Owning a cow or other livestock is not an easy thing. Of course, if your family has owned cows for generations, skills are passed down. But, for those that have only few cows, or are finding it difficult to maintain the herd, it is important to have information at hand, quickly. There are often many difficult situations, from adverse weather conditions, to disease, that effect a herd, and if the heard is struggling, the family could be struggling also.
Of course with large urbanisation in #Africa, there are fewer opportunities to keep cows, unless for example you partake in #CowFunding, and in that case, someone else does the looking after for you! For those that have cows, maintaining the health of the heard is incredibly important. Optimum nutrition, medicine and health care is often the fine line between the life and the death of a cow. And one cow may mean the world to a family. Providing milk, or calves to sell or meat to eat, losing a cow, or having an unhealthy cow could have a massive impact on the well being of a family.
In this brave new world of technology and with mobile phones and internet access quickly spreading throughout Africa, it is now possible for anyone to get access to information. If people want specific information, sometimes Google (or other search engines) are just not efficient enough. In recent years we have seen a trend towards tailoring information for specific types of people. There are apps which give students access to books. and e-learning opportunities, and apps that enable people all over the world to advise on best farming practices. And now, there is a service which enables farmers to look after their livestock to the best of their abilities.
iCow helps cattle farmers, as well as other types of farmers, improve their productivity by sending them relevant text messages packed full with important information and instructions. By having access to relevant information, farmers can reduce risk. And it is not just for cow farming, there is a plethora of information such as on soil fertility, poultry, eggs and crops, which is helping many improve their farms.
Continue reading “Did You Know you can look after your cows with an App in Africa?”


Wayne Ahrens and Suzi Hilder are the custodians of some exceedingly fine vineyards. Both from grape growing families of long standing they planted a vineyard in the Eden Valley and purchased a beautiful block of ancient vines in the Barossa Valley sub-region of Vine Vale. With patience, intelligence and sheer graft these vines are now producing grapes sought after by some of the best winemakers in Australia. A commitment to sustainable practises and certification as Biodynamic producers both in the vineyard and winery is further proof of the dedication to quality.
The excellence of the Smallfry wines is a reflection of the dedication in the vineyard. The wines are very much hand-made, non-interventionist styles with no additives and only older oak used. They showcase the regional Barossa styles in a modern, fruit focussed vein. A five star producer and “one to watch” in James Halliday’s Wine Companion Smallfry is a winery most definitely on the rise.


The Carolina Area Free Flight Association and the DC Maxecuters are hosting their spring contest this weekend in Raeford, North Carolina. Both AMA and FAC events will be flown each day. This is the first outdoor contest of the season and the weather forecast looks promising. The rain over the last week makes it likely that the sod farm irrigation system should be shut down. The GPS coordinates for the front gate are 34º 58′ 19.33″ N, 79º 12′ 07.20″ W.


Did you know that the clothing you prefer has a major impact on your health as well as the environment? Yes, it is true! That is why people nowadays choose to wear organic cotton clothing instead of other textiles.
If we talk about organic cotton women’s clothing, then these clothes are not only comfortable to wear but also safe for your overall health as well. However, if you are still not convinced about the benefits of organic cotton clothing, in this blog, we will share with you everything about organic cotton and its benefits for women’s clothing.
What is Organic Cotton Farming?
Organic cotton crops grow without fertilizers, pesticides, or other toxic chemicals. As a result, organic cotton farming results in a sustainable environment as it helps to maintain soil fertility and harvests chemical-free cotton. The conventional method of cotton farming followed in earlier days jeopardized the environment and farmers’ health.
Benefits Of Using Organic Cotton Clothings For Women
- Organic Cotton Clothing Are Environment-Friendly
As mentioned above, organic cotton grows with a natural farming method, using lower carbon due to lesser fuel and energy consumption. Also, organic cotton farming goes through a chemical-free production process, which prevents water contamination. This way, the health of farmers is not compromised as well as saving the environment from the use of excessive fertilizers and pesticides.
- Organic Cotton Clothing for sensitive-skin people and those with allergies
Have you ever felt itching and rashes wearing normal clothes? If yes, then it might be caused because of the toxic fabrics. Toxic fabrics are those fabrics grown that contain dyes, cleansers, traces of pesticides, or other toxic chemicals which pose a serious threat to people and cause various health issues.
- Organic Cotton Clothing Is Natural & Comfortable
Organic clothes are made from a hundred percent natural fabrics. Organic clothes are soft, natural, and comfortable to wear.
- Organic Cotton Clothes Are Softer & Durable
With organic cotton clothing, the clothing’s quality won’t be affected. Organic cotton is a stiff material. In organic cotton processing, strong chemicals are not used. This makes your organic clothing durable, lasts longer, and looks great.
Examples of different Organic Cotton Clothing are:
- Plum Coat
The coat is hundred percent cotton and made with a dual weave hand-crafted khadi fabric. As per your convenience, you can customize the collar width, sleeve length, coat length, and colors as well.
- Coal Black Summer Vest
Coal black summer vest is made with fully lined cotton fabric with hand-crafted khadi. You can add three hand-crafted button holes with fabric buttons used for fastening.
- Italian Silk & Wool Dress
The Italian silk & summer coat is made with hand-crafted wool and Italian fabric. While designing this dress, designers used the Italian silk flare with gathers at the waist. It has hand-crafted buttonholes with uniquely designed buttons. You can customize the collar width, sleeve length, and jacket, and even add colors as well. Also, if you want a chic look, you can try brown wool jackets, along with the dress.
- Wool Peplum
Wool peplum is made with a hundred percent hand-crafted wool fabric. The peplum has an asymmetrical flare with different wool fabric buttons.
- Tweed Coat
Another best organic cotton women’s clothing is the tweed coat. The tweed coat has highlighting details like raised seam sleeve with two on-seam pockets; this coat comes with an inside concealed button.
These were some outstanding examples of organic cotton women’s clothing that is unanimously chosen by most women globally. Along with this, organic cotton gives the sense of being environmentally safe and the idea of comfortable wearing. So, if you are looking for the best quality, comfortable, and trendy outfits, visit the reliable website of organic clothes and buy them at the best price.


Hawaiian Ka置 -- The Little Cousin of Kona
Hawaiian Ka置 coffee is grown in the Ka置 District, which is right next to the Kona District.
Because Ka'u grows in soil and climate conditions that are much
the same as Kona Coffee, some say Ka置 Coffee is very similar in taste profile to Kona Coffee.
Hawaiian Ka置 has placed very high in the cupping contests at the Specialty Coffee Show for several consecutive years.
It's estate grown, high elevation coffee that is delicious and smooth. We've roasted it to a perfect medium roast to allow the flavor of the
coffee bean to shine through.
Sorry! We no longer have Ka置 Coffee.


Making your Garden and Plants Drought-resistant
Preparing your Soil
Cultivate the soil deeply and dig in large quantities of organic matter to improve the soil structure, soil water retention and water availability for plants. Well-rotted garden compost, mushroom compost, composted bark and well-rotted farmyard manure are all suitable forms of organic matter.
Apply fertiliser as plants use water most efficiently where nutrient levels are adequate. But do not apply too much fertiliser to the soil, as this can encourage too much growth before summer and lose its bloom. Require extra watering, and become frost damaged in winter.
Preparing your Plants
Choose plants with grey-green or silver leaves as they reflect the sun's rays, helping to conserve moisture within the plant tissues.
Try to choose plants which suit the site's soil type and aspect. They will be more tolerant of varying climatic conditions as well as of pest and disease problems.
Plant things while they are still small. They will develop much greater resilience as they adapt to their conditions from a young age. Ideally, plant in autumn so they can do some growing before dry weather arrives.
Before planting, thoroughly soak the plants in their pots in a bucket of water until the bubbles stop rising to the surface.
Thoroughly water in all new plants (and keep them watered in the first season after planting to ensure they establish well). Once established, they will become much more drought-tolerant.
Remove weeds regularly to prevent them from depriving your plants of water and use mulches to retain moisture in the soil.
Choosing Drought-resistant Plants
Hanging Basket Plants
Pelargonium - trailing and zonal


