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One Cup of Green Tea Please
I love tea. I do drink coffee but tea is my favorite. Even in college I drank tea with my college roomates. Lets have tea I would say. Of course there were other beverages but sometimes on a Sunday afternoon we would sit in the cafeteria and drink volumes of tea as we made jokes …
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A-Salading We Shall Go-Violets
The whole Viola genus is filled with wonderful fragrance, flowers and food yet rarely used as a source as perennial greens. That was my quest when I first started growing them in quantity. As a perennial vegetable, I was surprised there wasn’t much on their palatability, yields or flavor. Once I began the collecting process …
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Biological Enrichment Blog
Short but sweet, writings and images on my discoveries in farming, my personal experiences in tree crops in what I call real world scenarios and how to expand the horizons of ecological thinking as it relates to healthy food and a healthy world. Click below to sign up. biologicalenrich.blog Biological enrichment blog was started in …
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The Callery Solution
What is it that you want in life? Every morning I follow a certain routine. I start by feeding the birds. I go to my garage, get out the mixed sunflower seeds, grab a few ears of corn and put the mixture in three different bird feeders stationed around the house. I throw the corn …
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Response From The Bean Warriors
Thoughts from the Bean Warriors Archaeologists Bean Warriors The jungle was inhospitable. We made it hospitable. They grew lima beans. It was the protein that didn’t run away. …
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From Snow Fountain to Snow Mountain
All plants have an extremely large potential for change far greater than our imagination of what we think is possible. Modern plant breeding goals are almost always incredibly tiny and parceled out in super small characteristic level based doses. There is never going from point A to point B and wrapping it up. There is …
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The Mongolian Oak Rises Into the Canopy
I’m not sure where I received the acorns of this species. In the beginning, I was part of a network of what I loosely defined as oak obsessed individuals with a love for all things Quercus. Yes. Whacky edible acorn people were part of this group. Everyone contributed. I do remember getting two attempts of …
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The Flavor Farm Finds the Lemon
Once I hired a someone for my shipping and packing crew who always came to the farm in the morning with the same breakfast. He would first open a package of Ding Dongs on the packing table in front of him and then follow it by cracking open a Diet Pepsi. This combination was …
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For the Love of Apricots
For me it is impossible not to check out the apricots in the produce section of my local grocery store. I know they are from California. I know that the flavor is iffy and not tree ripened. I still have to try. Several times I have ordered the organic Frog Hollow Farm apricots from …
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Escape From the L’Anse Sewage Plant
A New Broadway Play Comes to Town: Escape From the L’Anse Sewage Plant A Review By Kenneth Asmus Normally anything to do with sewage in the title I would run. Yet my attention was captured from the very beginning when the lead character, a watermelon named Bob discovers a world outside of the nutrient rich …