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Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
My queen was a dud, and her replacement had been murdered.
By John Knight
Some time ago I read a short story by Roald Dahl called “Royal Jelly.” It’s the tale of a father desperately searching for ways to save his malnourished infant daughter who refuses her mother’s milk. This man is an apiarist, and while looking for answers, he picks up the latest article on royal jelly—the microbial mix that honeybees feed to their larva when they want to raise a new queen. “Royal jelly… must be a substance of tremendous nourishing power,” he eventually tells his wife when she discovers that he has been secretly feeding it to their child, “for on this diet alone, the honey-bee larva increases in weight 1500 times in five days!” Soon his daughter is rapidly gaining weight and ravenous for her milk.
I became fascinated with bees after reading this story. I bought guidebooks, joined beekeeping meet-ups, watched documentaries, and, in 2016, finally sent away for a nuc of 20,000 bees. I asked a friend if she thought this was a good idea, and after a telling pause, she said, “Well, you’ll have to be okay with being that guy.” Undeterred, I installed the bees on the roof of my Brooklyn apartment and began the absurd process of learning how to keep them alive. Incredibly, they flourished, and by October I had perhaps 70,000 bees and had harvested nearly 30 pounds of honey.
Then, in the spring of 2017, disaster struck. The queen wasn’t laying fertilized eggs, and if I didn’t act quickly, the hive would be dead by the end of summer. Thus began a months-long struggle that I only later realized was really about loyalty: mine to the hive, and the hive’s to its queen.
For the first few months I had the hive, I checked on it incessantly. I had no idea what I was looking for, but felt like I had to do something—there were thousands of bees on my roof. If I wasn’t opening the hive to pull out frames and check for eggs, I was watching the bees come and go. Worker bees can fly up to 15 foraging flights a day, and seeing them return with little balls of pollen on their hind legs gave me a strange sense of accomplishment.
And I really did become that guy. I went to a beekeeping class where I met Jessica, another novice beekeeper, and found that just describing how I was lighting my smoker felt good. She knew what it was like. For months, anyone who expressed mild interest in the hive received a personal tour. Even my roommate, who was allergic to bees, found himself standing on the roof bundled in four sweaters and a mosquito net asking when he could go back inside. I had been thinking and reading about bees for so long that I was oblivious to the fact that not everyone shared my enthusiasm. It wasn’t until halfway through the summer that I started noticing how my friends remained on the far side of the roof while I, with bee suit and dish gloves, marched around pulling out frames and yammering on about drones and brood and propolis.
Every beehive is unique, so despite classes and guidebooks, the novice beekeeper inevitably engages in a lot of improvisation. If I had to clear a frame, I brushed the bees off with a feather. When I harvested honey, I used spaghetti strainers and cheesecloth. Worried that my whole approach was too haphazard, I asked Todd Hardie, a friend’s father who has an apiary that provides honey for his distillery in Vermont, to come see the hive. We went up to my roof one night in the middle of a torrential rainstorm, and, incredibly, he was impressed. As I shined a nearly-useless flashlight, he grasped the bottom board and tipped the hive back for a brief moment.
“How many brood chambers did you say you have?”
“Three.”
“And two honey supers?”
“Yes.” We were practically yelling at each other over the rain and wind.
“You’re fine. This is one of the best hives I’ve seen all year.” I felt my heart thump a little more quickly. “I’ve never seen a first-year hive do so well.”
“How can you tell?”
“By the weight.” He said a full hive needs about 60 to 80 pounds of honey to survive the winter. He thought mine probably weighed 100 pounds. It’s rare that a beekeeper can harvest anything their first year. “Whatever you’re doing,” he shouted, “they like it.”
FIGHT TO THE DEATH: Two queens bees battle to the death as worker bees look on. The winner of the fight will be accepted as the new queen. VINTAGE IMAGES (VIA ARTRES)
Shortly after Todd’s visit, my landlord sold our apartment. For weeks I had dreams about beehives wrapped in plastic bags in the back of taxis. Finally, I decided to move out, but to keep a set of keys, leave the hive where it was, and hope the new landlord wouldn’t raise a fuss. I treated for mites (a crucial beekeeping task), made sure food reserves were up, and left the hive to weather the winter.
As far as I can tell, my queen died sometime in the spring. Queens typically live for about four or five years, so this caught me by surprise. A new queen, however, is a regular event in the life of a hive. Beekeepers frequently replace their queens every year or two to introduce genetic variety and ensure that the hive has a strong monarch who can lay enough eggs to keep the population up. Bees can also raise their own queen, and when I did an inspection early that spring, I was pleased to see that mine had taken the initiative. Before she died, my old queen must have laid a few fertilized eggs that worker bees raised as replacements. They would have selected six or seven fertilized (female) eggs and fed them only royal jelly. When the first queen hatched, she would have immediately killed any unhatched competition and ideally flown a few mating flights, storing enough semen in her abdomen to spend the rest of her life laying eggs.
While a newborn queen may seem ruthless, the success of a beehive hinges on allegiance to its queen. Though she can mate with an average of 12 different drones, there is only one queen, which makes for a hive of closely related bees. As a new queen begins to produce her own pheromones, the hive slowly aligns with her as the old bees die and new workers hatch. In a sense, the hive is genetically wired to be loyal to the monarchy. If the hive was to raise multiple queens, or if the workers were to start laying eggs, the interests of the population would slowly fracture.
In a healthy hive, a queen will lay hundreds, sometimes thousands of eggs each day in spring and summer, which she either fertilizes or doesn’t. The fertilized eggs, the females, can either grow to be workers or queens. The unfertilized eggs become male drones that do nothing but inseminate the queen—quite literally, flying bags of semen. Drone bees, though crucial for reproduction, don’t forage or sting or raise brood—they can’t even feed themselves.
A queen that is properly inseminated will lay eggs in a uniform pattern at the center of a frame. In the middle is a large section of worker brood, and along the outside are a few drone cells. Worker cells have flat tops, while the drone cells are slightly raised, like tiny bubbles. But in my frames that spring, I had only scattered drone brood, a sure sign that something was wrong. In a healthy hive, the ratio of workers to drones is about 3-to-1. By late April my ratio was probably closer to 1-to-1, and new drones were hatching every day.
I’m generally terrible at admitting when something is wrong, especially when it comes to the bees. I want so desperately for things to go well that I’ll ignore all signs of impending disaster. When I saw the irregular brood, I told myself all was well—the queen would fill out the rest of the frame soon. When I saw that all the eggs were drones, I reasoned that the workers would be along shortly. I even proudly showed the hive to my mother when she came for a visit, asserting that since my hive had raised its own queen, there was an excellent chance it would thrive.
In late April I signed up for a “bee tour” around Brooklyn with some fellow urban beekeepers to compare notes and do some “field work.” Embarrassingly, I had never seen another hive beside my own. So on a sunny day in May, I rode my bike to a garden deep in Brooklyn. I showed up late and sweaty, and everyone else was already around the hives at the back of the garden. The email had asked us to bring a bee jacket, which I had forgotten, and the only one left was a child’s size. With the sleeves just covering my elbows and the hood unzipped, I bashfully edged up to the group gathered around the veteran beekeeper who had come from upstate to show us city-slickers a thing or two.