Qingdao Foodlink Co.,Ltd was established in 2000 with building area more than 30,000 square meters. Foodlink is a professional enterprises engaged in peanut and peanut products , raw and roasted sunflower inshells production. Foodlink has many years food processing and export experience,and has been No.1 enterprise in Shandong Province at the aspect of peanuts export business in Europe for many years.
Set up Qingdao Foodlink Fruit& Nut Co.,Ltdto adapt to the growing business of sunflower inshells.
More than 5,000 tons of high oleic peanuts were imported from the USA and Argentina.The advanced sheller imported from the USA to independently sheller peanuts, further realizing the source control of the products


Do your kids know where a banana comes from? What about beetroot? Or say sugar? I was alarmed to read that many kids don’t know or don’t have a clue! Yes just amazing!
In a news.com.au article it discusses the percentages of children that have no clue on where some vegetables or how yoghurt and ice cream are made.
According to the article:
“More than 50 per cent didn’t know that beetroots were grown in the ground, 75 per cent couldn’t identify a leek or radish, and 58 per cent struggled to name a nectarine.”
The survey was conducted by Woolworths in conjunction with Jamie Oliver to understand how much children knew about their food. Woolworths is teaming up with Jamie Oliver to bring his campaign of eating fresh food to Australia. The campaign aims to educate kids on healthy food choices and the positives of eating fresh produce.
Could your kids name a nectarine in a sea of other fruit? Would they know?
Another quote from the article below:
“Research also found that six in 10 children were unaware that herbs such as mint grew in the ground, and 70 per cent didn’t know where sugar came from.”
After reading the news article, it got me thinking….How many of the foods from the article can your kids name? I used to live round the corner from sugar cane farms so have chewed on raw sugar cane. Not a great experience but you got the idea of the taste. Although it was more grassy than sugar. Growing up in North Queensland, I was lucky to have all sorts of things growing in my garden, bananas, mangoes, grapes and so much more.
Maybe kids need to go off for visits to learn more of where food comes from? Is this a sign of our modern times?
What are your thoughts? Let me know


Orange Village Community Garden
If you love to garden but don’t have the space, the Community Garden is for you!
The garden is comprised of 60 raised beds in a fenced-in area.
A fee of $25 per year is required, and $75 which is a refundable “clean-up” fee to be refunded at the end of the season if the plot is cleaned properly.
Registration is Required
Garden Registration Form with Release, Rules and Regulations.
FEES, DATES AND ASSIGNMENT OF PLOTS:
Annual fees are $25.00 plus a deposit $75.00. The Mayor or Mayor’s designee will collect fees and
deposits and assign plots to tenants.
Existing gardener who is an Orange Village resident January 2 – January 22, 2020
New gardener who is an Orange Village resident January 23 – February 12, 2020
Existing non-resident gardener February 13, 2020 – February 26, 2020
Request for second plot who is an Orange Village resident February 27 – March 18, 2020
Non-Orange Village residents Beginning March 19, 2020
Composting is a great way to keep organic material out of landfills. It is a good environmental practice and an inexpensive way of adding nutrients back into the soil. Applying compost to soil improves its texture, structure, aeration ability and water holding capacity. Trees, flowers or vegetables will grow healthier with less chemicals or fertilizers.
Compost is.. A dark, crumbly soil amendment. A waste reduction strategy for yard and food waste. Nature’s way of recycling. Natural mulch. Nutrient rich. A simple way to prevent methane gas production.
- Reduces your ecological footprint by reducing garbage being landfilled.
- An inexpensive way to improve the soil and reduce fertilizer requirements.
Conserves natural resources such as water, organic matter and nutrients.
- An environmental friendly way to improve soil health and the health of plants.
- Reduces garden chores by applying compost like a mulch to limit weeds and retain moisture.
- Saves village waste disposal fees.
- Combats climate change by decomposing organics with oxygen, preventing the release of methane gas when organics decompose without oxygen in a landfill.
- Reduces water pollution by reducing the need for fertilizers, which prevent algae blooms and kills fish in streams and lakes.Compost Bins Composting bins are available at the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District.
Composting bins are available at the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District.


Since 3 years we are investing in real estate projects in Ecuador, a fast growing, agile and dollarised country squeezed between Colombia and Peru. 2016 was an annus horribilis for Ecuador. With oil prices at historic lows, its neighboring countries devaluating their currencies, the impact of El Nino (although not as bad as anticipated) and, last but not least, the April earthquakes that killed over 600 people, the economy was struggling to retain its positive drive of the past years. Believing that one of the best ways to support a suffering economy is to spend locally, I decided to spend the Christmas holidays in Ecuador with my family.
Apart from enjoying Ecuadors magnificent nature, we took ample of time to visit some projects of the Eslabon Social (http://www.eslabonsocial.be), a pluralistic non-for-profit organization supporting various projects in Ecuador. Most fun was a trip to an Indian tribe in the rainforest.
Most impactful however was the visit to a farmers project (Hacienda Menbol) started in 2005. Visiting the Hacienda was high on the agenda because it was part of an irrigation project that gave 47 local families access to water. The irrigation project was financially supported by Frank Buysse and his family. It now allows the 47 families to grow crops and significantly reduced child mortality (through starvation) in the region. What is the context? The Ecuadorian government heavily invested in irrigation infrastructure for important strokes of land in the provinces Guayas and Esmeralda. (Wealthy) farmers could connect to the canals and benefit from the water of the Daule river. Smaller farmers however didn’t have the financial means to invest in the infrastructure needed to connect their lands to the canal, no more than 7 kilometers away.
It is under the impuls of Father Guy Mennen, the founder of the Eslabon Social, that a project was initiated to connect 47 families to the main canal. No need for expensive pumps or complex mechanisms, but using the simple methodology of communicating vessels, the biggest challenge (and financial need) was digging a 7 kilometer long mini-canal to put pipes and irrigation tools. The pipeline was finished in August 2016 and the results are amazing. On formally unfruitful land, the local community now grows bananas, maniok, coconuts, papaya, rice, mais and … pigs.
Using the Hacienda as a ‘laboratorium’, the 47 farmers gather monthly in the Hacienda Menbol to see the results of new crops, new methods, new breeding programs. Inspired by curiosity and results they start copying and manage to feed their families. In a next phase, the ambition is even higher. Currently 20 days a month the water needs are covered (government only opening the water supply 20 days a month). If we manage to bridge the remaining period by smart storage, the farmers will be able to produce more than the local consumption needs and a commercial program will be initiated. Buysse & Partners is now financially supporting the installation of the water storage systems, amongst others with the gifts received from the triatlon initiative in 2016 (https://www.buysse-partners.com/mens-sana-in-corpore-sano/)


Feed, water, dog food and care packs available to Australian owned and operated farms.
We surprised the school at Trundle with some Improvement Awards, seed for the new vegetable patch and jam for the breakfast club.
Offered some donated goods to the Far West Store that supports sick children in the bush.
With assistance from the local produce store on Kangaroo Island we were able to supply a truck of hay to a Kangaroo Island farmer in need of assistance.
After receiving the care packs as far out as one hour from Armidale, we were asked for assistance with dog biscuits to help keep their working dogs going during drought times.
With dust storms constantly and no grass on the ground a truck load of hay was sent up to the Broken Hill area to assist with feeding of cattle. Praying to receive some rain.
Donated 60 care packs out to the town of Armidale and
Thank you to Armidale Community Church for there assistance in the delivery of the packs.
With volunteers down with the flu my son William jumped on board to give me a hand.
We travelled to Baradine, Bugaldie, Binnaway,
All donations of hay, dog biscuits, dog treats and stock licks where greatly appreciated. Thanks to Furneys Stock Licks for their support.
With the water tanks ready to go we are currently fundraising for a trailer that will be used to cart the water out to the farms and the water troughs of farm animals.
We are hoping to also offer grey water so the farmers can keep a small area of grass growing.
Travelled through Mudgee, Gulgong, Binnaway, Bugaldie, Gilgandra, Dubbo, Orange and dropped hay and care packs to several families. Gathered more information about how bad times have become for them and how hard the drought is really pushing them. Support us so we can support them.
Travelled to Coonamble via Gilgandra and across to Baradine, Bugaldie, Coonabarabran and headed home through Binnaway.
Met some great people on the trip.
The quality of hay is not great and you can see the animals health is suffering. Dropped off green bags at farm gates to help the farmers with their everyday needs.
We travelled to Condobolin up to Armatree and on to Bugaldie to deliver our famous green bag of grocery goodies.
The rain has reached Bugaldie and been patchy in Condobolin.
Thanks to Gilgandra Motel for putting us up again, thank you.
Travelled to Gilgandra, Coonabarabran and Bugaldie NSW, Spoke with many locals about what they need and how we could help out in this area. A big thank you to Gilgandra Motel who offered us free accommodation and breakfast.


