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GMO crops On/Near Wildlife Refuges in the West?

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

by Catherine Haug, May 3, 2011

Thanks to Sally J for sending me this information.

On March 1, 2010, the Center for Food Safety (with other organizations) “filed a suit in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 80 other national wildlife refuges across the country now growing GE crops are vulnerable to similar suits.” For more, see Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildlife Refuge.

Now the Center for Food Safety wants our help regarding mountain-prairie national wildlife refuges in the west. Your action is needed by May 6, 2011. (more…)

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Julienne’s Bees

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Small Cell Hive

By Catherine Haug, April 20, 2011

(Photo, right, from Flathead Beekeepers’ Club Facebook page)

The Flathead Beacon features Julienne and her bees with an online-only article: The Proof is in the Pollen, by Dan Testa, 4/20/11.

Julienne, a lifelong beekeeper in Somers, is a member of the Flathead Beekeepers Club. She has also been a panel member for the ESP gathering on Raising Chickens & Rabbits, and was present with other Alpine Spinners & Weavers at their demonstration on Making Cloth for our March 2010 gathering.

The article also discusses other members of the Beekeepers Club, including Veronica Honthaas, who has presented at the ESP gatherings on Herbs & their Traditional Uses and Managing an Organic Beehive, and will be a member of our upcoming panel presentation on Making & Using Sourdough (May 18, 2011). Ronny practices the regression technique for raising smaller, stronger bees; she also advocates including wild bees in the hive.

Read the article: The Proof is in the Pollen

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Got Food?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Editorial note: The following article, submitted April 5, 2011, was originally entered as a “comment” to our post: Upcoming Food Shortages: Why and How to Prepare, Apr 2, 2011.

Got Food?

by Robert Seymour

“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find…
You get what you need” (1)

At a time when per capita global food production and national food self sufficiency ratios are shrinking, a hungry world is set to grow by another 1.6 billion people in the next fifteen years.  This is like adding another China to the world population. China has now replaced Japan as the second largest economy and has become the number one importer of oil after the United States.  As economic pressure on already scarce natural resources intensifies, the availability of locally grown food will be worth its weight in gold. (more…)

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Upcoming Food Shortages: Why and How to Prepare

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

D. Bates Garden in August

by Catherine Haug, April 2, 2011

(photo by Don Bates)

One of the topics which brought our ESP community together back in 2009, was the rising cost of fuel and anticipated food shortages on grocers shelves. While those stimuli relaxed for awhile, they are still present, and some predict they could get out of hand this summer.

We continue to focus on food and food availability; last month our gathering topic was Garden Season Extenders by Don Bates, and this month will be Gardening Tips by Julian Cunningham.

Check out this inspiring March 30, 2011 article from Counter Currents blog: Garden As If Your Life Depended On It, Because It Will, by Ellen LaConte. (more…)

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Gathering Summary: Managing an Organic Beehive, by Veronica Honthaas, February 23, 2011

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Small Cell Hive

by Catherine Haug, March 17, 2011

(Photo, right, from Facebook – Flathead Beekeepers; photo, below, by Veronica Honthaas)

Presentation Topics

The following topics are covered in more detail in the complete Gathering Summary: Managing an Organic Beehive and Photo Gallery: Managing an Organic Beehive.

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Event Summary: Ken Meter on Economy of Food & Farm

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

by Catherine Haug

I took lots of notes at this presentation last week by Ken Meter, but have not yet had a chance to write them up. What follows is a very short synopsis of the event. I will update this with more detail soon, and send the update with the next newsletter.

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