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“Protect America’s Pollinators Act” 16 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
Honey bees: About those neonics H.R. 2692; 2013 The extermination of our priceless honeybees is proceeding apace, with devastating ramifications. Back when CCD – [Colony Collapse Disorder] first hit...
Cider, Salsa and Peach Pie 3 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
The photo on the left is of my 3-year old volunteer peach tree, taken just this afternoon. You can see that it’s growing right next to my recently-moved compost bin, from which it volunteered. I have ...
It’s Summer: Must Be Preservation Time 25 Jul 2013 | 02:34 am
Boy, oh boy – it’s hot! That means tomatoes, apples, peppers and beans are coming in as fast as I can pick in the scorching heat of late July, taxing my tolerance for dripping sweat at the counter pre...
How ‘Food Security’ Killed the Farm Bill 19 Jul 2013 | 12:05 am
The grand rivalry of political philosophies and established systems of government known as the good ol’ Cold War offered for many years the stark differences between Communist-style 5-year plans for f...
An Early July of Biblical Proportions 9 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
The first week of July here in the southern Appalachians has been positively diluvian. That means we’ve had so much rain – falling at the rate of 1-2 inches an hour spaced in waves throughout the day ...
Killed a Rattlesnake This Morning… 19 Jun 2013 | 09:18 pm
Just a bit of Father’s Day excitement here on the ‘stead, where this morning Sirius the Cat was seen stalking a slithery something in the jasmine growing along the garden fence next to the gateway. He...
New In The Garden: Hops! 11 Jun 2013 | 11:52 pm
Now that the threat of last frost (or just temperatures into the high 30s at night) is finally over, I thought I’d expound a bit about what’s new in my garden(s) this year, and why. This year we’re tr...
Emergency Planning: Surviving an F5 4 Jun 2013 | 11:18 pm
Holy Oklahoma, Batman! My old stomping grounds of Moore, Oklahoma has been slammed twice in the last month with monstrous, mile-wide F5 tornados. Now, it’s certainly nothing new that tornados happen i...
Jobs, Clean Energy, Economic Investment… What’s Not To Like? 23 May 2013 | 10:51 pm
As the year last turned and uncertainties about the ridiculous state of politics in America left everyone wondering what new obstructionist tactics congressional Republicans would try following re-ele...
Mountaintop Removal – This Water Don’t Wash 11 May 2013 | 08:43 pm
Sierra Club Mountaintop Removal [MTR] mining – the literal destruction of entire mountains and watersheds in order to scrape coal off the ground – brought more than 100 Appalachian residents impacted ...