Glen's Hill property is located in Barooga, NSW, and is Agriculture Capital’s first greenfield site in Australia. Prior to the acquisition, the land was formally used for dry land row cropping and grazing paddocks for stock.
The property consists of 1,062 acres of plantable area to approximately 330,000 trees, to be planted in the coming months into high value citrus crops, including 440 acres of SumoCitrus®.
The property is situated between Mowbray Farm in Berrigan, NSW and Legacy Packing in Cobram, Victoria. It has a mix of elevated sand hills to sandy loam soils, all well suited to citrus.
One of the properties borders, is adjacent to the Murray Irrigation main supply channel which offers high water availability in peak periods. Once operational, the property will provide a boost to the local economy as it will attract many full time and seasonal roles.
The Glen’s Hill property became operational in September 2021 after trees were planted.
This is an exciting development that will increase product supply to new and existing customers as well as creating local jobs and providing a boost to the local economy.
To learn more about Glen's Hill or seasonal work opportunities, click on the button below.
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One of our busiest months, may sees the start of large volumes in the scented stocks. The quality of the crop is usually at its peak in May and customer demand is usually very good. We will be cropping around 350,000 stems of stocks per week through May.
Tulip production also continues but at a lower volume as some of our customers start to move over to new products (like stocks!). We hope for a relatively cool month in May as this is ideal for both crops.
Aster planting continues throughout May.
Early May also sees the start of our lily planting program.


Figs, or Ficus caprica, are fruits which have been known to be cultivated since ancient times. There are many varieties of edible figs and the most common fig is called by the same name “common fig” or just fig.
Derived from the flowering species of the fig tree, the dried figs that we see in the market are processed and converted from a fig fruit called as synconium that grows on the fig tree. The reason that figs are preferred dried because of the shelf life dried figs have. While fresh figs last for a few days, dried figs can be stored for several months and hence it is one of the reasons that 90% of the total fig crop of the world is consumed dry.
Figs, dried or fresh, have a high nutritional value and are a good source of carbohydrates. As we speak of dried figs, a half cup serving of the dry fruit provides around 190 calories, 48 grams of carbohydrates, 2.5 grams of protein and less than a gram of fat. A half-cup serving of dried figs provide for 29 per cent of fiber, 14 per cent of Potassium and Vitamin K, 12 per cent each of Magnesium and Calcium and 8 per cent of iron as part of daily recommended dietary intake of nutrition.
Figs are a revered in the traditional system of treating diseases and there are a lot of diseases that may be treated by figs. Some of the known and unknown benefits of this seedy fruit are list below:
• Figs keep High Blood pressure in check.
• Figs help in losing weight as it consuming them gives you satiety.
• Effective against Postmenopausal breast cancer.
• Keeps diabetes in check.
• It is healthy for the heart; prevents coronary heart disease.
• Healthy for the eyes; prevents macular degeneration.
• Increases bone density.
Figs may be sued in a number of recipes; they may be consumed as they are or may be produced into other forms such as jams.


Saturday, October 16, 2010
Comment on water allocations (in The Australian)
We need to get back to first principles. The amount of water available varies and is often zero for extended periods. So: (A) We need to have agricultural capability out there to take advantage of the water when it comes; and (B) We can't have plants, like fruit trees, that will die if they don't get a minimum allocation every year. So actually rice is a great crop to plant when there's lots of water, as long as it isn't allowed to take water when it is scarce. If you want a market mechanism to do this, I'm happy to give my "Hedging the Weather" talk to anyone who's interested, from the abstract: "Modern radar systems deployed by the Bureau of Meteorology may be able to give an unbiased and reasonably accurate report of how much rain has fallen and where, in areas covered by such radar. This can form the basis of an insurance system to allow farmers and others in those areas to hedge against the weather." This system would give farmers the averaged income they need to keep the regional towns going during droughts.


1998 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Retail Price: $160.00
Wine Club Price: $128.00
This sound, complex wine is filled with aromas of bright fruit, cherries, chocolate and a hint of cassis. Belying its vintage with good shape and structure, this vibrant and concentrated wine is youthful and should age well.
The 1998 Vintage
After a wet winter the growing season began about a month late with heavy rain lasting into mid-June. Intermittent rain in the middle of bloom caused \u201cshatter\u201d in many blocks resulting in low yields. After a cool, wet June the weather warmed up in July. Despite this warm weather the grapes remained unusually late in developing and ripening \u2013 30 to 40 days later than the previous year. Uneven ripening meant that blocks had to be picked several times to selectively pick the ripe fruit. Fortunately, the cool autumn weather of September and October allowed the remaining grapes to ripen fully and produce spectacular wine. Harvest ended the second week of November, over six weeks later than in 1997.
The 1998 vintage, in general, has been panned by some critics. They have not tasted our wine. This is a similar situation to 1975 and 1979 \u2013 two vintages which were also cool, late, and difficult, particularly for valley floor vineyards in heavy soils. While many wines were truly inferior in those vintages, grapes growing on the best vineyards were spectacular. The wine collector who thoughtfully and selectively purchased in those years is enjoying wonderful wine today. This may be true for our 1998.
Spring Mountain Vineyard
Originally four individual historic Napa Valley properties, Miravalle, La Perla, Alba, and Chevalier have now been combined to create an 850 acre estate of forest and vineyard on the eastern slopes of Spring Mountain overlooking the small town of Saint Helena. Over 225 acres of the estate are planted to vine, creating 135 separate hillside vineyard blocks each with its own unique soil, exposure, and microclimate. The vineyard is planted in densities of 4,000 vines per acre and trained to the ancient gobelet form, a vertical trellising method that was invented in an earlier millennium by the Romans.


Tegallalang Rice Terraces
Tegallalang Rice Terraces are stunningly beautiful and unique rice paddies just outside of Ubud that offer a chance to experience the beauty of Bali's agricultural traditions.
The rice terraces have become a famous attraction in Ubud, with their stunningly green and layered rice fields. You can walk through the terraces and admire the picturesque scenery, or even participate in the local tradition of rice planting and harvesting.
There are several viewing points and cafes located throughout the Tegallalang Rice Terraces, providing with an opportunity to enjoy a meal or refreshments while taking in the stunning views. The terraces can get quite crowded, especially during peak tourist season, but the experience of seeing these beautiful rice fields is well worth the visit.


