http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-farmland-idUSTRE7AK0EA20111121

     sad really, but true


excerpt:
TRADITIONS, KNOWLEDGE LOST

It is an emotional shift for a place like Iowa, where families who have labored on their land for a century are honored each summer at the state fair.

This enthusiasm, some fear, will further accelerate the loss of agrarian knowledge and speed up the emptying out of rural America.

The higher prices, too, have started to squeeze out smaller farmers who remain, but are unable to compete against their wealthier peers and outsiders eager to hedge their portfolio. Some critics worry that the pursuit of profits will outweigh concerns over maintaining the long-term health of the soil.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/foreign-hackers-broke-into-illinois-water-plant-control-system-industry-expert-says/2011/11/18/gIQAgmTZYN_blog.html

Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant

Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what may be among the first reported cases of malicious cyber attacks on critical computer systems in the United States, according to an industry expert.

On Nov. 8, a municipal water district employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump control system, and a technician determined the system had been remotely hacked into from a computer located in Russia, said Joe Weiss, an industry security expert who obtained a copy of an Illinois state fusion center report describing the incident.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/11/18/deadline_looms_in_750_million_rice_settlement/


LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until Monday to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the problem.

More than 10,000 farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas sued the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience after the modified strain of long-grain rice got loose in 2006. The mistake led to lost sales in major markets, such as the European Union, and left many growers with huge losses.

YUMMMMMM!!!!   

posted this on the Food preservation board as well. good site with lots of info and free pdf's

http://www.fao.org/

Janet

This has some good info. Enjoy!   

link to main site   http://www.fao.org/

link to pdf info  ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai407e/   its in 13 sections, but they are good quality with pics and such.

Janet

It plainly states this is for TRACKING purposes!  Grrrrrr!


http://m.klfy.com/default.aspx?pid=2705&wnfeedurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.klfy.com%2fstory%2f15717759%2fsecond-hand-dealer-law%3fclienttype%3drssstory

HELLO NC! I'm in Rowan County, NC myself. trying to get my stuff together so we can move to somewhere north of Hwy 421 and west of I77.

 
Tree Climber aka Janet

too cool! We humans are sometimes to arrogant and prideful to admit that we don't actually know or have all the answers. Remember, we used to think all sorts of things now proven to be wrong. I am awestruck by the wonders God has put before us.

My daughter is a freshman at Appalachian State University here in NC. They are participating in the Dept of Energy Solar Decathlon. There are some really cool ideas the kids in these colleges are coming up with. I am partial to ASU's Solar homestead model
I really love how they make the smaller spaces seem not so small.
You can vote for your favorite too.
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/team_appalachian_state.html

Janet

yeah, I miss schoolhouse rock :{

Ran across this song today. Has anyone else ever heard of this before?

listen to it here
http://www.4shared.com/audio/zMJieeq2/Leslie_Fish_-_Green_Filk_-_03_.html

By Leslie Fish
Lyrics:

CHORUS: Black powder and alcohol,
When the states and the cities fall,
When your back is against the wall;
Black powder and alcohol.

Gimme charcoal to the measure two:
Send the bullet where you want it to.
Gimme sulphur to the measure three:
Make the powder gonna keep you free.
Gimme saltpetre, measure fifteen:
Sweetest shooting that you've ever seen! (chorus)

Gimme water, yeast, and veggie-trash:
Leave it sitting in the slurry-mash.
When it's ready, put it in the still:
If you can't heat it, then the sunlight will.
Draw the alcohol away, and then
Put the slurry back, and start again! (chorus)

Booze'll clean your cuts, or run your car.
You can make it anywhere you are.
Black powder in your cartridge shell
Will send the robbers running clean to Hell.
You can make them if you just know how.
So kids, remember what I tell you now! (chorus & repeat chorus)

For anyone wanting basic info on sewing

http://www.amazon.com/How-to-Sew-Basics-ebook/dp/B004GHMIGC/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313254101&sr=1-7

This comes from a velum Scroll which was illuminated sometime in the late 14th century - around 1390 and was recipes or receits for the favourite dishes of King Richard.
The cookbook itself begins at Locations 374-77. For those new to older writings, read it out loud to yourself, or to a helper - it may assist you in 'translation.' Also, the 'p' looking-thing where the line goes up like a lower-case 'h' is pronounced "th". So "...it techip a man for to make commune potages and commune meetis for howshold as pey shold be made craftly..." means more or less "it teaches a man to make common potages (look that one up ) and common meats for household as they should be made craftily" i.e., look nice.


http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-English-Cookery-Compiled-ebook/dp/B000JQUXWA/ref=sr_1_11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313254101&sr=1-11


This is a cookbook from 1908, so the recipes are typical of that time period - written in prose style, with vague directions like "bake until done".

http://www.amazon.com/365-Foreign-Dishes-ebook/dp/B000JMKVZI/ref=sr_1_50?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313254475&sr=1-50



FREE Weights and Measures Study Guide: Conversion of over 1,000 units including Length, Area, Volume, Speed, Force, Energy, Electricity, Viscosity, Temperature, & more

http://www.amazon.com/Weights-Measures-Study-Guide-ebook/dp/B004L9KIP8/ref=sr_1_92?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313254522&sr=1-92

a cookbook from 1658

http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Expertly-Prescribing-OrderingOf-ebook/dp/B000JMKYIM/ref=sr_1_167?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313254740&sr=1-167

Some recipes for  pickles. If anyone tries these let me know how they work out.

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/cucumber_pick.html

Found another one....I don't know who determines the actual good to use by dates......As far as I know sugar is good forever if its kept dry.


http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/store/ksu_cupboard.pdf