Gardening by Cathy

I’m not sure if I have ever heard of this before, but other than the first bites of the summer season, mosquito bites don’t last longer than a hour with me. Why? I believe I got bit up so much as a young child from the age of 5 or 6 upwards that [...]

Look and listen:

You can look at the information provided many ways. Remember our great emblem the Bald Eagle was threatened due to DDT causing the egg shells to be thin and so the birds became very scarce? It took some 20 years for the to make a comeback? Now, finally it is not [...]

Just had our local garden club –member garden walk. We met afterwards and discussed going to conventions and local happenings and such and…I listened. Here is some of what I gleaned from our lengthy conversations.
Ball Seed outside of Chicago is trying something out this year. They are opening their gardens up to the [...]

purple is da bomb. Orange vegetables contain beta carotene, but purple veggies are filled with cancer-fighting anthocyanin compounds.
It turns out that orange carrots, the rage today, were rare several hundred years ago. Of course, who can remember, that is a little far back in our short lifetimes. However, the color of [...]

what do they have in common? No it is not a plot for some fiction novel, but a real life story of people helping people.
Dr Mutlu Ozdogan, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology as well as a scientist with the Nelson Institute’s Center for Sustainability, pairs up ground pictures taken with his [...]

The island of Tasmania, off the coast of Australia, has grown crops of Pyrethrum for more than 25 years. However, a fungus threatened to end this long career. An international team went over in 1999 to study the life cycle of the disease to find out when it is the most vulnerable. [...]

“Radiant City”, a video/documentary on suburban sprawl exposes the isolation and starkness that exists in a structured society that actually presupposes you have one vehicle per adult. I kept waiting for them to mention the lack of trees and flowers and gardens in this vast suburbia. Maybe they did, but if they did [...]

Here is an overview of Aquaponics. You basically have 3 barrels cut lengthwise and laid on their sides or you have 3 horse troughs filled with water. These tanks are roughly arranged in a circle. Two troughs are connected to each other with tubing or pcv piping. In addition, the [...]

Thanks for being patient. You can contact your Congressmen
and your Senators . The Alliance for Natural Health USA has so graciously provided us with the text of our appeal to Do Not Co-sponsor Senator McCain’s Attack on Dietary Supplements
When you are at the congressman site, you can leave your 4 digit postal [...]

A brief look at blacksmithing in action.