farming

I used to be on the Foxfire mailing list in the 1980s. She sent out samples of the colored cottons while describing the work that went into reviving colored cottons which had been lost since the fall of the Inca Empire. When the textiles were anyalized it was discovered many were not died, but...

I almost put this on my off and on again "Let Them Eat Bugs" thread but this is slightly different and another sign I've been looking for. I figured that the UK and even US governments would really be starting to panic and take food shortages seriously (as opposed to an opportunity) when the...

More pictures than I've been through, but the collection of tools is huge! I have no connection to the sale other than wishing I had the time, $$ and a big trailer :-( https://www.estatesales.net/NC/Greensboro/27406/1975758

While I thought the 6 thousand year old barley to be amazing enough, the mention of a find last year officially pushing back plant domestication in the Middle East to 23,000 years ago stunning. This also means the great stone monuments found in Turkey that are at least 12 to 14,000 years old...

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Banned in 160 Nations, Why is Ractopamine in U.S. Pork? (Op-Ed) LiveScience.com By Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO, The Humane Society of the United States 2 hours ago Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Pacelle...

Forwarded from my brother, if you live near Fresno come out and support! - Double_A From:Rep Nunes [mailto:Rep.Nunes@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:32 AM Subject: Sean Hannity Coming to Fresno - LIVE Broadcast From The Westside Dear Friends, On Thursday, September 17...

Excerpt from the NYT article: Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop By JULIA MOSKIN Published: July 17, 2009 A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drought6-2009jul06,0,3172131.story From the Los Angeles Times AGRICULTURE Despair flows as fields go dry and unemployment rises San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls. By Alana Semuels July...