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The Number Of Beef Cows In The U.S. Drops To The Lowest Level Since 1962 As The Global Food Crisis Intensifies
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-number-of-beef-cows-in-the-u-s-drops-to-the-lowest-level-since-1962-as-the-global-food-crisis-intensifies/
New Way to Farm (Outside of a Collapsing Supply Chain)
Vegetables In A 5-Gallon Bucket: How To Grow Vegetables In A Bucket
https://tinyurl.com/3za8rdw2
20 Best Crops For A Survival Garden
https://www.epicgardening.com/survival-garden/
Survival Garden How To: Tips For Designing A Survival Garden
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/survival-garden-how-to.htm
Food Shortages Are Starting To Become Quite Serious All Over The Planet
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/food-shortages-are-starting-to-become-quite-serious-all-over-the-planet/
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Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 4
https://stevebull-4168.medium.com/todays-contemplation-and-now-for-something-completely-different-part-4-bb37a15ef2cd
Spring waits for no one .........................
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40 plus seed catalogs at link.
New Ways To Feed Our World
How To Grow Giant Root Vegetables. My Secret Is Mounding The Soil!
We Are Entering A New, Dangerous Era of Regression
When Food Runs Out: YOU BETTER KNOW THIS!
GREAT WATCH LIVE: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP HOLDS SAVE AMERICA RALLY IN ROBSTOWN, TX 10/22/22
by RSBN
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/watch-live-president-donald-j-trump-holds-save-america-rally-in-robstown-tx-10-22-22/
Saturday, October 22, 2022: Join the RSBN broadcast team LIVE from Robstown, TX for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s Save America rally.
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Robstown, Texas on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 7:00PM CDT.
Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 7:00PM CDT
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, delivers remarks in support of his unprecedented effort to advance the MAGA agenda by energizing voters and highlighting the slate of 33-0 Trump Endorsed America First candidates in the Great State of Texas.
Additional Special Guest Speakers will be Announced.
Venue:
Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds
1213 Terry Shamsie Blvd.
Robstown, TX 78380
Timeline of Events:
8:00AM – Parking Lots, Vendor Row, and Registration Open
2:00PM – Doors Open
4:00PM – Special Guest Speakers Deliver Remarks
7:00PM – 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks
Entertainment and Concessions will be available throughout the day!
JULIE GREEN PROPHETIC WORD [REVERSALS ARE COMING] CHANGE IS COMING - TRUMP NEWS
Trump News Channel Published October 15, 2022
The Lords Day
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https://rumble.com/v1o4gov-julie-green-prophetc-word-reversals-are-coming-change-is-coming-trump-news.html
OVERDUE FROM THE HAGUE. INTERNATIONAL TRIALS DAY ONE - NWO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GjEgSnACO93V/
Gold Standard Bargain; Aris Mining Corp.
https://www.aris-mining.com/operations/operating-mines/segovia/overview/default.aspx
https://www.aris-mining.com/investors/events-and-presentations/default.aspx
https://www.aris-mining.com/
Ted Butler: Stand up against market manipulation and make a difference
By Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Friday, October 14, 2022
If you are tired of witnessing silver (and gold) continuing to be manipulated in price, here's a no-cost, no-risk, high-potential return action you can take that will only involve a few minutes of your time. Quite literally, there's absolutely nothing to lose and quite a lot of potential good to be had.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the taxpayer-funded federal commodities regulator whose main mission is to prevent and root out manipulation and protect the public. Four of the five commissioners have been in office for little more than six months and it's not clear that they are even aware that silver has been manipulated in price on the Comex.
Here is your opportunity to ensure that this is an issue they should be concerned about. Please take the time to copy and paste the letter below and email it to addresses listed. If you would prefer using your own name and not mine, you have my permission to do so. ...
... For the remainder of the commentary:
https://silverseek.com/article/stand-and-make-difference
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https://www.aris-mining.com/investors/events-and-presentations/default.aspx
https://www.aris-mining.com/
GOD'S Money Bargain "Gold Standard Restoration Act" Would Peg Dollar To Gold At Fixed Price
28,398 views Oct 11, 2022
The Mother Of All Debt Bubbles Is About To
Thanks for update.
