident is not unique in my history of gardening attempts. Last summer I started some herbs from seeds in a couple of trays outside. I forgot to water them and they dried out completely, then, a rain storm washed away half the dirt. The lemon balm pulled through, but I was demoralized by the limp strawberries and crusty marigolds, the ants and the sandy soil around my house. In the fall, the Christmas cactus I inherited at work quickly went from bad to worse under my care.
The apple tree I planted six years ago is doing fine, but I suspect that's only because I moved to the other side of the state. The tulips I planted are poking out of the ground just in time for spring, but again I can't give myself much credit because I buried at least two hundred of the things, practically guaranteeing that some of them would grow.
My parents gave me a little herb-growing kit for Christmas. I read the instruction booklet studiously and set a reminder on my phone to sow the seeds on March 20, about six weeks before the last frost. Predictably, I didn't get around to it until last night. This was supposed to be the easiest thing in the world. Four seed packets, four cardboard pots, four pellets of dirt. The dirt pellets had to be soaked in warm water for ten minutes to expand, then that same water I just added had to be squeezed out until the soil was moist but not likely to make the seeds mold. So there I was at ten o'clock at night, standing over the kitchen sink squeezing fist-fulls of soggy dirt, generally making a muddy mess of things, when there was a perfectly good bag of ready-to-use potting soil in the garage.
And now, I have little pots that promise basil, cilantro, parsley, and chives, sitting in front of the living room window. Behind them, through the glass, the yellow garlic stems can be seen, a mocking reminder of my most recent failure.
It's also Easter, and although the preacher didn't talk about plants or springtime this morning, my brain is making connections to the theme of resurrection and new life. I suck at gardening. If any plant in my care grows, it is despite my attentions, not because of them. So in 14 to 21 days, when little green faces are supposed to poke out of the re-hydrated, moist but not too-moist soil, I'll know it's a small Easter miracle.


STORY BY PETER VAUGHN
The Trevaskis property “Greenlands” near Orbost, Victoria has been in the family since 1908 when it was originally selected by Ian’s grandfather, a one-legged home missionary and mixed farmer. Rosanne and Ian were married in the UK in 1979, and Rosanne, Scottish by birth, viewed her immigration to Australia in 1981 with some concern as she imagined she was coming to an area of red desert.
Ian’s father had been running dairy cattle on the farm, then in 1989 Ian and Rosanne took over and Ian, tired of the poor returns and physical demands of dairy farming looked to beef cattle as a better commercial option for the property. He chose to develop his herd from beefy Belgian Blue bulls, a breed with good temperament and extra rump muscling that matures early.
By 1995, after six years of raising and selling beef cattle, and now with five children to support, Ian and Rosanne felt they had come to a fork in the road. The farm was not proving profitable as the costs of traditional farming methods, middle men and unreliable prices were consuming most of their income and leaving very little return for the work done.
After some research they decided to join Gippsbeef, a farmer’s cooperative based in Gippsland, which promoted the selling of high quality prime beef direct from the farm to the customer. Gippsbeef member farms follow the Meat Standards Australia beef production standards, which ensures customers receive consistent high quality tender meat, which is grown in a low stress environment.
The move to Gippsbeef improved the fortunes of the Trevaskis farm and then, ten years ago, Ian and Rosanne switched the farm to the Enviromeat EMS accreditation system. Enviromeat is still under the umbrella of Gippsbeef, and meets quality standards of Meat Standards Australia, but with the extra requirement that registered farms must develop a sustainable environmental plan and be externally audited.
Ian has seen the fortunes of the farm improve since moving to direct marketing with Enviromeat accreditation.
“By buying our meat, customers are helping us to be more environmentally responsible. We now practice regenerative agriculture on the property, repairing the damage done in the past through unsustainable farming practices, farming profitably, in ways that also give back to the land.”
The Trevaskis farm now supplies prime yearling beef to about 50 regular customers per season. The customer makes her order directly to the farm, and when the animal is in prime condition, usually during spring and autumn, it is moved to the abattoir, slaughtered and taken to a local butcher of the customer’s choice. There, the cuts ordered by the customer are prepared, packed and picked up.
The Belgian Blue cross cattle grown on the Trevaskis farm, are fed natural grass with grazing rotated across the property. The animals are not fed grain so the meat is high in health giving Omega 3, nor are the animals given hormone growth promoters or preventative antibiotics to stimulate their growth.
Under their Environmental Management plan Ian and Rosanne have done much to restore the environment and productivity of the property. The creek has been fenced and native plants regenerated, off stream watering has been installed, paddocks realigned to reduce erosion and stocking rates maintained according to the carrying capacity of the land. The use of super phosphate has been replaced with rock phosphate and soil carbon is being built up through the use of pasture cropping.
Rosanne sees the changes they have made a benefit for both the land and their bottom line. “I think most farmers are green-minded people, but no one can be green if they are being squeezed financially. I think we have found a way to be good farmers and also care for our land.”
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This morning meet your local guide and drive about 3 hours (144 km) to a small city of Kampot, situated along the river bank and having many French-colonial buildings. he province's terrain is a mixture of hilly and plain area, covering with salt field, rice fields and other rural plantations as mangosteen, pepper, rambutan, durian,… Upon arrival at the charming town of Kampot, take a cycling tour to explore the luxuriant countryside nearby Kampot city (around 12-15km riding). Since the French protectorate, Kampot pepper has become famous and is now one of the most expensive spices in the world. Spend your afternoon to observe the one and only processor of the raw products with the farmers, upon our visit to a pepper plantation. Take this great opportunity to learn about the different steps to get Kampot pepper. Meals on your own. Overnight at the hotel.


