Project X13

Canning: The lost art?

Your grandmother's solution to an abundance of food at harvest time is making a comeback in the age of sustainability

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100706/LIFESTYLE/100709757/1309

Preserving berries and other fresh fruit is not rocket science, but if you're new to the art of canning, it can be a bit of a sticky wicket.

CANNING SOURCES
Here are some sources for making delicious, high-quality preserves:

“Ball's Complete Book of Home Preserving” is a good guide for general information and equipment.

Pam Corbin's “Preserves” shows how to use lots of interesting, old fruits and offers good recipes.

Eugenia Bone's “Well-Preserved” explains the methods and the science of preserving. There are good recipes for what to do with the preserves after you've made them.

Linda Ziedrich's “The Joy of Pickling” is a solid guide for pickling.

Christine Ferber's “Mes Confitures” provides basics from the French doyenne of jam.

Great Grains
by Nutrition

* July 09, 2010

http://running.competitor.com/2010/07/features/great-grains_11226

It’s time to venture beyond whole wheat, oats, and brown rice for your whole grains.

Written by: Matthew Kadey, M.S., R.D.

By now most of us have heard about the benefits of eating whole grains. Crammed with nutrients, they can help fend off a laundry list of ailments: diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, to name a few. A 2009 study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that among 4,200 subjects, those who noshed on the most whole grains were the least likely to pack on unwanted body weight. Plus, there are all those complex carbohydrates needed to replace spent energy stores after a big run.

How to choose (and store) a watermelon
Forget hocus-pocus like tapping. Here's how to select and store, with a surprise tip from a pro on how to serve

http://www.salon.com/food/food_advice/?story=/food/francis_lam/2010/07/0...

What's more carefree than watermelon in the summer? Eating a wedge so big you can't see out the side, splashing yourself with juice ... Well, if you're standing outside in 103-degree heat, hoping to buy a watermelon good enough to justify living in whatever hell you do that gets this hot, things suddenly become a lot less carefree. Stakes is high for this watermelon, son!

In the Garden

Really locally grown: Farms sprouting up in yards around Athens

http://onlineathens.com/stories/071110/liv_674500543.shtml

Published Sunday, July 11, 2010
Buzz up!

When it comes to the local food movement, you can't get any more local than your
own backyard.

Michael Songster picks carrots from his garden recently at his Athens home.

According to the Garden Writers Association, 38 percent of households in the
United States grew a vegetable garden last year - up 19 percent over the
previous year.

Growing your own food might be in vogue among the educated and elite, but it's
also a practical economic practice. According to Burpee seed company, a mere $50
worth of seeds can produce more than $1,200 worth of produce.

Of course, there's plenty of sweat equity to invest as well. But, as America's
obesity epidemic suggests, most of us could use the exercise.

And from the looks of things around Athens, more and more folks are diving into

Food From the Sky: Eco-Friendly Urban Garden Preserves Heirloom Produce

http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/07/09/food-from-the-sky-urban-garden-protects-\
heirloom-produce-promotes-eco-friendliness

Hungry for Change
urban_garden

Gardening can be urban with a little spatial planning and a lot of elbow grease.
(Photo: Gabriel Kamener)

It's the world's first supermarket roof garden, and it's as local as the local
movements gets.

It's called Food from the Sky.

Created not only to capitalize on limited urban growing space, this particular
garden—planted on a grocery store rooftop—is also working to preserve heirloom
vegetables, and increase community awareness in Crouch End, an area of north
London.

The idea was born through the collaboration of Andrew Thornton, who owns the
grocery store below, called Budgens, and Azul-Valerie Thome, founder and project
and resource development manager of the Positive Earth Project.

Press Release: The World of Witches Museum Opens in Salem, Massachusetts

http://www.witchschool.com/forum/topics/press-release-in-celebration

“Witches have received a lot of negative
attention over the centuries, but in the
21st Century Witchcraft and Wicca are among the fastest growing
faith practices in America. To honor and share this amazing community, a Museum dedicated to the World of Witches opens to the public this weekend in Salem, The Witch City.”

May someone please help me? I can't understand what they are whispering in the beginning and end. and I would really like to learn this. Thank you :)

Most of the pics are from Stonehenge. A couple are from other celebrations - Macedonia, Bolivia & New York.

Summer Solstice Observance

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37825112/ns/technology_and_science-picture_s...

June 21 was Summer Solstice World Peace and Prayer Day but more information is included

World Peace and Prayer Day

The Great Spirit

Sioux Indian chief calls all nations (people/s)Â to action on June 21
By Juliane Poirier

The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great Sioux nation, is a
man with a vision. Chief Arvol Looking Horse sees a great danger threatening
"Grandmother Earth" and a great hope for restoring her wholeness. So he is
calling all nations to prayer of any kind on June 21 in an effort to return
the planet to balance, the people to spirit. I asked him why this path is
the right path to take.

"A man or a woman without spirit is very dangerous," Looking Horse explained
in a recent phone interview. According to this Sioux chief, the absence of
spirit is causing suffering everywhere. "We are in a time of survival," he
said. "But we don't want to believe it because we have forgotten our

Pictures of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge; http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-202_162-10003851.html

The sun is rising behind the Stonehenge monument in England, during the summer solstice shortly after 4:52 a.m., Monday, June 21, 2010.Thousands of New Agers and neo-pagans danced and whooped in delight Monday as a bright early morning sun rose above the ancient stone circle Stonehenge, marking the summer solstice. About 20,000 people crowded the prehistoric site on Salisbury Plain, southern England, to see the sunrise at 4:52 a.m. (11:52 p.m. EST), following an annual all-night party.