Journal zogger's Journal: A nice side of monopoly with that happy meal 13
This is another reason why "open source" food is a good idea
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A nice side of monopoly with that happy meal
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
And going back to your previous JE (Score:2)
And going back to your previous JE on wheat rust, the rise of the monoculture crops due to the likes of Monsanto are making diseases even more likely to sweep through the system, well, like a plague of locusts.
And the complete eschewing of crop rotation for "summer wheat, winter wheat, spring wheat, repeat" not only hammers the soil but also makes it easier for a disease to stick around.
A decade ago my property was wheat field. I have about 2 feet of "soil" over clay. "soil" because there's hardly any organ
deeelish (Score:1)
That means with good enough fences, you could have bison! I sort of want one here, I could buy some calves, but I am thinking my fences just don't cut the mustard for those guys. I've eaten straight bison and also beefalo, both pretty good.
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Not on 2 acres (minus what the house takes up) I'm not - at least, not any bison larger than your average dachshund.
correct (Score:1)
heh, you are right. You could fit a few chickens or rabbits or a couple of these guys [wikipedia.org]. One of my lil bros raises them, along with horses and trying to develop his own dog breed.
Stolen from Cryptogon: (Score:1)
You're probably sick of seeing this repeated on Cryptogon, over and over, but here it is again: An understanding of food is a gateway to potentially much better realities. In other words, there's no chance for a woowoo utopia, or anything approaching it, without understanding food. (And money, but that's a whole different can of worms.)
Everyone needs food. Only the dimmest bulbs on the strand aren't seeing that the industrial food system represents a clear and present danger to individuals and the environme
guerrilla gardening (Score:1)
Judging by my success growing Jerusalem artichokes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichokes [wikipedia.org] they are a pretty spiffy crop to plant "someplace" where you know you can always go and dig up some nutritious food. Dang stuff is almost impossible to NOT grow once it is established, and 99% of the random people who might even see it won't know what it is anyway, nor even pickup on it is a root crop. Hides in plain sight in other words.
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Those are "Al Quds" artichokes. :-)
now with more consonants! (Score:1)
Huh, never knew that. Just went and looked up the name derivations, etc.
Thanks for the tip!
lame cell pics..need a better camera
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47337730@N08/page5/ [flickr.com]
two al quds artichokes pics on that page, plus bunches of other stuff on the other pages. Sport!
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I was just jokin'. Arabic name for "Jerusalem".
ya (Score:1)
Ya, I looked it up. I had read that before, but did not know it was the Arabic name. Learn new stuff ever day
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On the West Coast, it's the Camas Lilly- same idea, different tuber (and tastes more like an onion).
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Not really an artichoke (Score:1)
Actually tastes more like water chestnuts, and that's how to treat it in cooking.
Easiest to find most places in the US, already growing and good to eat, treat it like spinach, is lamb's quarters. (just the tender tops, and the seeds can be ground and used kinda sorta like flour, or just thrown in stews whatever). That's a self seeding annual, so once established, it grows. Purslane is pretty common as well, and real tasty.
Regular old tomatoes will self seed and keep coming back for years, unless they get pu