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As far as food is concerned, the great extravagance is not caviar or truffles, but beef, pork and poultry. Some 38 percent of the world's grain crop is now fed to animals, as well as large quantities of soybeans. There are three times as many domestic animals on this planet as there are human beings. The combined weight of the world's 1.28 billion cattle alone exceeds that of the human population. While we look darkly at the number of babies being born in poorer parts of the world, we ignore the over-population of farm animals, to which we ourselves contribute...[t]hat, however, is only part of the damage done by the animals we deliberately breed. The energy intensive factory farming methods of the industrialised nations are responsible for the consumption of huge amounts of fossil fuels. Chemical fertilizers, used to grow the feed crops for cattle in feedlots and pigs and chickens kept indoors in sheds, produce nitrous oxide, another greenhouse gas. Then there is the loss of forests. Everywhere, forest-dwellers, both human and non-human, can be pushed out. Since 1960, 25 percent of the forests of Central America have been cleared for cattle. Once cleared, the poor soils will support grazing for a few years; then the graziers must move on. Shrub takes over the abandoned pasture, but the forest does not return. When the forests are cleared so the cattle can graze, billions of tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere. Finally, the world's cattle are thought to produce about 20 percent of the methane released into the atmosphere, and methane traps twenty-five times as much heat from the sun as carbon dioxide. Factory farm manure also produces methane because, unlike manured dropped naturally in the fields, it dies not decompose in the presence of oxygen. All of this amounts to a compelling reason...for a plant based diet.

After selecting a brush, she moistened the cakes of watercolor in her traveling palette with some of the water from her cup and, with careful strokes, began to record the almond flowers in painstaking detail. Her father had successfully cultivated them at Trebithick, but she had never seen them growing in the wild before. More often than not, Elizabeth would collect plant samples to study carefully indoors, and would sketch them out before taking up her brush, spending hours ensuring she captured each detail precisely. But recently she had begun to experiment with a more free-form style of painting. It wasn't strictly the style of illustration she had learned, nor did she think her father would approve, but she loved the immediacy of it. The trick was to get the lighting just right--- a strong source helped to create shade and give the work a three-dimensional effect. The afternoon light was perfect, and she also used a dry brush, rubbed over the paint cakes, to add detail and depth to the watercolors. Daisy wandered off to the shade of a wide-spreading tree a few yards away. 'It's a canela tree, I think," Elizabeth called out, pausing for a moment from her work. 'False cinnamon,' she explained. 'I can smell it,' replied Daisy, sniffing appreciatively. 'Like Cook's apple pie.

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The scientist (Arvind Panjabi) concluded by sharing some steps ordinary people could take to help birds, such as keeping cats indoors, marking windows so birds won't crash into them, reducing the size of lawns and growing native plants, and watching birds and sharing what you see.

the time you can harvest your buds. You can also wait until 80 to 90% of the hairs darken. Using such buds, after drying or curing, give users a relaxed feeling. Users get such a relaxing effect because some of the THC has been converted to the more relaxing CBN (Cannabinol). Another way to determine the right time is to inspect the buds under a jeweler’s magnifying glass. You will see tiny droplets that look like water dew drops. These are normally clear in appearance during their flowering stage. When they appear milky, the time is good to harvest them.

In broad strokes a recap of the process goes like this: • Soak your seeds and pour water into your soil mix to moisten. • After at least 6 hours of soaking, the seeds are ready to plant. • Fill your trays with compost, sea kelp, and moistened soil mix. • Drain the seeds, and spread them over the surface of the soil so they just touch but do not overlap. • Place a soaked paper cover over the seeds, and place the tray in a warm, dark place for at least 4 days (shoots will grow to about 1 inch [2.5 cm] high). • Remove paper cover, water the roots, and place the tray on a windowsill. • Water once a day until greens are ready to harvest, about 4 to 6 more days. • Harvest by cutting with scissors or a knife. • Serve in a salad, a sandwich, or a wrap, or use in a stir-fry.

Most potting soil or germination mixes work fine. The things you do not want in your potting mix are any hydro-gels (silicone pellets) that retain water in a container. Those are meant for flower pots and should not be used for growing food. Also stay away from the mixes that contain chemical fertilizers, whether slow-release or otherwise. I add my own organic fertilizers at the time of planting.

To get the particular yield I want, I plant five trays a day, one each of the most popular seeds: sunflower, radish, buckwheat, pea, and broccoli. I add two trays of peas once a week for a family favorite—stir-fry with pea shoots, mushrooms, and garlic. If it’s winter and I want more greens, I add a few trays of sunflower or I add more seed varieties like purple kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, or Hong Vit radish. These adjustments are easy to make when I have to plan only 10 days in advance.

Where I usually plant seeds in the soil outdoors, for soil sprouts I scatter the seeds on top of the soil indoors. In my outdoor garden seeds are planted in carefully spaced patterns. For my indoor garden’s soil sprouts I spread the soaked seeds on top of the soil so close together that the seeds touch.

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