Posted by Hallee on Jun 30, 2011 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley It’s crazy how, when you’re looking at the new baby plants planted so far apart, you think you should fill in the gaps. But, experience teaches you that’s a really bad idea.
Tags: Environment, Gardening, growing food, Hallee's Galley, horticulture, self sufficiency
Posted by Hallee on Jun 8, 2011 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley Three sisters is a Native American gardening technique called “intercropping”. Three plants – corn, squash, and beans – are planted together and work together. The green bean crawls up the corn stalk and uses it as a pole, nourishing the soil at its roots with nitrogen nodules in its roots, and the squash grows along the base of the corn and beans, providing ground cover to retain moisture and prevent weed growth.
Tags: Agriculture, Agriculture in the United States, Agronomy, Bean, Environment, Gardening, Green Bean, Hallee's Galley, Human Interest, Maize, Native American cuisine, Organic gardening, Permaculture, Squash, Staple foods, Three Sisters
Posted by Hallee on May 24, 2011 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley So, my container potato planting last year was a fail. The plants grew and grew beautifully, but when I dumped the dirt, everywhere there was a potato was a hollow place in the dirt. I don’t know if critters got it, or if there was something wrong with the potatoes.
Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Potatoes, Root vegetables, Staple foods
Posted by Hallee on Apr 21, 2011 in
Hallee's Galley,
Housekeeping,
Life The Environmental Working Group (EWG) performed more than 43,000 tests for pesticides on various types of produce in thousands of samplings. Their computer analysis revealed that consumers could reduce their exposure to pesticides by almost 90 percent by avoiding just the most contaminated fruits and vegetables. They came up with a list of the most pesticide-laden produce varieties.
Tags: Disaster/Accident, Environment, Environmental Working Group, fruits, Hallee's Galley, Motivations for organic agriculture, Organic food, Pesticide, Real Food, rGBH, vegetables
Posted by Hallee on Nov 19, 2010 in
Hallee's Galley,
Housekeeping,
Life I needed to keep the centerpiece simple with the main table, because I’d rather put food on the table than flowers or candles.
Tags: Candle, Environment, Food, Holiday decorating, Hospitality/Recreation, Table, Thanksgiving
Must evolutionary science, from time to time, simply fake evidence, commit fraud, perpetrate hoaxes — lie? Why is that? Why stage so-called evidence when none exists? Why fill in the blanks of all of the unknowns with pure speculation? Why lie? Why perpetrate fraud? Why commit hoaxes?
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Tags: Bernard Kettlewell, Biology, British Peppered Moth, Carl Wieland, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinist, Darwinists, Environment, Fake, Fraud, Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, Jerry A. Coyne, Kettlewell's experiment, L. Harrison Matthews, Lepidopterists, Methodological Naturalism, Moth, Natural selection, Nature, Peppered moth, Peppered moth evolution, Science, Secular Humanism, Selection, Social Darwinism, Staged Photographs, Theodore Sargent
Posted by Hallee on Jul 1, 2010 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley Up until now, the garden has just been in a maintenance state. Water it, weed it, and let it do its own thing. From now forward, though, it’s going to be something that I have to stay on top of. Another couple of weeks and I will just kind of keep my house in a maintenance mode and focus my energies on harvesting and preserving. The kids and I will start spending a whole lot more time outside and then in the kitchen.
Tags: Environment, Gardening, Hallee's Galley, Hospitality/Recreation
Posted by Hallee on May 19, 2010 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley Everything is still kind of starting off this week.
Tags: Berries, Blackberry, Botany, container gardening, Environment, Gardening, Hallee's Galley, Hospitality/Recreation, Human Interest, Raspberries, Rubus, Seedling
Posted by Hallee on Apr 19, 2010 in
Gardening,
Hallee's Galley So many people want to garden, but don’t have the room to do it. They either don’t have a yard at all, or the yard they have is unsuitable for gardening. But if you have a desire to grow, if you want some fresh home-grown vegetables on your table this season, it’s possible to grow some things without a yard.
Tags: Container garden, Environment, Gardening, Hallee's Galley
Today, I will conclude the series on the age of planet earth documenting evidence from living things and demonstrating some mathematical evidences.
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Tags: A.E.J. Engel, Age of the Earth, Archaeology, B.C., Biology, Botany, Bristlecone pine, British Columbia, California Institute of Technology, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Creation-evolution controversy, Creationism, Cupressaceae, Darwinism, Darwinist, Dendrochronology, Emilé Borel, Environment, Evolution, Forestry, Geochronology, Methodological Naturalism, Methuselah, Natural history of California, Religion/Belief, Secular Humanism, Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tree, William Demski
