A Glimpse Into My Therapeutic Garden
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I recently made the decision to apply for the 2018 online Master Gardener cohort and then I started to think, “Why not horticultural therapy?” My husband and I first started a garden because, when we were struggling, buying produce was not top priority. What a lot of people don’t know is that you can use your SNAP (food stamp) benefits to purchase seeds and plants. We immediately found that home grown produce was much more flavorful than store bought. We started with tomatoes and peppers and expanded to other vegetables and eventually surrounded the garden with fruit trees.
I love when the cherry, peach, and pear trees are in bloom in the Spring. This is a shot of a peach tree before the leaves are affected by leaf curl. A local farmer told us to use Maxsea as a foliar spray, which resulted in a handful of fruit this year. A small improvement is still an improvement I suppose.
Without fail, we overplant zucchini and tomatoes each year. I end up canning tomatoes every other year. Luckily we have chickens that can consume what would normally go to waste and they product nice, orange yolks. This year, we planted a tomatillo plant and I look forward to making some green salsa in addition to pico de gallo.
In early March or so, I purchased this lilac and the petunias. I wish the petunias still looked as beautiful as they did before I scorched them. No matter how hard I try to avoid gardening casualties each year, I get too ambitious and something gets neglected.
On my back porch, I have a wheelbarrow with lettuce and kale. The lettuce has since bolted, but the kale is bountiful. I enjoy using it as I would spinach and kale chips are a healthy snack my daughter says “Yum!” to.
My all-time favorite flowers are lilies — of all kinds. I can’t wait until Fall when I can dig up the bulbs and plant double the flowers next year. Supposedly you can cut them back and leave them over the winter, but I suspect they’ll be a little crowded in the wine barrels in the Spring if I choose to do that. I’d like to add some Stargazers and Tigers next year for sure.
Lilies are probably the easiest flowers to grow, aside from sunflowers. Here’s mine. I planted a variety of sunflowers in this little patch with a zucchini, pumpkins, and watermelon. I cannot wait to see the Autumn Beauty and Velvet Queen flowers emerge.
Of course, no garden can be complete without roses. The pink roses were labeled as “Tropicana,” although I am not entirely convinced that it is accurate. The other rose is “Just Joey” and it’s award winning for obvious reasons. It’s GORGEOUS! I have a Joseph’s Coat climbing rose and a Don Juan climbing rose that is just starting out (they both came in a dinky four inch pot) that I cannot wait to train on an arbor.
Of course, a gardener’s home wouldn’t be complete without a few house plants. I have a Boston Fern, a polkadot plant, Philodendron, and this Dieffenbachia, which really makes a statement. My mom had dozens of plants in our house back in Korea (and probably even now in Texas), which she was immensely proud of. One of her Philodendrons were incredibly long and wrapped around almost the entire living room.
Someday, I would like our property to be fully landscaped, but we’re making improvements little by little. The vineyards make an incredible backdrop, minus the train that rumbles and honks obnoxiously twice a day. I want to create my own peaceful sanctuary. Perhaps a rose garden with a few benches and arbors strategically placed throughout, and grapes, and azaleas planted along the chain link fence, some blue clematis, a separate herb garden, and bountiful fruits and vegetables. My challenge right now is to keep the deer out of our yard.
There’s no denying the therapeutic value of beautiful things. Art is inspired by nature and living beings.
What does your sanctuary look like?


irrigating for a greener tomorrow
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Using live seed is only the first step in producing live oils. Live seed has the energy within itself to germinate and grow. A live seed is unaltered and retains the natural goodness, imbued with life force. The challenge is to transfer the vitality of the seed to the oil produced from it....Continue Reading
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Red Palm Oil: red palm oil contains 730 mg/kg of tocotrienols. Palm oil is low in essential fatty acids and high in saturated fats. Palm oil plantations are linked to unsustainable deforestation throughout the world.
Rice Bran Oil: rice bran oil contains 585 mg/kg of tocotrienols. Rice bran oil is low in essential fatty acids and has a high Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio which can lead to inflammation.


Exciting things are happening to increase access to local food and to help more people in need overcome food insecurity. A few weeks ago, Jo Daviess Local Foods became one of 15 organizations in the state of Illinois that will receive a Local Food Purchasing Assistance (LFPA) grant! The grants are being awarded in partnership with the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the Illinois Department of Human Services.
LFPA will allow Jo Daviess Local Foods to purchase food directly from local socially disadvantaged farmers at fair market value. Food will then be distributed to communities in need at no cost (such as food pantries, churches, and non-profits) through JDLF's Farm to Food Pantry Program called JDLF Gives.
The Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County is the fiscal sponsor for the JDLF Gives program. The LFPA grant will provide $230,000 in funding and the opportunity to apply for additional funding for 2025. It will also mean JDLF Gives can expand to provide food to people in need in Carroll and Stephenson Counties. JDLF Gives will also be able to buy meat, dairy, and grains, from local farmers, in addition to produce.
Erin Keyser, Executive Director at JDLF said "All that money will go into our local food system, which is very exciting! The Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County was a huge part of writing this grant application. Thank you, Eric! We also had great support from Michelle DeHaven, CEO of The Foundation for Northwest Illinois. Cindy Tegtmeyer was instrumental in starting the Farm to Food Pantry Program in 2020, and now look what it has grown into! We also have an amazing group of farmers growing food for our program, and we look forward to making new connections with underserved communities in our three-county region!"
Erin's right. This is an exciting example of how the Community Foundation can help an idea like JDLF Gives grow and increase its capacity as a local food hub and resource for people in need and farmers in our region. You can read the press release here.


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To achieve this goal, the mod adds new types of seeds and plants that we can include in three major groups, Biochemical, Crystalline, and Metallic. The Biochemical plants will allow us to grow Minecraft creature droppings. The Crystalline plants will provide us with resources and materials that should not be melted. While the Metallic plants will allow us to get mineral resources that should be melted.
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“At the global banquet table, African foods and ingredients, together with the continent’s diverse food traditions, remain underrepresented,” says Local Village Foods founder Sipamandla Manqele.
This is why this South African business is on a mission to mainstream indigenous African foods and ingredients in the global market. I recently received a food drop from Local Village foods to sample some of their goods. In the meantime here’s more about the company and their product offerings.
Who is Local Village Foods?
Local Village Foods is an ethics-driven business aimed at making African wholefoods and ingredients more accessible, while enhancing economic inclusion and empowering agri-preneurs across the continent.
“Food is the currency for true connection and helps us to celebrate and appreciate the significance of our diverse traditions. It accompanies all of life’s most significant moments and plays a critical role in the social and traditional life of African cultures and their peoples,” says Manqele.
Local Village Foods has established a network of local, small-scale producers across the continent supplying equitably sourced and sustainably grown indigenous African ingredients.
What’s on offer?
Among the company’s indigenous food offerings are Bambara groundnuts, fonio grain, Tiger nut flour, teff grain, sorghum flour, and moringa.
If you’re looking for healthier alternatives to highly processed foods, then these plant-based and vegan-friendly products are perfect to include in your diet.
“Many people are not aware of the health benefits of traditional African foods. Many of them are considered superfoods due to their nutritional value, or ‘futureproof’ foods owing to the fact that they can be produced sustainably and in areas with low rainfall levels,” says Manqele.
Swapping staples such as maize and white rice for fonio or spelt increases the nutrient content of a dish, while contributing to greater agrobiodiversity, making global food supply more resilient and helps safeguard these ancient variants for future generations, shows a recent report by Knorr and the WWF titled ‘Future 50 Foods’.
“The search for nutrient-dense plants has taken us toward ancient grains, heirloom plant varieties, and less commonly cultivated crops. There is a good reason for rediscovering some of the forgotten plants,” Dr Adam Drewnowski, Director of The Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, states in the report.
Bissap is a plant-based drink brewed from Roselle, a species of the hibiscus plant extensively consumed in West Africa. Across the continent it is known by many names, including wonjo, dabileni, tsobo, zobo, or sobolo. It is frequently the drink of choice for times of gathering and celebration.
The snack bars are perfect as an on-the-go treat. I’ve also been adding the tiger nuts to my salads. I’m planning on using my cacoa for dairy free chocolate summer milkshake. I’ll post the recipe here once I’m happy with the balance.


