TruemorsFall Harvest
Fall Harvest is considered to be harvest time for many types of vegetables such as onions, squash, carrots, tomatoes, and many other wonderful fall produce. Of course you need to plant a garden in order to reap a harvest when it is harvest time. The best time to plant a...
Fruit Corso Festival of Netherlands
Every year on the 11th, 12th and 13th of September, a festival called "Fruit Corso (means Fruit Parade)" is held to celebrate the harvest of the Fruit of all the Villages in Tiel, Netherlands. It includes... 
Take my Job. Please!
Using comedy to make a serious point, Stephen Colbert is publicizing a challenge made by American farm workers who are tired of being villanized in the press. "SAN FRANCISCO – In a tongue-in-cheek call for...
Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?
" An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of... 
Easy Armchair Gardening, Dreaming of Summer
With snow covering most of Canada and the land sleeping beneath a white coat, you might think that no gardening can be done. Not so. Now is the time to plan what wonderful crops you'll plant and... 
Is India reaping a harvest of hatred sown by Indians? We have seen it all bef...
"India is the largest democracy in the world. They’ve got several hundred languages, they’ve got every major world religion in residence and originated four of them; they are multi-cultural and multi-ethnic, with a male Prime Minister of the minority Sikh religion and a... 
Pick of the Crop
A Platteville, Colorado farm couple say they got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick free vegetables left over after the harvest."Forty thousand people showed up. Joe and... 
created by Mary Richard | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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234 views | 17 recommendations | 3 comments
Wet British summer causes shortage in sloe berries
Looking to make some sloe gin this year? Well you may be out of luck as sloe berries are getting really hard to find.The wet British summer has damaged the crop extensively, so making the popular alcoholic drink...
Artificial trees capture solar and wind energy
" "A London-based startup called Solar Botanic announced yesterday that it has designed lifelike artificial plants and trees that harvest the power of the sun, wind and rain. The key to the company’s claim is its Nanoleaf— a supposed energy-capturing powerhouse....
UN agency appeals for $140 million to feed Zimbabweans in crisis
" 9 October 2008 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for $140 million to feed some 4 million Zimbabweans over the next six months, warning that without more funds, the agency will... 
New pest control: mites sniff “death,” go into debilitating hibernation
Spider mites have been found to go into hibernating sleep upon sniffing a predator attack on another mite nearby. "Martijn Egas and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands noticed that when...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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417 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
4.6 million to protect butterfly reserve
"December 9, 2007 Mexico's mass butterfly migration It’s one of nature’s miracles – every year, 250m butterflies migrate the 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico.Ay, caramba!” cried Luis Miguel as we... 
created by Pat Garcia | 5 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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901 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
