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As winters get warmer across the US, chill hours that are essential for fruit farming also decrease. This has a variety of effects on fruit and nut production, including changes in how flowers are pollinated and how many blooms are produced. National Public Radio had an interesting story about these effects…
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If you are interested in how farmers produced fruit and vegetables in the days before modern technology and greenhouses in colder climates, you will enjoy reading this article in Low-Tech magazine. It describes the use of walls to help warm up local areas…
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As a quilter, I am always interested in new and innovative ways that needleworkers are using their craft to address important issues in creative ways. This article from Slate.com describes how some artisans are incorporating trends like temperature series…
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The month is halfway over, and for most of the month we have been locked in a pattern of wet conditions in northern sections of the Southeast and dry conditions in Florida and southern Georgia. Unfortunately for both regions, this pattern is expected to continue…
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In spite of the old and tired joke that meteorologists have one of the few jobs that allow you to be wrong all the time and still get paid, in reality most weather forecasters get the weather right a lot more often than they whiff. But people tend not to remember the correct forecasts…
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Do you wonder why your county is not showing up in drought on the Drought Monitor when your producers are clearly hurting? Do you know what a 100-year flood is and how to determine it? I am giving a 1-hour webinar on droughts and floods on Tuesday, February 18…
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Wendell Berry is one of my favorite authors. He is not only a writer and a poet, but also an activist and a farmer. He rarely grants interviews, so this recent one in Vox.com is a real pleasure to read. Among other things, he discusses the disconnect between urban and rural understandings of food production…
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