It was immediately obvious how poorly my hive was doing. Almost every frame in the perfect hive in front of me was already packed with uniform worker brood and even had a little honey in the corners. The bees were industriously packing in pollen and capping cells, and there was the queen scurrying around keeping things in line.
What had happened to my queen? Perhaps there were no drones in the hive to inseminate her when she hatched—they are killed off in the fall because they become just another mandible to feed in the winter. Some of the first eggs a queen lays in the spring are usually replacement drones, but maybe my hive was still drone-less when the new queen emerged. Or maybe it was too cold for her to take a mating flight. Or maybe the chemicals I used to treat for mites compromised the virility of the drones’ semen. Whatever the cause, seeing this new hive made the effect obvious.
When our host tried to slip inside for a glass of water, I rushed up to him in my absurd children’s jacket, caught him by the shirtsleeve and explained my situation. His face darkened.
“There’s not much you can do, really. Try to get a new queen, but this time of year, most breeders don’t have any left.”
“What will happen if I do nothing?”
“Well, the queen will keep laying drones and soon the workers will all die, and then the drones. If I were you, I’d cut my losses and start again next year.”
Someone else volleyed for his attention, asking whether it was important to use organic sugar for feeding. I extricated myself, and felt the panic set in.
Frantically, I spent the rest of the afternoon calling every queen breeder I could find on the East Coast. I eventually found a man in Florida who could send me a queen that would arrive within days. She would cost $50 with shipping. She’d come by regular mail in a small cage about the size of a granola bar with a candied plug, inside a perforated envelope marked “LIVE BEES.” After you remove the old queen, he said, you place the new one—cage and all—between the hive’s frames, and let her chew her way out through the plug. She’ll be laying eggs in a few days.
THE QUEEN'S COURT: Worker bees keep the queen fed not with pollen or honey, but with royal jelly, a secretion from their head glands. VINTAGE IMAGES (VIA ARTRES)
Bees have about 165 pheromone receptors on their antennae and though it’s not entirely clear how workers “decide” what to do and when (the question of agency is still very much up for debate), it is certain that the queen’s pheromones prompt them to go about their business. When the reigning monarch dies or stops laying eggs in her old age, the change in her pheromones prompts the hive to raise a replacement, as my hive had done. Similarly, if a new queen arrives and releases her pheromones before those of the old queen have dispersed, the hive will consider the new queen an invader, and kill her. Above all, they are loyal to their queen. I did not fully grasp this fact. Because I waited only six hours between queens, the worker bees probably stung my new queen to death within an hour.
A week later, when I realized my new queen was dead, I called Todd with a sinking heart. “The hive is moving in its own direction now,” he said, “and it’s a different direction than the one you want.” In other words, if I did nothing, my honey-producing hive of workers would slowly become an unproductive hive of drones that would all eventually die. My tinkering had seemingly led the bees to cultivating the hive’s demise. But at least in this, I was not alone.
If you’ve heard anything about bees in the past decade, it’s that they are dying. Their disappearance is a serious problem, as domesticated honeybees are responsible for pollinating approximately 80 percent of all fruit, vegetable, and seed crops in the United States. There is still much debate among experts about whether so-called Colony Collapse Disorder is a single problem, or whether it might actually be a convenient catch-all that describes multiple threats to beehives. Pesticides, stress, poor diet, infestation, disease, and mismanagement are all possible culprits. In fact, it may not be ideal for hives to be domesticated in the first place. There are feral bee colonies throughout the country that survive perfectly well on their own, even though many began as domesticated hives, like mine. The root of this difference isn’t entirely understood, but it appears that feral bees are more genetically diverse than their domestic counterparts. In a kind of DNA re-wilding, feral bees develop a greater range of ways to respond to environmental changes. If DNA is a manual and the environment determines which instructions should be used to accommodate a given situation, feral bees simply have more instruction sets to choose from.
My unraveling colony made clear to me the complex, fraught relationship between honeybee and beekeeper. Bees are tremendously self-sufficient, and follow a set of old and finely tuned instincts. The beekeeper, ideally, needs only to nudge them in the right direction to make them do what he wants: pollinate an almond orchard, or survive on a Brooklyn rooftop. But to do this correctly, the beekeeper needs to understand what it is the hive wants. In my case, Todd was telling me, it wanted to die. Its queen gone, and its new queen rejected, my best efforts were being brushed off. In a bizarre mash of genetics, instinct, and husbandry, the hive and I were now at odds.
Near the end of the Roald Dahl story, the child’s mother begins to worry about all the weight her daughter has gained. She is unnerved by her husband’s brash use of the royal jelly and even detects “a touch of the bee about this man.” Finally, she undresses the child to weigh her, and sees that though her abdomen has fattened, her arms don’t seem to have grown proportionally. “The baby was lying naked on the table, fat and white and comatose,” Dahl writes, “like some gigantic grub that was approaching the end of its larval life and would soon emerge into the world complete with mandibles and wings.”
The father, on the other hand, is ecstatic. He admits that this isn’t even the first time he’s put royal jelly to good use—he’s been secretly eating it himself for the past year. “Why don’t you cover it up, Mabel?” he says to his wife. “We don’t want our little queen to catch a cold.”
As much as I don’t like to admit it, I admire this man. He was determined to fatten up his daughter, and I was determined to save my hive. For better or worse I couldn’t stop tinkering. The hive was headed toward disaster, but I refused to follow.
I called my man in Florida again. I alerted the receptionist at work. This time, when the new queen arrived, rather than placing her cage in the center of the hive with all the other bees, I separated the hive in two with a piece of paper. The bees would eventually chew through and reunite the two sides, but cutting the hive in half might mitigate their aggression. I gave them some food and fresh water, and left the hive alone for two weeks. I figured the queen had a 10 percent chance of making it.
So much remains unknown about bees that most of the time beekeeping feels like a matter of luck. As of this writing, my luck is holding. The hive is raising worker brood with a healthy queen. The drone population has leveled out, and there are two brood chambers flush with capped worker cells. There aren’t as many bees as last year, but two honey supers are nearly full. I don’t know if it will be enough to last the winter, but the new queen seems to be on board with my vision. I don’t see her every time I do an inspection, but frequently I’ll seek her out, just to make sure. She is, after all, my partner-in-crime, my hive’s savior—my little queen.
John Knight is a writer, editor, and beekeeper whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Millions, and elsewhere.
Additional Reading
Beshers, S. N., Huang, Z. Y., Oono, Y., & Robinson, G. E. Social inhibition and the regulation of temporal polyethism in honey bees. Journal of Theoretical Biology 213, 461-479 (2001).
Buchler, R. et al. The influence of genetic origin and its interaction with environmental effects on the survival of Apis mellifera L. colonies in Europe. Journal of Apicultural Research 53, 205-214 (2014).
Chittka A., & Chittka L. Epigenetics of royalty. PLoS Biology 8, e1000532 (2010). Retrieved from doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000532
Dahl, R. “Royal Jelly” The Best of Roald Dahl Vintage, New York (1990).
