Category: Tangents

The Future of Food – Trailer

A timely film worth watching.  Available to buy or via netflix. The Future of Food – Trailer.

How do I keep the road dust out of the garden?

There are places you don’t want to grow food crops, like near the road for example.  You also don’t want to spend much time tending them.  Here’s an article that helps you to that end. The hack:keep the road dust

Meet the healthy food entrepreneur: Peter Schatzberg from Freefoods NYC

An article of note Meet the healthy food entrepreneur: Peter Schatzberg from Freefoods NYC.

Canning a comeback Preserving fruits, vegetables in favor, again | montgomeryadvertiser.com | Montgomery Advertiser

A quickie here – hoping to do this ourselves this fall. Canning a comeback Preserving fruits, vegetables in favor, again | montgomeryadvertiser.com | Montgomery Advertiser.

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WECK Home Canning Products – NO BPA!

Yep, it’s in the baby food, it’s in the tin cans, and it’s in the canning products you’re using to get away from it in the first place!  No mechanical seal after it’s cooled, which is actually a good thing

Craftzine.com blog : Tiny Terrariums

Craftzine.com has a dead link to this idea, though if you’re persistant, you can find a lot of information about making small terrariums. There’s a number of ways you can make similar items – there’s a great globe here, and

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YouTube – The Store Wars – Organic food versus chemicals and GMOs

Too good to miss – worth the watch! from What is GE, GMO, and GM food – genetically-modified food war, part 2 via YouTube – The Store Wars – Organic food versus chemicals and GMOs.

Where did strawberries come from?

Tangent: The amazing strawberry – love them fresh from the garden, but they’re only around from June through late July, typically (in Western MA).  So where did strawberries come from? California strawberries, sometimes the size of small apples, are available year-round.

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Paghat’s Garden: Slug control

Yuck. Okay, after reading why he believes that spraying coffee does not kill slugs and snails (a good article, but I’m still making an extra cup for now), I ran across this article.  Sluggo has iron phosphate in it, which

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Have a Morning Cuppa With Your Slimy Enemies

There are baits, brews, traps and tubs you can get rid of slugs with (okay I couldn’t think of anything else that started with the letter t…), but why not just use what you may already have in and around

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