to measure the depth of sand, silt and clay as well as the total soil depth in the jar, use those measurements to calculate the % of each soil component.
layer of sand / 1.5 = % sand
layer of silt / 1.5 = % silt
layer clay / 1.5 = % clay
assuming 1/2 inch sand you'd have .5/1.5 = .333 or about 33% sand
fall crops = quick maturing beets, carrots, kohlrabi, turnips, and winter radishes, peas, collards, endive, kale, mustard, radicchio, spinach
book for preparing baby foods: Start Fresh by tyler florence
from time july 2 -- 132 laws passed by the current us congress in 2011 and 12 = one fifth concerned naming post offices [can that be right]
time -- john McCain "the worst decision by the supreme court in the 21st century. uninformed, arrogant, naive" amen john, amen
march-april 2012 hobby farms:
off shoot of coffee coop formed in 2001 -- csa customer can buy into one farmer's operation by purchasing automatically renewing shares in increments of 2, 5 or 10 pounds per month. see www.coffeecsa.org
seedsavers.org -- going to get there someday i hope
need a mobile credit card payment processing system? ideas www.gopayment.com///www,phoneswipe.com///www.squareup.com
genealogy -- most north am historical societies are listed at the italian genealogy website www.daddezio.com/society/hill/index.html
beehive on the window? see video at www.davebees.com/buildblock.html
plant alyssum w/lettuce to discourage aphids
penne w/asparagus, peas and basil -- sounded pretty good p.76
4 T dry white wine, 6-8 T olive oil, green onions, 1/4 cup basil leaves and grated parmesan
Michigan Farm News june 30 2012
p.1 "among the reasons farm bureau members support the new bridge is that canada has agreed to pay for michigan's entire cost, estimated at $550 million, w/payback from tolls once it's built. also, the funds put forward by the canadians will help mi leverage $2.2 billion over four years in federal funds, all of which must go toward state road projects aside from the proposed bridge."
The Rights of the People by David Shipler 2011 -- discusses stop and frisk policing policy. from 90-95 about 40,000 a year were searched; in 2011 the # was 684,000. blacks and latinos make up 52% of pop but 87% of stops
check out carole fredericks enterred in montmartre, singer w/fredericks goldman jones
from france magazine: p189 march 2012 "download skype's free app from either the iTunes store or the Android market. sign up to obtain a user name, then get dialing--calls to other skype users on their accounts, no matter the time of day or their location, are entirely free. if you want to call a non skype user simply purchase credit for your acct for pay as you go usage w/the service's competitive low rates
the color of truth said andre gide, is gray. in my head i was ageless; outside i was 50 and pretending otherwise seemed as ridiculous as wearing pigtails.
no everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. einstein
about ALEC: it claims to be a non profit, non partisan organization. currently it has 1 democratic member of 104 legislators in leadership positions. more than 98% of alec's revenue comes from sources such as corporations, trade groups, etc
the better is the enemy of the good
janepointer.com
androidopensource applications.com
onearth on the kindle use onearth.org/kindle
from ONEARTH spring 2012
toptenUSA.org -- rankings of the 10 most energy saving products in a wide range of categories
book The American Way of Eating by tracie mcmillan scribner--workers at the bottom end of our food system, harvesters, field workers, etc
ACRES july 2012
The Big Thirst: the secret life and turbulent future of water by charles fishman about necessity of clean water. ""if we have to solve climate change before we tackle our water problems, we might as well just cash it in"
part about GE being responsible for dumping pcbs into hudson river, acknowledging that and 25 yrs later still arguing w/the epa on how GE is going to clean it up
"in the conversation about fracking, the 1 thing that's never accounted for is the value of clean water"
the natural vet about roundup and glyphosate --"my advice to consumers, parents and pet owner alike, is to avoid all corn, canola, beet sugar and soy containing consumables unless they are organically certified"
THE NATION july 16/23 2012
about romney and NAFTA's TPP--very interesting article "the TPP has been cleverly misbranded as a trade agreement by its corporate booster. as a result, since george w bush initiated negotiations in 2088 it has cruised along under the radar...countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP's rules--in effect, a corporate coup d'etat. the proposed pact would limit even how govs can spend their tax dollars. buy america and other buy local procurement preferences that invest in the us economy would be banned, and sweat free, human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. if the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. and unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date."
make your own insect repellent www,hobbyfarmhome.com/repelmosquitos
natural homemade herbicide on isolated weeds, mix 1 gallon white vinegar w/1 cup salt, 1 T liquid dish soap. spray weeds on sunny day
reading Stealing You Blind how gov fat cats are getting rich off of you by iain murry
-he's british in america writing a book about evil politics and referencing heritage foundation and cato
-p8: " When most people think of a public servant, they think of a post office worker: unimaginative, slow, and poorly paid. but today's public servants are very well paid---and they have accrued power and wealth by making themselves essential regulators of private sector business---while still retaining the leisurely working pace of their predecessors."
-p8 "The typical "public servant" enters the bureaucracy at a starting salary of $75,000, less if she's a payroll clerk (50,000),m more if he's a firefighter (100,000)."
-p22"But the fact that gov has grown to such monstrous proportions and saddled us w/unsustainable debt leads to the obvious conclusion that much of what gov does can't be necessary and is manifestly not good for us; and as for compassion, isn't that a virtue more associated w/individual charity than red tape-spinning bureaucrats?"
-p13: "the average personal income in WI is $37,398 a year, according to the bureau of labor statistics, part of the dept of commerce. the average teacher earns $49,580 in cash wages for nine months' work a year".
-p17: "as we'll see in the next chapter, the IRS has plenty of ways to force you to pay--up to and including at the barrel of a gun".
-p.33: the fact that the irs has the power to require us to provide all this information is just one of the ways in which the irs operates as if the bill of rights didn't exist. according to chris edwards of the cato institute, the irs has powers that turn our constitution upside down".
i checked out his reference to Simple Sabotage Field Manual from the wwII time--ways to sabotage and muck up things including business by various means like committees, asking for minute corrections, etc. manual available on line, unclassified now. good reading
conclusion chapter: get rid of dept of commerce, departments of energy, labor and ed (he calls it the dept of misallocating education dollars) ; rein in epa and food and drug administration; reform federal pay and conditions; tackle entitlements like social security medicare and medicaid; make contracts public and abolish grants; introduce a single fair tax; regulatory reform; end labor union privileges; privatize appropriate gov functions like local fire depts, prison, schools; re engineer ed (vouchers are good)