4 edition of Sustainability in agricultural and rural development found in the catalog.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|Statement||edited by Gerard E. D"Souza, Tesfa G. Gebremedhin.|
|Contributions||D"Souza, Gerard Eugene., Gebremedhin, Tesfa G.|
|LC Classifications||S494.5.S86 S85 1998|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||xvii, 245 p. :|
|Number of Pages||245|
|LC Control Number||97051331|
This handbook examines agricultural and rural development in Africa from theoretical, empirical and policy stand points. It discusses the challenges of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assesses how poverty and other development concerns can be addressed in rural communities through agricultural transformation. Within this framework it analyses contemporary rural migrations and the emergence of immigrants in relation to the incorporation of agrarian systems into global markets, the European agricultural governance (CAP), and the struggle of local territories as differentiated practices in constant stress between innovation and resilience.
Agricultural systems are at the heart of developing country economies and family livelihoods. A rapidly transforming world poses considerable challenges to rural smallholders with limited resources, from globalization and poverty to land acquisition and climate change. Agricultural development is explored within this dynamic context. In Japan, agriculture has been treated differently from other parts of the national economy. However, policy needs to evolve with new agricultural structures and the global trend towards more integrated value chains, enabling innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, and imposing a greater environmental responsibility on producers.
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Rural farmers in central Kenya have been piloting a project, called DrumNet, that provides marketing, financial services and information to them using their mobile phones. The project’s premise is that information on the market is one of the key elements that keeps farmers from getting the full market value for their products. This lack of information also keeps the farmers in a disadvantageous financial position, so that it is difficult to get the financing and resources they need to grow their business.
DrumNet is currently moving from the pilot project in central Kenya to a beta phase project in western Kenya. The pilot phase was research on whether or not the concept of providing marketing, finance and information with the aid of cell phones was feasible. It was concluded that it was and they are now moving into a beta phase. For this next phase DrumNet has around 250 participating farmers planting around 150 acres of sunflower. They have not completed a full cycle with the current model, but since sunflower growing season is only 3 – 4 months they should see results fairly quickly.
DrumNet is part of Pride Africa, a US-based organization that has successfully implemented micro-enterprise urban loans for short-term capital in East and Southern Africa. With projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi, Pride Africa has proven to be an economic development group that works. They work to create products that have a financial impact on the community and which can be taken over and run privately after they have been setup.
How it Works
The application that is being written, is Java with a Postgres database utilizing a commercial SMS gateway out of South Africa. DrumNet is trying to write it so that it is extremely simple to use. From the farmers perspective they are initiating an SMS to them where they ask a question looking for a simple answer. Many of the SMS’s only require a Yes | No | or Call response, probably a 1, 2, or 3. Some are more complex, like “How many acres has your group planted?”.
Another main goal of the system is to create a cashless system that allows DrumNet to track where inputs are going, who is getting inputs and how much produce is expected at the end of the growing season. This will hopefully cut down on side selling, selling of bad fertilizers and seeds, etc. The farmer will receive a unique e-token on their phone. When they go into the stockist they give the stockist the e-token and s/he sends it into the DrumNet system. The DrumNet system immediately affects payment to the stockist. The DrumNet system in turns sends a confirmation SMS to the farmer making sure that the he did indeed pick up the inputs.
They are also trying to create a system so that when the transporter picks up the graded harvest at the end of the growing season, the transporter can SMS in the amount picked up. This will kick off a 50% payment as the transporter is climbing into his lorry. The DrumNet system will notify the farmer, and the bank that they are using, Equity Bank, will also notify the farmer that a certain size deposit has been deposited.
Another main goal is to gather data about the reliability of all the actors in the chain. This data is primarily for the benefit of the farmer, as we can provide a type of credit rating. e.g. This farmer has worked with DrumNet for 2 years, and has very successfully planted and sold his sunflower every season. The participating bank(s) can then use that information to lower interest rates on their loans, offer different services like crop insurance, health care, education loans.
This last part is extremely useful and could be used as the foundation for a reputation system for mobile banking in Africa. The potential there is that credit, and debt, can now be handed out at the micro-level to almost anyone. The banks who take an early role in this process, and those who are willing to venture into untested new territory with technology stand to gain a lot if they can create this mobile payments system for Africa.
March 19, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Great stuff – this could dovetail really well with Safaricom’s MPesa service as a means of processing the transactions involved from start to finish.
March 20, 2007 at 9:39 pm
We are hoping in future rounds to be able to transfer money directly to the farmers via in-bank electronic transfers
March 20, 2007 at 9:46 pm
We are hoping in future rounds to be able to transfer money directly to the farmers via in-bank electronic transfers, currently we only transfer to Self Help Group accounts. Through negotions with banking partners, we are aiming to get lower transactions costs than Mpesa. Currently MPesa is charging around 25 – 30 Kenyan Shillings a transfer. Though for the next few season farmers will probably have to use MPesa to transfer money or make a trip directly to the bank.
Does anyone know if both parties have to be on Safaricom? Certain areas in the bush that we are working don’t have good Safaricom coverage and farmers are using Celtel instead.
April 21, 2007 at 5:07 am
i wish to venture into sunflower farming. would
appreciate to know on the marketing and pricing of sunflower,capital outlay and ecological requirements. i have 5 acres of land not fully utilised .
mureithi john waweru
KUTUS- CENTRAL KENYA
October 26, 2007 at 7:27 am
please i would like to know ecological requirements ;planting ,marketing ;harvesting ;deases and pest control , maturity and yields’sunflower processing and products
February 11, 2008 at 9:19 am
Am intrested in knowing how the value chain works in central and western region in kenya.
February 19, 2008 at 8:42 am
Tell me how best to market 8000 kg of macadamia nuts in shell. I grow them in Meru.
How can I get the latest prices and buyers?
March 11, 2008 at 2:41 am
this helps me in research.pls give more information
May 27, 2008 at 9:14 am
i want to have a oil press machine to produce sunflower oil.my challenge is where to get sunflower seed suppliers for my business.please get incontact with me on 0710764518 or email@example.com
June 16, 2008 at 3:47 am
Is there any organisation in central kenya dealing with promotion of sunflower growing in the region and how would i get in touch with them?
October 21, 2008 at 3:31 pm
This is great info to know.
October 30, 2008 at 9:02 am
i would like to get info on how to do sunflower farming . we have a five acre piece that we need to implement the project by january 2009. kindly asisst and revert sonnest possible.
November 20, 2008 at 9:53 am
pliz let me know if you.. let’s share the technology behind your implementation. am interested in java, J2ME, midp, jsp ++
January 19, 2009 at 2:36 am
I am a small scale farmer in Makueni District and I am looking for market for my farm produce. I have available cucumber and tomatoes will be ready by end of February. Other produces in my green house are red cupscum, manangu straberries and bricolli.
I believe mine is a success story in view of the prevailing weather condition.
P.O. Box 74648 -00200, Nairobi,Kenya.
February 27, 2009 at 4:22 am
I am willing to deliver products (reasonable orders) door to door within Nairobi. Kindly assist with marketing.
February 27, 2009 at 9:15 am
i realy like your idea in helping farmers improve their livelihood through.am more intrested in information systems and would be pleased if you gave me a chance to work with you .
March 13, 2009 at 4:31 am
That an excellent innovation for the farmers,it will enable them to keep up to date with market information and avoid scrupulous middlemen.
November 2, 2009 at 2:23 am
I am a small scale farmer in Kaiti Division, of Makueni District. I have interesting projects in our farm, namely:- Tilapia fish, greenhouse tomatoes, cucumber and capsicum. I have now planted Barbandensis Aloe Vera which will be ready for harvest by September 2010. I am looking for assistance in processing aloe vera products to the highest. standards. I have over 1,000 plants and I have women groups outgrowers. Is there someone out-there willing to undertake this project?
Phone:254 020 722722416
December 14, 2009 at 7:01 am
I have all year round supply of kales,cabbages,capsocums,sweet melon,kienyeji eggs etc on my farm on Kisumu-Busia road.Interested in contracted supply.
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September 8, 2010 at 4:11 am
hi, am a farmer in thika and i have already started greenhouse tomato farming. i would be interested in knowing the sms number to access market info. anyone interested in my produce cam contact me on 0722529157
September 16, 2011 at 11:30 am
we have mini greenhouse
September 20, 2011 at 3:54 am
It a longtime since I pasted my comments/requests and not a single reply. Does this system work?!
September 26, 2011 at 4:14 am
Please furnish me details on sunflower plantig for best seed, time of year2plant, best fertilizer, all info.
Would like to do 3-5acres of land located 8km away from kakamega toward mumias.
October 5, 2011 at 7:46 am
you should check out this website http://www.webarazafarmer.com for more information about farming stories and new farming techniques. its an online farming magazine in kenya.
October 27, 2011 at 5:32 am
I want to buy oil press machine. advice on the prices of sunflower and how I can get supplly of sunflower my phone no is 0720319148/0738291536 email firstname.lastname@example.org
October 28, 2011 at 10:15 am
Hi fellow farmers, It is now raining heavily and time to plant and start new projects. I have available Aloe vera shoots for planting (medicinal barbadensis species) Book now to avoid disappointment. First 5 customers will get a good discount.
October 28, 2011 at 10:16 am
My phone number for aloe vera shoots orders – 0722722416
March 9, 2012 at 3:55 am
id like to join this network. am a tomato farmer in eldoret
March 10, 2012 at 10:36 am
you are doing great work for the farmers.
November 26, 2012 at 11:15 am
Such an initiative should be well analyzed,as it will end up removing the traders from the supply chain. More often than not we assume their role far too much.Most of these traders are based in small rural towns and isolating them from the value chain means isolating the development of these towns where most farmers market are based…
November 27, 2012 at 4:37 am
We have customers in Africa who are farm owners. Farm drip irrigation kit is what we manufacture.
Hope can service more people.
Meantime, we’d like to exchange ideas on irrigation, farming, gardening, etc. Feel free to drop me a line email@example.com