We're a family-owned company that oprates from a local farm in the middle of the Israeli desert
MarulaLab researches, develops, and grows selected varieties of Marula trees in orchards optimized for the production of Marula seed oil, develops patent-pending unique extraction machinery for its oil production line, in addition to pursuing the establishment of a no-waste policy for all of the products of the tree – seed, peel, and pulp.
MarulaLab represents all Marula growers in Israel, unified to produce enough fruit to satisfy current world demand. The company holds an optimized Marula gene bank for research and development, consisting of 22 choice varieties picked from Africa for their best fruit and seed properties.
MarulaLab working together with an expert development team covering the fields of agri-tech, academic research, mechanical and food industry, has brought the company to develop patent-pending optimized oil extraction technology, suitable to the unique challenges of the Marula nut, in addition to breeding and registering several tree varieties that have shown to be the best oil producers in the world.
The Marula tree was brought to Israel as part of a joint initiative between the Ministry of Agriculture and Ben Gurion University to search for new crops that might adapt to the Negev. Indeed, the tree is suitable for the local desert soil and climate conditions. It is growing rapidly up to 2 meters/year under either fresh or salty water, flourishing in high temperatures (19-34°C), strong winds, and direct sun, making it a perfect contender for Agroforestry-combined crops.
In addition to Marula’s ecological and agricultural direct contribution, The MarulaLab initiative has already produced dozens of new jobs in the fields of industry, research, and marketing to improve the local job market and attract young professionals to the periphery.


One of the biggest attractors for pests to your property is an unkempt lawn. Bugs and rodents are attracted to weeds and tall grass that they can hide and nest in, as well as standing water and rubbish they can use to sustain themselves. Most home and business owners don’t realize that the best way to keep themselves rid of pests is to start with proper lawn care in Chico, CA and also servicing the Yuba County, and Sutter County areas!
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One of the best ways to guarantee a green lawn that’s healthy and full is to invest in lawn fertilization in Chico, Oroville, Butte County, and South Oroville, CA and also servicing the Yuba County, and Sutter County areas. Fertilizing your lawn gives it everything it needs to look great and thrive. Plus, fertilization also helps with weed control and issues like crab grass or dead spots. Through proper lawn fertilization, we give you the lawn you deserve, with an added benefit of deterring pests!
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The scope of activities of the Institute includes:
- Research of physiological and biochemical activity of pesticides and mechanisms of resistance of pest organisms;
- Research of metabolism, degradation and persistence of pesticides;
- Toxicological and ecotoxicological studies of pesticides and other toxicants;
- Testing of biological, chemical and toxicological properties of new pesticides for registration purposes in Serbia;
- Research of biological and ecological properties of various insects, mites, weeds, phytopathogenic microorganisms and other harmful organisms;
- Research of pesticide products based on naturally-occurring substances and agents, development of laboratory procedures for synthesis and formulation of pesticides, and development of new plant protection technologies aimed at ensuring high-quality food products;
- Finding optimal solutions for control of pest organisms under specific conditions;
- Analyses and super-analyses of pesticides and related toxicants in various products and assessment of product safety and quality in domestic and foreign trade;
- Transfer and application of most recent scientific and technological solutions.
Within legal limits, the Institute may also conduct other activities without entering them in the court registry, including foreign trade, on condition of their being exclusively relevant to the Institute’s registered activities.
Research that the Institute conducts in public interest branches into applied science and technological development, both relying on fundamental sciences.
Commercialization of research results is limited by the requirement that it should never compromise the quality of research work at the Institute.
In compliance with high education legislation and university statutes, the Institute may participate in study programmes within its registered field of activity.


The infrastructure was built by the Ministry of Works and started delivering water in the early 1980s. In 1990, local horticulturists and farmers formed the cooperative Kerikeri Irrigation Co Ltd and purchased the assets off the government.
It has approximately 340 shareholders, plus nearly 1100 non-commercial connections, who are supplied with water from two storage reservoirs. The scheme supports:
- Horticultural land (2,300 hectares)
- Agricultural land (350 hectares)
- Lifestyle blocks
- Commercial Users
- Raw bulk water for town supply
Horticulture has been a feature of Kerikeri’s economy and environment since the 1920s when the first citrus orchards were established. The moisture-holding capacity of the volcanic soils in the district is low and the summer droughts can be long so that even with an annual rainfall 1,800mm, supplementary irrigation is necessary for the consistently high quality fruits.
The main reservoirs are sited high in the catchments to minimise diversion and spillway costs, to enable a largely gravity-fed irrigation supply and to lessen the impact on the local environment.
One of the scheme’s major advantages is the way it harvests the water in the high rainfall times and stores this in its reservoirs for distribution during drier periods. This has reduced the pressure on the local rivers and streams for the taking of water for irrigation purposes and helping to protect their natural flows.
Irrigation is now the foundation of the horticultural sector, the town and the region.
The 2016 KICL Economic, Social and Environmental Impact Report shows KICL contributes more than $100 million per annum to the region’s GDP ad employs more than 1,300 FTEs.
The report also looked at KICL’s environmental impact and found that the scheme had improved total flows and drought flows in a majority of the catchment’s streams and rivers. Irrigation isn’t a contentious issue here because its value is recognized and understood. Communities need diversity and KICL has delivered it. The whole value of the community has been lifted on the back of horticulture and irrigation.


