It started as an innocent enough question from an Eastern Sea-boarder on my Facebook page: Why does bad weather affect things when I make candy? I assumed she meant the humidity was changing things. After all, the boiling process of a sugar syrup reduces the amount of water. I knew that after it cools a…
Black Swallowtail Caterpillars, Scourge of Dill
Red Velvet Mites
I apologize for going quiet over the weekend; we had company, a windstorm that required my attention in the garden, and a puzzle over a garden bug. I’ve already decided, by the way, that next year, I’m definitely not growing tomatoes in the planter. I swear I watched them grow two inches overnight in this…
Pigs fed GM grains long-term develop stomach inflammation, uterine abnormalties.
A recent study in the Journal of Organic Systems conducted on the long-term health effects of consumption of genetically modified grains examined 168 pigs over a 22.7 week period. These animals were fed with three types of GMO corn, two of which were engineered to produce Bt, and the third which was engineered to…
Pesticide use
While the scientific jury might still be technically out on GMOs, there remains a very good incentive to buy organic, and even better yet, to grow your own if possible. It’s summed up in this picture right here… a demonstration of the absorption of a leaf of lettuce: I stipulate “best to grow your own”…