Guo, X. et al. Recipe for a busy bee: microRNAs in honey bee caste determination. PLoS One 8, e81661 (2013). Retrieved from doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081661
Kamakura, M. Royalactin induces queen differentiation in honeybees. Nature 473, 478-483 (2011).
Meixner, M.D. et al. Occurrence of parasites and pathogens in honey bee colonies used in a European genotype-environment interactions experiment. Journal of Apicultural Research 53, 215-219 (2014).
Oliver, R. “What’s Happening to the Bees? Part 5” American Bee Journal June Issue 679-684 (2014).
Oliver, R. “What’s Happening to the Bees? Part 4” American Bee Journal May Issue 535-542 (2014).
Ratnieks, F.L.W. & Helantera, H. The evolution of extreme altruism and inequality in insect societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 364, 3169–3179 (2009).
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The global economic and societal collapse is accelerating at an alarming pace, but the worst is yet to come. That’s why we must do whatever we can to survive the challenges that are fast approaching, so today we gathered 30 primitive skills you should learn before the total collapse of our modern civilization.
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Thanks, John. We think alike. I had some seedlings given to me early in the spring and used the same approach using the 1 gallon pot first and then transferred to the 2 gallon.
Good luck!
I put the transplants into 2 gallon pots. That should give them plenty of root room. When I put them into one gallon pots to root them, I will plant them up into two gallon pots. Most of the videos I've watched show them in 2 gallon pots. I've run out of 2 gallon pots, so, they will just have to over winter in the one gallon pots. I'll try to keep the green house warm this winter. Closing the door screen, and such.
Dr. Azomite would be proud of the process you used from beginning to end! I will keep a copy of what you posted here and look forward to updates. Just curious, what size pots are you using?
Glad that you mentioned "With food going through the roof in a number of months....," friends of mine think I'm crying wolf about future food prices, but I tell them energy is a big component in food prices and then ask how much are you paying at the pump? I saw a couple today and told them to load up on food now like I warned the wife in January 2020. They got into their car and went food shopping.
Look forward to you updates and good luck!
It is in the greenhouse from the beginning, because it likes indirect light. When I trim a branch of its leaves, I put into another pot. I hope to have a few dozen of these growing next year. Trim a branch above an existing leaf, and a new branch will form on the original plant. The first plant I have I topped, but it is still close to two feet high and branching hectically. I have to be patient with this one. With food going through the roof in a number of months, I need to have a forest of this stuff by next spring. The write ups say 12 - 16 inches. If you give it Azomite, those numbers pale...
Every pot I put a new branch into is filled with Azomite, into planting soil which has the Perlite in it. They seem pretty happy. water every three days or so.
The climbing spinach will be a different matter. I ordered some of those seeds, and since they are tropical, they like bright sun and wet feet. I have about four of those trying to make it long enough to climb. Both are Perennials in the correct conditions.
I will post some photos over on my page eventually.
Great recommendation for the "Gynura procumbens." I know a lady in North Carolina growing it.
I presume that you will move it into your greenhouse for the winter?
Good luck,
sumi
I was at one of our two reliable quality food stores a month or so ago and happened to see a stalk of this plant in a 4 inch pot outside the store on a rack, and I bought it. since then I have made 5 plants out of it. Harvest the leaves off of a branch, and stick that branch into a new pot. In a protected area, it is a perennial.
https://www.gardensall.com/longevity-spinach/
It tastes nice.
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Adult Spotted Lanternflies outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA Monday afternoon. The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive species from Asia.
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In March, the state's agriculture department added eight additional counties to its "Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine" list, for a total of 34 out of 67 Pennsylvania counties now in quarantine.
Common Sense Preparedness – Preparing for Everyday Emergencies
https://commonsensehome.com/preparedness/?fbclid=IwAR0NDuIgRuYQ0KrtSDEYP-z10cve-8glpCrFTmRXmBmv3a-fsKNPy5YZi4c
What an incredible invention!
Thanks for posting, Dan!
Israeli start-up Beewise is saving honey bees from extinction!
Beewise developed Beehome, an AI robotic beehive that houses up to 40 colonies.
Bees find refuge from perilous world in robotic hive
By Ari Rabinovitch
August 9, 2021 12:26 PM EDT
BEIT HAEMEK, Israel, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The buzz of the bees drowned out the hum of the robotic arm, which worked with an efficiency no human beekeeper could match.
One after another the machine scanned stacks of honeycombs that together could house up to two million bees - inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides and reporting in real time any hazards that threatened the colony.
The next-generation hive was developed by Israeli startup Beewise, which says that this kind of around-the-clock care is what is needed to minimize the risk of colonies collapsing.
There has been a drastic fall in bee numbers around the world, largely due to intensive agriculture, the use of pesticides, pests and climate change.
Companies have been pursuing different technologies to try to slow down mass colony collapse, like placing sensors on traditional wooden beehives, or methods to cope with the loss of bees, like artificial pollination.
CEO Saar Safra and Hallel Schreier, head of research, stand next to a robotic beehive developed by the Israeli startup company Beewise in Beit Haemek, Israel July 29, 2021.
At roughly the size of a cargo trailer, Beewise's hive houses 24 colonies. Inside, it is equipped with a robotic arm that slides between honeycombs, computer vision and cameras. Color-coded openings on the sides allow bees to come and go.
"Anything a beekeeper would do the robotic mechanism can mimic and do it more effectively without ever getting tired, without going on vacation and without complaining," said CEO Saar Safra.
This includes harvesting honey, applying medicine and combining or splitting hives.
Beewise has already raised $40 million of funding from private investors and over 100 of its systems are in use in Israel and the United States.
BREAKING: MASSIVE FOOD SHORTAGE ACROSS THE USA - GOVERNMENT WARNING ON CROP LOSS AND WATER SHORTAGE
Alright Eddy! Very great steps you taking. It all ties into growing your own food. Working on that immune system wtg!
Sounds like you're doing well!
My neighbor or I think her son, took back some of her land which I had part of my garden. She wanted to restore the former boundary, which I immediately disputed. I removed all the fencing, removed the raised beds, and flower pots. A surveyor showed up after three days and marked off the boundary. Yup, I was correct. I had built and maintained a rose garden for her, so this year the roses will get just one bloom and the weeds are towering. I'm too busy building a new garden. Welcome to the new America....
Once the beds fill in with growth, I will update with garden pictures.
I met a guy who was raised on an orchard and farm. I gave him four aronia bushes, a mulberry bush, and a stone boundary that I built up over 40 years. I needed the room for that aforementioned new garden. In return, this guy will teach me how to preserve my tomatoes and other veggies at harvest. I should have learned decades ago, so this is the big year.
Due to the pandemic last year, I worked hard, got in shape, and lost 33 pounds. No coffee shops meant no desserts....
I eat very well and walk a lot, as I don't drive.
I will do anything to stay away from Big Pharma through my lifestyle and diet.
sumi
Beautiful! You going to have quite the harvest there!
Garden finally getting to the point of less maintenance after about oh I don't know at least over 5K wheelbarrow fulls of chips brought in.
Soil finally paying off.
Added strawberries last year and made additional 4 rows this year for 6 total.
Going to need to buy a bigger freezer but that's a good thing.
Doing lot of research on different foods for my immune system going to take it to another level.