A1 Mobilization of land for CE demonstration model
The objective of this action is to mobilize sufficient land plots within 60 km radius surrounding Vilnius city, to provide background for sustainable long-term recycling of 100% of Vilnius city’s dried MWTS digestate and corresponding amount of biomass ashes. Targeted area includes entire Vilnius, Trakai, Elektrėnai, Šalčininkai and Širvintos regions and parts of Varėna, Kaišiadorys, Ukmergė, Molėtai and Švenčionys regions.
“Vilniaus vandenys” produces annually about 9000 dmt of dried municipal water treatment sludge digestate, thus in total on average 600 ha of biomass plantations will be needed to recycle all “Vilniaus vandenys” produced dried municipal water treatment sludge digestate. To create long-term sustainable mechanism for dried municipal water treatment sludge digestate of “Vilniaus vandenys” recycling it will be needed 1800 ha of biomass plantations in the area as according Lithuanian legislation dried municipal water treatment sludge in biomass plantations can be recycled once in three years.
The mobilization of the 1800 ha land pool for the project purposes will involve two types of sub-actions: mobilization of 900 ha of biomass plantations (poplar and hybrid aspen) already established before implementation of the project and mobilization of 900 ha of agricultural land (abandoned and less suitable to conventional agricultural activities), on which biomass plantations will be established within the project scope.
A2 Permitting for nutrient recycling from waste
The objective of this action is to develop dried municipal water treatment sludge digestate and biomass ashes recycling in biomass plantations management/fertilization plans and to receive required environmental permits to recycle nutrients from waste.
Municipal water treatment sludge digestate recycling in biomass plantations management/fertilization plans will be developed based upon requirements defined in “Rules of waste water treatment sludge usage in fertilization and land reclamation LAND 20-2005” approved by the Minister of environment of the Republic of Lithuania be decree No.349 as of 28-06-2001. LAND 20-2005 was issued by harmonizing EU Council Directive on the protection of the environment, and in particular of the soil, when sewage sludge is used in agriculture (86/278/EEC).
Municipal water treatment sludge digestate recycling in biomass plantations management/fertilization plans will be developed based on land plot or groups of land plots in particular locations basis. It is anticipated, that appr. 80 municipal water treatment sludge digestate fertilization plans will be developed within the scope of the project and will be approved by corresponding authorities, i.e. permissions granted to fertilize will be issued by Environment protection agency.
Biomass ashes recycling in biomass plantations management/fertilization plans will be developed based upon “Rules of management and usage of biomass ashes” approved by the Minister of environment of the Republic of Lithuania be decree No.D1-14 as of 05-01-2011 including amendments, which regulate usage of biomass ashes in recycling on land (fertilization) and in construction .
Rules have special provision for biomass ashes usage in agricultural biomass plantations and
forests. According the Rules biomass ashes can be used to fertilize biomass plantations after preparation of biomass ashes recycling in biomass plantations management/fertilization plans which have to be approved by Environment protection agency (i.e. permission granted). Its is expected that appr. 24 biomass ashes fertilization plans will be developed and approved by the Environment protection agency.