I’m a coffee addict. Love the stuff, and can’t get enough of it. When we were trying to decide which excursions to go on, it was a really tough toss up between this one and the chocolate one, but the coffee won out. And it was well worth it. The plantation was amazing. It’s a cooperative that came about because after the German family who originally owned the land gave up and moved away, the local people mostly grew and sold their own, and realized that if they combined forces, they could grow, process and market a lot more than they each could individually. So that’s where the cooperative came from. The Espiritu Santo name came from the fact that there’s an active volcano less then a kilometre away and the local people used to pray to the Holy Spirit to keep them safe. The German family who originally owned the plantation took the hint and named it for protection, I guess.
There are 2500 members of the cooperative, and they grow, as does all of Costa Rica, Arabica coffee beans. Costa Rica couldn’t compete with Columbia or Brazil for quantity so decided to go for quality. (I’m quoting here – I have no personal opinion on the superiority of various strains of coffee bean). When you buy Starbuck’s coffee, you’re buying Costa Rica coffee, and the plantation we visited sells most of their export harvest to Starbucks. What they don’t do for the export trade is roast the beans. Well, they do, but not completely – they give them a ten minute roast and then ship them north, and the companies that buy them finish the process to their own standards. For their own consumption, they roast for up to 20 minutes to get a full expresso roast. What Francisco said (and this was repeated by the plantation coop guides) is that the quality of the coffee is determined in the roast. Which explains a lot about Starbuck’s coffee.
In case you didn’t know, coffee beans need to be grown in the shade, so the plantations have been experimenting with different kinds of trees. They’re just now realizing that the eucalyptus trees they imported from Australia aren’t working out as planned.
The initial rationale was that the trees added acidity to the soil, but then someone figured out that a) volcanic soil is already very acid and b) the trees were sucking all the nutrients out of the soil, and damaging the coffee plants. So now they’re trying banana, which might turn out to be a good thing for them, since they might end up being able to diversify into both coffee and bananas. What they’re also doing is playing with what, in wine terms, is called ‘terroir’. The coffee masters figure that the trees add something to the soil that is absorbed by the coffee plants and will be passed into the beans, and will affect the flavour of the coffee. Both our guides admitted that they were taking it on trust that this was true – their palates couldn’t distinguish eucalyptus flavoured beans from banana flavoured beans.
The other thing is that they’re very ecologically committed – they use every portion of the bean – the red shell is composted to go back into the ground, the parchment covering the actual bean is burned for the drying process (those beans that aren’t air dried), the plants are put back into the soil when they’re done (every 25 or so years), and they’ve moving to a partial solar power base along with the electricity provided by the government.
We saw how people used to grind and make their coffee:
They used a simple cotton bag to put the beans in and filter the water through. The stuff he ground (not in the old pestle) and made for us (using a wood stove and old kettle) was really weak, but was not bad at all.
So, a quick tour of how coffee gets made. The plants are replaced every 25 years, and the seedlings are placed in the plantation when they’re two years old.
Beans don’t all ripen right at the same time, so only ripe ones get picked by hand, so that each “street” as the rows are called, have to be picked over up to three times. Then they’re dumped in water, in ten pound lots
Yep, the abacus is old and big and clunky, but it works, and the general attitude is “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The advantage here is that you can tote up the amounts quickly and easily – you don’t have to look at a screen, power outages don’t matter and the workers dumping the beans can also see that you’re recording the right amounts.
The floating beans, leaves, twigs and other debris are raked off the top to be composted and returned to the earth. The beans that sink are treated (gently rubbed and shaken) to remove the red shells, then treated again (same way) to remove the parchment from the actual bean.
Normally there are two beans (seeds) per seed casing, but in some cases, as in the photo above, there’s only one. That’s called a peaberry and has half the number, twice the flavour and caffeine. Sometimes there are three beans in the pod.
They’re either placed out in the sun for up to 21 days, and turned every 20 minutes, or they’re baked in an oven to dry them, which takes less than three days.
Apparently the coffee tasters, who are like wine masters and assess various coffees for flavours and scents, haven’t resolved which process is the better one – the argument is not expected to be finished this century. Once again, both our guides said that they couldn’t tell the difference, but the coop guide said he preferred the air dried simply because it’s traditional, and he likes old fashioned, traditional things. (Later note: I couldn’t tell a difference either – either at the plantation or at home with coffee I bought at the plantation.) Sounds good to me.
Then they’re roasted, and as I mentioned before, the quality is determined by the roasting process. The longer the roast, the stronger the flavour.
The plantation has two roasters – one takes 45 pounds of coffee at a time, and the other 90 pounds. Which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that it’s only a ten to twenty minute process, it’s all automated and you can get a lot of coffee roasted in a day even when you’re only doing 45 or 90 pounds at a time.
After that, they’re bagged, tagged and shipped out. We tasted some of the product that stays in Costa Rica, and I’m sold – it was amazing stuff – very chocolatey and rich. Starbucks has a lot to answer for, that’s all I can say.
The cooperative had won, last year, the Golden Cup award for best coffee in Costa Rica, and the barrista who won the international barrista competition did it using Espiritu Santo coffee.
After that we hit the coop store, where there was coffee, coffee and more coffee (we got a whole bunch of different kinds of roast, as well as sunblessed and peaberry. FWIW, I can’t tell the difference between peaberry and regular), some amazing coffee liqueur, and a couple of small wooden presents for people.
Then it was back into the bus and drive the hour and a half back to the ship, with more information about Costa Rica.
One final thing I noticed about the security. While there was almost no police or armed forces presence anywhere near the docks, and we only saw two or three pairs of police on the entire journey (and they were very clearly doing normal patrolling type duties or shopping for dinner), we did notice one police boat patrolling around the ship. But every one who came onto the pier on foot was not only checked for ID, they were wand scanned before they were allowed to proceed. And the ID check was not cursory – they looked at the ID, at the person and checked the ID to be sure it was legit. None of the Mexican ports have had that amount of surveillance – while the presence had been very notable, with armed soldiers, dogs, cops and boats and cars in prominent and obvious locations, the actual security has been anywhere from lax to non-existent. So while Costa Rica doesn’t have a lot of noticable security, (10,000 cops for several million people), they take it seriously.
Except for the humidity, and the heat (and the snakes) I’d move down in a minute – it felt a lot like home, oddly. But their snakes are deadly – snake venom antidotes are one of their largest exports and they provide 90% of the snake venom antidotes used in South and Central America. So, I may go back and visit, but doubt I’ll live there.
Tomorrow is another at sea day, with a wine tasting, and a bit more about coffee and the canal.


New Delhi: Bollywood star Akshay Kumar on Tuesday met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to discuss issues related to the country’s farming sector. The actor, who has been busy promoting his forthcoming film “Singh Is Blinng”, spoke to Kejriwal for 30 minutes, and they discussed issues related to the farming sector, growing farmers’ suicides and ways to help farmers get out of the distress situation, read a statement from the Directorate of Information and Publicity.
During his 30-minute meeting with Mr Kejriwal held at Secretariat, the actor discussed issues related to the farming sector, growing farmer suicides and ways to help them get out of distress situation. A government official said Mr Askhay Kumar also briefed the Chief Minister on the work he has been doing for the farmers and how he supports 30 farmers every month.
Expressing concern over the suicides of farmers in some parts of the country, Mr Kejriwal asked the Bollywood actor how the Delhi government could be of help in extending a helping hand to them. “We will do whatever we can. We must devise a method to help. It’s very disheartening to see the situation. They are the ones who feed us, therefore, we must take care of them. We need to get to the root cause of the problem.
They must get their due,” the Chief Minister said. Mr Akshay Kumar also expressed concern over increasing numbers quitting farming for more lucrative professions. He stressed the need to run a campaign for the cause of farmers and farming. “We must come forward to help them. People are not happy to farming, we must go back to our roots. It is very important. We need to have a campaign for the cause,” the Bollywood actor said. In his discussions with the actor, the Chief Minister said the farmers’ plight was largely due to hoarding of farm produce and undue profiteering by the middlemen.
Issues like the drug menace in Punjab and how it was affecting a whole generation were also discussed during the meeting,’ the official said. The Aam Aadmi Party, which is considered as an active player for the coming assembly poll in Punjab, has been campaigning against the drug menace in the state affecting the youth


Saving the Summer Harvest
Words & Photography by Autumn Kern
It is sort of painful to lose summer. The heat begins to disappear and slowly, yet very noticeably, we lose the invitation for summer adventure, the celebrated warm evenings, and the fresh produce of the previous months. Fresh berries are replaced by the apples of fall, which are replaced by the root vegetables of winter. An understood cyclical relationship between farmer and crop, and yet, I find it always to be painful – that losing of something so good. Thankfully with the proper planning and thoughtfulness, we can all save a bit of the summer harvest for the long days of winter.
Fruits: Clean well with a damp cloth and allow for complete drying. Remove any plugs or seeds before freezing. For larger fruits, slice into quarters; smaller fruits can remain as is. Some fruit oxidizes in the freezer and should be sprinkled with fresh lemon juice and/or honey to help maintain color and sweetness. Lay the fruit out flat on a baking sheet and quick freeze by placing the pan in the freezer for 2-3 hours. Store in a labeled plastic bag for up to 6 months.
Vegetables: Clean well with a damp cloth and quickly blanch them in boiling water, about 2-3 minutes. Place the vegetables in a bowl of ice water immediately after boiling and then dry them well. Blanching destroys the natural enzymes that would cause the vegetables to spoil or lose flavor. Once completely dry, lay the vegetables out flat on a baking sheet and quick freeze. Store in a labeled plastic bag for up to 6 months.
Herbs: Chop and blend with a small amount of water in a food processor. Freeze in an ice cube tray. Store in a labeled plastic bag for up to 7 months.


