Comments on: Thinking Local Part I: Bringing the Sheep Back

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By: confetti

confetti — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:01:01 +0000

merinosun bu sezon ki halı koleysiyonu çok güzel bu modelleri istanbulda bulabilirmiyiz mesela en usttekinin rengi tam benim evime gore bütün mağazalarında varmıdır acaba bundan

By: sanat

sanat — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:58:35 +0000

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By: halı

halı — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:58:20 +0000

merinosun bu sezon ki halı koleysiyonu çok güzel bu modelleri istanbulda bulabilirmiyiz mesela en usttekinin rengi tam benim evime gore bütün mağazalarında varmıdır acaba bundan

By: Texicali

Texicali — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:10 +0000

Greenpa,
experiments are being conducted in California with very small sheep and vineyards. The baby dolls sound about right, I don’t recall specifically. When training they spray the lower leaves of the vines with a substance that makes the sheep temporarily ill when ingested. Once they begin to associate the grape leaves with illness they are no longer interested. I imagine something similar would work with goats.

By: NM

NM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:16:24 +0000

Changes in store in the Pacific NW, too; a lot of residents don’t realize that water, regarded as overabundant here, is over-allocated in Oregon and formerly dependable well levels are dropping in consequence; city officials are very worried about the next few decades, and some farmers are starting to put in giant tanks, to catch rainfall off metal pole barn roofs. Plus, it does not rain here from July through September, sometimes longer. Long dry, for a wet climate …
Mountain snowmelt used to provide plenty of summer water, but of late, it’s not so dependable anymore, thanks to climate change …
They used to grow hard wheat here a hundred years back, but at some point in the past decided the yields weren’t high enough, so now grass seed, for golf courses and such, is very big … and the pollen allergy levels in the Willamette Valley are dreadful as a result. Now a few people are starting to try hard wheat again (they never stopped growing soft wheat, but export 80 percent of it) … and after years of hearing that you Can’t grow hard wheat here, they’re finding that it grows just fine. (!) … desperately hoping that it picks up and replaces the grass seed fields — which are burned over in the late summer, adding another whole level of pollution, although more and more restrictions have been going in against that, ever since some years back the smoke went across a highway and caused a massive chain wreck that killed several people. When I was a teenager the smoke would cover the valley and turn entire days cool and cloudy (and smoky-smelling). Doesn’t happen so much anymore, at least up at the north end.

By: Heather G

Heather G — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:32:02 +0000

Berkshire, we share your (and other folks) concern about woods in the NE! We have some woods as part of the farm (well, my in-laws do — me and my husband who’s one of their kids, rent the second floor and help out here and there). Some of it is used for firewood, but that’s essentially made up of dead and damaged trees, and we only sell some of that. We’re maple sugarers too, and all the family believes that healthy woods should have variety. We may actually have to create a _little_ space here and there though — seems there’s so much growing up there that there isn’t enough light for locust to grow up on the hill anymore.

We’re over in Franklin Cty, at 1,000 ft. above sea level, and I think even that much is a vast improvement over living in the valley during the summer time. My asthma agrees! Good luck with the building project.