Brined a turkey for the first time this year–turned out quite yummy! I was much more excited with my green beans, though.
I accidentally bought some extra rosemary sprigs, and needed a way to use them up. I give you: Rosemary Green Beans.*
green beans, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
one stick of butter
lots of chopped fresh [...]
I happened to find this very entertaining Extension Publication in a box: Good Eating from Woods and Fields. It’s a 1960 reprint of an earlier pamphlet, and what a cultural artifact it is!
I couldn’t decide which of the photos to put here, and so went with my Beavis and Butthead instinct: Roast Beaver.
The pamphlet opens [...]
You might remember that I got in trouble in the past for saying what I thought about some cuts to Michigan’s State Budget in early 2009. And that was NOTHING compared to what’s about to happen.
It appears the state of Michigan is about to lead the nation…in dropping all its Extension Service funding. It [...]
You can’t live in Michigan long without running into a building, or project, or something that is named after W.K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg cereal company and major philanthropist. It’s his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who is really the interesting one, though.
Dr. Kellogg was profiled (sort of) in the book and movie The [...]
Homebuggarden commented earlier this week:
“Has anyone come across a good source of information on providing nest support for alternative pollinators such as bumblebees, digger bees, and the like?”
Indeed, I have! Xerces has an excellent PDF download, Nests for Native Bees. There are also additional detailed instructions in their publication Farming for Bees (starting on page [...]
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the NPR interview with Steve Buchmann, the international coordinator of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. You might remember Buchmann as one of the authors of the excellent book Forgotten Pollinators.
From the NPR blog:
“Mother Nature has lots of other pollinators — typically five to ten types [...]
Check out these Pollination Reources for teachers at the NBII! (National Biological Information Infrastructure) They currently have 78 lessons related to pollination and pollinators listed.
They also have some fun resources on pollination and food, like this one: Chocolate’s Sweet Little Secret (PDF)
“The cacao flower, while only about the diameter of a nickel, is complex in [...]
It’s National Pollinator Week, and here’s a neat site for you–a complete list, continuously updated, of crops of importance to humans that insects pollinate. Pollinating animals contribute to at least one out of every three bites we eat.
Some of the fruits and vegetables on this list are obviously recognizable. There are also crops that produce [...]
Celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 22-28, 2009!
There is a nifty collection of online resources–including document templates, fact sheets, and more–online here!
There are even stickers you can print on your printer. Cool!
So, I mentioned before that the First Family is putting in a garden (complete with bee hive!). And, in fact, they plant to make it an organic garden.
That choice has stirred up a whole pot of strange. The first signal was that the MidAmerica CropLife Association sent a letter to the White House that implied [...]
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