You may notice that while the UK has many unique products, a lot of their famous brands also produce the same products in North America. The difference is in the recipes and ingredients, resulting in different taste and quality.
The ingredients for products made in the UK are typically sourced from UK farms. As we all know, what we may think of as a standard crop or animal that can be grown or raised around the world, may grow and thrive differently depending on environmental factors. Dairy will taste different depending on the cows diet and lifestyle, while crops can taste different depending on soil composition, air quality and nutrition.
These factors influence the taste of the product, thus producing a strong or noticeable difference in taste and quality.


Engineering, Environment and Natural Resource
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
“Soil & Water Conservation (SWC) Engineer (Specialist)’’
GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement ‘# vacancy number 045/2023’
Brief Description of the project/ unit
GIZ supports the Ethiopian Government in various areas, increasingly also in the Ethiopian lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia’s land area. They are inhabited by more than 18 million (agro-)pastoralists, and people who create their livelihood from related professions. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this livelihood system is increasingly put at risk and the people, their livestock and the harvests have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. The result are dry valleys, in which rainwater flows quickly out of the area before being able to infiltrate into the soil. This further exacerbates desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue, the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Bureaus of Agriculture (BoA) in Afar and Somali regions.
The Capacity Development for Strengthening Drought Resilience (CDSDR) Project has started its third phase. It promotes the DVRPU approach with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals while ensuring environmental stability. Besides upscaling of the approach in other weredas of Somali and Afar regions, it will further expand its application to selected lowland areas of Oromia and SNNPR regions.
The SWC Engineer works together and supports the CDSDR III implementation in Oromia region.
Duration of contract: Until June 30, 2025
Application deadline: 18 March 2023
Required Candidates: 1
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Responsibilities and Duties
The SWC Engineer is responsible to support the project’s objectives by:
- Developing integrated soil and water conservation approaches in collaboration with government services and local communities;
- Studying, designing and constructing of physical soil and water conservation measures in selected kebeles
The SWC Engineer performs the following tasks:
- Supports on technical aspects of project implementation (water harvesting, irrigation, soil and water management);
- Supports the local communities for the implementation of land rehabilitation measures;
- Undertakes site identification, study and design of physical soil and water conservation measures;
- Develops bill of quantity and preparation of ToRs;
- Prepares implementation plan of recommended physical measures;
- Follows up and ensures proper implementation of measures and provide technical reports to regional project;
- Provides advices on the physical soil and water conservation measures to regional project team;
- Reports on output/outcomes of implemented technical measures;
- Supervising consultants and grant recipients and their contractual obligations
- Assure collection of data as required by the project monitoring and evaluation system
- Keeps regular contact and exchange of information with woreda level in Oromia;
Other duties/additional tasks
- The SWC Engineer performs other duties and tasks at the request of the management.
- Bachelor’s degree in soil and water conservation engineering, Agricultural Engineering or, Civil engineering;
- 5 years practical field experience of working with soil conservation and water resources management in arid and semi-arid lowlands,
- Proven ability of study, design and construction of context-specific soil and water conservation measures in lowland areas like water spreading weirs;
- Experience with pastoral and/ or agro-pastoral communities in arid and semi-arid lowlands, preferably in Afar, Oromia, SNNP or Somali region;
- Understanding of impacts of environmental degradation and alternative natural resource management approaches.
- Experience in working with governmental structures, international organisations, NGOs and/or research institutes.
Other knowledge, additional competencies
- High level of motivation, proactivity, self-discipline, integrity and accountability;
- Readiness to work in rural lowland circumstances and frequent travel to project sites;
- Very good English, Oromiffa and Amharic language skills
- Computer skills in software application AutoCAD, MS-Office.


August 23, 2012
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Jollibee Foundation, Inc., the social responsibility arm of one of the country’s largest food conglomerates, and Sagip Saka, an advocacy program of the Office of Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, the Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Congressional Oversight Committee for Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM) signed on Tuesday afternoon a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide P11.8 million worth of assistance to agricultural communities in eight provinces around the Philippines.
Also included in the partnership and memorandum signing were the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the National Livelihood Development Corporation (NLDC).
The funds will be used to provide post-harvest facilities such as rain shelters, transportation vehicles, and tractors; agricultural equipment such as water pumps for irrigation; inputs; and other forms of assistance that are aimed to increase the productivity and income of onion, red pepper, tomato, and lettuce farmers. Recipient communities come from Vigan, Caoayan, and Sinait in Ilocos Sur; Alaminos, Alcala, Bani, and Aguilar in Pangasinan; Tarlac City, Tarlac; Alabat, Quezon Province; San Jose City, Nueva Ecija; Santa Josefa, Agusan del Sur; Mati, Davao Oriental; and Impasug-ong, Bukidnon.
Over 400 farmers and their families in 13 sites in the eight provinces will benefit from this program.
According to Pangilinan, “Sagip Saka [is] our advocacy that aims to achieve sustainable modern agricultureand food security by transforming agricultural communities to reach their full potential, improving farmers’ and fishers’ quality of life, and bridging gaps through public-private partnerships… Based on our experience, Sagip Saka has been a good example of the power of public-private partnerships for rural development, because it brings back the dignity and the primacy of the Filipino farmer. It also strives to uplift the quality of life of our farmers and fisherfolk.”
The lawmaker, who chairs the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, and Social Justice and Rural Development, also explained the seven “cornerstones” or “pillars” of Sagip Saka. These are: (1) providing access to investments and credit; (2) opening access to market; (3) rolling out infrastructure; (4) strengthening research and development; (5) organizing farmer communities and cooperatives; (6) ensuring the quality and consistency of supply; and (7) mitigating the risks brought about by climate change.
“Local agriculture has been asleep for three decades—which is why we are lagging behind our neighbors such as Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand… Whiel these countries have been busy modernizing their agricultural sector and ensuring productivity in the countryside, our leaders, for the most part, have made empty promises and have failed to deliver on their commitments.”
“Sa kahuli-hulihan, kulelat pa rin ang Pilipinas pagdating sa agrikultura. Hindi na puwede ang ganito,” Pangilinan said in Filipino.
The senator likewise pointed out that Sagip Saka was inspired by the success of Jollibee Foundation, Inc.’s intervention with an onion farmers’ cooperative in Nueva Ecija.
“The success of JFI’s intervention on the Kalasag Farmer’s cooperative gave us a good template for this type of public-private partnership. In the end, both the farmers’ group and Jollibee benefited from this because Jollibee was able to get a steady and reliable source of onions, while the farmers were able to substantially increase their incomes by going direct to the market.”
“We hope to replicate the success of the Jollibee-Kalasag partnership across all Sagip Saka communities and make an impact in the lives of our farmers. This is the only way to ensure the sustainability of our agricultural programs and likewise ensure food security. We thank Jollibee and the rest of our private sector partners for leading the way and showing that it can be done,” Pangilinan concluded.