Big pharma, medical community, FDA & rest of government, etc can kiss my ass!
Sounds great with the potatoes going in last autumn.
This picture is what I planted last autumn directly in the ground. Of course I have not harvested yet, but the growth seems very healthy. I dug troughs in the ground, filled with a layer of rotted straw, placed the potatoes on the rotted straw, and then mounded the potatoes with soil/compost. This method shows the growth so far. It is on the east side of my white color house.
Good luck with your garden this year.
sumi
Promising News!
futr
So I did what the article stated but in a big pot instead.
Mostly wood chips bit of soil. They came up fine.
Pollen-sized particles give bees immunity to insecticides
By Nick Lavars
June 01, 2021
Scientists have developed a new type of ingestible microparticle that detoxifies common insecticides and could help address dwindling bee populations across the globe pervach/Depositphotos
Bees play a critical role in pollinating many of plants that humans eat and are therefore key to food security, but populations continue to decline rapidly around the world. A number of factors are contributing to this, including habitat loss and drought, but a tiny new ingestible particle developed at Cornell University takes aim at a key one, by detoxifying deadly insecticides before they can do these important critters harm.
Common insecticides like neonicotinoids, which the EU banned in 2016, are used to protect growing crops from hungry insects, but often bees get caught in the crossfire. These toxic substances interfere with the molecules that help bees produce energy, and can disrupt their sleep cycles and leave them immobile and starving.
The new technology is described as an antidote for these types of chemicals, with the researchers first focusing on what are known as organophosphate-based insecticides, which make up around one third of the market. The Cornell University scientists developed a microparticle the size of pollen, which can be packed with enzymes that break down and completely detoxify these insecticides before the bee absorbs them.
The particles can be mixed into pollen patties or sugar water and fed to the bees, with a protective casing safeguarding the enzymes as they pass through the stomach, which is acidic and would otherwise break them down. They instead travel safely through to the midgut, where digestion takes place, and the enzymes can go to work breaking down and detoxifying the organophosphates.
This was first demonstrated through in vitro experiments and then on live bees in the lab, where the insects were fed both an organophosphate pesticide and the particles, while another control group was administered only the organophosphate pesticide. The scientists observed a 100 percent survival rate in the bees fed the particles, while all the unprotected control bees died in the following days.
“We have a solution whereby beekeepers can feed their bees our microparticle products in pollen patties or in a sugar syrup, and it allows them to detoxify the hive of any pesticides that they might find,” says James Webb, a co-author of the paper and CEO of Beemmunity, a spinoff company that is continuing to work on the technology.
Beemmunity is developing the technology to tackle an even broader range of insecticides. Many of these, including neonicotinoids, work by targeting insect proteins. To combat this, Beemmunity is developing particles that, instead of enzymes, feature a special absorptive oil, and a casing made from insect proteins. The idea is that rather than breaking the insecticide down, the particle soaks up and entraps the insecticide within the casing, which can then be safely passed by the bee.
“This is a low-cost, scalable solution which we hope will be a first step to address the insecticide toxicity issue and contribute to the protection of managed pollinators,” says senior author Minglin Ma.
Beemmunity is conducting trials across 240 hives in New Jersey this US summer, with plans to launch its products in February 2022, all going well.
The research was published in the journal Nature Food.
Source: Cornell University
https://newatlas.com/environment/pollen-sized-particles-bees-immunity-insecticides/
Banana peels are good for gardens
Brew banana peel tea by putting banana peels in a jar and covering with water.
Paul Barbano
June 3, 2020
The pandemic and isolation are causing many people to “go bananas,” because the phrase “going bananas” probably comes from the earlier idiom of “going ape,” meaning acting crazy or wild as apes sometimes do.
Bananas are unusual in many ways, not the least that bananas, like watermelons, botanically speaking, are actually berries, which develop one flower with one ovary and often several seeds. Yes, bananas have seeds, but they are so small and edible that we forget about them.
Because of the oil in them, rubbing the inside of a banana peel on your skin will reduce the itching from mosquito bites and poison ivy. You can even use banana peels to polish silver by rubbing it with the inside of the peel.
The scientific name for bananas is Musa sapientum, which translates as “fruit of the wise men.” And you are wise, indeed, to use banana peels as fertilizer.
Banana peels are good for gardens because they contain 42 percent potassium (abbreviated to its scientific name K), one of the three major components of fertilizer along with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and shown on fertilizer labels as NPK. In fact, banana peels have the highest organic sources of potassium.
Potassium aids plants in moving nutrients and water between cells. Potassium strengthens plants' stems and also fights off disease. It is especially important to creating flowers, and even makes fruits (and berries!) taste better. Potassium will even make your plants more resistant to drought. Without enough potassium, plants grow poorly in general. It even increases the protein content of your plants.
In short, potassium helps plants grown for their fruiting and flowering, including rose bushes and fruit trees, rather than plants grown for their foliage, such as spinach, lettuce and Swiss chard.
Banana peels are good fertilizer because of what they do not contain. They contain absolutely no nitrogen. While plants need nitrogen (remember the NPK on fertilizers), too much nitrogen will create lots of green leaves but few berries or fruits. This means potassium-rich banana peels are excellent for plants like tomatoes, peppers or flowers. Banana peels also contain calcium, which prevents blossom end rot in tomatoes. The manganese in banana peels aids photosynthesis, while the sodium in banana peels helps water flow between cells. They even have traces of magnesium and sulfur, elements that help make chlorophyll.
Bayer to review Roundup's future in U.S. after court setback
By Carl Surran
SA News Editor
May 26, 2021 10:49 PM ET
Bayer (OTCPK:BAYRY) says it will evaluate whether to continue using glyphosate in its Roundup weedkiller in the residential U.S. market after a judge today rejected its plan to settle future claims alleging the herbicide causes cancer.
Bayer also says it will abandon attempts at a court-approved solution to address its future Roundup liability, and instead will pursue options such as creating a new website with studies relevant to Roundup's safety that could also be reflected on its label.
The company says it will rethink selling glyphosate-based products to U.S. residential consumers - the source of the bulk of lawsuits - while continuing to sell to professional and agricultural users.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said Roundup is safe and would not permit a cancer warning label, but that leaves the company in a quandary over how to contain liability on a product it sells without any warning label.
Earlier this month, Bayer lost an appeal in one of the three Roundup cases to go to trial.
Now read: Bayer plunges on 'prolonged uncertainty' from Roundup settlement rejection
Note: There are active links contained within the original article linked below.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3700602-bayer-to-review-roundups-future-in-us-after-court-setback
"Hyper Inflation, Shortages and DARK TIMES Ahead"...Not!
Fear and gloom n doom is not the reality.The healing has begun.The transition from fear,slavery and control is just getting started.Prepare for good times ahead.A new age has arrived!There will bumps on this new journey but the trend will be towards real peace and a lasting prosperity shared by more and more.Bad guys and bad thinking are loosing their grip and they are in panic mode.The positive shift is so strong supply restraints have developed but these are very temporary.Stay calm keep on growing yourself and your garden.The pandemic opened up a door for wonderful change.A much needed healthy transformation of our world is upon us.Every institution will be challenged and improved.Or they will become irrelevant.