And yes, knowledge and work ethic is king.
Sadly so many rely on the cartel[government] instead.
Excel - thanks for the update plus I reviewed the site that you provided and I will give it a try.
I've had two droughts this summer with just one 20-minute rainfall that replenished my water tanks. I have two new enclosures, one is 200 square feet, to plant without concern about animals attacking the plants. I had a lengthy period of heat that killed the tomato blossoms inside the enclosure. Some other tomatoes that I planted using my earlier schedule fared better. Next year I will be back into my old planting schedule.
My garlic did crazy great. Part of my harvest goes to chefs who give me meals and rides to grocery stores.
Potatoes, my main pandemic survival crop, did great, as well.
I have two large aronia berry bushes. The berries are rather bitter, which I use in my morning oatmeal. This year due to the droughts, the birds that normally avoid the aronia, needed fluid and have been eating the berries. I said to myself that they need to survive too and so I didn't put a new over the berries.
I've got major concerns about our food supplies going forward. Things are already disappearing off the shelves and I think that the new norm will be scarcity. The skill set for growing food by a major part of our population was lost just after World War II, so three generations of people exist not knowing a thing about growing food.
Sounds like you and your wife are in good stead!
You take care and good luck.
Eddie ............. Hope your garden doing well and you too.
Saw this link thought you'd like it if you don't have it.
https://www.tomatofest.com/default.asp
BTW ................ Wife and I picked 42 pounds of blueberries today at the biggest blueberry farm in the state I think it is.
Blueberries, peaches, apples, we do u pick everything else at our place.
Getting that freezer full.
We had great strawberry harvest.
Raspberries are going on right now not as good harvest as normal.
Our whole timing of everything that is early was messed up in spring due to rain rain and more rain.
Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/24-jason-bradford
Sumisu; FUELLMICH EXPOSES CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, VAXXED MIL PILOT
KILLS, CANADIANS MARCH ON TRUDEAU
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fi4FUVdIIaRY/
DR. JUDY MIKOVITS PhD - THE PLAN TO INJECT HUMANITY WITH CANCER VIRUSES!
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QMT4KXNWow9c/
Justin Bieber recently came out to tell fans he’s come down with Ramsay Hunt
Syndrome, which caused partial paralysis in his face — it turns out RHS is a
known vaccine side effect.
https://thecountersignal.com/justin-bieber-paralysis-is-a-known-vaccine-side-effect/
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Quote:
could not copy the entire story-- here is the link
:
https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e7/e746fae9-7a5f-462d-a0dd-dd9a11895451/statement-by-president-donald-j.-trump.pdf?
M_P; $500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140
MONOPOLISTS (REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
Leaked medicare data shows a 50% rise in all cause mortality of the elderly for the first time ever.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DdxZLSGHmKLB/
They are right. Covid kills...the Covid vaccine is killing the elderly by the thousands. Source: Fat News.
CLIF HIGH - THE JABBED ARE ABOUT TO GET A RUDE AWAKENING
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bBcmJoO3BRdh/
"Organoids "Jab victim discharging biological creatures woman reports horror after Moderna shot
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BCrvrznQFaME/
SUBMIT TO THE BIOWEAPON OR REMAIN OUR HOSTAGE FOREVER --
BRENT JOHNSON - NWO Totalitarian Dictators Blackmail Anti-Human Genocide
killer agenda super communistic evil khazarian
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/l881ILlbk6UJ/
BREAKING!!! COVID VACCINE CLAIMS OVERWHELM COURTS
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fxqw0Y7twx3o/
MASS DEPOPULATION ACCORDING TO PFIZER! - DOCUMENT LEAK
PROVES VACCINE IS CAUSING DIE OFF!
