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This morning I was out checking the orchard. I was putting some vegetable goop down gopher holes (old, fermented, mushy okra is God’s gift as a gopher deterrent) and happened to look up… and saw exactly why I work so … Continue reading →

>http://netnebraska.org/article/news/989947/cheaper-easier-monitoring-could-hasten-water-clean br>[quote] Decades-old systems of field tiling, which drain fields of excess water, keep crops from drowning. But they also concentrate nutrients in water flowing across the Midwest and into the Mississippi River. That’s contributed to a dead zone in … Continue reading →

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, (except for Greece, New York,) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (except for Muslims); or abridging the freedom of speech, (except reporters who refuse to reveal who supplied them with … Continue reading →

I’m talking to a friend the other day and she’s telling me how she and her daughter are watching a movie on dung beetles while eating. I really like them. The other day with a group of outdoors people, I … Continue reading →

So I hiked up to check the fairy shrimp habitat on a hilltop near my house this morning. Because after the rains, I figured that it might have some water in it :-) By the way if you’re in California … Continue reading →

It is amazing what people will put on themselves. And what companies will sell them. The chemicals below are found in hand sanitizers On the Need and Speed of Regulating Triclosan and Triclocarban in the United States https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974611/#!po=0.308642 I just … Continue reading →

SpaceX launches rocket 6 months after accident, then lands. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/12/21/spacex-launches-rocket-6-months-after-accident-then-lands.html?intcmp=hpbt3 Well I don’t know whether this link will be good for everyone but certainly you can google the title and get a plethora of similar sites. I chose this one … Continue reading →

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35153795 Colistin resistance in bacteria is now in pigs in the UK (and other countries). I wonder why it showed up in animals first. In addition, the problem with getting down to where you only have a single antibiotic to … Continue reading →

I am going to post this in a Permaculture location because I believe that Permaculture is about living sustainably. And I don’t believe that living sustainably is focused on spending time and money and then using chemicals from petroleum and … Continue reading →

[Quote] The idea for L.A.’s shade balls came when a now-retired LADWP biologist learned about the application of “bird balls” in ponds along airfield runways. Airports have detention basins to collect stormwater runoff. As the ponds fill up, they attract … Continue reading →