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Growing Herbs - How To Grow Herbs. Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive. By Makenna GoodmanOctober 21, 2010 Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence. In an age of erratic weather and instability, it’s increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a greater resilience.

Makenna Goodman: Many gardeners (both beginners and more serious growers) come across obstacles they might not have planned for. Carol Deppe: The basic issues are getting more control over our food, getting lots higher quality and more delicious food, and enhancing the resilience of our food supply. However the person who has learned to make spectacular applesauce or cider or apple butter or pies can often trade some of the processed products for all the apples needed.

We humans trade. Anyone with a shovel can grow potatoes. How to Start an Organic Garden - iVillage. Paper-Back Planters: Recycling Books to Pot Indoor Plants | Designs &Ideas on Dornob. Have books finally met their match with the Apple iPad, or is it just another fad like the Amazon Kindle? Readers may find some poetry in these volumes regardless of whether they are willing to give up their favorite paperback companions: potted plants put into scooped-out sections of beautiful old hardback books.

Gardenkultur (via Inhabitat) makes a simple recycling project out of even the most complex novels, but carving into the heart of a book, sealing off the resulting space and putting seeds of little trees or other plant life into the curved void. Of course, this would work just as well as a do-it-yourself gardening project for those green-thumbed enough to provide proper moisture barriers for their own plants. But if a picture is said to be worth one thousand, at how many words do we value a wee plant?

Hopefully these books were beyond repair and those ripe only for reuse. Vegetable Spacing Guide& - StumbleUpon. Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Introduction - StumbleUpon. MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology. Internet Directory for Botany - Alphabetical List - StumbleUpon. International Carnivorous Plant Society Homepage - StumbleUpon. Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures &Mushroom Reference. Online Books : "Golden Guide Hallucinogenic Plants" - pg 51-60.

Golden Guide: Hallucinogenic Plants pages 51 to 60 .Contents...1-10...11-20...21-30...31-40...41-50...51-60...61-70...71-80...81-9091-100...101-110...111-120...121-130...131-140...141-150...151-156...Index Mandrake, with the Propane alkaloids hyoscyamine, scopolamine, and others, was an active hallucinogenic ingredient of many of the witches' brews of Europe. In fact, it was undoubtedly one of the most potent ingredients in those complex preparations. DHATURA and DUTRA (Datura metel) are the common names in India for an important Old World species of Datura.

IBOGA (Tabernanthe iboga), native to Gabon and the Congo, is the only member of the dogbane fancily, Apocynaceae, known to be used as an hallucinogen. The drug, discovered by Europeans toward the middle of the last century, has a reputation as a powerful stimulant and aphrodisiac. The use of hallucinogenic mushrooms, which dates back several thousand years, centers in the mountains of southern Mexico.

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