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ga7fvxiL1jFa/
Zardiw; Sarah Palin Pulls Ahead In Race For Alaska Representative
Photo of Carmine Sabia Carmine SabiaJune 12, 2022
https://conservativebrief.com/sarah-p-63700/
CT; M_P; VACCINES ARE MAKING PEOPLE NEUROLOGICALLY NUMB
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aT3AxrAOGWeT/
US Is "Beyond Bankrupt" - Kim Dotcom Fears "Controlled Demolition" Enabling A "New Dystopian Future"
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, JUN 11, 2022 - 04:44 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-worse-many-can-imagine-kim-dotcom-sees-controlled-demolition-enabling-new-dystopian
https://rumble.com/v1896jo-real-love.html
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
God Bless.
Ps.
Bill Holter – A Parallel Economy Is Emerging Which Wreak Havoc On The [CB]
System - X22 Report - VIDEO
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/bill-holter-a-parallel-economy-is-emerging-which-wreak-havoc-on-the-cb-system/
Jan. 6 Was ‘An Inside Job to Entrap People Who Attended Trump’s Speech’:
Investigative Journalist.. :+O
https://www.theepochtimes.com/jan-6-was-an-inside-job-to-entrap-people-who-attended-trumps-speech-investigative-journalist_4524391.html
Sumisu; Study: Medical Marijuana Reduces Pain, Depression, Increases Life Quality in
Cancer Patients
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/cancer-marijuana-medical-pain/2022/05/24/id/1071322
MediPharm Labs Continues to Lead with Innovation - Launches CBG and Water-Soluble Products
T.LABS |
View original content to download multimedia:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medipharm-labs-continues-to-lead-with-innovation--launches-cbg-and-water-soluble-products-301517368.html
David Pidduck is the new CEO of MediPharm Labs
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3824667-david-pidduck-is-the-new-ceo-of-medipharm-labs?source=copyToPasteboard
Wow, is this c-suite change another signal of failure?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP FROM CHARLIE WARD & ALL OF THE TRUTH COMMUNITY
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VztdCmvZLgU/
CT Thanks; How many more good music artists has been hit like Justin Bieber???
DR. JUDY MIKOVITS PhD - THE PLAN TO INJECT HUMANITY WITH CANCER VIRUSES!
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QMT4KXNWow9c/
Justin Bieber recently came out to tell fans he’s come down with Ramsay Hunt
Syndrome, which caused partial paralysis in his face — it turns out RHS is a
known vaccine side effect.
https://thecountersignal.com/justin-bieber-paralysis-is-a-known-vaccine-side-effect/
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Quote:
could not copy the entire story-- here is the link
:
https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e7/e746fae9-7a5f-462d-a0dd-dd9a11895451/statement-by-president-donald-j.-trump.pdf?
M_P; $500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140
MONOPOLISTS (REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
Leaked medicare data shows a 50% rise in all cause mortality of the elderly for the first time ever.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DdxZLSGHmKLB/
They are right. Covid kills...the Covid vaccine is killing the elderly by the thousands. Source: Fat News.
CLIF HIGH - THE JABBED ARE ABOUT TO GET A RUDE AWAKENING
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bBcmJoO3BRdh/
"Organoids "Jab victim discharging biological creatures woman reports horror after Moderna shot
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BCrvrznQFaME/
SUBMIT TO THE BIOWEAPON OR REMAIN OUR HOSTAGE FOREVER --
BRENT JOHNSON - NWO Totalitarian Dictators Blackmail Anti-Human Genocide
killer agenda super communistic evil khazarian
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/l881ILlbk6UJ/
BREAKING!!! COVID VACCINE CLAIMS OVERWHELM COURTS
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fxqw0Y7twx3o/
MASS DEPOPULATION ACCORDING TO PFIZER! - DOCUMENT LEAK
PROVES VACCINE IS CAUSING DIE OFF!