When you and I change
The World will Change.
To Heal and Grow we must Choose
to Face our Fears and
Release our Tears.
As we Transform we will Grow wings
and Together we will Soar like birds in the sky.
We will Dream,Dance and Sing new songs.
Knowing we all Belong.
Flying in the skies above
Filled with Hope,Joy and Love.
May I always be myself and be kind to others.
May I begin each day with an attitude of gratitude,
a glass of water, and gentle stretching.
May I seek to Learn,Grow and Share what I know.
May I dream big,take risks and embrace my mistakes.
May I Never Quit as I strive for strength and resilience.
May I remember that Gradual,Gentle Growth is Good.
May I thrive,share my smile and look for opportunities
to say hello to potential new friends daily.
May I die exploring and climbing towards new vistas.
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HERE WE GO- Hyper Inflation, Shortages and DARK TIMES Ahead
Farm Robot Zaps Weeds With High-Powered Lasers, Eliminates Need For Toxic Herbicides
APR 30, 2021
In the same way, a self-driving car sees its surroundings on city streets, sensors that use machine learning technology allow farm robots to navigate fields. Automation is a growing presence in the farm industry, and a new generation of autonomous robots is helping farmers shape tomorrow's crops.
Crops that can be harvested with barely any or no herbicides would be beneficial not just to humans but also to the environment.
An oddly-shaped autonomous farm tractor can eliminate the need for toxic herbicides by using high-powered lasers to weed about 20 acres per day to solve this dilemma.
Robotics company Carbon Robotics unveiled its newest weed elimination robot, Autonomous Weeder, which leverages artificial intelligence, sensors, and lasers to eliminate weeds on commercial farms.
"Traditional chemicals used by farmers, such as herbicides, deteriorate soil health and are tied to health problems in humans and other mammals. A laser-powered, autonomous weed management solution reduces or eliminates farmers' needs for herbicides," Carbon Robotics' website said.
Autonomous Weeder offers an economical path towards organic farming that is generally labor-intensive. The robot also reduces the highly variable cost of manual labor.
"AI and deep learning technology are creating efficiencies across a variety of industries, and we're excited to apply it to agriculture," said Carbon Robotics CEO and Founder Paul Mikesell.
Mikesell continued: "Farmers, and others in the global food supply chain, are innovating now more than ever to keep the world fed. Our goal at Carbon Robotics is to create tools that address their most challenging problems, including weed management and elimination."
Here's a demo video of the farm robot zapping weeds in a field.
From FB anyone ever hear about this?
No. These are not pickled eggs. These are homegrown, unwashed eggs stored in lime water. The lime water fills in all the pores of the egg and encases them in a shell of "glass". Water glassed eggs can last stored at room temperature like this for up to 2 years. This method of preserving raw eggs has been used since the 1800s and was common even into the 1940s and 50s. When refrigerators became a standard kitchen appliance, water glassing almost became a lost art.
You cannot use commercial eggs for this because they have all had the protective coating (bloom) washed off the shell and will quickly go bad. I recently scrambled up 18 eggs that had been stored in lime water for 7 months on an unrefrigerated cupboard shelf and they tasted perfectly fresh (although the yoke seemed a bit thinner than fresh eggs).
Anyhow, if you have an abundance of fresh, unwashed eggs, you might want to try putting some away for later. The ratio is one ounce (by weight) of lime (calcium hydroxide) to one quart of water. Calcium hydroxide is a completely natural, organic ingredient and harmless, although the powder is very fine and may irritate your lungs if you breathe it in. The lime water also quickly dried out the skin on my hands and I had to apply lotion to get them back to normal. When you do use the eggs, be sure to rinse them thoroughly before you crack them or they will taste like lime.
FYI: a gallon size container will store about 40 eggs. Lime is also known as calcium hydroxide. You can buy it in 50 pound bags in the masonry section of the hardware store, or in 1 pound bags in the canning section of the grocery store....often labeled as "pickling lime”. Thank you
all kinds of Info
https://www.mdpi.com/
Vitamins D and K — way more important than you thought
https://www.backwoodshome.com/vitamins-d-and-k-way-more-important-than-you-thought/?fbclid=IwAR0UdM0zW7gNkUAMCs-4v2Yd-6K86u1avsMzZORskZzbJfwBwbWtxP5BWw4
As opposed to
Pharmacy
Dan, other countries ban items but ours?
Only if the $$$$$$$$$$$$ isn't buying them off.
Campaign to Save Earth's Honey Bees!
67,321 signatures toward our 80,000 Goal
Sponsor: The Rainforest Site
Urge the EPA to outlaw neonicotinoid pesticides that are killing off honey bees.
It's long been known that Earth's honey bee population is decreasing at an alarming rate. The fact is, much of our natural ecosystem depends on the processes involved with bee pollination, and if this pollination cannot happen, many of our crops — from broccoli to strawberries — will be in grave peril.
In fact, honey bee deaths are reaching a critical point, whereby it may not be possible to reverse the damage. The good news is that much of the population decline can be attributed to reversible human actions, including the use of neonicotinoids, insecticides chemically related to nicotine that cause honeybees, bumblebees, and beneficial ladybugs to literally drop dead.
We can afford insects eating our plant life; but we simply cannot afford a decimation of the honey bee. Write to the EPA asking that these immensely harmful pesticides are outlawed.
The Petition:
To the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:
If we don't act now to save Earth's honey bee population, we could reach a critical point of no return. You see, the planet's honey bees have been in steady decline for several years now — climate change, parasites, habitat loss are all contributors. Some of these issues are going to be difficult to tackle, but there's one catalyst that humans can act on right now.
Bees are dying in large numbers as a result of the use of certain neonicotinoids to treat our crops over the past decade. Previously thought to be non-toxic to these precious pollinators, more recent peer-reviewed studies have linked the proliferation of neonicotinoids to a decrease in queen production and an increase in "disappeared" bees, the ones that never return to the hive from their foraging trips.
While insect pests are detrimental to our crops, the loss of our honey bees would be catastrophic. We can handle some less-than-ideal produce. But we can't handle a total decimation of our food supply as a result of lack of bee pollination.
You have the power to save our nation's food supply. Don't let this opportunity slip away: outlaw the use of the neonicotinoids killing our honey bees.
https://therainforestsite.greatergood.com/clicktogive/trs/petition/SaveEarthsHoneybees?
New NASA satellite data prove carbon dioxide is GREENING the Earth and restoring forests
MAR 5, 2121
The latest Vegetation Index data from NASA shows that the Earth is getting progressively “greener” and lusher over time.
The planet is 10 percent greener today than it was in 2000, NASA says, which means better conditions for growing crops. Forests are also expanding while deserts are becoming more fertile and usable for agriculture.
All in all, the global Vegetation Index rose from 0.0936 to 0.1029 between 2000 and 2021, a 9.94 percent increase.
“10 percent greening in 20 years! We are incredibly fortunate!” announced Zoe Phin, a researcher who compiled the data into a chart for her blog.
“I just wish everyone felt that way. But you know not everyone does. To the extent that humans enhance global greening is precisely what social parasites want to tax and regulate. No good deed goes unpunished.”
