about hydrocarbon consumption to produce fertilizers......

I don’t know enough about corn farming to make such a statement. Why? Would that be a bad thing? Are they not supposed to rotate with soybeans to keep the soil fertile? I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at,...

the fish to fertilize her garden. Honestly, the cat wouldn’t even eat it. BTW, thanks for starting this thread, I’ve had a great time reading it!

years ago she would have. The “lingua franca” of Mandarin, as it were, has led to a wider cultural cross-fertilization and a broader range of products offered; the sole Shanghai specialty food market in Chinatown...

are mistreated is generally acknowledged). They are given feed (sometimes feed comprising their own cousins, which leads to diseases such as Mad Cow) instead of grazing. And their waste, instead of fertilizing the land on which...

Sam, I was told by local farmers where I lived (Adana) that that area has THIRTEEN INCHES of top soil! They sort of scoffed at any need for crop rotation. It was at the edge of the fertile crescent. GREAT produce and wines.

on a night out knowing that my meal came from a pen. The flesh of wild-caught Salmon and Trout varies from divine to rose fertilizer. The meat ranges from firm, deep red to mushy white pulp. Sex, exterior colour and body shape...

a few minutes drive of fertile rural areas and there are more Hondas and Fords on the street than Lexuses and BMWs, there are likely to be more vendors selling familiar produce at bargain prices. The best farmers markets provide...

Again I may not have made myself clear, or maybe you just have a difficult time following me? dogthis starts out talking about specific foods, which will taste different because of soil conditions, type of fertilizer, weather,...

I’m supposed to be working on my thesis today, but I was distracted and it’s more fun to read these postings. Eggs are disgusting. When I was in 5th grade, each of us little kids had to disect a fertilized egg. It was...

on all that high-end all-natural fertilizer for the greenhouse, it’ll pay for itself in just a few more months.

. But most of the vegetables were courtesy of the Indians. And I also remember being taught in elementary school how the Indians taught the settlers to put a fish in with seeds when they planted a crop to fertilize the plant. I...

for them for months until they were large enough to harvest, then mulched, watered, sprayed, fertilized (organically, of course), picked, cleaned, sorted, drove from Manteca to SF, sold them, went home and lay awake because my...

against Nabisco for the ad, I’ll eat these words. On the other hand, generalized hype about organics, herbal medicines, etc. is not really regulatable. Yeah, there are regulations regarding how much pesticide, fertilizer,...

It’s my guess that pu-pu platters in Chinese restaurants are one of those curious cultural cross-fertilizations that the USA is good at generating. I remember the rise of a Polynesian thing in the late 50’s-early...