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All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-46486432769235913512008-02-07T07:53:00.000-08:002008-02-07T07:53:00.000-08:00Another aspect of climate change is more interesti...Another aspect of climate change is more interesting weather, so as we plant our suburban yard with fruit trees, berries, vegetables, and a nut tree, I need to look for varieties that can tolerate a wide range of conditions and climate zones.<BR/><BR/>The fence is long gone across the back of our yard, and my husband and I just came to agreement to replace it with a chain-link fence combined with a narrow hedgerow! Blackberries, roses, blueberries, and I'm not sure what else -- something that keeps its leaves most of the winter? A new pecan tree at one end and the redbuds at the other. I'm excited! (And the folks using the park can enjoy the outer side of the plantings).Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16120456709770133532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-5652873695868190482008-02-04T18:56:00.000-08:002008-02-04T18:56:00.000-08:00You forgot to mention Papaver somniferum, or poppi...You forgot to mention Papaver somniferum, or poppies. <BR/><BR/>Because if it gets real bad, I'd like to keep a stash of opium balls under the bed. You never know when they might come in handy.Crunchy Chickenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10612320939936593420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-46027083098925382222008-02-04T18:30:00.000-08:002008-02-04T18:30:00.000-08:00Great article. Not really connected to your post, ...Great article. Not really connected to your post, but you might find the following link interesting:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin<BR/><BR/>Just up on the NYtimes, apparently working with pig brains in a slaughterhouse is causing problems. Who would have thought it.Texicalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16372119586196214491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-84430367932346822012008-02-04T08:14:00.000-08:002008-02-04T08:14:00.000-08:00Interesting you mentioning bamboo; I was just taki...Interesting you mentioning bamboo; I was just taking a look at info on it again -- there's an article over at MSNBC (US > Environment) talking about using it as a serious building material. Mind you, they've been making some beautiful buildings for a while, but since one guy, Velez, started working with borax (to protect from termites) and concrete for the joins, the buildings he and his guys are building are phenomenal. <BR/><BR/>Also, apparently bamboo absorbs carbon 4 times faster than hardwoods do... which is not to say that I'm giving up on our hardwoods! Each tree has its own beauty and purposes. But it's interesting nevertheless. I don't think I'm going to be able to grow any yet, at least not safely -- the northern varieties are usually the runner-type, so you need to be able to contain them underground. I hope yours do well!<BR/><BR/>***<BR/>Agree that hedges are great! I've been thinking of a couple of different types, hazel and black- and/or raspberries -- what's not to like about edible/useful fencing? And the bears and such can eat the berries on the outside of the fence while we're munching on the inside ones :)<BR/><BR/>Heather G<BR/><A HREF="helwen.livejournal.com" REL="nofollow">helwen.livejournal.com</A>shadowfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024745044730301470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-13450273657727254992008-02-03T11:11:00.000-08:002008-02-03T11:11:00.000-08:00Sharon, I think you wrote something that had a gle...Sharon, I think you wrote something that had a gleam of a great idea for our movement. Why don't we bring African, Indian volunteers to our communities to teach us how to farm in this fashion?<BR/><BR/>It is tiresome that Americans still believe the myth that we need to teach the world - all things, anything. It is hubris and a jingoist embarrassment.katecontinuedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02464606210207324034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-51255635324690459902008-02-03T08:48:00.000-08:002008-02-03T08:48:00.000-08:00Yes, PLEASE bring back hedges! Good old-style Brit...Yes, PLEASE bring back hedges! Good old-style British hedges; they're a larder and a medicine cupboard all in one, for wildlife as well as for us!<BR/>We go foraging every autumn in the hedgerows near us, and come back laden with hazelnuts, sweet, juicy blackberries, elderberries, sloes, crab-apples, rosehips - all we can carry, to make jams & preserves & sloe gin, or to freeze for later reference. But every year the hedgerows get thinner & thinner, with fewer species, as they are savaged by cheap hedging machines rather than maintained by expensive humans. And every year there are fewer and fewer people out there, and no children except my own...thriftwizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14308673821187072939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-26360886904654950962008-02-03T07:08:00.000-08:002008-02-03T07:08:00.000-08:00Yup, nutritious too. I read somewhere or other th...Yup, nutritious too. I read somewhere or other that the tubers yield more per acre than potatoes as well, but I can't pull up the cite for that. <BR/><BR/>They are not, however, like potatoes. That is, the starch is mixed in with fibers, and while you can suck it off of them you then have to spit the fibers. Cooking them does not make this go away. So cattail tubers are generally used to make flour, which you do by chopping up the tubers, putting them in clean water, rubbing them like mad, and then waiting for the starch to settle. It can then be used as a thickener, part of a pancake recipe, or as part of a vegetable fritter, mixed with greens or other veggies. It tastes quite good. You can also suck the starch off raw. <BR/><BR/>The pollen is also a good starchy thing, with a sweet flavor, but a bit hard to gather. Actually, all of the cattail is edible at some stage or another, and I'm told the side shoots are delicious, but those are only parts I've experimented with. <BR/><BR/>You do have to be a little careful about the water they grow in - I'm actually in the process of moving mine to a wetland garden whose water source I trust more. <BR/><BR/>Sharonjewishfarmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17547121621115074866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-46786931802567308052008-02-03T06:33:00.000-08:002008-02-03T06:33:00.000-08:00And mulch, mulch, mulch.And mulch, mulch, mulch.XYZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731867501737041821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149405519553515697.post-80147683514880543442008-02-02T19:49:00.000-08:002008-02-02T19:49:00.000-08:00Wait a second... You can eat cattails? :SHow?Wait a second... <BR/><BR/>You can eat cattails? :S<BR/><BR/>How?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08892085037131749502noreply@blogger.com