A separate German study found that the globe has been greening for at least the past three decades.
Satellite imagery suggests that vegetation has been expanding at a growing rate, contracting the gloom-and-doom narrative being spread by the climate alarmists.
Back in 2018, research found that the Sahara Desert, the largest in the world, had shrunk by more than 8 percent over the past three decades. This is truly profound as the Sahara covers an expansive 9.2 million square kilometers of territory.
“Eight percent means more than 700,000 square kilometers more area that’s become green – an area almost as big as Germany and France combined,” reports P. Gosselin.
“So in terms of vegetation, the planet probably hasn’t had it this nice in about 1,000 years.”
“Global warming” is a good thing – it’s healing the planet!
Most of this greening is caused by greenhouse gases – you know, those “horrible” emissions that the climate fanatics insist are going to kill us all.
Truth be told, greenhouse gases are making the planet more habitable for humans and other life forms.
One study calls this phenomenon carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization, which is far more accurate than calling it CO2 “pollution” as many in the mainstream media continue to do.
By the year 2100, all this greening will offset 17 years’ worth of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, rendering all this “pollution” as if it never even happened. In other words, there will be only benefits and no drawbacks from all this “global warming” that is taking place.
“There are many more studies underpinning the good news of the greening planet – thanks in large part to mankind,” notes Gosselin. “It’s not as bad as the crybaby activists and media depict it to be. Not even close.”
The problem is that there is no money to be made from telling everyone that the planet is just fine, and to continue living as normal. There would be no “need” for a “green” shift away from fossil fuels, and no “need” to stop eating meat, among other such nonsense.
The powers that be have to keep the “climate change” ruse going in order to advance their globalist agenda. Without climate change, there would be no excuse to steal people’s freedoms and liberties while imposing hell on earth as the “solution” to all of these manufactured climate woes.
“Food security will always be a factor because as long as global population increases, so must global agricultural production increase. That said (the need for agricultural output to keep pace with population), by far the biggest threat to humanity, is NOT climate change,” wrote one commenter at WattsUpWithThat.com.
“The biggest threat to humanity and resulting environmental destruction that a global famine would bring is Climate Change policy – the UN’s Socialist-Marxist climate policy to destroy access to affordable, abundant fossil fuels necessary to sustain global agricultural output.”
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2021/03/05/new-nasa-satellite-data-prove-carbon-dioxide-is-greening-the-earth-and-restoring-forests/
Bingo! The right kind not the Cartel Pharmacy!
Yep, called Farmacy
If that is what it takes to get people off their butt that is great.
I wish our school systems would get the kids growing more.
This company is solving America's food issues one backyard at a time
Love & Carrots lowers our carbon footprint by making sustainable food sources very, very local.
Video: https://thehill.com/changing-america/video/530159-this-company-is-solving-americas-food-issues-one-backyard-at-a-time?jwsource=cl
The average American has an annual carbon footprint of 16 tons, which ranks among the highest in the world. In fact, it's about quadruple the global average. One of the most significant contributing factors to our elevated carbon emissions is where we get out food, which is often shipped from far away, especially for those of us who live in cities.
A plucky business called Love & Carrots, which began a decade ago with one woman and a truck, is addressing this national issue by installing produce gardens across the Washington D.C. area. They’ve installed more than 1000 gardens in almost a decade of business.
Natalie Carver, director of horticulture said, “Our founder Meredith Sheperd saw so many sunny yards not being used for food. And saw the opportunity to start a business and start building gardens in all these sunny pockets across the city."
Unlike most businesses, as Love & Carrots scales, it reduces the overall carbon footprint by bringing city residents as close as possible to their food sources…their own backyards.
Nearly 30% of our food-related carbon emissions comes from transportation. Whether we’re importing bananas from Guatemala, or trucking carrots across the country from the main producer in Bakersfield, California, there is a tremendous amount of energy wasted by shipping perishable food long distances in short amounts of time.
The cost of convenience is not just environmental—you can taste it in the quality and freshness of the fruits and vegetables you eat. “When I first started harvesting in my garden, I realized that the food that I buy in local stores is not really what it tastes like,” says Yong Lee, a Love & Carrots garden owner. “So my palate had to get used to the fact that 'carrot' actually tastes like a stronger version of the carrot you get at a store.
Love & Carrots offers a full-service, turn-key operation. People interested in a garden receive a consultation on the optimal place for their garden as well as a top to bottom installation. If they want it, they can receive garden coaching to help them manage their produce and even have Love and Carrots staff manage the garden in its entirety.
The company's goal, however, stretches from Washington DC all the way back to America's biggest carrot patch in Bakersfield, California. It aims to be a national model, creating a ripple effect across the country. "Our goal is to expose as many people as possible to sustainable practices and smart growing," the company says, "so they can use that knowledge themselves and continue to share it with others."
Published on Jan 06, 2021
https://thehill.com/changing-america/video/530159-this-company-is-solving-americas-food-issues-one-backyard-at-a-time
I am full of hope that a better America is about to emerge
from a terrible period of pain and destruction.I am determined
to do what is required to see the promise of our Constitution become reality and clearly the time for major change has arrived.While sheltering in place I have been searching for the best solutions we can now put to work.The key ingredients for our goals are inside us and they are crying out to be fully expressed in our institutions.
I believe we must treat others as we would like to be treated in
our schools("Teach Like Finland" by Timothy Walker),
in our courts("Restorative Justice", Fania Davis) and
in our prisons("Incarceration" by Christine Montross).
IMO the 3 authors above must be involved in the transformation of our nation.There are plenty of reasons to believe the season for real and meaningful change has arrived.CHANGE IS IN THE AIR!Take Care
I'm seeing the progress made by private companies with the Covid shots. It's too bad that private companies did not distribute them like they do the flu shots for decade after decade, but that is water over the dam.
With the latter progress, I now agree with you that there can be a rebirth.
Stay tune and let's what happens one month at a time.
sumi
SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR CHALLENGING TIMES
The intent of this board is to provide an archive of postings and sources of information which will aid an individual or community to adapt to challeges of sustainability now and it the future.
Gardening and raising animals are essential in a sustainable living environment. The skill set for success in each of these ventures is vast. The American farmer, who represents about 2 percent our our population, is a model to emulate in surviving, providing and sustaining . Our agrarian past once dominated our society. Under trying resource and economic conditions, people must return to methods of their past history for survival.
The financial meltdown of 2008 has rejuvenated an interest in gardening; there will be other challenges for all of us to face. Over time, those who have been prompted to garden will learn how to develop an environment suited to their gardening goals and needs. Much research and experimentation will be required for success. Learning the science of soil, building compost and worm bins, planting herbs and perennials to attract bees for pollination, and creating water collection systems are examples of what is required for a complete garden.
Harvested vegetables and herbs must be canned or dried to assure food for winter months.
During winter months, vegetable and garden seeds must be started and then transplanted to larger containers for eventual hardening off before planting into the soil.
Record keeping of every step for every year provides a gardening history that can be utilized for future planning. If Plan A is halted by bad weather, then a Plan B must be adopted.
Sustainable living never ends and encompasses many skills. Those with persistent efforts will most likely achieve yearly success.