Soy has been connected to deforestation, and there is some truth to it. But not because tofu is on the rise. This week we take a close look at one of the more controversial crops.
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Main learning: most soy is used to feed animals, not humans
Goal: don’t feel guilty about replacing meat with soy
Impact: High 🌍🌎🌏🌍⚪ (as part of eating less meat)
There are many counterarguments that people have when it comes to eating less meat. One of the most common ones is that you will probably eat more soy products, which leads to the destruction of the rainforest.
Google Earth really reveals how much land used to be forest, and is now used for agriculture. Even closer to home – in Europe – Frank’s childhood place was not wat he thought. Read his story in the Fork Ranger book (page 49).
Of course there are plenty of ways to eat less meat without soy, but is there any truth to it? Let’s find out.
Does soy cause deforestation?
Three products account for 60% of all deforestation: beef, palm oil, and soy. But what exactly is the role of soy? The wonderful people at Our World in Data have written an excellent answer to this question. Here is a summary.
In the last sixty years, the production of soy increased so much that now we need four times more space to grow all those soybeans. And one region where a lot of this new soy was planted was the Amazon rainforest.
Soy is often used in these cases because it’s a good pioneer plant: on land that is used for agriculture for the first time, soy has higher yields than other crops (this fact and many other insights about soy come from the book Meat: a benign extravagance).
As a response, civil organisations managed to create a deal between soybean companies to refuse any kind of soy from deforestation areas. The campaign was effective. Today the biggest cause of deforestation is the creation of pastures for beef, not soy.
But that’s not the full story as the deal only covers the Amazon. In other regions of Brazil, soy is planted on grasslands and pastures. This means that the area for beef then needs to shift somewhere else. And often that is the Amazon.
In other words, even though soy is not the leading cause of deforestation, it still is a big problem for the world’s forests because it increases the pressure to cut down forests for more pasture.
What is the cause of this growth in soy production?
So let’s look at the drivers of soy production. If the soybean production grew so much, what is all the soy used for? As the graph below shows, it’s not because there are so many people who want to eat more tofu. Quite the opposite.
The majority of soy is used as animal feed, mostly for chickens and pigs. But also – relevant in the Netherlands – for high production dairy cows, which otherwise don’t have enough protein to produce the thousands of litres of milk which are required from them.
The Netherlands is also the biggest importer of soy in the EU, with 44% coming from Brazil. Some of it is exported again, but a lot of it is used as animal feed.
Soy as a by-product
Another argument related to this which is often brought up is that soy for animal feed is a by-product. Looking strictly at the production process this is true, but does it hold given the quantities? To understand this reasoning, let’s have a quick look at the processing.
First the hulls of soybeans are removed and then they are crushed. This results in ca. 20% soybean oil and 80% hulls and leftovers, which are processed into soybean cake.
Soybean oil is the second-most used vegetable oil in the world, only the palm oil production is bigger. I was really surprised to read this. I have never seen soybean oil in the store but that’s because it’s used in all kinds of products from margarine and sauces to biscuits. The ‘by-product’ soybean cake is fed to animals.
And that means soybean oil and soy for animal feed go hand in hand. This brings up a tricky question: what is the main product of soy? The oil or the animal feed?
Looking at the huge demand for animal feed, it’s too simple to call soy for animals a by-product. In order to decrease the world’s soy production, we therefore need to eat less meat.
How do soy products compare to meat?
So far we’ve learned tofu and other soy products only account for a small part of the world’s soy production. What this does mean for the impact of those products?
Like most of the time, plant foods have a much lower footprint than meat. No exception for soy.
Additionally the majority of soy for products like yoghurt or tofu are not grown in the Amazon but come from certified farms in Europe and Canada.
So whether you look at what soy is used for or what the footprint of soy products is, the conclusion remains the same: eating soy products as a replacement for meat and dairy is a big win for the climate.
The last thing that might keep you from eating soy
Okay, eating soy is sustainable. But maybe you’ve heard that soya contains dangerous levels of estrogen? The Harvard Medical school provides answers to all health-related soy questions.
The estrogen fear is a myth that comes from the fact that soy contains a similar compound, but at such low levels that it poses no risk.
You can safely eat soy products multiple times a week, and doing so is probably even good for your health. One of the many benefits of soy is that it’s one of the few plant-based proteins that is ‘complete’. This means it contains all the essential amino acids our bodies can’t produce themselves.
Like always, the healthiest options are whole foods, in this case tempeh, tofu or edamame. Plant-based ‘meats’ made of soy are more processed, and let’s not pretend that eating a hamburger, whether plant-based or made of meat, was ever a healthy choice.
Long story short: while soy is causing deforestation, that’s mostly because it’s used as animal feed to produce meat. Soy products for human consumption are not only a sustainable source of protein but also a healthy option. So, what keeps you from trying some soy products?


TÜMOSAN Met with Farmers in Yalova and the Surrounding Villages
This year, TÜMOSAN organized a brand new event. During the meetings with the farmers, which started in the Marmara Region, the opinions and suggestions of the farmers were consulted.
During this event, with the participation of TÜMOSAN's Marketing, Sales, After-sales Department executives and the District Vendor, the farmers voiced their requests and suggestions about the products they use.
This week, our team paid a visit to villages of İznik and Gölcük in the Marmara Region and will continue to meet and exchange ideas with farmers from various regions of Turkey.
The firm aims to have the research evaluated by R&D teams and put into use, and to continue working in order to provide better quality service.


With this past winter storm behind us, itâ€™s time to think ahead to early spring maple tree tapping. With only about 20 trees to tap, we make enough top-shelf maple syrup for our small family by repurposing our milk jugs, which would otherwise be tossed out as garbage. By experimenting with a triangle cut on the side of the plastic milk jug, weâ€™re able to fashion our own collecting jugs for maple sap.
We start collecting the plastic milk jugs about November, rinsing them out and storing them in large plastic garbage bags. Every year, we think November is too early to start. But when we need 50 or more jugs by February, November is not too early.
Come February, we drill the holes in the maple trees, pound the spiles, and attach the milk jugs, eagerly awaiting the first warm, sunny day above 40 degrees, and cold nights.
Next comes the storage of the collected sap. The poor-manâ€™s storage in our little woods is simple: dig a shallow spot in the snow for plastic storage bins, pour the sap into large plastic containers, set the lid, and youâ€™re able to store the sap out in the woods until youâ€™re ready to boil. Freshness is key, so boiling needs to take place very soon after collection.
For several years, Iâ€™ve been boiling the sap in the house. Itâ€™s fortunate we have a good stove vent to vent out the moisture, as it takes about 38 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. When you reach the last stage of boiling sap, you cannot leave it for a moment when it boils down to the stage of pouring the syrup into canning jars for quick sealing. By watching the bubbles creep up the sides of the roaster pan, you know that thatâ€™s the time to get ready to take the sap off the heat to be immediately placed in the canning jars. Being prepared with all your jars, lids and other preparation cannot be overstated enough.
Two years ago, I pulled the spiles way too early, thinking the maple sap run was finished. It wasnâ€™t, and we missed out on extra syrup that makes these long winter days so much more enjoyable. Once you have fresh maple syrup, your taste buds will not allow store bought high-fructose corn â€œsyrupâ€ ever again.
Reminiscing back to the days of the deep-woods maple sap boiling sugar shack by my bachelor great-uncles takes me back to a time of extremely hard work on the part of the relatives, and lots of fun in the woods for the kids. The men hauled full trees for the 24-hour-a-day boiling in the woods sugar shack, and their lives were made just a bit easier by an abandoned railroad track at the back of their property where they could pull those logs out of the woods by rail. The kids got to play in abandoned cars from the 1920s, and our imaginations took us to all corners of the earth in those rusted-out hulks.
How to tap your own trees: How to tap your own (maple) trees
For spiles, search the internet for keywords maple tap spiles.


With clinical opinion changing, it is now generally accepted that cannabis has very good effects for some medical circumstances. Even though the sale of cannabis is forbidden nonetheless, cultivating from the plant for your personal clinical use is now extensively accepted about the globe, most especially for all those who have a legal cannabis card.
Struggling with a de-habilitating sickness like multiple sclerosis can employ a huge and painful impact on your life, a pain that can only be dulled by the use of drugs. In these situations, it has even been extensively agreed that using cannabis for medical purposes may be much more beneficial than drugs prescribed over the counter, raising the question of where to buy the very best cannabis seeds.
Depending, once again, on your nation or state of residence, you might discover many grow shops around that will provide you with all you need to kit out your home to grow some plants. You will also be bombarded by a vast array of understanding on just how to set up your grow room and the kind of conditions you’ll require for the best results.
Nevertheless, you are still missing one vital element here, that being the specific cannabis seeds. When looking to buy seeds, without a doubt, the very best location to look is online. Select from a huge quantity of websites devoted to marijuana and youll become startled as to just how many different versions you will find.
Whenever you are thinking of growing a crop for your personal medicinal purposes, you need to make sure that you get the very best seeds which will in turn permit you to get the pain relief you deserve from your illness. Read up on all of the various types of seeds accessible, the different cost ranges and also the very best circumstances and times of year for growing your crop.
Buying cannabis seeds online will mean which you are buying a product which has been well-versed by the experts. Read the feedback on each kind of seed and then decide just which one will probably be best suited for ones requirements and your crop. On each and every internet site you enter you’ll find pages of consumer feedback and suggestions about just which seeds to purchase and how to tend to your plants.
Whenever you wish to purchase cannabis seeds for legalized purposes, you need to get your self into the same thoughts set as if you are growing any other plant or herb inside your garden. Your plants will have to be tended to and watered much like you should your tomatoes, and based on how bigger crop you might prefer to cultivate, you might convert a corner of your house or loft into a specialist grow center with high heat lamps as well as other accessories.
The success of ones crop will of course depend on your seeds, the very best seeds being necessary for the very best crops. If you take out some time to search online and read up on the very best cannabis seeds for the present season, you are able to guarantee your self a productive growing experience.


