Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 8
The general body-type in this very diverse group is a small cell with a cilium directed backwards that generates locomotion and directs food (mostly bacteria) toward a feeding groove on the ventral surface, as observed in Fornicata. Many groups prefer low oxygen or anaerobic environments.
The Magic Of Cover Cropping
Farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale farming relies heavily on tillage. Tilling breaks up the soil to kill weeds and prepare for planting. But intense tillage can compact soil, cause erosion, and deplete nutrients. As a result, some farmers are turning to cover crops for weed control.
Dangers of Pasteurization and Homogenization – Part 2
Homogenization is a more recently invented process and it has been called “the worst thing that dairymen did to milk.” When milk is homogenized, it is pushed through a fine filter at pressures of 4,000 pounds per square inch. In this process, the fat globules are made smaller by a factor of ten times or more.
Dangers of Pasteurization and Homogenization – Part 1
When certain procedures go unquestioned, we accept them as being “just the way things are.” But pasteurization and homogenization denature foods. They alter the chemical structure of food, make fats rancid, destroy nutrients and result in the formation of free radicals in the body.
Thought For The Month
Do Not Take Lightly Small Good Deeds Believing They Can Hardly Help For Drops Of Water, One By One, In Time Can Fill A Giant Pot
Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 7
Stramenopiles are unicellular organisms with two cilia that beat in different directions: a front one that includes tiny hairs (visible on electron microscope images) that pulls the cell, and a trailing one that pushes the cell.
The Benefits Of Alternative Farming Methods
Small-scale farmers produce food for 70% of the global population. Yet, they are some of the world’s poorest and most food insecure people. Permaculture programmes are more multifunctional than typical agricultural development programs. This is important given the growing call for “triple-win solutions” for agriculture, health, and environmental sustainability.
8 Surprising Benefits of Rose Tea
The many health benefits of rose tea include its ability to ease menstrual pains, prevent chronic disease, boost the immune system, speed healing, improve digestion, detoxify the body, relieve respiratory infections, stimulate mood and regulate your sleep cycle.
Thought For The Month
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 6
The Amoebozoa is another group of unicellular organisms whose cells are covered by a very thin protein layer with or without microscales. The Alveolata is a group of protists characterised by folded membranes underneath their cell membranes.
Integrating Trees Into Pasture & Crops
A successful demonstration of sustainable farm practices is being conducted in Gippsland by Clinton Teppler, a trained forester. Clinton has applied his knowledge of trees and planted out a 3 acre site and is growing a series of grasses and grain crops in the inter rows.
Take Control Of Your Health
This week’s Gold Nugget is a personal story which I am sharing as it seems that it has a common thread. Several weeks ago I was chatting to Roly who is a fellow choir member, He had been away for 3 weeks and on asking he said that he had been sick.
Thought For The Month
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.
Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 5
There are hundreds or even thousands of soil Cercozoa species that cannot be distinguished by microscopy and, therefore, many genera remain to be described. These are usually the most common active protists in soils…
Pesticides and Children: Protecting the Most Vulnerable Population
Andre Leu, President of I.F.O.A.M. has written Poisoning Our Children: The Parents Guide to the Myths of Safe Pesticides which discloses the many deficiencies in the regulations and in the testing of many chemicals in our food supply.
The Superior Doctor Prevents Illness
There’s a Chinese proverb which says: The superior doctor prevents illness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The inferior doctor treats actual illness.
Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 4
Actinobacteria is a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria that have a highly diverse morphology, ranging from micrococci (spherical) and rods to branched filaments that resemble fungal hyphae. Cyanobacteria is a group of bacteria that are able to obtain their energy through photosynthesis.
Thought For The Month
To Go Forward, Consider the Health of Your Soil with Every Choice You Make on the Farm
The Soil Is A Great Connector of Lives, The Source And Destination Of All by Wendell Berry
Soil biology! The diversity and dynamism of a healthy soil and its complex, living biota which is mainly microscopic and therefore largely lays hidden from view is mostly overlooked.
21 Home Remedies for a Toothache – Part 2
Following on from the last Gold Nugget here is the 2nd and final part of home remedies for a toothache that you might want to try.
21 Home Remedies for a Toothache – Part 1
You can’t schedule a toothache and it never fails that a major toothache hits when it’s late at night and the dentist is closed, or you’re somewhere remote and getting to a dentist any time soon is just not an option.
Thought For The Month
Dr. Arden Andersen’s Question to Farmers. Farmers have an incredibly important role to play as food producers
Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 3
Proteobacteria is the largest and most diverse bacterial phylum. It contains about 30 % of the total number of bacterial species. The most representative genera in Firmicutes are Bacillus and Clostridium, which are obligate and facultative anaerobic bacteria, respectively.
A Weed is a Plant Whose Virtues Have Not Yet Been Discovered ~ Waldo Emerson
One of these plants that drive many to distraction is the common blackberry. Whilst it stabilises overgrazed and eroded ground magnificently and provides shelter and safe nesting sites for small birds it simply is often growing readily where it is not wanted.