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ga7fvxiL1jFa/
Zardiw; Sarah Palin Pulls Ahead In Race For Alaska Representative
Photo of Carmine Sabia Carmine SabiaJune 12, 2022
https://conservativebrief.com/sarah-p-63700/
CT; M_P; VACCINES ARE MAKING PEOPLE NEUROLOGICALLY NUMB
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aT3AxrAOGWeT/
US Is "Beyond Bankrupt" - Kim Dotcom Fears "Controlled Demolition" Enabling A "New Dystopian Future"
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, JUN 11, 2022 - 04:44 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-worse-many-can-imagine-kim-dotcom-sees-controlled-demolition-enabling-new-dystopian
https://rumble.com/v1896jo-real-love.html
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
God Bless.
Ps.
Bill Holter – A Parallel Economy Is Emerging Which Wreak Havoc On The [CB]
System - X22 Report - VIDEO
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/bill-holter-a-parallel-economy-is-emerging-which-wreak-havoc-on-the-cb-system/
Jan. 6 Was ‘An Inside Job to Entrap People Who Attended Trump’s Speech’:
Investigative Journalist.. :+O
https://www.theepochtimes.com/jan-6-was-an-inside-job-to-entrap-people-who-attended-trumps-speech-investigative-journalist_4524391.html
Sumisu thanks; THEY ADMIT VACCINES KILLING CHILDREN ! NEW STUDIES PROVE GLOBAL GENOCIDE ! HEART ATTACKS SKYROCKET !
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PDHqctoFx6JK/
NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND IS ABOVE THE LAW AS DUI CHARGES DROPPED
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RUUoAKEXekbD/
Uncensored: Jeff Nyquist - China Plan to Invade US by Mid-Terms in November & Australia at Risk
https://rumble.com/v17srhf-uncensored-jeff-nyquist-china-plan-to-invade-us-by-mid-terms-in-november-an.html
SHTF RIGHT NOW ! TRUCKERS ON STRIKE, NO FUEL, GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY AND FOOD SHORTAGES
WATC
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XmrIqBS5QPU0/
***Dr. Judy Mikovits | Monkeypox, the Transhumanism Agenda, & WHO-Based One World Government.. :+O
https://rumble.com/v17s5he-dr.-judy-mikovits-monkeypox-the-transhumanism-agenda-and-who-based-one-worl.html
UArizona moving 'vertical farming' forward
TUCSON, Ariz. — Droughts, rising temperatures, supply chain challenges and a war in Europe's breadbasket are making it harder to feed the planet.
But vertical farming is one possible solution: It happens indoors in a controlled environment, without the need for soil.
For years, students and researchers at the University of Arizona have studied how vertical farming can save space, time, and something scarce here in the desert: water.
"The amount of plants you can grow in a tiny footprint is insane," said bisoystems engineering graduate student Christopher Kaufmann.
Now UArizona is helping push the practice forward—literally. The Life Grow (LG) Bot puts a vertical farming frame on wheels.
It was invented by professor Joel Cuello and his team of graduate students. A seven-member team of engineering students designed a prototype for their Capstone Engineering Project, which was awarded the 'Roche Most Innovative Engineering Design' at UA Design Day 2022 in May.
The LG Bot continuously pumps water to the plants—which in this case are romaine lettuce. Any water not used by the plants is recycled.
"And we've tailored the nutrient solution to kind of be ideal for that specific crop," Kaufmann explained.
Above are specialized LED lights that simulate sunlight.
The process allows places usually without access to fresh produce—such as inner cities or 'Food Deserts'—to grow it themselves.
"You don't have to worry about [plants] having a long shelf life, and you can kind of supplement for quality once again," said Kaufmann. "And so, you get things that taste better and are better for you."
The LG Bot can be controlled, but also has automatic navigation software and sensors.
But the question remains: Why put wheels on vertical farming?
"The idea is to have some big warehouse, whether it be multiple levels or multiple rooms. Each room having some sort of different growing conditions, whether it be different humidity, different lighting levels.... something like that," said electrical and computer engineering graduate student Diego Moscoso. "The purpose of these robots is the move the plants from room to room, according to the growth stage that the plants are currently in."
These students say an entire fleet of the robots could mean growing lots of food, with a lot fewer people—reducing labor costs in the process.
