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Energy Efficiency v. Renewables: Where Should We Start
30 July 2012 11:02 PM | No Comments
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Garbage in the Ocean
20 July 2012 7:09 PM | No CommentsEver heard of Garbage Island, also known as the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch? This beautiful infographic explains the impact of our waste on oceans across the globe.
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Farmhand Diaries: An Early End to a Promising Harvest
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Goodbye Bees, Goodbye Humanity
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Farmhand Diaries: Bozo The Pit Bull Shares His Ticks
Posted on May 12, 2012 | 1 CommentBozo leans in close to show his affection and earn pat on the head. He nudges me with his muzzle. An enormously engorged tick, grey and egg-like with creepy little... -
Farmhand Diaries: Getting Mixed Up
Posted on April 2, 2012 | No CommentsFor nearly one year I’ve been monitoring and a little worried about 400 plants at the south end of the field. These were the first plants to get transplanted from... -
Farmhand Diaries: Weed Control and Sprays Revisited
Posted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsAs I scrape my shovel into the mass of weeds rising up and around our grow bags, I see earthworms slither away from exposure to sun and burrow down deeper... -
Farmhand Diaries: Wind, Frost and Rain
Posted on January 5, 2012 | No CommentsUnwelcome weather events hit us hard this year and closed out 2011 with a battering in early December of fierce winds—and later—biting frost and rain. Weather challenges from sudden spikes... -
Farmhand Diaries: Water Woes
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsBy Stacey Warde. Three days of dry heat, wind and no water. Rain is forecast for next week but won’t arrive quickly enough to matter. I need water now. Again,... -
Farmhand Diaries: To Spray, or Not to Spray
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsBy Stacey Warde. For three years, I’ve managed to control the weeds on our two-acre blueberry enclosure mostly by hand, without the use of herbicides. I’ve learned that a shovel,... -
Farmhand Diaries: Cutting Away The Old Growth
Posted on September 30, 2011 | No CommentsBy Stacey Warde. With the harvest completed, we scratched our heads and wondered: “Now what?” It didn’t take long to come up with an answer. A profusion of growth from... -
Farmhand Diaries: My ‘little hobby’
Posted on September 14, 2011 | No CommentsBy Staff Writer Stacey Warde. It’s been a long haul since we began the harvest of what one customer called my “little hobby.” Two acres of blueberries really isn’t a... -
Farmhand Diaries: Ants in the Bag
Posted on March 24, 2011 | No CommentsBy Staff Writer Stacey Warde I’ve been waging a battle against ants for weeks. These are not your typical household ants that invade the kitchen pantry, or crawl up the... -
Farmhand Diaries: In Defense of Soil
Posted on December 27, 2010 | No CommentsFarmhand Diaries by Staff Writer Stacey Warde. Whenever someone discovers that I’m growing blueberries, the first question they usually ask is, “Are they organic?” As much as I wish they...