The Innovation Network in Agriculture and Rural Areas (SIR) was established by the Polish Ministry of Agriculture in 2015 to support innovation in agriculture, food production and rural areas. The Network functions as part of the Polish Rural Network and is the national correspondent for the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI).
The management of the Network has been delegated to the Agricultural Advisory Centre (CDR) in Brwinów, which acts as Network coordinator. At a provincial level the Network is also housed with entities making up the public advisory system – the 16 regional agricultural advisory centres (WODR).
The Network’s mission
- facilitate the development and operation of networking among farmers, advisory units, research centres, entrepreneurs of the agri-food sector and other entities supporting the implementation of innovations in agriculture, forestry, food production, and in rural areas;
- facilitate the transfer of knowledge and of best practice in innovations in agriculture, forestry, food production, and in rural areas;
- assist in the establishment of EIP-AGRI Operational Groups and in drafting projects for implementation by the Groups, as well as in promoting the results of their activities.
Thousands of participants have to date engaged with the Network at national and provincial levels through various activities that have been carried out. To achieve its objectives, the Network organises events, such as conferences, training sessions, workshops, study tours, and issues thematic publications.
As part of its activities, the Network connects and mobilizes different actors. The key partners include: farmers, industry associations, farmers’ organisations, scientists, agricultural advisors and entrepreneurs of the agri-food sector. The Network currently brings together almost 900 partners.
Measure 16 ‘Cooperation’
Through its innovation brokers the Innovation Network in Agriculture and Rural Areas provides support for the implementation of the ‘Cooperation’ measure funded under the Rural Development Programme.
This is the first activity of its kind to encourage implementation of innovation in agriculture through the effective collaboration of scientists with farmers, entrepreneurs and advisory entities that become part of the EIP-AGRI Operational Groups.
Innovation Network in Agriculture and Rural Areas (SIR), CDR Warsaw Branch Office, ul. Wspólna 30, 00-930 Warszawa, Poland e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org, phone: +48 22 623 28 49
Iwona Obojska-Chomiczewska, SIR Team Manager, e-mail: email@example.com
Aleksander Bomberski, Innovation Broker, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org


You are probably wearing a T-shirt now. Or you have a few hours ago. Or you will a few hours from now. But did you know that each of your T-shirts needs approximately 2,700 liters of water to come to life? Sounds like a lot.
Let us give you some perspective on this as just a number alone does not mean anything.
The total volume of water on our planet is estimated at 1.386 billion km³ (333 million cubic miles), more than 97% of which is salty and 2% is snow and ice. So in the best case, close to 1% is liquid freshwater, and crops consume 70% of it.
What about cotton? Undoubtedly, it loves water as, though estimates vary, traditional cotton production can take close 10,000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of cotton fabric, which is 50,000 glasses of water. So, just one of your favorite T-shirts is worth 13,500 glasses of water, the amount you consume for 3 years on average.
However, lots of measures have been taken in the last few years to reduce the impact of fashion on water supply. The agricultural sector around the globe is encouraged to develop more sustainable farming methods not only when it comes to cotton but also for other crops.
For instance, WWF’s “Better Cotton Initiative” (BCI) is the world’s largest cotton sustainability program, providing training on more sustainable agricultural practices to more than two million cotton farmers in more than 20 countries. The goal of the organization is by 2020 to train five million farmers around the globe and to have Better Cotton account for nearly 30% of global cotton production. International brands and retailers, among which IKEA, Nike, United Colors of Benetton, Asos, Decathlon, are also embracing the BCI’s initiative. For instance, since September 2015, IKEA has committed itself to use only sustainable cotton, either recycled or grown with less water and pesticides, in its production processes.
However, having farmers and companies take measures to reduce the impact of cotton production and use on the environment is just one step towards greater sustainability. The truth is that we individually can take some small steps to contribute to this global movement. Each small step matters and eventually turns into a big change. Here are three ways to reduce the impact of your cotton T-shirt:
Increase the lifetime of your clothes
We live in a world where fash fashion reigns. H&M alone sold more than 2.6 billion clothing units in 2018/2019, meaning that one out of three bought a piece of clothing from the brand. And imagine how many brands are out there?
Most of these clothes become trash after a few times of seeing the world. Globally, 80% of discarded textiles end in landfills, while only 20% are actually reused or recycled. The U.S. alone sends about 21 billion pounds of textile waste to landfills every year. These clothes can sit there for more than 200 years, and as they decompose, they emit methane, which is even more potent and dangerous than carbon.
However, wearing a T-shirt for an additional nine months reduces its water footprint by about 5% to 10%. The average expectancy of clothes is between two and three years. But when you take good care of them like washing them less frequently, avoiding drying and ironing, and using less detergent, you can prolong their life.
Opt for organic cotton
Certified organic cotton is grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, insecticides, and fertilizers, which automatically reduces its impact on water pollution. At the same time, conventional cotton uses nearly 16% of the world’s insecticides and 7% of pesticides. On the other hand, buying a T-shirt made of organic cotton would save 2,457 liters of water, as growing cotton organically uses significantly up to 91% less water than conventional cotton.
Look for other alternatives
Brands around the world are embracing raw, natural, renewable, or recycled materials such as flax, linen, monocel, recycled polyester. They are also using less water and chemicals in the process of dyeing to reduce their impact on water supply and pollution. Why not wearing a T-shirt made out of recycled plastic bottles?!
These are just some ways to reduce your footprint on our planet’s water resources. As Tony Robbinson once said: “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” So, our final advice is: use your imagination and commit yourself to preserving the Earth!


Premier Wen Jiabao chaired the State Council Executive Meeting today, assigning soil environmental protection and integrated remediation tasks.
The meeting held that relevant State departments spent six years conducting the national survey on soil contamination, in accordance with the arrangements of the State Council. The survey results indicated that great attention needs to be paid to the soil environmental conditions and that human activities in the industrial, mining, and agricultural sectors are the primary causes of soil contamination. Accordingly, the meeting proposed to identify the protection of soil environment, prevention and mitigation of soil contamination, guarantee of farm produce quality, and development of friendly living environment as the main purposes for now and for a period of time to come; to figure out the soil environmental quality status, establish the soil environmental quality investigation and monitoring schemes, set up soil environmental quality monitoring network, improve relevant policies, legislations and standards, implement "soil environmental protection projects", work faster to establish national soil environmental protection system, and gradually improve the soil environmental quality.
The meeting identified the following tasks: a) strictly protect the soil environment of farmlands and source water areas; define priority regions for protection of soil environment, keep files for soil protection and establish evaluation mechanisms. The State will introduce the policy of “offering rewards as incentives for soil protection” and support the treatment of industrial and mining pollution as well as agricultural pollution sources. b) tighten the control of soil pollutants at the source; step up the environmental supervision during the agricultural production process, control the pollution by industrial and mining businesses, and enhance the environmental management of municipal wastewater treatment facilities and soils in the vicinity. c) strictly control the environmental risks of contaminated soils; organize the environmental monitoring of soil samples and quality testing of farm produce from contaminated farmlands, strengthen the environmental regulation of contaminated sites, and set up a mandatory survey and evaluation scheme on soil environment. d) treat and remedy contaminated soils; carry out integrated contaminated soil remediation projects in typical regions, with the focus on contaminated farmlands and sites. e) enhance the soil environment supervision capacity; deepen the background survey on soil environment, and give more S&T supports to soil environmental protection effort.
The meeting required identifying the businesses as the main player for protection of soil environment; giving full play to the market-oriented mechanism, channeling social funds into soil environmental protection field, and guiding and encouraging the public to support and participate in soil environmental protection effort.
(This English version is for your reference only.In case any discrepancy exists between the Chinese and English context, the Chinese version shall prevail.)


Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The Pressure Cooker is here, but.....
I am developing a virtual appreciation for determinate tomatoes. The benefits of indeterminate tomatoes is that they produce tomatoes over a long period of time. The problem with indeterminate tomatoes is that they produce tomatoes over a long period of time. This weekend, I probably pulled about 30 tomatoes off the vines (weighing about 6 and a half pounds). So there's enough all over the counter tops to justify making some sauce or canning the fruits whole. Problem is, it's about a quart at a time, maybe two. Canning is an involved process, and I wonder how sane I am to fire the whole system up just to preserve a quart. I do have plenty of apples to preserve. So, I'm going to stop whining and start working. Freezers do make the whole thing easier, but I like the idea of having the veggies not needing electricity for "life support". We haven't had a major power outage (knock on wood) but living on the fault lines always leaves that possibility open.
I am thinking of going over to Cynthia's Farm and picking up a large supply of tomatoes. Then I could have a bumper supply in my cupboards. I'm also thinking of next year. What if I choose a few indeterminate vines for a long season of fresh eating, and a bed full of determinates for canning and processing? Might be a possiblity.


Thistledew Lavender Farm is the definition of a family affair. The company was created in 2005, after Danny Davis, the owner of Thistledew, retired as a firefighter in Lubbock County. While visiting their son in Washington State, his wife Laurie purchased a lavender tea bag that would change their life. The Davis’ came back to Dickens, Texas, and started researching varieties of lavender, and soon planted a field of their own. The family first realized their success after selling out of products at their first farmers market. From that moment, the Davis’ knew they had a valuable product that customers were demanding. Today, the Davis’ have a production crop of more than 2,500 plants.
Meet the Davis Family
Danny enjoys his work in the field and nurturing the plants to complete growth. Danny has a Bachelor of Science in Plant Science from Lubbock Christian University.
Laurie oversees production and assists with field work.
Susan is the daughter of Danny and Laurie. She helps with sales and general product production.
Tim is the son of Danny and Laurie. He is a United States Army veteran, and has worked at Tom’s Tree Place, Chuck Sudduth – Landscape Architect, and attended Pierce College of Lanscape Design. He assists with field work and packaging, labeling and selling the products at market.
Dora is the daughter in law of Danny and Laurie. She is the creative mind behind product development. She also assists with packaging, labeling and selling products at market.


Wigglesworth is the marketing arm of the largest group producing East African sisal on five large commercial farms which have a centralised processing operation, utilising water to clean the fibre. The approximate collective hectarage under Sisal on our farms is around 20,000 hectares, producing around 20,000 tons per annum, depending on favourable weather conditions.
After planting out from the nursery, the plants are in the field for 2-3 years and once the leaves are over 60cms in length, the plants are then cut for the first time. Once the fibre has been extracted, it is dried on racks in the sun, washed, machine brushed and then baled.
The washing of the fibre during processing ensures that the fibre once dried in the sun is a natural light creamy white colour. The machine brushing reduces the level of impurities to below 1% for UG grade, which is the biggest grade produced by the farms.
The productive life of the Sisal Plant is between 7 – 10 years.
The Sisal produced on our farms in Tanzania and Kenya has been accepted in the industry as being of a consistent quality and produced to a standard higher than the requirements of the Official Standard Specification for African sisal fibre.
Historically, sisal fibre was used essentially for Agricultural Twines, primarily Baler Twine and today North America remains the largest market for this product, which is now sourced almost exclusively from Brazilian spinning mills.
Today, African sisal is used for a range of high-quality products, including:
We produce in Kenya/Tanzania (baled in standard 250kgs):
No.1, No.2, No.3L, No.3, UG (also baled in 100kgs), SSUG (also baled in 100kgs), UHDS
We also produce Tow No.1 in 200kgs and 100kgs bales.
We are the only African producer producing No.1, No.2 and No.3 Grade fibres on a regular basis.
Chopped Sisal fibre can be produced on a special order basis from Amboni Spinning Mill on the basis of 22mm length fibre.
Madagascar Sisal Official Sisal Grades are as follows and are produced in 150kgs and 225kgs bales
R - Rejections (equivalent to UG)
D - Declasse (slightly lower quality to UG)
Etoupe/Tow No 1
The sisal fibre is produced on a similar basis to East African sisal.
Brazilian sisal is produced on a large number of small holder farms of varying sizes averaging around 10 hectares in size, the fibre is extracted from the leaf without the use of water, on a portable hand raspadors double-brushed and baled. The quantity produced on each farm would average around one ton per week, it is collected and delivered to an exporter facility where the fibre is prepared for export.
We can supply the following grades, which are produced in 250kgs and 100kgs bales;
Type 1 DB
Type 2 DB
Type 3 DB
Type 3 common
Reject or Refugo
Brazilian Sisal is used to make basic sisal products such as agricultural twines, general cordage, ropes and other lower quality end products. The fibre is less consistent in quality and has a higher moisture content than African farm produced sisal fibre.
Sisal, or Henequen as it is known in the Yucatan peninsula area of Mexico, where it is an indigenous plant. The name Sisal originated from the port on the Yucatan from where it was exported in the early 1900’s.
Sisal is one of the coarsest of the Hard Fibres.
It is from the Agave species of plants and is a succulent which is able to grow in poor soils with minimal rainfall. Agave Sisalana is the original variety used for commercial fibre production, although over the years Hybrids have been developed in East Africa in order to increase the number of productive leaves produced during the plants life.
The first plants arrived in East Africa around 1893 and have continued to be grown on varying sized commercial farms across Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique and Madagascar, since that time. The centralised processing of the fibre, has ensured that the quality of African sisal in general has enabled it’s use in higher value and more specialised end products, such as carpets, wire rope cores, dartboards, speciality pulps, plaster reinforcement and handicrafts.
Agave Sisalana was introduced into Brazil in the late 1930’s, but it was not until the 1960’s that Brazilian production developed to support many local spinning mills manufacturing agricultural twines.