Finally a healthy gardener or farmer is a productive one. Nature provides an arsenal of weapons, mostly in the form of herbs, to support health; they can be utilized for survival.
The information box provided below was recently revamped so that new information can be more easily added. Recommendations are welcomed to assure a vibrant spirit of learning, referencing and sharing of information.
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ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Living Off The Land www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeaYqU2SSJE
Little House on the Parkway http://www.aarp.org/home-garden/gardening/info-08-2010/littlehouseontheparkway.html
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PvvsyDxuzE&feature=related
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION - Radical Change Taking Root http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
Path To Freedom http://urbanhomestead.org/
Preparing For Peak Oil By MrEnergyCzar http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=49930698
A short history of peak oil preparation http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=45951251
Possum Living http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=48604828
Suburban Renewal - One Backyard at a Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWjCnwbb5yc&feature=related[/b]
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GARDEN GIRL/SUSTAINABLE LIVING VIDEOS
Who is Patti Moreno? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1d1ymwCHLc&feature=user
What is Urban Sustainable Living http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmBXqHpdV8&feature=user
Garden Girl TV: Lawns to Edible Landscapes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4LMoaCVFA&feature=user
Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening One [How to Grow Vertically] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQaOsDZuBQ&feature=relmfu
Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOPg5hDvsA
Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbIipA86uek
Garden Girl TV: How To Build A Raised Bed Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrMvItUIuQ
Garden Girl TV: Building a Water Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1PdKXL3LQ&feature=user
GardenGirltv: How to Make Your Own Worm Bin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjjuYNilM60&feature=channel
Planting Potatoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oslCBENbkGw&feature=user
Garden Girl TV: Cucumbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRJlk7KYaA&feature=user
GARDEN GIRL: URBAN SUSTAINABLE LIVING http://www.gardengirltv.com/[/b]
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GOOGLE & OTHER VIDEOS
Peak Moment Videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=peakmoment
Suburban Permaculture with Janet and Richard Heinberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIkJGAS8EI
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TRANSITION MOVEMENT
Transition Towns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns
Transition Culture
http://transitionculture.org/
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FAVORITE BLOGS ON SUSTAINABLE LIVING
A Gardener's Diary - Moderated by Monksdream investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=11512
Aspiring Homemaker http://aspiring-homemaker.blogspot.com/
Backwoods Home Magazine [Ask Jackie Column]http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/
Chatelaines' Keys [The] - Sharon Astyk http://sharonastyk.com/
Country Living In A Cariboo Valley http://countrylivinginacariboovalley.blogspot.com/
Cracked Pot Gardener [The] - Cindy Shapton http://www.crackedpotgardener.com/
EARLY WARNING http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/
ECO SHERPA SUSTAINABLE LIVING BLOG http://www.ecosherpa.com/
Entire-of-Itself Blog - Pat Meadows http://entire-of-itself.blogspot.com/
From the Widerness - Michael C. Ruppert/Jenna Orkin http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/
Gardening Gone Wild http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/
Hen & Harvest http://henandharvest.com/
Homegrown Evolution http://www.homegrownevolution.com/
Living The Frugal Life http://livingthefrugallife.blogspot.com/
OrganicToBe.org http://organictobe.org/
Peak Generation http://peakgeneration.blogspot.com/
Peak OIl Hausfrau - Christine Patton http://peakoilhausfrau.blogspot.com/
Peak Oil Medicine http://peakoilmedicine.com/
Powering Down - Aaron Nuline http://poweringdown.blogspot.com/
[re]purposing life http://repurposinglife.blogspot.com/
Sharon Astyk's Ruminations on an Ambiguous Future http://sharonastyk.com/
Sifonian's Square Foot Gardening http://ft2garden.powweb.com/sinfonian/
Skippy's Vegetable Garden http://www.carletongarden.blogspot.com/
Survival Acres http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?cat=4
SurvivalBlog.com http://www.survivalblog.com/
SURVIVING PEAK OIL, PREPARATIONS, AND RELOCATION http://survivingpeakoil.blogspot.com/
The Energy Blog http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/04/peak_oil_will_c.html
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WEB SITES
Educational Concerns For Hunger Organization www.echonet.org/
The Journey to Homesteading http://bb.bbboy.net/thejourneyforum
The Master Gardeners - Adams County, PA and Frederick, MD http://www.emmitsburg.net/gardens/index.htm
Let the SUN work.com http://letthesunwork.com/
National Gardening Association http://www.garden.org/home
National Sustainable Agricultural Information Center http://attra.ncat.org/
Peak Oil: The End of the Oil Age http://www.oildecline.com/index.htm
Path To Freedom http://urbanhomestead.org/
World Changing http://www.worldchanging.com/about/
National Gardening Association http://www.garden.org/articles/index.php
BackyardGardener.com http://www.backyardgardener.com/
Essential Gardening Guide http://www.essentialgardenguide.com/
Organic Gardening http://www.organicgardening.com/[/b]
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SUSTAINABLE LIVING BOOK LIST
"Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" by Rolfe Cobleigh
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=33468573
"THE SELF-SUFFICIENT SUBURBAN GARDEN"
#msg-33656210
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HEIRLOOM SEEDS
Merchants and Purveyors of Heirloom Seeds
http://www.halcyon.com/tmend/links.htm
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
http://rareseeds.com/
Fedco Seeds
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds.htm
Reimer Seeds
http://www.reimerseeds.com/
Seed Savers Exchange
http://forums.seedsavers.org/
Victory Seeds
http://www.victoryseeds.com/
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SOIL, COMPOST, MULCHES
Soil Components by eaglesurvivor investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42440600
Soil Reclamation Process http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46349910
Seaweed to Wood Chips, Mulch Is a Plus http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=38852648
3 Things Your Garden Needs http://countrylivinginacariboovalley.blogspot.com/2010/01/3-things-your-garden-needs.html
A Theology of Compost http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=27189836
Fertile Inquiries: A Very Basic Primer on Creating and Maintaining Soil Fertility http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59139024
How To Compost.org http://www.howtocompost.org/
Compost Guide - Compost Fundamentals http://vegweb.com/composting/
Compost From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost
Benefits of Using Compost http://earth911.com/news/2007/04/02/benefits-of-using-compost/
Composting Instructions: How to Compost at Home http://www.compostinstructions.com/benefits-of-compost/
Vermicomposting: Indoor Composting with Earthworms http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/compost.cfm
Composting - CLEMSON COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/other/compost_mulch/hgic1600.html
Understanding Compost Tea http://www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2000/100071.html<> name="cke_range_marker">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BEES
Beekeeping Tips for Beginners [credit to Eaglesurvivor]
http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G7600
Beekeeping Naturally - Bush Bees
http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm
Top Bar Hive Beekeeping
http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/main.htm
URBAN BEE GARDENS
A Practical Guide To Introducing The World's Most Prolific Pollinators Into Your Garden
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/
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WATER
Example of Water Collection System - #msg-40720352
Care and Feeding of Rain Tanks - #msg-46001364
A Spouse's Guide to Building the Perfect Rain Barrel System - #msg-54095904
Rainwater Harvesting -
