Samantha Cleaver

Samantha,

I enjoyed your article on organic spirits. But in this day an age you can dig a little deeper when it come to organic spirits.
Please take a look at TRU Organic Vodka, this is by far what all organic spirits should be judged against.

All the best,
Mitch

A complimentary method to vertical farming is sub-acre SPIN-Farming. SPIN is now being practiced throughout the U.S. and Canada, and it makes it possible to earn significant income from growing vegetables on land bases under an acre in size. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN's growing techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides everything you'd expect from a good franchise: a business plan, marketing advice, and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process it really isn't any different from McDonalds. So by offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them, and it removes the two big barriers to entry – sizeable acreage and significant start-up capital.
So while vertical farming will still take some time to get off the ground, sub-are farming is already showing how agriculture can be integrated into the built environment in an economically viable manner.

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.

We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.

National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com .

This new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.

Stephen L. Tvedten
2530 Hayes Street
Marne, Michigan 49435
1-616-677-1261
http://www.theidealpesticide.com
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.

Samantha,
I enjoy your writing. Please see ediblewow's web site for a magazine that is right up your alley.
Chris (editor)

Samantha,
I enjoy your writing. Please see ediblewow's web site for a magazine that is right up your alley.
Thanks,
Chris (editor)

Sam, your article is right on time. Recently, I had a debate with one of my husband's co-workers about making baby food vs. buying it. Her argument was "The Gerber people are pros and know what they're doing." She stopped arguing, finally, when I logged onto the Internet and showed her proof of a few Gerber recalls. "You won't find any shards of glass in the baby food I make for my baby," I told her.

Almost all my friends from other countries make their own baby foods. Why are so many Americans not in the loop?

We did it for almost a year or so. We also go great tips from Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. There's this whole thing about freezing cubes of vegetables in ice cube trays. It's kind of amazing how far one sweet potato will take you!

Ellen