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Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights are suitable for most plants at all stages of their growth and development. The spectrum is as close as possible to sunlight, has powerful red and blue beams of light with the addition of green. Due to this glow, they are well suited for people, have a comfortable light that does not hit the eyes, do not require shielding (eye protection). Visually, this spectrum looks creamy, sometimes with a slightly purple tint. The question of buying a full-spectrum lamp arises for many gardeners who want to get the maximum effect from their activities.
Advantages of Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights
It is known that a plant needs illumination of a certain spectrum at each stage of vegetation. When studying the principles of photosynthesis, it was found that the most optimal illumination for plant growth is blue and red rays. At the same time, they react to the blue color:
- Various types of greens: onion, parsley, dill;
- Seedlings of vegetable crops;
- Exotic plants.
The wavelength of the blue spectrum reaches 445 nm. The longer wave – 660 nm – is a wave of the red spectrum. It is necessary for the formation of the ovaries of the plant, the ripening of fruits. At this stage, a white color range is also needed. The LED lamp of the full solar spectrum for plants combines the necessary number of red, blue and partially green diodes, which have a beneficial effect on the growth of domestic plants and seedlings at all stages of their formation.
You can buy a garden LED lamp of the full solar spectrum for the house on the Rightbud website, where a wide range of this type of lamps is presented.
When buying a full-spectrum lamp for plants, pay attention to the phyto-light diodes of the full solar spectrum. They are effective at all stages of plant development. They do not require replacement when changing the stages of plant growth. Full-spectrum lamps allow the sprout not to stretch in length, which occurs when deposited with conventional grow lamps, but to influence the increase in ovaries and the formation of fruits.
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I live in northern California. Way northern California, as in 280 miles north of San Francisco. The climate here is moderate, the most moderate in the continental United States. For gardeners that means an astonishing variety of plants grow here, making gardening marvelously satisfying.
Summer has arrived and the garden is bursting with produce. This time of year is so much fun. And yes, the weeds are also growing like, well, weeds.
The lettuces, which grow year round here, are exquisite and for the moment the snails are generally leaving them alone.
The onions are spectacularly sweet and large (I made some fried onion rings and they were glorious!).
One of my granddaughters, who lives a block or so away, and I picked most of radishes a few days ago, so I planted more today. She is 5 years old and delights in pulling anything out of the ground, including carrots and onions, as well as radishes.
The zucchini are preparing to conquer this part of the county; they are that abundant and it is only July. (The joke up here in northern California is that you MUST lock your car doors or someone with fill your car with bags of zucchini.) Some of them will be pan fried, some will go to neighbors, and some will get shredded and frozen for muffins this winter. If you have a favorite zucchini muffin recipe, I’d love to see it. Please share it in the comments.
My nearby granddaughter and I regularly check on the blueberries, but they have at least two weeks before they will be ripe enough to eat. Same with the boysenberries, except we found a few random sweet ones. There are some delicious muffins and pies in the near future and I can hardly wait.
Oh, and the farmers’ markets are exploding with flowers and produce. I hope you have one nearby to enjoy.


Do you spend time monitoring, photographing or observing insects? If so, your help is needed to watch for and report invasive and migratory insect pests that harm plants, causing damage to Canada’s environment, farm lands, forests, parks and other natural areas. Early detection is critical for slowing the spread of these insect pests.
View the poster for your region to learn more about priority insect pests to watch out for. Use the QR code to report your detections!
This initiative is a collaborative project developed by the Insect Surveillance Community of Practice of the Canadian Plant Health Council, a multi-partner body that coordinates action for the protection of plant health in Canada.


In the last period the health food industry has drastically increased. People want to feel better, eat well and decrease their consumption of junk food. However, due to the huge demand from the market, industries are increasingly using pesticides and chemicals to make our foods visibly perfect and increase their production. The solution to eating natural food without losing its properties would be to have a small vegetable garden. But most people live in big cities and this is impossible. For this reason, hanging gardens and gardens outside the city grow more and more. For those who want to have a small garden at hand, Linfa is the solution!
The satisfaction of making these little plants grow is unbelievable!
Linfa is a small home appliance that allows you to have a garden with fresh plants. It is the most modern hydroponic greenhouse, but sized for your house.
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Messages to the Presidents of the World
|44th President of the United States|
|In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017|
|Vice President||Joe Biden|
|Preceded by||George W. Bush|
|Succeeded by||Donald Trump|
|United States Senator from Illinois|
|In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008|
|Preceded by||Peter Fitzgerald|
|Succeeded by||Roland Burris|
|Member of the Illinois Senate from the 13th district|
|In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004|
|Preceded by||Alice Palmer|
|Succeeded by||Kwame Raoul|
|Born||Barack Hussein Obama II(1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 55)Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.|
|Spouse(s)||Michelle Robinson (m. 1992)|
|Relatives||See Family of Barack Obama|
|Awards||Nobel Peace Prize (2009)Profile in Courage Award (2017)|
RE: REQUISITION FOR ASSISTANCE.
- Henry L.
- Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Dear President obama,
I am a Ugandan Agriculturalist with a Warehouse and receipt service project which i would like you to support me with.
Building a cooperative business through setting up of bulking centers in areas of potentially high maize production where markets are under developed due to high prevalence of poverty will help stimulate and develop market. By setting up a bulking center (Warehouses), providing warehouse receipts to smallholder farmers, building partnerships with financial institutions, regulatory bodies like the Uganda Commodities Exchange, agricultural financing for ag-inputs, improved seed technologies become realistic to smallholder farmers. This creative convergence of push factors stimulates market forces, drive motive for increased production, deliver food security infrastructure and reduce poverty at household level.
The Hybrid Market Access Cooperative(HYMAC) Model puts the smallholder Woman farmer at the center of the business through well selected and trained farmer enterprises as the smallest unit for organizational & mobilization purposes. The Warehouse Storage infrastructure is for bulking, quality control, collective marketing and unit price control with the market. The farmer enterprises collectively form the cooperative governance structure to which Rockford Harris Group that runs the Warehouse System on a profit model accounts to. The Warehouse Receipt System runs on a partnership model between Commercial Banks, Uganda Commodities Exchange, the regulator and the Women’s Mission for Children that runs Warehouse (Bulking Center) on behalf of the cooperative on a profit model to sustain the business and replicate a working model to other areas as well as integrate other value & commodity chains. This model through increased returns will attract more market players in the value chain and help expand and replicate the model to other districts in the Country.
This project will primarily focus on 5,000 households in Busiro, Wakiso district. Each household in these rural communities has an average of 10 family members of whom 7 are between the ages of 15 to 35 years. 5 of the 10 family members are women on average. This youthful cohort provides labor on the farm as this is how these traditional family systems run. So directly this project is targeting to benefit about 50,000 from whom the Cooperative will draw its membership. Each of these households own about 4 hectares of land. Each hectare of land ideally can produce about 1.5 metric tons of Maize but current levels of production are 0.5tones which is way below optimum output. At optimum production capacity the quantity in 15 bags each weighing 100kgs becomes a problem for storage at harvest at peak season forcing farmers to sell off their harvest at low prices due to oversupply. The middle-men who bulk the produce in the capital and have direct access to markets during times of high demand and low supply can make profits of more than 400% per unit. With 1.5tones per household, this translates into approximately $200 of gross income which if discounted with the cost of production; land preparation, cost of inputs, weed management, harvesting, storage; transportation turns out unprofitable for many farmers. Setting up bulking centers (warehouses) starting with one will build community institutional capacity to commercialize their agro-activities given the profit viability.