We created La Bastide des Lavandes in 2010, making it the first official lavender farm in South-Carolina.
We sold our farm early 2017 and moved to the original land of lavender, the South of France, where we created Senteurs du Minervois, a lavender and aromatic plant farm nestled in the middle of olive orchards and world class vineyards. We grow well over 100 varieties of lavender as well as Mediterranean aromatic and medicinal plants which we use in our natural wellness products. We also offer Energy Healing Therapy and Massage Therapy in our Energy Healing practice (Zen Minervois), as well as Individual Wellness Retreats in one of our authentic village houses (Casa Lavineira), in La Livinière, near Carcassonne.
We also created a local ONG (Florir)to showcase and promote our natural, historical & architectural heritage, and our magical region.
You can find more info by clicking on our logos below
Senteurs du Minervois


Container Gardening Made Easy
Containers can be an ideal way to bring colour and interest to a small garden, a front garden or a terrace and are great for masking or brightening up dull areas.
Another useful characteristic of the container is the fact you can move it until you find its perfect spot or if the plant shows signs of not being happy. If you are using heavy containers this only works if you remember to put the pot on a caddie or trolley before planting it up which I frequently fail to do. If you don’t want to invest in pot trollies then remember to position the pot where you want it to stay before planting up.
- Make sure your container has enough drainage, broken crocks in the bottom will stop soil clogging up drainage holes and help create a little reservoir in summer.
- If you have any homemade compost, putting some at the base of the pot also helps with drainage and soil condition.
- Don’t use garden soil, a peat free compost is ideal and many come with added plant feed.
It is usually best to plant in early spring so the plant can get itself established and put out roots. Autumn planting can be chancy because bad weather can waterlog or dry out soil or windburn plants.
Plants in containers do need more care than those in gardens, but they’re worth it.
Containers benefit from a top dressing of compost in the spring to give the soil a boost and this, along with a good liquid feed, will give the plant a good start to the year.
Because its roots are contained, regular watering is essential, rain or shine because rain cannot always permeate the soil in a container and while the rest of the garden maybe sodden the pots can be desperate for a drink.
This is particularly important with bay trees in pots, I have lost count of the number of bay trees I have seen outside front doors, shops and restaurants which are in desperate need of a good water. I am far too cowardly to point this out to the plant owner but believe me it is pretty much impossible to overwater a bay tree and if you do give it a daily drink it will flourish.
Terracotta pots are lovely and age well but can crack in very low temperatures and tend to be expensive. These days it is possible to buy really attractive lead look and other pots made from resin and some heavy plastics, these are not just good value but can be considerably lighter and much easier to manoeuvre. This type of pot will often need extra drainage holes so double check before planting.
What to plant?
Plants that do well in containers include large grasses for which you might not have room in a bed. Panicum virgatum (switch grass) Heavy Metal is an attractive variety.
Herbs are also a good bet because many need really good drainage and a sunny spot. Chives often thrive as does parsley as long as the container is extra deep to allow for long roots.
Finally if you would love a pond but just don’t have the space, you may want to consider a pot pond. The one above is a terracotta pot which has been painted inside with waterproof sealant, the hole is plugged and sealed and the base is lined with large stones. It has been planted up with Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) in pots of aquatic compost and left to get on with it: they come back year after year. Apart from topping up with rain water and the removal of dead leaves the pot pond needs almost no maintenance.