The prevalence of the caliche is partly due to the ready evaporation of soil moisture and the semiarid climate; the aridity increases the amount of evaporation, which in turn increases the amount of caliche in the soil.
Still, losses to the aquifer between and equated to a third of its cumulative depletion during the entire 20th century.
In many locations, the aquifer is overlain, in the vadose zonewith a shallow layer of caliche that is practically impermeable ; this limits the amount of water able to recharge the aquifer from the land surface.
Change in groundwater storage[ edit ] Ground water levels decline when the rate of extraction by irrigation exceeds the rate of recharge. Many farmers in the Texas High Plainswhich rely particularly on the underground source, are now turning Ogallala aquifer research paper from irrigated agriculture as they become aware of the hazards of overpumping.
However, the soil of the playa lakes is different and not lined with caliche, making these some of the few areas where the aquifer can recharge. Both mechanisms reduce the amount of recharge water that reaches the water table.
The USGS has performed several studies of the aquifer, to determine what is coming in groundwater recharge from the surfacewhat is leaving water pumped out and baseflow to streamsand what the net changes in storage are rise, fall or no change.
Sixty years of intensive farming using huge center-pivot irrigators has emptied parts of the High Plains Aquifer. Recharge in the aquifer ranges from 0. The major differences are time and depth.
In the 21st century, recognition of the significance of the aquifer has led to increased coverage from regional and international journalists.
Hydraulic conductivityor the ability for a fluid water to move through porous material, ranges from 25 to feet 7. In other areas, such as parts of eastern and central Nebraska and of the region south of Lubbock, Texaswater levels have risen since Its deepest part is ft.
The destruction of playas by farmers and development decreases the available recharge area. The depth of the Ogallala varies with the shape of then-prevailing surface, being deepest where it fills ancient valleys and channels.
Early settlers of the semiarid High Plains were plagued by crop failures due to cycles of droughtculminating in the disastrous Dust Bowl of the s. However, byas the water consumption efficiency of the center-pivot irrigator improved over the years, farmers chose to plant more intensively, irrigate more land, and grow thirstier crops rather than reduce water consumption.
Because of this, the rivers receive groundwater flow baseflowcarrying it out of the region rather than recharging the aquifer. Much of the plains region is semiaridwith steady winds that hasten evaporation of surface water and precipitation.
While groundwater is a renewable source, reserves replenish relatively slowly. The success of large-scale farming in areas that do not have adequate precipitation and do not always have perennial surface water for diversion has depended heavily on pumping groundwater for irrigation.
Present-day recharge of the aquifer with fresh water occurs at an exceedingly slow rate, suggesting that much of the water in its pore spaces is paleowaterdating back to the most recent ice age and probably earlier.
General characteristics[ edit ] The deposition of aquifer material dates back two to six million years, from the late Miocene to early Pliocene ages when the southern Rocky Mountains were still tectonically active. Groundwater within the Ogallala generally flows from west to east at an average rate of a foot per day.
Producers have taken steps to reduce their reliance on irrigated water. In extreme cases, the deepening of wells was required to reach the steadily falling water table.nber working paper series the evolving impact of the ogallala aquifer: agricultural adaptation to groundwater and climate richard hornbeck pinar keskin.
Ogallala Summit white papers A key goal of the Ogallala Aquifer Summit is to help facilitate the exchange of information across state lines.
A white paper from each state was put together for the Summit to. Paper presents changes in Ogallala Aquifer groundwater quality. In a new paper published by the Texas Water Journal (TWJ), a group of researchers for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), found that the quality of water being extracted from the Ogallala Aquifer changes in complex and.
CRP Effects on the Ogallala Aquifer. RWO FINAL REPORT. submitted to. United States Geological Survey. through the. Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research. Methods of Conserving the Ogallala Aquifer: The Ogallala Aquifer is among the largest in the world. The Aquifer is located in United States of America.
Possible Impacts of Global Warming on the Hydrology of the Ogallala Aquifer Region. Authors; Authors and affiliations; Norman J. Rosenberg; Daniel J. Epstein; In this paper we attempt to anticipate the possible impacts of climate change on the sustainability of the aquifer as a source of water for irrigation and other purposes in the region.Download


Benefits of Chicory Root
The chicory plant is widely grown in the northwest part of Europe. This can be a major source of the fiber. This cannot be digestible and this can be readily used as replacement for the sugar or the dietary fat in those functional and processed foods. Visit this link to find out more.
Moreover, the root of the chicory plant has been used as the substitute for the coffee. It does look and taste like coffee but it is made of naturally caffeine-free ingredient. The ground chicory root is also added to the certain types of the beer to be able to add flavor into it.
But nowadays, those of the raw chicory roots is actually best known as the food additive to be usually found in the various products that do includes the breakfast bars, cereals, and that of the nutritional supplements in itself.
The main attraction actually of that of the chicory root is the incredible source of dietary fiber aside that of its coffee flavor. In fact, majority of the raw chicory root does have majority of the dietary fiber.
In addition to this, the significant amount of fiber that will be found in that of the chicory roots is made up of naturally soluble dietary fiber that is made of the inulin. The chicory root can be extremely high in the inulin which can be an important kind of the prebiotic fiber that is also found in the bananas and in the jicama and in the Jerusalem artichoke.
By its definition, the inulin is actually a prebiotic fiber that can be complex and at the same time plant-based kind of carbohydrate that human cannot digest in the body. Nonetheless, it does represent an important source of the fuel for the gut bacteria, thus allowing them to be able to create the life-sustaining chemicals like that of the short chain of the fatty acids that do play an important role in keeping the individual healthy.
The last benefit is that, the organic chicory root is also available in the various stores as well as in the online stores which makes it accessible. You can now buy this roasted and even ground use as the coffee substitute, or you can also find it raw for the usage of cooking. It will be terrific natural source of the concentrated prebiotic fiber and this can actually will go a long way especially in helping in building the robust kind of microbiome. Visit Ketogenic.com to know more.
You may also take a look at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-keto-recipes-help-survive-summer_n_5b240c74e4b0f9178a9cf441 if you want to read/watch further.


