Posted April 29th, 2008 by Biopact team
Dear garden friends,
I've been a fan of the publications from Taunton Press ever since they published my Fabric and Fiber Sourcebook years ago. I really miss their old Kitchen Garden magazine, but their Fine Gardening Magazine is pretty good, too. It focuses more on landscaping than KG did, but the articles are all accessible to "common folks" and useful to home gardeners. I get an e-mail newsletter from them, and this issue included a video about making an easy-to-water strawberry jar.
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/I've always loved the idea of strawberry jars, especially for herbs, but here in this frequently hot climate, they dry out too fast. I think this might just be the answer to that problem.
The video is on their website, take a look if you're interested in a cool idea for planting strawberry jars for your container or patio garden. And of course, you can grow strawberries in them, too! (If you want to sign up for their free newsletter, there's a link on that page, too.)
Dig it!
bobbi c.
Posted April 29th, 2008 by Rhett Butler
China aims to expand its wind power generating capacity to 100,000 megawatts by 2020, more than doubling the current world's installed capacity, according to the
Shanghai Daily and The Wall Street Journal's
Environmental Capital blog.
Posted April 29th, 2008 by Biopact team
Great veggies from Angel Valley Organic Farm last summer...
Dear garden friends,
My friends Jo and John over at Angel Valley Organic Farm have included quite a number of great (and easy) recipes over on their website. When you get the chance, check 'em out. This time of year Jo and John do a great job of bringing fresh organic veggies to their farmstands in Jonestown and Austin, TX WAY before anything in my little piddly garden is ready to eat.
http://www.angelvalleyfarms.com/recipes/index.htmEnjoy them, we really have!
dig it!
bobbi c.
Posted April 28th, 2008 by James Fraser
Following the opening of a new 5 MW four-turbine wind farm last week, Rock Port, a town of 1,395 in North West Missouri, has become the first U.S. town to get all its electricity from wind power. The $90 million Loess Hills Wind Farm, was built by St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group and the John...
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Posted April 28th, 2008 by James Fraser
OptiSolar, Hayward, California, is developing a 550 megawatt photovoltaic (PV) solar farm, the largest in North America, covering over 6,000 acres, in San Luis Obispo County, California. OptiSolar intends to submit an application to San Luis Obispo County for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in May....
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Posted April 27th, 2008 by Biopact team
From our friends at GardenVille, a free on-line course in organic gardening. Check it out!
http://www.gardenville-university.com/bobbi c.
Posted April 27th, 2008 by Biopact team
Dear gardening friends,
I managed to finally get some EZ cedar fence picket beds filled with that great Garden-Ville humus and cedar mulch, and went out this morning to work out there and it was COLD! This is very unusual for this time of year here in Central TX. I know my new bell pepper and tomato plants will be shiverin' for sure! I told Husband it was better than working out in 120-degree heat, though.
I'm thinking that with this cooler weather, maybe I should go ahead and risk planting more lettuce and cold weather greens seeds. Couldn't hurt, right? The worst that can happen is that it'll get hot, they'll bolt, and I can either eat them bitter or compost them. I think it's worth a shot.
I still have to get pics of the new garden set-up. I'm SO behind!
dig it!
bobbi c.
Posted April 26th, 2008 by James Fraser
Energy efficiency improvements in the U.S. electric power sector could reduce electric consumption by 7 to 11 percent more than currently projected over the next two decades if key barriers can be addressed, according to a preliminary analysis of potential energy savings released recently by the...
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Posted April 26th, 2008 by James Fraser
From a 4/21 press release: eSolar™, a producer of modular solar thermal power plants, announced (pdf) that is has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the construction and deployment of pre-fabricated power plants. Their...
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