My sister and brother-in-law are speaking at an organic farming conference tomorrow so I'm watching the farm for a bit. It's too early for anything with the plants to be needed, but they recently got in 150 baby hens, so I'll be feeding and watering them. (The downside: they slaughtered the old hens to make room for the new so I won't be able to ( Read more... )

Hey, look, it’s another science spam :) granted, I still have like 200 science news emails to get through now going back months. But this is a start and I didn’t figure anyone wanted to wait weeks or months for another science spam and then get hit with about 800 links.

( science under the cut )

So the House passed Resolution 2749 on 31 July and I was so busy moving that it didn't even register with me. This thing is made of fail for various reasons. The big ones are that it'll seriously undermine small farms and, oh yeah, it'll completely fail to clean up big producers. Here's the breakdown from naturalnews.com (I added in the emphasis ( Read more... )

Okay, so being the huge Sanctuary fangirl I am, I'm actually going to start with a news story that isn't from Scientific American at all. In fact, it's not even from this century, but I still found it amusing.

11 July, 1934, Tesla celebrates his birthday the way only a mad scientist would. By announcing that he's discovered a death-ray: http://www. ( Read more... )

To start with, I don’t have a thing against the Green Movement. I’m a part of it myself and have been since I was a teenager. News and magazines off the internet instead of in print, fuel-efficient car used only when absolutely necessary, recycling, energy-saving bulbs, single-ply, the whole Nine Yards. My sister and brother-in-law run an organic ( Read more... )

With everything that's been happening just lately, things on the farm got a little behind, so I went over there this morning to help my sister do starts. A lot of plants need to be grown into seedlings before they're good to transfer into the actual field (usually because they're too fragile or not cold-resistant but sometimes just because the ( Read more... )

My brother-in-law says they lost 3/4 of their hives over the winter. Not going to be a great year for the farm :(