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Story by Tindall Adams '18 and Delina Sheth '18
Harper was inspired by a trip to Japan where he witnessed the effects of radiation poisoning on farmland in Fukushima after the devastating tsunami in 2011. It seemed the future of farming in Fukushima would never be safe and sustainable; therefore, he created a climate controlled agricultural platform known as the “food computer”. He believes his invention will revolutionize the way we farm and eat food.
The personal food computer, which is the smallest model of his invention, is about the size of a small coffee table. At first glance, it appears to be a simple box with glass windows and LED lights. However, the food computer is much more complex. It is a climate-controlled environment that uses hydroponic and aeroponic systems to grow crops indoors and has a different array of sensors that monitor the internal climate in a growing chamber so the environmental conditions remain constant and optimum. Temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide and oxygen levels, pH of water, electrical conductivity of water, exposure to various nutrients, fertilizers, and chemicals that determine how a plant grows are the many climate conditions part of the computer. These conditions can be easily and tightly controlled to insure quality of food. The food grows quite differently than ordinary plants however; there is no soil in the food computer. Instead, plants get nutrients through a mist as the roots dangle in open air (aeroponics).
Not only do these computers grow food, but they also act similarly to a 3D printer. The computers allows users of the computer to share their recipes on a database, so other people around the world have the instructions to grow an identical plant. For example, a user could buy a packet of tomato seeds and download the instructions on how to grow a tomato onto the database. Then, another user in a different country on the other side of the world could use the instructions and be able to tweak them to match their preference.
So why are food computers important and revolutionary for the future of food? The answers are endless. Food computers can save time, money, resources, all while turning ordinary people into sustainable farmers. You can build them yourself, and they do not require many resources to operate. They also do not need soil or any land space, which will allow users to grow food anywhere, especially in urban areas where there is limited access to fresh food. Because anyone can grow food, food will no longer have to be shipped long distances (for example, one could grow amazing Chile peppers in New York City in Andes Mountain-like conditions), and it grows 20-30% faster than ordinary farming. Finally, the human footprint on earth will be less severe and more impactful with food computer farming. The plants in the computer require less water and they cut the carbon footprint of transporting plants, all while still having very fresh food.
As the human population increases drastically and agricultural food production demands will double by 2050, food shortage problems can be solved with food computers. We can’t wait to see what else the future holds.
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Olive Garden Waxahachie Tx
Olive Garden Waxahachie Tx was published at February 28, 2017 at 3:35 pm. This article is published on the Garden category. Olive Garden Waxahachie Tx is tagged with Olive Garden Waxahachie Tx, Olive, Garden, Waxahachie, Tx..
Oliveol•ive (ol′iv),USA pronunciation n.
- an evergreen tree, Olea europaea, of Mediterranean and other warm regions, cultivated chiefly for its fruit. Cf. olive family.
- the fruit of this tree, a small oval drupe, eaten as a relish and used as a source of oil.
- Also called olive wood. the wood of this tree, valued for ornamental work.
- the foliage of this tree.
- a wreath of it.
- any of various related or similar trees.
- See olive branch.
- the ocher green or dull yellow green of the unripe olive fruit.
- of, pertaining to, or made of olives, their foliage, or their fruit.
- of the color olive.
- tinged with this color: an olive complexion.
Gardengar•den (gär′dn),USA pronunciation n.
- a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
- a piece of ground or other space, commonly with ornamental plants, trees, etc., used as a park or other public recreation area: a public garden.
- a fertile and delightful spot or region.
- [Brit.]yard2 (def. 1).
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- lead up or down the garden path, to deceive or mislead in an enticing way;
delude: The voters had been led up the garden path too often to take a candidate's promises seriously.
- to lay out, cultivate, or tend a garden.
- to cultivate as a garden.
WaxahachieWax•a•hach•ie (wôk′sə hach′ē),USA pronunciation n.
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Texas (approved esp. for use with zip code).
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Global climate change is one of the many complicated issues we face today in our world. Nepal in particular is highly vulnerable to the potential negative impacts of climate change; here, the average annual temperatures are already increasing. It has really become prior issue to adapt and mitigate the climate change. The negative impact of climate change is clearly seen and has been experienced these days. The change in temperature and rainfall pattern is the more vivid consequences of climate change. This has led to shifting seasons/rainfall, extreme weather pattern, shifting cultivation, change in breeding season, outgrowth of diseases, encroachment of alien species, alteration in the quality and quantity of air, water, soil etc. Many terrestrial, freshwater species are struggling to survive, cope, some have shifted to new locality, and some have extinct because of Climate Change acceleration rate and negative impacts on them. Because of this agriculture, forestry, energy and tourism sector are being primarily affected ultimately leading to social and economic deterioration. Further, inadequate climate change resilience knowledge and practice, inappropriate soil and water conservation measures, insufficient retention of soil moisture, inadequate technical know-how has crippled the food insecurity. In addition, Subsistence farming practices, poor agriculture modern technical input driven on various aspects relating to promoting resource management (natural and human) has deteriorated drastically production and productivity resulting in rampant migration.
These effects have obviously hampered the livelihood of the people at various levels. Hence, the best way to cope the consequences of climate change might be through the implementation of adaptation strategies and intervention at local level. However, in the context of Nepal, mitigating climate change is difficult to some extent because of limitation in economic/finance, poor technological advancement and least role of contribution in Green House Gas emission. In addition, most of the communities, where the climate change impacts are extreme, are very poor. Poor and marginalized communities, who often live in vulnerable areas with limited information, limited livelihoods options and low adaptive capacity, are obviously most vulnerable to climate change. Similarly, women are on the frontline of climate change due to their multiple burdens to manage their livelihoods. Predicted impacts of climate change will heighten existing vulnerabilities, inequalities and exposure to hazards. It will create barriers to poverty reduction efforts and reverse many of the important socio-economic gains made by developing countries. Without drastic action today, adapting to these impacts in the future will be more difficult and costly.
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To get a sustained engagement in attaining secured livelihoods especially for vulnerable groups at community level, there should be continuous action-reflection-action and simultaneous programming. Climate Change resilience and income generation related initiatives should be promoted with backward and forward linkages towards achieving over all changes and growth for livelihood enhancement (climate change adaptation and poverty reduction) along with ecological sustainability and economic empowerment. Vulnerable community lead climate resilient integrated livelihood intervention will enhance productivity and transform agriculture subsistence to commercial. Livelihood activities encompasses co-operative farming, commercialization through entrepreneurship, Bio-gas use for cooking which reduces pollution and fuel scarcity in future, etc.
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A previous article in this series Can chia seeds reverse diabetes?examined the nutritional value of chia seeds. This article will look at how nutritious flaxseeds are and compare the benefits of eating them with chia seeds sprouting jar.
Flaxseeds and linseeds are two different names for the same tiny seeds that have been cultivated for at least the last 6,000 years. Their colour can range from dark brown to a light gold.
The oil extracted from flaxseeds is used in the production of oil-based paints and glazing putties for windows. The oil is also used as a grain protector for wood. The high fibre content of the seeds means they can be used to add strength and durability in the making fabrics, paper and clothes.
But flaxseeds have also been eaten for thousands of years, from ancient Babylon to the Aztec Empire. They were a favourite snack of King Charlemagne of the Franks in the 8th century CE. Since the 1990s they have gained a reputation in the West as a so-called ‘superfood’.
Their reputation is well-earned. Flaxseeds are one of the richest sources of lignans (antioxidants) and plant-based omega-3 fatty acids. They are also a superior source of dietary fibre, plant-based protein, and minerals such as iron and magnesium.
They are considered one of the best foods for reducing inflammation and for maintaining the health of the gut and are usually included in diets designed to fight heart disease and similar illnesses.
How nutritious are flaxseeds?
The short answer is: highly nutritious.
100 grams of flaxseeds (linseeds) contains the following macro-nutrients:
Calories… 534 (2236 kJ) (27%)
Protein… 18.3g (37%)
Carbohydrates (total)… 28.9g (10%), of which:
Dietary fibre… 27.3g (109%)
Fat (total)… 42.2g (65%), of which:
Saturated fat… 3.7g (18%)
Monounsaturated fat… 7.5g
Polyunsaturated fat… 28.7g
Omega-3 fatty acids (total)… 22,813mg
Omega-6 fatty acids (total)… 5,911mg
100g of flaxseeds also contains large doses of various micro-nutrients, such as vitamins:
Thiamin (vitamin B1)… 1.6mg (110%)
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)… 0.2mg (9%)
Niacin (vitamin B3)… 3.1mg (15%)
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)… 1.0mg (10%)
Vitamin B6… 0.5 mg (24%)
Folate (vitamin B9)… 87mcg (22%)
And dietary minerals… 100g also contains:
Manganese… 2.5mg (124%)
Magnesium… 392mg (98%)
Phosphorus… 642mg (64%)
Copper… 1.2mg (61%)
Selenium… 25.4 (36%)
Iron… 5.7mg (32%)
Zinc… 4.3mg (29%)
Calcium… 25mg (26%)
Potassium… 813mg (23%)
Sodium… 30mg (1%)
The percentages in brackets refer to recommended daily values and are based on a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet. The actual amounts of these nutrients you require will depend on your calorific needs.


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Putah Creek Winery Partner Authors Viticulture Book
October 27th, 2015, Davis, Calif. --
One of Putah Creek Winery’s co-owners, Diego Barison, will be hosting a public book release author event with visiting Italian Agronomist, Simone Lavezzaro, on Friday, November 7th, 7 to 8:30pm, Avid Reader, 617 Second Street in Davis, CA. Join us for a presentation of the book, light wine tasting and appetizers.
Viten, a publishing house specializing in viticulture and enology, published two editions of a successful handbook of viticulture called “Vigna in Tasca” in 2007 and 2009.
In 2010, Viten collaborated with Diego Barison, a California grapevine nursery agronomist, to adapt this handbook and provide an extensive field guide in viticulture for the American market.
This pocket reference manual is rich in practical information. Unlike several other applied viticulture books, this handbook is easy to read and well organized. Each chapter starts with historical information and concludes with a complete glossary to translate technical terms.
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Don’t you just love all of the great summer-time foods? Summer is the perfect time to pack your diet with nutritious food, because there is so much available. Some of my best memories of growing up in the Pacific Northwest are of our garden in the summer. I remember pulling carrots up out of the ground with my Grandpa, digging for “spuds,” and eating raspberries and strawberries off the vine…Mmm, Makes me homesick thinking about it!
Well, we don’t have many great berries here in Hawaii, but we make up for it with all sorts of other good stuff. With all of the amazing locally grown produce we have year-round, I can’t complain. Soon we’ll be growing a big veggie garden here at our house, so that will be a ton of fun. (Dave is waiting for his tiller to arrive to put on the tractor…oh, and then the fun will begin!)
Until we grow our own, I rely on finding other farmer’s locally grown produce. And this summer, I’ve been really into grilling my veggies.
Last weekend, I decided to grill up a feast on the barbie. Since I usually lose half of my veggies down the grill, I finally bought this handy slotted pan which worked perfectly:
I tried the corn directly on the grill, and it came out perfect too.
For all of the veggies, I just put a bit of vegetable spray on them, and then sprinkled with salt. I am ready for some good recipes though if anyone has some for me!?
Beets–why not? I was in the mood to grill, so if I found it in my kitchen, it went onto the grill.
Dave happens to be a huge fan of Okinawa Sweet Potatoes. I thought I should try grilling them too. But first–do you have Okinawa Sweet Potatoes where you live?
I had never heard of them before I moved to Hawaii, but let me tell you–they are a treat. Not SO different from a sweet potato, but firmer in texture, and come-on, who wouldn’t go crazy for a PURPLE Potato!? So, first I sliced them up:
And after par-boiling, I tossed them on the grill as well. (And there on top is some sliced Polenta, which I adore.)
(After the third beet took a dive into the fiery depths, I added these into the pan with the other veggies. Much better.)
I tossed some chicken breasts onto the grill for some protein, and our meal was complete:
And we had a happy family dinner. Even if we missed Josiah terribly.
(Notice how the kids all grabbed their corn first thing….funny how kids LOVE corn on the cob!)
Oh, and since I mentioned Josiah– he has called three times so far and is doing absolutely amazing. Still “not a bit homesick!” and having the time of his life! Yay!!
Updates on that, and more…soon.
Did you leave a comment over at the Giveaway post yet? Hurry over there, and spread the word too, k?
And I’d love to hear about any veggies you’ve been cooking on the barbecue. Recipes are welcome!