Verde Potash is a Brazilian fertilizer development company focused on advancing the Cerrado Verde Project located in the heart of Brazil's largest agricultural market. Cerrado Verde is the source of a potash-rich deposit from which the Company intends to produce both ThermoPotash and potassium chloride ("KCl"). ThermoPotash is a controlled-release, non-chloride, multi-nutrient fertilizer that is ideally suited for Brazilian soils. In addition, the Company is developing its Calcario limestone project, limestone being a key raw material in the Company's process to produce both ThermoPotash and KCl.
About the Cerrado Verde Potash Project
Cerrado Verde is a unique project: 1) its high grade potash rock outcrops and is amenable to strip mining, allowing fast construction of a scalable operation; 2) it is located in the midst of the world's third largest and fastest growing fertilizer market; 3) it connects to Brazil's largest fertilizer distribution districts via existing and high quality infrastructure; 4) it has the potential to supply both ThermoPotash and KCl to Brazil's local agriculture market from its large potash-rich deposit.


Allotment Fees - Effective from 11th April 2022
The fee for renting an allotment in Bardney 2022/2023 is £33 per year for residents and £36 for non residents.
A deposit of £25 is payable for new allotment holders, this will be returned at the end of the tenancy agreement with the allotment being returned in the condition it was taken over in.
Allotment holders can opt in for water if they wish too. There is an additional charge for this.
If you are interested in renting an allotment please contact the Parish Clerk on 07775 372170. We do have a waiting list at the moment.


Center South cane crush rose 6.4% YoY to 42,034 TMT and cumulative crush continues to outpace last year by 16.65%. The sugar production mix continues to favor ethanol production as only 36.47% of the harvest went to sugar production and cumulatively 35.02% has been allocated to sugar. This continues to be lower than last year’s cumulative allocation to sugar of 46.33%.
Total sugar production is only behind LY by -7.83% partly because sucrose per tonne continues to be above year ago levels by roughly 5%. Sugar cane harvest yields for the first half of June were 85.52 tonnes per hectare which is -1.74% below year ago levels.
The extended dry weather that had helped the season get off to an early start to the crushing season has had a longer term detrimental effect on the crop according to UNICA. It will mean a reduction in the productivity of the sugar cane harvested in the coming months. Will wait and see for now.
Have a good day,