potatoes, that is....
Again, this is another gardening experiment for this year---planting potatoes in containers. Why so many experimental gardens you ask? There are a few reasons. The first being, have you ever heard the definition of insanity? It has been said insanity is when you keep trying the same thing and expecting different results. With that said, I am trying several new planting methods this year hoping for better and more consistent results. Though rabbits do not like eating potatoes, I do not like digging potatoes. After the plants have grown in these pots all summer, I should be able to just dump them out and easily harvest. Keep in touch and follow the progress this summer as the growing season continues.
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Javorová et al. Literature Anonym : Výsledky mléčné užitkovosti kontrolního roku. Svaz chovatelů českého strakatého skotu cit. Profi Press s. Dolejš, J. Mze ČR, Informační list. Doležal, O. Agrospoj Praha, Drevjany, Kozel, Padrůněk : Holštýnský svět. Zea Sedmihorky, s.
Falta, D. Gajdůšek, S. MZLU Brno, MZLU Brno, Her, E. Thermal, productive, and reproductive responses of high yielding cows exposed to short-term cooling in summer. Dairy Sci. Farmářská výroba sýrů a kysaných mléčných výrobků. Javorová, J. Kadzere, C. Livestock Production Science 77,59 — Knížková, I. Profi Press, s.
Kudrna, V. Novák, P. Vliv klimatických změn na organizmus hospodářských zvířat. Náš chov, 6. Polák, O. Students Conference. Přibyla, L. In Den mléka ČZU Praha, Purwanto, B.
Roenfeld, S. Dairy Manage. Šoch, M. Sborník z mezinárodní bioklimatické konference "Functions of energy and water balances in bioclimatological systems". West, J. Zejdová, P. Dizertační práce in MS, dep. Zimbelman, R. Animal welfare, etológia és tartástechnológia Animal welfare, ethology and housing systems Volume 9 Issue 3 Kuchtík et al.
Between the development of OF in CZ was slow however sincedue to the reintroduction of financial support for OF, there was a radical development of OF found out while this trend has lasted to the present. Specifically at the end of in CZ there were registered OFs farming to total This fact is also associated with dominant position of suckler cows breeding and meet nők 61300 strong position of sheep breeding. The meet nők 61300 of the food safety FS system in the CZ were laid inhowever, in Januarythe Czech government drawn conclusions on the new "Food Safety and Nutrition Strategy for " when the FS has for a long time ranked among the priorities of the CZ.
The risk assessment is conducted by independent state as well as non-governmental research institutes together with colleges and universities. An important role in the process of risk communication is played by nongovernmental organisations, professional and consumer associations.
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Organic farmers and organic food producers must be registered with the Ministry of Agriculture. On the Czech market organic food from abroad are dominant. Organic foods are purchased above all in supermarkets and hypermarkets, and their range is relatively wide and consists mainly of milk and dairy products, bakery products, tea, beef, fruits and vegetables. However range of some organic foods on the Czech market is insufficient eg eggs and some are not produced by domestic producers at all eg oil.
The quality of organic foods is the result of the quality of agricultural and food systems, including controls of their health safety.
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Introduction Organic farming is a relatively big phenomenon both in European and Czech agriculture while the period from to the present can be called as a period of radical development of organic farming OF both in EU and in the Czech Republic CR. The period from the year to the present is also a period when generally more and more coming to the fore the issue of food safety, especially in the context with increasing number of different scandals concerning food safety.
The main aim of our study was to assess the development of organic farming and the issue of food safety in the CR. Development of organic farming in the Czech Republic from to the present.
In the period from to the development of OF in the CR was relatively slow Table 1while in only organic farms were registered and their total area was only about 0.
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This fact was mainly affected by reduction of financial support in However, infinancial support was reintroduced, which is subsequently reflected in a relatively radical increase in the number of organic farms and a significant enlargement of the organic land. This trend has essentially lasted until the present, while at the end of in the CR were registered 3 organic farms farming to total ha, which represents an On the other hand, it should be noted that not all organic farms are still included in organic farming because for example during the year around organic farms ceased their activity.
The main reasons for termination of organic activities are not precisely known, but administratively demanding and strict controls represent a major problem for some organic farmers.
From time to time are also found serious shortcomings in the keeping meet nők 61300 társkereső lingen standards on the farms, which ultimately led to the cancellation of registration.
However it is necessary to add to the above mentioned that in the same year there were new organic farms registered in organic farming Hrabalová et al. Table 1: The development in the number of farms and land area in organic faming in the CR.
With the dominance of PP is also associated a dominant position of breeding of suckler cows and a relatively strong position of sheep breeding in the Czech organic livestock Kuchtík et al. Due to the optimal economy of livestock on an organic farm an ideal solution is a mixed farm with its own crop production, permanent meet nők 61300 and breeding of ruminants, respectively with additional pig or poultry production Šarapatka, Urban et al. In recent years, there has been also found out a slight increase of area of permanent cultures orchards, vineyards and hop fields.
Table 2: Development of size of organic land since in the CR. However despite this decline, the CR is among the countries where the average size of organic farm is significantly higher than the European average, which is at about 40 ha.
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In this context, it should be added that for big Czech organic farms are characteristic large areas of PP with a dominant breeding of 21 Kuchtík et al. Neverthelesss, the fact remains, see Table 3, that about half of the organic land is farmed only by about organic farms cooperatives, limited companies etcwhile on the other hand about 2 organic farms farm on areas to a maximum of 50 ha when these farms are mainly family-type specialized usually in one production goats, wine production, herbs, etc.
Table 3: Organic farm size in It is generally assumed that in the organic farming will work more workers per ha of land than in the case of conventional farming, which is mainly explained meet nők 61300 nők 61300 lower labor productivity in organic farms. Thus, on ha of AL this ratio was 2. Within the long-term development is however registered growth of employment in OF when in per ha there were registered 1.
From a comparison of the position of crop interjút, hogy megismerjék az iskolai livestock production in the Czech OF the dominance of livestock production significantly results.
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With the inclusion of all animals raised on Czech organic farms in there were raised pieces of ruminants, which is about of livestock units LU and livestock load was around 0. The most important breeding in Czech OF Table 4is cattle breeding, namely breeding of suckler cows followed by sheep breeding. Relatively important productions are also goat and horse breeding but pig and poultry organic productions can be considered as minor. Meet nők 61300 and food safety Organic food is the main product of Czech OF, and these must be produced with materials derived from OF, under the conditions determined by law that meets the specific requirements for quality and safety eg without the use of artificial fertilizers, GMO etc.
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From most of studies dealing with why generally customers buy organic food results that they are bought because they are, compared to products from conventional agriculture, free of chemical additives, better and more environmentally friendly and above all healthy or healthy safe Kubáňová, Respecting abovementioned it can be stated that generally the issue of health food safety is becoming a one of the priorities of the consumer, while food safety includes hygiene of food production, control mechanisms, monitoring of food chains and feed safety.
In general it can be stated that to ensure food safety contributes government organizations and institutions financed by the state, particularly by the creation of legislation, continuous and consistent monitoring of health safety and quality, long-term monitoring of contaminants, application of scientific knowledge into practice, and by informing and educating consumers. Health Food Safety is also a fundamental principle of European food policy, which guarantees meet nők 61300 protection of consumer health.
As for CR, the foundation of the food safety system were laid there in Resolution of the Government of the CR Nohowever, in Januarythe the Czech government drawn conclusions on the new "Food Safety and Nutrition Strategy for " when the food safety has for a long time ranked among the priorities of the CZ.
In connection with that it aims to increase the public confidence in the system ensuring safe food, in its quality and nutritional values which is logical due to increasing number of different safety scandals concerning foods that have been registered in recent years in the CR. By the way the most famous scandals of recent years which concerned the CR were so-called methanol affair or salt affair.
An important role in the process of risk communication is played by non-governmental organisations, professional and consumer associations. Therefor, through the Egyetlen hirdetés társkereső are transmit information, whose purpose is to prevent the introduction into circulation or withdraw from circulation meet nők 61300 foods or the feeds which present a risk to human health and also have been exported outside the territory of the individual state.
In the CR organic farmers and organic food producers must be registered by the MoA. These control bodies also issue certificates which confirm the origin of products and carried out checks of producers, processors and wholesalers of organic food.
The inspectors of monitoring organizations excercise regular and random controls on organic farms and at processors and wholesalers, while at least once a year the whole chain of production, processing and distribution undergo by complete control.
In approximately 5 inspections were carried out in all organic farms of which 76 inspections were unannounced. The most significant shortcomings identified during controls were incomplete accounts, using of conventional seed without a valid exception, interventions carried out on animals without a valid exception or the use of substances unapproved for OF Hrabalová et al. The vast majority of identified inconvenient foodstuff on the Czech market relates to conventional production while the defective organic foodstuff were found out only sporadically, which is a good sign.
Conclusion Meet nők 61300 for the development of organic farming in this case can be stated that in the CR was registered in recent years relatively radical development of this way találkozott egy férfival az interneten farming while the main is livestock production.
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As for the food safety, its issue is a priority Czech government, and to solve this issue was created "Food Meet nők 61300 and Nutrition Strategy for ". In general it can be stated that the situation in the CR regarding food safety is relatively good, but in the last period has been registered the growth of various affairs relating to above all food safety of conventional origin.
On the other hand the food safety of Czech organic products is relatively high Kuchtík et al. Finally, respecting above mentioned, it is possible to state that the basic problem of food safety on the Czech market is not insufficient legislation or lack of controls, but, even though sporadically, the lack of responsibility of some degrees producer, importer, processor or retailer for food safety. References Food Safety and Nutrition Strategy for Yearbook - Organic agriculture in the Czech Republic.
Ministry of Agriculture of Czech Republic, Praha: 92 p. Kubáňová, Meet nők 61300.


2 edition of Waterdeficiencies in European agriculture found in the catalog.
Waterdeficiencies in European agriculture
J. C. J Mohrmann
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Organic production in the EU, the EU candidate and potential candidate countries (CPC),7 and other European countries has filled many gaps for the EU countries, where production.
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Hello everyone – it’s that gorgeous time of year again when harvests of all kinds are pouring in. We’re thrilled to invite you to be part of our harvests once more – the Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain CSA! This years crops include heritage wheat, several kinds of heirloom corns including Mandan Bride, Plymouth, and Nothstine Dent, popcorn, barley, dried beans, and emmer! Our grains are always grown with organic methods, with GMO-free seeds.
Signups close on Oct 31st, and this year we will once again have two choices for your pickup – Dec 7th at Waltham Community Farms in Waltham, MA or Dec 14th at Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community in Amherst, MA. Sign up now and spread the word with your friends – don’t forget to join the conversation at our Facebook page and on Pinterest, sharing recipes, tips, and more!


