Greenhouse in a Swimming Pool - Winter Harvest
Salad greens, chives and braising greens thrive in this winter growing space, a greenhouse converted from an old swimming pool. Outside temperatures dipped down as low as 3F (-17C); yet this space remains productive without any additional heat. It is heated by the sun during the day, and stays relatively warm (around 32F (0C)) on coldest of nights. Plants are happy and harvest is in full swing. This unheated growing space was created in an old swimming pool that has fallen into disrepair. Photo above is taken around 5pm in January - with low winter sun shining from the west (left side on the photo). Some years we use fallen leaves that collect on the bottom of the pool and push them against north wall where they act as a sponge for extra water and decompose without any assistance into wonderful rich soil food - which, as you may guess, is then used in the greenhouse itself. This particular greenhouse is a part of an active poultry/goat yard. Last word on keeping it warm in bitter cold.
New York
1. 'New Amsterdam' as it looked in 1664 Click to enlarge. Source: "The American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies", 1967 pp 130-31 Picture Source: Valentine's History of New York, pp 367 New Amsterdam, 1661 (Click to enlarge) Source2. 3. The French Church on Petticoat Lane - 1687-1704 During the first four years of its existence, the settlement, which has been estimated at about 270 persons, did not have an ordained clergyman. Picture Source 4. French Church, N.Y.C. on Pine StreetPicture Source However, Huguenot immigration was so great that after a few years the congregation became too large for the building. Huguenot Church, N.Y.C.Picture Source However, beginning around the 1730s, the membership of Saint-Esprit steadily declined for several reasons. French Church, N.Y.C. The revival of Saint-Esprit was the product of a fortunate occurrence in 1795. Picture Source
Natural Insect Control
Clicking on ants will take you to another page. {*style:<b>Aphids: </b>*}For aphid control we carry: 1600 X-Clude , Diatomaceous Earth , Garden Dust Insecticide/Fungicide , Ants "farm" aphids often keeping them in their nest during winter, then bringing them out in spring and placing them on the host plant. The ants eat the honeydew the aphids produce and move them from plant to plant spreading any diseases that are present. The honeydew favors formation of a black fungus known as "sooty mold." Green lacewings, ladybugs and their respective larvae have a voracious appetite for aphids. Anise, chives, coriander (cilantro), garlic, onions, petunias and radish. Squashing a few aphids around the infested plants releases a chemical signal that makes the other aphids drop from the plants and leave. To foil aphids: flatten a square of aluminum foil around the base of plants to bounce light on the undersides of leaves. Spread out a barrier of tansy around the base of the plant to stop those ants.
New York State Historical Literature Collection | Cornell University Library
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Creative Organic Gardening - Northwestern New Mexico
Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Coopers Hawk, Prairie Falcon, Ferruginous hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Turkey Vulture, Burrowing Owl, Great Horned Owl, White-throated Swift, Violet-green Swallow, Tree Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Canyon Wren, House Wren, Bewick's Wren, Rock Wren, Golden Eagle White-crowned Sparrow, Brewer's Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Sage Sparrow, Black-throated Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Lark Bunting, Brown towhee, Rufus-sided Towhee, Green-tailed Towhee, Lesser Goldfinch, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Cassin's Finch, Lazuli Bunting, Lewis woodpecker, Flicker, Acorn woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker Bird Databases and Resources
Virtual Tour Image Map to Regions of New Netherland
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Map by N.J. Visscher 1650/51 based on a manuscript map compiled by Adriaen van der Donck in 1648. This is the second state (1652) which added Fort Kasimier. For more on this and similar maps see The Maps of Bert Twaalfhoven on this site. Welcome to New Netherland. New Netherland got underway at about the same time the Pilgrims were settling Cape Cod and the Jamestown colony was establishing itself in Virginia, but you wouldn't know that from most history books. But place names only scratch the surface of New Netherland's legacy. Exhibit Credits:Text and research by Russell Shorto, an author and journalist. Original site design by Howard L. Technical consultation by Dr. 2012 exhibit redesign by Bill Greer, an NNI trustee and author of The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan, and Steve McErleane, consultant to the New Netherland Institute.
Creative Organic Gardening - Permaculture gardens
(permanent culture) is an approach to everyday life that integrates plants, animals, landscape, structures; people who purposely design all the facets of their lives to enhance environmental sustainability within a permanent, sustainable agricultural and cultural system - a diverse, complex eco-system, where the all of the elements interact in mutually beneficial ways to produce a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. The art of designing garden areas that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies. Permanent is from the Latin "permanens" - to remain to the end, to persist throughout. Permaculture is sustainable land use design. Elements in a system are viewed in relationship to other elements, where the outputs of one element become the inputs of another. Permaculture is a way of looking beyond a single-product system, and a means to leave the earth richer than we found it. Planting a Permaculture Garden 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Uses of Wild Plants
Epidemics
Epidemics have always had a great influence on people -- and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below: 1633 Massachusetts: (Indians) Smallpox, probably brought on arriving ships of settlers. sources: South Bend, IN Area Genealogical Society, April 1996 , Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, edited by George C. return to home page