Farmer Mybrow and the Fairies
FARMER MYBROW was one day looking about for a suitable piece of land to convert into a field. He wished to grow corn and yams. He discovered a fine spot, close to a great forest—which latter was the home of some fairies. He set to work at once to prepare the field.
Having sharpened his great knife, he began to cut down the bushes. No sooner had he touched one than he heard a voice say, "Who is there, cutting down the bushes?" Mybrow was too much astonished to answer. The question was repeated. This time the farmer realized that it must be one of the fairies, and so replied, "I am Mybrow, come to prepare a field." Fortunately for him the fairies were in great good humour. He heard one say, "Let us all help Farmer Mybrow to cut down the bushes." The rest agreed. To Mybrow's great delight, the bushes were all rapidly cut down with very little trouble on his part. He returned home, exceedingly well pleased with his day's work, having resolved to keep the field a secret even from his wife.
Early in January, when it was time to burn the dry bush, he set off to his field, one afternoon, with the means of making a fire. Hoping to have the fairies' assistance once more, he intentionally struck the trunk of a tree as he passed. Immediately came the question, "Who is there, striking the stumps?" He promptly replied, "I am Mybrow, come to burn down the bush." Accordingly, the dried bushes were all burned down, and the field left clear in less time that it takes to tell it.
Next day the same thing happened. Mybrow came to chop up the stumps for firewood and clear the field for digging. In a very short time his faggots and firewood were piled ready, while the field was bare.
So it went on. The field was divided into two parts—one for maize and one for yams. In all the preparations—digging, sowing, planting—the fairies gave great assistance. Still, the farmer had managed to keep the whereabouts of his field a secret from his wife and neighbours.
The soil having been so carefully prepared, the crops promised exceedingly well. Mybrow visited them from time to time, and congratulated himself on the splendid harvest he would have.
One day, while maize and yams were still in their green and milky state, Mybrow's wife came to him. She wished to know where his field lay, that she might go and fetch some of the firewood from it. At first he refused to tell her. Being very persistent, however, she finally succeeded in obtaining the information—but on one condition. She must not answer any question that should be asked her. This she readily promised, and set off for the field.
When she arrived there she was utterly amazed at the wealth of the corn and yam. She had never seen such magnificent crops. The maize looked most tempting—being still in the milky state—so she plucked an ear. While doing so she heard a voice say, "Who is there, breaking the corn?" "Who dares ask me such a question?" she replied angrily—quite forgetting her husband's command. Going to the field of yams she plucked one of them also. "Who is there, picking the yams?" came the question again. "It is I, Mybrow's wife. This is my husband's field and I have a right to pick." Out came the fairies. "Let us all help Mybrow's wife to pluck her corn and yams," said they. Before the frightened woman could say a word, the fairies had all set to work with a will, and the corn and yams lay useless on the ground. Being all green and unripe, the harvest was now utterly spoiled. The farmer's wife wept bitterly, but to no purpose. She returned slowly home, not knowing what to say to her husband about such a terrible catastrophe. She decided to keep silence about the matter.
Accordingly, next day the poor man set off gleefully to his field to see how his fine crops were going on. His anger and dismay may be imagined when he saw his field a complete ruin. All his work and foresight had been absolutely ruined through his wife's forgetfulness of her promise.
The text came from:
Barker, William H. and Cecilia Sinclair. West African Folk-tales. Lagos, Africa: Bookshop, 1917.
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Hydroponics: A Practical And In-Depth Guide To Hydroponics (hydroponics, hydroponic gardening)
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New River Valley Beekeepers Association President Richard Reid, owner of Happy Hollow Honey and Apiary will host the second in a series of informal beekeeping field days on Sat., June 14 from 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Hale-YMCA Community Garden at 300 Maywood St., Blacksburg. The membership is welcome; no sign-ups are necessary.
The field day will include inspections of up to eight of Richard’s treatment free hives with discussion afterwards. Please bring your own veils and protective equipment, and attendees are encourage to bring their own drinks and snacks. These items will not be provided as part of the event. Carpooling is encouraged, as parking is limited.
Richard has kept colonies at the community garden, a project of the YMCA at Virginia Tech for several years, helping to pollinate the vegetables, flowers and fruit trees grown there. The garden – started decades ago by the late Emily Stuart, the first woman to direct the YMCA in Blacksburg – is a 15-acre site that includes the Roper Solar Greenhouse, community garden plots, demonstration civic agriculture gardens, permaculture gardens and a bluebird trail.
Inclement weather notice: If it is raining in Blacksburg on the day of the event, it will be postponed.


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2020 JOINT CONVENTION & TRADE SHOW
SPONSORED BY: NEBRASKA STATE IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION AND NEBRASKA WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
NOVEMBER 22-24, 2020
Holiday Inn Conference Center
110 S 2nd Avenue, Kearney, NE 68847
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2020
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2020
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2020
NSIA Program Activities
- Active participation and financial assistance for irrigation interests in instream flow litigation.
- Support for projects constructed under federal reclamation laws in their efforts to obtain title and/or renew water service contracts for their project facilities from the federal government.
- Support for irrigation projects’ water conservation efforts through a conservation programs workshop.
- Encouragement for changes in state laws for expedited procedures to allow water rights transfers and other water management activities within organization irrigation projects.
- Providing new property and casualty insurance programs with better coverage and at less cost for irrigation projects.
- Providing employee benefit plans designed to ensure sound protection and reasonable cost, helping irrigation organization to recruit and retain good employees.
- Endorse investment opportunities for surplus project funds to allow optimization of investment return for irrigation project operations.
- Keep state and federal lawmakers informed about irrigation issues and economic benefits realized by the state from preservation and support of irrigation project facilities and district operations.


I am a newly registered card holder. I cannot grow in my current apartment, but will be moving in 6-8 months. I am currently in the research phase of how to setup a grow room and raise my own plants. I'm looking for a grower that is in need of a helper. I'm eager to learn and a quick study. I can help with any stage of growth, or even setting up a grow room. It's all experience that I'll profit from. Please PM me if you're interested Thanks and happy growing!