"We could feed an entire town, an entire community," Moscoso said.
And they say, perhaps, even grow them on a space station or another planet.
"Where we are able to move these robots around from room to room and have a self-sustaining growing process that needs the absolute minimum amount of human interaction to actually get these plants grow," said Moscoso.
Like the plants, the hope is that this technology continues to grow.
video on the website:
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/uarizona-moving-vertical-farming-forward?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=KGUN-Newsletter-Headlines&category=homepage-showcase
Potato Harvest 2020
WOW!
Impressive!
I wish I knew what would substitute for red clay?
How important is it to her process?
Also wish I knew her climate because I'd love to know the story behind using clear bags?
Less heat I'd guess?
Anyways I subscribed to her channel ready to learn new ways.
Thank you for great video.
How to Build a HINGED HOOPHOUSE for a Raised Bed Garden
10 Great Depression Skills That Will Pay Well
That has been the story of the weekend! These are not a few occurrences, but a big trend in 2022 undermining the U.S. food supply. A most compelling reason to garden, if possible.
sumi
Sumisu Situation Update, April 22, 2022 - NWO Are ARSON TEAMS burning down America's food production infrastructure?
25180 views
https://www.brighteon.com/e5ba1f81-8c62-4f38-b92c-6f953c11c024
ADD THIS - 230 employees laid off after fire guts Oregon potato chip plant
Empty Shelves, Starvation, & Chaos In USA | Bob Moriarty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POev4DjPpkw
CT WATCH OUT FOR THIS. OUR SUPPLY CHAIN IS UNDER ATTACK. RUSSIA BLAMES THE USA FOR SINKING IT'S WARSHIP
75,141 viewsApr 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu44ynf6axw
Empty Shelves, Starvation, & Chaos In USA | Bob Moriarty
Sumisu watch; how to be more secure by the right leader;
Are you covered - by life insurance -
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RALLY LIVE IN COMMERCE, GA 3/26/22
by RSBN March 17, 2022
https://rsbnetwork.com/video/president-donald-trump-rally-live-in-commerce-ga-3-26-22/
Saturday, March 26, 2022: Join the RSBN team LIVE from Commerce, GA
for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s SAVE AMERICA rally.
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of
America, will hold a rally in Commerce, Georgia, on Saturday, March 26,
2022, at 7:00PM EST.
Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 7:00PM EST President Donald J. Trump, 45th
President of the United States of America, Delivers Remarks in support
of David Perdue Candidate for Governor, Herschel Walker Candidate for
U.S. Senate, and other endorsed candidates.
Venue: Banks County Dragway (Formally NHRA International Dragway) 500
East Ridgeway Road Commerce, GA 30529
Timeline of Events: 8:00AM – Parking and Line Opens 2:00PM – Doors Open
and Entertainment Begins 4:00PM – Pre-program Speakers Deliver Remarks
7:00PM – 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump Delivers
Remarks
Point Roberts Safety; Are you in safe area or you don't want it; Things Are Escalating Very Quickly!
https://youtu.be/ggQzxPWCpgc
I've had asparagus for six years now and the crop gets better every year.
Strawberries are a war with the birds but new screening should save the crop this year.
Last fall I dug out most of my rhubarb plants because I have had enough rhubarb to last a lifetime and they were taking up to much garden space.
Thanks for that interesting post, 'mr40'!
I'm up in New England. Will add asparagus and horseradish this year.
Good luck!
Time to Plant | Artichoke, Asparagus, Herbs, Lilies & Sugar Cane!
Beekeepers using tracking devices to protect precious hives
By DAISY NGUYEN
February 22, 2022
WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state’s most valuable crop.
But as almond trees start to bloom, blanketing entire valleys in white and pink flowers, so begin beehive thefts that have become so prevalent that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to protect their precious colonies.
Hive thefts have been reported elsewhere in the country, most recently three hives containing about 60,000 bees taken from a grocery chain’s garden in central Pennsylvania. They happen at a larger scale and uniquely in California this time of year because bees are most in demand during the largest pollination event in the world.