#msg-49162319
FILTRATION SYSTEMS
Berkey™ Water Filtration Systems
http://www.berkeyfilters.com/
BioSand Water Filtration:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42681220
Chapin Living Water
http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org/
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WORM COMPOSTING
Composting With Red Wiggler Worms
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
Worm Farming Effort by bagwa-john
#msg-52622945
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PERMACULTURE
Permaculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Permaculture Institute
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/
Introduction to Permaculture: Concept and Resources
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/perma.html
Farm For The Future - #msg-49379356
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THE FUKUOKA FARMING METHOD
Masanobu Fukuoka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
'One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka - #msg-51012627
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STRAW BALE GARDENING
Straw Bale Gardening By JOEL KARSTEN - #msg-50217046
Straw Bale Gardening Techniques By Jared Lee - #msg-50223601
Straw bale gardening is less work, inexpensive By Gloria Kupferman - #msg-50223678
Straw Bale Gardening: Start to Finish [You Tube] - #msg-50223727
GROWING A STRAW BALE GARDEN - #msg-51178308
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MIXED CROP-LIVESTOCK FARMING
http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/Y0501E/Y0501E00.HTM
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GARDENING APPROACHES & TECHNIQUES
No Till Gardening
http://www.eartheasy.com/blog/2009/01/no-till-gardening/Companion Planting
http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html
Companion Planting for Veggies
#msg-36967283
List of Companion Plants
#msg-42754032
Using Beneficial Insects in the Garden
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/goodbugs.html
Creating Habitat for Backyard Pollinators
http://www.dutchgardens.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-DutchGardens-Site/default/Link-Page?id=5326
Pondering Plant Coverups
Strrrrretching the Growing Season
http://www.kidsgardening.com/growingideas/projects/sept02/pg1.html
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VEGETABLES: HINTS ON GROWING & COMPANION PLANTING
Vegetable Companion Planting Chart by Tinker's Gardens
http://www.tinkersgardens.com/vegetables/companionplanting.asp
Companion Planting Charts
http://www.growinganything.com/companion-planting-charts.html
Companion Planting
http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html
List of companion plants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants
Lasagna Garden
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=45919210
All About Growing Potatoes - #msg-35679287
Build-As-You-Grow Potato Bins - #msg-36973368
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RAISING CHICKENS
BackyardChickens.com
http://www.backyardchickens.com/
U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens,
"La cage de poulet"http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=3300-FF-EMTs_Coop
'Chicken coop for a small flock" by Gene Logsdon, Published Oct 14 2008 by OrganicToGo.org
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46860
CHICKEN FEED: The World of Chickens
http://www.lionsgrip.com/chickens.html
The ICYouSee Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html
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URBAN GARDENING
Path to Freedom
#msg-36967820http://www.pathtofreedom.com/
The Manic Gardener
http://www.themanicgardener.com/
Urban Gardening Help
http://www.urbangardeninghelp.com/
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PRESERVING GARDEN PRODUCE
Homestead Harvest
http://www.homesteadharvest.com/
National Center for Home Food Preservation
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/
PreserveFood.com
http://www.preservefood.com/
Preserving Food Safely
http://web1.msue.msu.edu/imp/mod01/master01.html
Storage Life of Dry Foods
In Consultation with Stephen Portela
http://waltonfeed.com/grain/life.html
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STORING/SAVING GARDEN PRODUCE
STORING FOOD IN BUCKETS - #msg-29877262
Foot Cellars Thrive as Food Prices Rise - #msg-33611777
Root Cellars in the 21st Century - #msg-33638531
Saving Seeds - #msg-64330650
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HOMES OF THE FUTURE
THE LITTLE HOUSE SOCIETY
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety/
TinyHouses.net
http://www.tinyhouses.net/
TUMBLEWEED TINY HOUSE COMPANY
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/home.htm
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GETTING READY
100 Things you can do for Peak Oil
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=17772600
The Basics of Resilience by Chris Martenson
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54766641
100 Items to Disappear First
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=33015264
Preparing For Life In A Peak Oil World, By Gail Tverberg
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59587560
Plants For A Future, Edible, medicinal and useful plants for a healthier world
http://www.pfaf.org/index.php
Urban Gardening Help
http://www.urbangardeninghelp.com/
CountryLife.net
http://tinyurl.com/3bt3gm
Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak
http://www.energybulletin.net/19929.html
Saving Electricity - 26 super tips for saving money on cooling and air conditioning costs
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cooling.html
Peak Oil Crisis - Prepare to Survive!
http://www.3k88.com/
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WEBSTORES
Honeyville Food Products
http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/
Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/seeds.htm
The Big Tomato - Hydroponic & Organic Center
http://tinyurl.com/59kc4q
Victory Seed Company
http://www.victoryseeds.com/aboutus.html
Lehman's - Products for Simple, Self-sufficient Living
http://www.lehmans.com/
One Green World
http://onegreenworld.com/
Wood Prairie Farm - Certified Organic Food & Seeds
http://www.woodprairie.com/
Homestead Harvest
http://www.homesteadharvest.com/index.html
Lamson & Goodnow
http://www.lamsonsharp.com/lamson.html
Permaculture Magazine
Solutions For Sustainable Living
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/main2.html
Mountain House
http://www.mountainhouse.com/index.cfm
Gardens Alive
http://www.GardensAlive.com
LANCASTER COUNTY BARNES
http://www.lancasterbarns.com/acatalog/Elite-Vinyl-Storage-Sheds.html
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HOME ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
Helix Wind Turbine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9flSPAdOLk
Heatilators
http://www.fireplacesandwoodstoves.com/product-directory/heatilator.aspx
Mini Wind Turbines by Catapult Design
http://www.materialicious.com/2009/07/mini-wind-turbines-by-catapult-design.html
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SKILLS & SURVIVAL SKILLS
M40's Wilderness Survival Skills
http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Survival.htm
25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4223337.html?page=2
"Personal Survival Skills: Life At The Twilight Of Empire"
http://www.countercurrents.org/fealk041108.htm
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PEAK OIL/DEPRESSION COOKING & RECIPES
Beyond Oil, The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes FRS Cookbook
#msg-35509237#msg-33331865http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/frs-cookbook.html
The True Food Shopping Guide
http://www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/guide_printable.html
Cooking for Engineers
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/43/Homemade-Mayonnaise
Hot sauce recipe; credit to janice shell
#msg-27465913
Pasta With Cherry Tomatoes and Arugula; credit to BullNBear52
#msg-30994681
Tabouli Salad
#msg-31184339
Roasted root vegetables [by mbc]
#msg-33649031
Root Recipes
#msg-33639086
Making simple cheese
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39425305
Salsa Recipe [by **D*A**]
#msg-52939817
Cooking Collards by Monica - #msg-39724961
Choosing Tomatoes and What to do with them by Annie - #msg-39701343
Simple Cheese Making by Monica - #msg-39425305
Drying and Storing Herbs by Annie - #msg-39263311
Rooting blueberry cuttings by 4Kismet - #msg-49614226
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MEMBER PICTURES
Some pictures of the garden and the peppers [by mbc]
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=38702613
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VICTORY GARDENS
FENWAY VICTORY GARDEN
http://www.fenwayvictorygardens.com/history.html
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