Prayer is vital to the work of All We Can and we are encouraged by our supporters and partners who join with us in prayer.
Each month we highlight the key areas that we invite you to join us in praying for.
We’d love you to join us in prayer this Autumn:
This Autumn, many churches around the UK will be celebrating Harvest, and if they’re using All We Can’s resources, they will be introduced to communities in Zimbabwe struggling to grow enough food to provide for their families’ needs. This Autumn we consider the issues affecting farmers in some of the poorest places in the world and pray for those who are affected.


Buy A Plant (or two) and Grow the Booster Club!
Spring has sprung! It’s the perfect time to start planning your outdoor plant needs and we have a great way to take care of that while supporting ALL of the incredible Monarch High School Student programs through the Booster Club’s 2018 annual Spring Plant Sale!
Anyone in the community is welcome to purchase through this great program! The more sales the more your chosen student activity directly benefits! All of the plants will be delivered just in time for Mothers’ Day planting and we have a wide variety of choices available!
You can place your order via the attached form or place your order directly online here.
Booster Club generously gives an incredible 70% of the sale profits to YOUR preferred group / club / activity or sport! This fabulous tradition is a great way to help raise funds and get something for yourself too! These fantastic plants are of the highest quality and grown locally for our climate by the renowned creator of the Hardy Boy Plants, Welby Gardens.
You won’t be disappointed with the longevity and beauty of these plants that will deliver beauty all summer long and then some (assuming you water them of course)!
Orders are due April 20th and plants will be available for pickup at Monarch on May 9th!
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The term Metaculture ...
As soon as we start using nature, we can consider it culture. Cultivation is worshiped according to human needs and man-made rules and rituals. We have agriculture, silviculture, and horticulture. The specialized cultivation forms such as aquaculture, electroculture and fungiculture as well as the holistic cultivation approaches; Permaculture and biodynamics with different polycultures.
Metaculture covers the total amount of cultivation forms within the grown environment.
Metaculture is all the universal concepts that are present in all cultures while at the same time referring to a sort of culture about cultures. Putting Metaculture in a metropolitan context, we have a unique toolbox for creating inclusive and cyclic environments for any given urban context. This could be climate adaptive urban designs, social growing communities, urban farming and other green sustainable projects. Incorporating Metropolitan Metaculture into the design and transformation process, ensures performative and nature-based solutions, with a balance between biological, social, and aesthetic qualities. Metropolitan Metaculture works for a greener, better and more sustainable world, with plants as the focal point.
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The philosophy of MeMe - Metropolitan Metaculture - is that humans can be just as beneficial and a factor in the ecosystems of the world as we are today destructive. If we want solid green transformation and real sustainability, all green initiatives must come into play. At the same time, we must have people included and engaged in the transformation - not least in the cities, where a diverse urban nature needs space and the cultivation of food must take place.
The great potential of the magical treasure trove of plants must be exploited far better than it is done today.
That is why all conceivable forms of cultivation and uses of plants must be incorporated in robust and cyclic systems when we develop our cities. Me-Me is exactly that.


Winnipeg Seedy Saturday 2016
Event Dates: Feb 12 – Feb 13
Come hear about seed saving around the world, across Canada, and in our own backyards!
We’re excited to host Dan Brisebois, seed saver, farmer at Tournesol Co-operative Farm, and co-author of Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers as our keynote speaker. Special guests also include Caroline Chartrand (Red River Seed Library), Kelly Leask (Prairie Originals), Terry Mierau (Cedar Lane Farm), and Rachelle Ternier (Prairie Garden Seeds).
Dan Brisebois be speaking on Friday, February 12th and will participate on events on Saturday, February 13th. All of this will take place at the Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Ave (Great Hall).
Tickets are $7.50 student/low wage and $15 full price and are available here.
Tickets also available at the door.
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The next big thing in urban agriculture? cy fair
Cy Fair isd (CFE) has teamed up with Fair Oaks Ranch to develop the first commercially viable urban farm in the United States.
The CFE’s first field is located in the city of Fair Oaks in Utah, which is located on the west coast of the United State.
This field will be operated by Fair Oaks, a non-profit organization which is dedicated to supporting the agriculture and ranching industries.
CFE hopes to have the first crop of organic cotton, soybeans, cotton, and alfalfa seed harvested in 2018, with the first harvest expected in 2020.
This crop will be used for fiber production, which will be the company’s next priority.CFE’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel J. Lehrman, says, “We are committed to supporting local farmers and ranchers by supporting their organic agriculture and growing local food.
We are committed the next great thing for the community.”
Fair Oaks is located near Salt Lake City and has been an active part of the local food scene for many years.
The farm was founded by James and Barbara Jeter in 1984.
The CFE, which has offices in New York City and in the Austin, Texas area, has been operating in Utah since 2001.
The organization was founded in the hope of making the organic cotton and soybeans available to the community, but it has been a success in that regard.
CFB is the first organic cotton farmer in the state, and CFE will be using CFE equipment and technology to help farmers with the crop.
CFO also has a partnership with Fairwood Farms to help with seed selection, processing, and shipping.
CFH is a small family-owned farm that is also located in Fair Oaks.
CFHE is a large, well-established organic farm, but has grown to include a number of farmers in the past.
CFF is CFO’s largest donor, donating $200,000 for the Fair Oaks field and $100,000 to CFHE’s seed collection program.
The partnership with CFO is intended to provide CFO with the best soil and water quality possible for the first year of the operation.
CFOE has already established a relationship with CFH to provide seed, fertilizer, and irrigation, and will use this to help produce the next crop.CF Fair Oaks’ crop is expected to be harvested in 2019.
CF Fair Oaks Farm will be a partnership between CFO, Fair Oaks and CFB.
CFU is the largest farm in Fair Oak, and has partnered with CF Fair Oak to help make this field a viable field.CFB has been actively involved in the farming community since it opened in 1999.
The company began farming wheat, and in 2014 opened a farm on the banks of the Great Salt Lake.
The Fair Oaks farm is one of the first farms in the region to be certified organic by the Organic Valley, and the Fairwood Farm is certified organic and uses CF Fair’s technology.
CF is also a member of the American Wheat Board, which also certifies organic farms and provides seed and water to farmers.CF is also involved in a number community initiatives, including raising funds for the UT Mural Project and the fairytale farm, the latter of which is an important community-building project for the entire Fair Oaks community.


Multiple field fires broke out this past Friday when a passing train’s sparks set fire to the wheat.
Smoke rises from the wheat fields after a passing train's sparks set the wheat on fire. Multiple fires broke out between Haven and Yoder.
Leroy Back works to put out multiple bales of hay that caught fire when train sparks set fire to wheat fields between Haven and Yoder on Friday afternoon.
Leroy Back sprays water on burning hay bales on a wheat field between Yoder and Haven on Friday afternoon.
Yoder residents came to the fires to pass out water to hard working firefighters on Friday afternoon. Train sparks set multiple fields on fire between Haven and Yoder.
A small patch of wheat is left behind after a fire caused by sparks from a passing train ravages wheat fields between Haven and Yoder.