In the past few weeks, 1,036 beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were reported stolen from orchards statewide, authorities said. The largest heist involved 384 beehives that were taken from a field in Mendocino County, prompting the state beekeepers association to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to their recovery.
“It’s hard to articulate how it feels to care for your hives all year only to have them stolen from you,” Claire Tauzer wrote on Facebook to spread the word about the reward. A day later, an anonymous tipster led authorities to recover most of the boxes and a forklift stolen from Tauzer’s family business some 55 miles (88 kilometers) away, at a rural property in Yolo County. One suspect was arrested.
Becoming self-reliant
https://foodforestabundance.com/become-self-reliant/
How to eat a pine tree
https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-pinetree/ (20:47)
Never forget the duct tape and bubble gum. The I-Box is here awesome. Hats off to the person(s) maintaining it.
I have been invested in stock/technology that is finally getting the light of day at the perfect time it is all about sustainable economics, and repurposing waste Ag fiber, sugar can bagasse, to make a healthy sustainable cattle feed that results in major GHG Green House Gas emission reductions.
I suspect folks might be interested in this success story?
Recent biofuels special report article is here:
https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2021/12/29/ifus-cattle-turning-bagasse-trash-into-a-cash-cow/
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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30 Survival Skills Everyone Should Know Before The Imminent Economic Collapse
The 2021 economic collapse has demonstrated its ability to wipe out supply chains, drive grocery store prices sky high, and cause massive shortages of everything. If it wasn’t that clear before, now we all can certainly see that our modern society is rapidly crumbling. Every single structure we rely on has proven to be incredibly vulnerable to external disruptions, and with global tensions rising by the day, we must be ready because dark times are coming for us. Corrupt governments are leading the world to the brink of financial ruin, and their reckless monetary policies have set the stage for a brutal economic collapse that has just begun.
At the same time, every link of our supply chains is breaking down, and global production continues to decline, widening the imbalance between supply and demand. So as global supplies get increasingly tighter and inflation pushes the price of everything to insane levels, people’s purchasing power has never been so compromised. Food prices are going through the roof, while housing and rent prices are making it harder for families to afford a roof over their heads. This is exactly the type of scenario that made empires fall apart and triggered widespread chaos in every corner of the planet.
Since our entire system is built like a house of cards, and several pieces have already fallen, it’s only a matter of time until we witness the end of the world as we know it. This is a chain reaction -- and at this point, so much damage has been done that it would take a miracle to reverse this coordinated downfall. If you think our leaders are going to rescue us from the mess they created, you’ll be totally unprepared for what’s coming next. Many still don’t know that we’re headed to an era of food shortages, power cuts, bankruptcies, cyberattacks, and devastating geopolitical conflicts. For that reason, learning primitive skills is just as important now as they were 10,000 years ago.
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.
For example, one of the skills that changed life on Earth and led to the advance of humanity was knowing how to build a fire. Today, most people have become accustomed to having devices to help them do it effortlessly. Many people have never learned how to start a fire without lighter fluid and a lighter. However, being able to find and collect natural materials to build a fire from scratch is the number one prepper survival skill. It can definitely save lives during an emergency. There are many techniques you can learn, such as the fire bow or fire spindle. But it’s very important to practice first to prevent potential accidents.
Learning and practicing these skills will definitely be very handy to get through the challenging times ahead. We must protect ourselves while we still can, because those in positions of power will not be there to save us when things go south. There are many blogs that can guide you through your prepper journey. We would like to give a special shout-out to Ask A Prepper, whose writers always share prepping secrets, tips, and tricks that we all will need at some point. The world is changing must faster than most of us realize. And we should be paying very close attention to what happens next.
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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
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GOOGLE & OTHER VIDEOS
Peak Moment Videos
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Suburban Permaculture with Janet and Richard Heinberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIkJGAS8EI
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TRANSITION MOVEMENT
Transition Towns
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Transition Culture
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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/
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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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