Green Wall Irrigation
Last winter, my friend and I set out to build a sort of "green wall" in his back yard. It was a very fun project, and the building and planting turned out to be quite easy.
What turned out to be harder was getting my very busy friend to keep his garden watered. By the end of this summer, everything was dead.
Since I knew my friend wouldn't be able to stop traveling for work, I decided the only way to make last year's project a success was to add a custom multilevel sprinkler system.
We used drip irrigation hose, which works by letting the water soak out through a porous hose material. When I was younger this same task was normally accomplished using a cheap hose with holes poked into it every foot or so. But times change, and technology improves. I think the logic is that the drip irrigation would then give a more uniform distribution of water.
The problem though is that with the drip irrigation you don't have the ability to set just how porous you want your hose to be. In almost all cases I'd bet that the drip irrigation is probably optimally set up to maintain a great flow.
But we happened to be working in one of those cases where gravity works against you. In our original plan we ran the drip hose straight first at ground level and then snaked it up to end at the top. Unfortunately, this meant that there was higher pressure right at the beginning, which caused all of the water to shoot out before it could get to the top.
The solution was to add a segment of solid hose that first ran to the top of the planter before running back down. With this setup, there was enough time for the water at the top to seep out before it went to lower levels.
We ran the hoses around on the backside and did our best to just tuck them right around the corner, running them low enough that they could be buried with dirt.
Almost not noticeable once its buried.
Our project was very small so we had a lot of excess hose left over. I just tied off a knot at the end to kink the hose. That way we can extend the project some time in the future.
From the front, the irrigation system isn't too obvious when it isn't running. We threw a few test plants in that day, but I missed getting a picture of them. I'll just have to wait to go back and get a "results" pic later.
Finally, the most important part is getting an automated irrigation timer. This brand was kind of confusing to use, but it was the cheapest one at the store and we didn't have time to comparison shop.
I'll update here when I can get a photo of how the plants look after a few months of automate irrigation. My friend has been out of town for multiple weeks already so this will be a good test.
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Precision-Agriculture: An Image Net – Based Multilayer Convolution Neural Network for Leaf Disease Detection in Coffee Plant in Early-Stage System
Secured Plants often are affected by various fungal infections and leaf diseases that hinders the growth of healthy crop and eventually reducing yield in plants, lead, buds, flowers and fruits, Plant diseases are the leading source of agricultural production losses in terms of quantity and quality. These reductions have a severe influence on agricultural production. Farmers and plant pathologist have always relied on their eyes to diagnose diseases and make decisions based on experiences, which necessitates a significant amount of time and human work., It is sometimes inaccurate and sometimes prejudiced because many diseases appear to be much like the early stages, proper results may not be recorded, and accuracy may be low at times [1-4]. This technique leads to the usage of pesticides that aren't necessary, resulting in greater production costs. According for that knowledge, a precise disease detector linked to a trustworthy database to assist farmers is required, particularly in the presence of naive and inexperienced farmers [5-6]. Rapid development of computer vision open the way for this using province Deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) techniques. An early disease detector is also required to protect your crop in a timely manner. There have been numerous previous studies undertaken for this aim . With CNN's most popular model, we used the "Plant Village" dataset, a well-known database that really is available on the internet. The CNNs, on the other hand, require a big amount of information for training. In this paper, we offer the following strategy: CNN models have been improved with ImageNet algorithm learning, which employs an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Feature Selection (FS) to address multi-class classification problems for four types of diseases, namely Cercospora, Miner, Phoma, and Rust The proposed frame work aim at increasing the models’ accuracy when the data is limited
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Patience is a virtue, and oh how virtuous is my farmer! Having a guy that answers all my basic questions about his farming life brings the biggest smile to my face. Everything I ask him must seem so simple but I appreciate that he humors me anyway. I pray a lot for God to give my farmer the strength to deal with me! 🙂
Sundays always seem to be when my farmer and I have time to catch up about what’s going on. There is always such a flurry of activity! I wanted to get a good update of what is going on with the farm and I would like to make farm updates a regular topic on this blog.
Being so far away, I sometimes feel a bit removed and it can be hard for me to fully picture what’s going on (I also blame this on being a visual learner). With this series of updates I’ll be able to mentally organize the info I get for my own benefit, but also yours! I want to share just how important and rewarding farm life can be!
What’s been happening on the farm:
After struggling with winter weather earlier this year (man, Iowa in the winter sounds rough…) they finally got all their corn stalk bales moved out of various fields that seemed to be all over creation. With all the wet weather, they have been pushing really hard to get all the equipment ready to go for disking and planting.
I’ve added a photo gallery if you want to check out some pictures!
Since they were able to get in the fields this weekend, planting has begun! They are praying that the weather cooperates so they can keep on truckin’.
Here’s the plan for the upcoming days:
This week the plan is to go at it 110+%. They will keep on disking and planting while they continue to care for the cattle. My farmer says there are about 4,500 at their feedlot right now. He will feed them early every morning and then head out for fieldwork. They will disk and then plant about 1,000 acres for themselves and then do an additional 1,500 -ish acres of planting as custom jobs.
Last year, they double disked all their fields but this year they plan on changing that up a little bit. All the fields where corn stalks were taken off (baled) will only be disked once. Double disking is done to break up the stalks left on the ground. Having too many stalks left on the field could possibly hinder the seedling when it tries to pop through the dirt crust.
After taking into consideration the weather and their time schedule, it seems that those fields will be okay with one disking. It’s all about finding the balance between doing everything they can to promote a good crop and keeping costs under control for profitability. Every year these decisions are somewhat of a gamble with so many unknowns!
Sunday Summary: I don’t know how they do it!
Most days I am in awe of what my farmer can get accomplished! Farmers really do work so hard and are often under-appreciated. But whatever the weather happens to be or what equipment breaks next, they have faith that God will provide. He brings us all right where we need to be in His timing, not ours. Part of our journey is trusting that and enjoying life along the way. We should make time to stop and smell the roses (or manure). I know I need to be reminded of this all the time!
Thanks for reading! Did you enjoy this farm update? Are there any other topics that you would like to learn about? Please leave a comment and let me know! I’ll be sharing lots more about the farm in future posts! We can learn together 🙂


“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it’s happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes — and his work so far shows — that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.
Desertification of the world’s grasslands, Allan Savory suggests, is the immediate cause of poverty, social breakdown, violence, cultural genocide — and a significent contribution to climate change. In the 1960s, while working in Africa on the interrelated problems of increasing poverty and disappearing wildlife, Savory made a significant breakthrough in understanding the degradation and desertification of grassland ecosystems. After decades of study and collaboration, thousands of managers of land, livestock and wildlife on five continents today follow the methodology he calls “Holistic Management.”


Hazelnut is an economically valuable nut crop worldwide which can be used in various fields for its fruits, oil, bark, leaves, and husks. Because of the limited genetic diversity and the lack of advanced chemical control practices, insect pests and diseases represent major constraints for hazelnut production in the region. The demand for decision support systems and crop forecasting models is thus on the rise. Reliable simulation tools are needed to timely identify situations of risk and to quantify expected yield, as well as yield losses due to biotic stresses and their impact on crop quality. The aim of this project is to provide reliable simulation models, targeted to predict hazelnut pests and disease epidemics and to quantify associated yield losses and quality-related defects. The project will start with the characterization of the main hazelnut growing systems in Turkey. Data collation activities will be performed, aimed at the harmonisation of different types of data and pest/disease models already developed for other tree crops. Disease emergence, dynamics of pest population, impact of hazelnut diseases and pests will be modelled and investigated through the development and the integration of different approaches and tools. The impacts caused by pests and diseases will be assessed, both aiming at improving actual yield forecasting activities including losses due to pests and diseases, i.e. for the coming harvest season, and for new assessments of future climate change scenarios. The developed pest and disease models will be used to support tactical decisions, to forecast yield losses during the growing season and for scenario analyses according to different climatic scenarios. The models will be applied in Turkey, which is the top hazelnut producing country. Their application in other hazelnut producing areas will be evaluated during the project development.


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Join Library Director Andrea Tillinghast and new Teen Advocate Brooke Donnelly for some leisurely gardening at the Library’s Community Garden Plot at the Ovid Community Garden. CCE Educators and Master Gardeners will be on hand at each program providing info and plant education. Contact the library for further info about the Ovid Community Garden. This program takes place every other Thursday starting July 7th until September 1st. Registration is required. This program is open to ages 16+ and is completely free.


Winter gardens in the Southern Highlands can flourish and be every bit as beautiful as in the spring and summer months.
Writer, horticulturist and gardening expert, Jecca Blake, offers these tips on how to prepare your soil, what to plant and how to ensure gardening is enjoyable and not a chore.
“July might not offer the ideal weather to entice you out into the garden, but there is plenty to do in preparation for the busy growing months ahead. Start with your tools and your soil,” she advises.
Winter Garden Chores
The first thing you. want to do is to clean and sharpen your secateurs – don’t spend money buying a new pair. A little TLC will see yours last at least another season or two.
“Secateurs are a gardener’s best friend,” says Jessica,”but dull and dirty blades can spread disease and tear the leaves and stems of your favourite plants. Here’s how to easily clean and sharpen your trusty snippers.
1. Tip a little WD40, or similar product, onto a scourer to clean off any sap or dirt from the blades.
2. Add some water to a sharpening stone. These are fairly inexpensive and readily available at hardware stores. Allow the water to sink in. Holding the secateur blade flat, run it across the surface of the stone turning the blade over with each stroke. Work slowly and methodically, applying even pressure and checking the sharpness regularly.
3. Use a soft cloth to apply to apply some vegetable oil to the blades and moving parts to stop them rusting and store in a dry location.
Feed your soil with some well rotted cow manure or blood and bone and dig it through using a decent pitch fork. In a couple of months, when you are ready to plant tasty edibles like tomatoes and cucumbers the soil will be bursting with goodness and reward you with fabulous veggies.
Camellias are in full bloom pretty much from Autumn right through to spring, so visit a local gardening centre and plant away! Hellebores are also in bloom right now, so try to get your hands on them, too. Visit Welby Garden Centre,
Mittagong Garden Centre, or Bowral Co-Op Garden Centre.
For indoor options, choose Moth Orchids, which come in a kaleidoscope of colours and thrive almost on neglect. Simply keep in a warm environment, in direct sunlight and water well once a week.
It’s a great time to prune deciduous fruit trees and perennials – plants that flower in summer and autumn then go into a period of dormancy in winter. Using your (newly sharpened secateurs, cut off about one third of last year’s growth to encourage new growth that will develop more fruit.
Use some of the more interesting branches you have pruned as a alternative to flowers to decorate your home.
DIY Mini Greenhouse
Before you throw away the plastic carton your berries or cherry tomatoes come in, reuse them as a mini greenhouse. It’s free and great way to get some seedlings going during the cool months of winter.
Simply pick a clear plastic clamshell container that closes and wash and dry your containers then fill them about 2/3 with seed raising mix that you can buy at the Co-op. Press down gently to firm it in. Plant seeds with enough space for you to be able to dig them out when ready without damaging any neighbours. Sow them to the depth suggested on the packet. For
Water with a spray bottle when tender young seedling pop their heads through, as it is gentler. Close the lid and place in a sunny area outside and bring it in at night into a room without heating. Check regularly and keep moist.
When they are big enough handle use a butter knife to separate seedlings and plant into a large container or directly into a garden bed, if they are frost tolerant. Orr, for a unique twist, plant them in an old unused wheelbarrow.
Wash and disinfect your mini greenhouse and you can use over and over again.
Use your mini greenhouse to pop in seeds of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, carrots and Brussels sprouts. Or if you’re after some flowers try pansy, poppy, snapdragon or ranunculus. You could also give coriander a go now, as it won’t bolt to seed like it does in warm weather. Just be sure to grow it in a spot that gets plenty of winter sun.


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I praise you for being my Lord,
my Brother, my Husband, my God,
the great Gardener of my heart.
Would you make me your companion
in the garden you have prepared for me.
Teach me what belongs within the garden and without.
Help me to see where my garden walls have been broken,
grant me grace and strength to repair them.
I pray for your wisdom to bring under your care
desolate plots of weeds and rebellious roots.
Show me the plants and trees
you have called me to cultivate,
teach me the fruits that you delight in
how I may grow them best,
help me to plant the seeds and talents you’ve given me
that you may receive the greatest harvest and return.
All of my garden, what you’ve placed in my stewardship,
I give to you —
my heart, mind, soul, body, time, talents, and energy,
I surrender my relationship and my life to you today.
May you receive the fullness of your inheritance in me.
I bless you Lord.


Welcome to Rocky Waters Vineyard and Winery. We are located in the rolling countryside of Jo Daviess County on the Northeast side of Hanover, Illinois.
Rocky Waters is a family-owned winery dedicated to the pursuit of delicious Marechal Foch, Leon Millot, St. Croix, along with white varietals of Lacrosse and St. Pepin. These varieties are best suited to the climate and soils of our beautiful 25 acre vineyard.
We invite you to visit our winery, gift shop, tasting room, and vineyard. Each season brings gorgeous views from our magnificent winery built on the bluff overlooking the vineyard.
Our Gift Shop and Tasting Room is open daily:
Monday- Saturday from 10 am-6 pm
Sundays from Noon-4 pm
Address: Rocky Waters Vineyard/Winery, Inc.
2003 W. Hanover Rd.
Hanover, IL 61041


Searching For Truth: A Blog by Sherri Smith
The growth in the essential oil world is tremendous, and rightfully so, as the intelligence of nature is forever revealing itself as powerful medicine.What is critical in this production is sustainability in the harvesting of these oils; it has been in our lack of regard for the source that has created much of the depletion we are experiencing today in our environment. Just as we have become conscious of our buying power with locally grown, organic foods, we must also place that same level of awareness into essential oils.
A bottle of essential oil contains a family of aromatic compounds that are highly concentrated and in a pure form. What we need to also consider is the variables that influences the nature of the oil and therefore it’s therapeutic applications. These influences can be summed up in 3 broad categories; the environment, the plant itself and its metabolic processes and lastly the people.
Sunlight is behind the production of all the compounds inside plants because sunlight is what drives the metabolic processes. The moon increases the vitality of the plant based on the diurnal rhythm or changes of the seasons. The next group is the Elements; earth, water, fire, air and space. We can classify the qualities of the oil based on the primary elements they contain such as an oil derived from the root are going to have a more stable, viscous, grounding quality. A hydro sol is going to be more hydrating. Certain oils have more heat and stimulating function therefore classified as being high in the fire element. An oil that improves our ability to breath would be of the air element.
Eco-physiology is the environmental influences that impact the plant quality. The soil is incredibly important in production of high grade medicinal roles. Drainage, nutrients and minerals in the soil quality have a key role in creating a high grade oil. Water also plays a major role and paradoxically it is the lack of water that increases the production of essential oils more than anything else. Therefore the aromatic plants that come from the desert or the dry climates have the best essential oils and aromatic compounds. A great example is Frankincense; the resin that is harvested from frankincense trees in the driest areas of the desert has been described of concentrated drops of sunlight and that is because there is literally no water in these environment and that causes these trees to produce very high levels of essential oils. In this case it is the dryness element that produces the greatest quality oil. The fire element is sunlight, and here we can look at an example of a plant that grows at high altitudes. These plants have a very different metabolism than those that grow at sea level; the reason for this is the sunlight is very different and the oxygen in the atmosphere is unique (air element). Jatamansi oil, from the Himalayas grows in a very high altitude, and because of this the more concentrated the compounds will be that have the relaxing effect on mind and body. Considering these variables it makes it imperative that we know these oils are derived from the climate they best thrive in and not from a man-made growing farm that mimics the conditions of nature.
The plant produces these oils for 2 primary reasons.The first and most fundamental is immunological, the compounds are the defense mechanism to protect itself from herbivores and pathogens. They also produce compounds as part of their signalling mechanism for reproduction purposes. Both of these functions are very, very old. This brings a history into that plant or flower, so considering that, we have all of the intelligence of how the plant learned to flower for its own benefit. The immune functions provide an ancient lineage of evolutionary intelligence that is coming to us through the essential oil that reminds our own immune system how to function properly and restore it’s balance.
The people handling the plants for the distillation and alchemy of these oils is another contributor to the quality of the final product. All of these oils require a lot of heavy work, bending and a massive amount of plant based material to get just one litre of oil. Many of us do not understand why the production is so important and ethically imperative. Those in the distillation process must understand renew-ability, stability of botanical resources and the foresight to see how we can have these plants in our future. Ecological cultivation should be the primary focus of the people harvesting this product. Floracopeia has made it a principle operations standard to work with small extended families of people locale to the region these plants are native to, from the highest quality regions.
Know what’s in your bottle ,and each time you use it, it will be with greater respect for the production and for the medicine it can provide us.
The majority of this information was taken from the Floracopeia web trainings.
Sherri Smith from A State of Bliss has trained extensively and globally with ancient modalities and traditions to combine the wisdom these teachings into her own unique therapies. We are deeply connected to the natural world and many of the ills of society today are a result of our separation from this. Sherri's commitment to her own journey keep her immersed in teachings, experiences and advancement, in turn providing rich and rare content to her offerings. There is a yearning within each of us to live a greater life. Discover your power, your gifts and your truths.


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Have A Great Urban Garden?
Resourceful urban dwellers with green thumbs manage to coax some impressive produce out of our concrete jungle. If you need some inspiration, Metrocurean contributor Laura Sears offers up some great tips for city gardening.
If you're one of the many gardeners out there who've overcome city-bound space and soil limitations, we want to see your goods! Are you able to take over your rooftop common space or do you use every inch on your balcony?
Submit your garden — from tiny window box plots to rowhouse roofs — and we'll choose the best to feature in our summer Great Urban Gardens series.
To submit yours, please send the following information to metrocurean AT gmail.com:
• Your name and neighborhood
• What you grow
• Tips from what you've learned growing food in the city
• Photos of your garden (you posing with your plants also welcome!)
Now go snap some pics of those gardens! We want to see 'em.