Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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I am thankful you missed the hurricane, and imagine that you have seen your share.
I am hearing that there is still hope for the stock market.
Maybe you should buy a cow, before the price goes up, due to inflation....LOL
I sit here and imagine the color in your gardens, guess I love all plants.
Me, too. We’ve had way worse thunderstorms this summer than what we got out of Hanna. I hate the way the weathermen blow everything all out of proportion! It’s hard to trust anything they say, even when they have pics.
I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to buy a cow anymore! LOL Haven’t seen one, other than a few beef cattle some old farmer is using for pasture ornaments, in longer than I can remember. It would cost me more to feed it than I would ever get out of it, milk or beef. Shaking head. :)
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1. Pottery Barn Kids Recalls Children’s Metal Water Bottles Due to Choking Hazard (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08399.html)
2. Regent Sports Recalls Soccer Goal Nets Following Strangulation Death of a Child (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08400.html)
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1. Pottery Barn Kids Recalls Children’s Metal Water Bottles Due to Choking Hazard
NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 16, 2008
Release #08-399
Firm’s Recall Hotline: (877) 800-9720
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Pottery Barn Kids Recalls Children’s Metal Water Bottles Due to Choking Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Children’s Metal Water Bottles
Units: About 20,000
Manufacturer: Pottery Barn Kids, of San Francisco, Calif.
Hazard: The sip top on the water bottles can pull off, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: The metal water bottles are about 9 inches tall and have a black rubber pull up sip top. The following water bottles are included in this recall. The style number and “Pottery Barn Kids” are printed on a white sticker on the bottom of the water bottle.
Color: Style Number
Lavender: 5795141
Pink: 5795166
Pink: 9121591
Navy: 5795158
Navy: 9211583
Green: 5795133
Sold at: Pottery Barn Kids’ stores nationwide, Pottery Barn Kids’ catalog, and online at www.potterybarnkids.com from January 2007 through August 2008 for about $10.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should take the recalled water bottles away from children immediately and return them to any Pottery Barn Kids’ store for a full refund. If purchased through the catalog or online, contact Pottery Barn Kids to receive a full refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Pottery Barn Kids toll-free at (877) 800-9720 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.potterybarnkids.com
To see this recall on CPSC’s web site, including pictures of the recalled product, please go to: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08399.html
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2. Regent Sports Recalls Soccer Goal Nets Following Strangulation Death of a Child
NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 16, 2008
Release #08-400
Firm’s Recall Hotline: (877) 516-9707
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Regent Sports Recalls Soccer Goal Nets Following Strangulation Death of a Child
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Products: MacGregor Folding Soccer Goals, Mitre Folding Soccer Goals
Units: About 190,000 units
Distributor: Regent Sports Corporation, of Hauppauge, N.Y.
Hazard: The fixed knot flexible openings in the soccer goal net can pose a head and neck entrapment or strangulation hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: Regent Sports and CPSC have received two reports of head entanglement, including the strangulation death of a 20-month-old child who was found with his arm and neck tangled in the soccer goal net.
Description: Both soccer goals have a foldable white frame with a white net that is attached by Velcro strips. When upright, the MacGregor goal measures 6 feet wide by 3 feet high and the Mitre net measures 8 feet wide by 6 feet high. Each has a recalled net with squares measuring 5 inches on each side. The MacGregor soccer goal has model number 97236 printed on the assembly instructions and UPC code number 029807972365 printed on the net’s packaging. The Mitre soccer goal has model number 89186 printed on the assembly instructions and UPC code number 029807891864 printed on the net’s packaging. Nets manufactured after April 2007 with 4 inch by 4 inch square openings are not included in the recall.
Sold at: Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware and sports and toy stores nationwide from May 2002 through May 2008 for $26.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the recalled soccer goal nets immediately and return them to Regent Sports to receive a free replacement net.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Regent Sports at (800) 516-9707 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.
To see this recall on CPSC’s web site, including pictures of the recalled product, please go to: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08400.html
Every day they say 20% chance of rain, and it does not.
Then it all comes at once.
If I were thinking of milk, I would buy a goat, its milk is better for you ...
You can feed 6 goats on the amount that it takes to feed one cow.
Even 30 years ago, we had to know someone, who knew someone who had a cow for sale.
Then the real trouble starts, as Mrs. Cow wants to visit with Mr. Bull once a year and they are often fed hot feeds and not worth a darn for making calves.
And if you are a woman, the men will not talk to you about breeding your animals.
I owned a prize winner Nubian Billy Goat with ‘papers’.
Men would call Bill about using him for breeding, his standard answer was “You will have to talk to my wife, it is her goat”, many of them would not.
Arizona is fringe south, you will really have problems.
That is a wonderful photo.
From the looks of it, this is a ‘normal occurrence’, as there is a lot of naked branches on that tree.
It almost looks like the pulls off some of the branches for the horse, as there is one in his mouth, or he found a weed.
Yes, the goat could jump on his back, but it is possible that he kneels and lets it climb on.
I would love to watch the full show.
Thanks for sharing.
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Food Safety and Imports: An Analysis of FDA Import Refusal Reports
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
This report examines U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data on refusals of food offered for importation into the United States from 1998 to 2004. Although the data do not necessarily reflect the distribution of risk in foods, the study found that import refusals highlight food safety problems that appear to recur in trade and where the FDA has focused its import alerts, examinations (e.g., sampling), and other monitoring efforts. The data show some food industries and types of violations may be consistent sources of problems both over time and in comparison with previous studies of more limited data. The three food industry groups with the most violations were vegetables (20.6 percent of total violations), fishery and seafood (20.1 percent), and fruits (11.7 percent). Violations observed over the entire time period include sanitary issues in seafood and fruit products, pesticides in vegetables, and unregistered processes for canned food products in all three industries.
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LOL! I don’t know whether to believe it or not! If I were a horse and a goat jumped on my back, I would be trotting off!
Great image all the same...the horse is standing there quitely while the goat eats the leaves. If the horse wasn’t happy about that he could easily dislodge the goat with just one little buck, and off the goat would come.
The more I learn about people (in politics) the more I love animals, even rats and mice and lizards and snakes...
What!?! Why is there a goat in the house?<<<
Kitty’s next thoughts:
Well there goes my milk!
Maybe Mama Goat is going to take over my bed!
Couldn’t they get a dog?
That is an excellent photo and captures goats to a “T”, they are more nosy than cats.
They actually make good house pets, we were building the family room, when we had a big snow storm and a Nanny ready to give birth.
Of course she had troubles and a friend came and we brought her into the family room, and pulled the kids and kept her in, to be warm and so I could watch them.
It was getting a flagstone floor and half the floor was still dirt.
Seemed like a good idea at the time and actually it was, as long as, once all the lights were turned off and the family was in bed.
If someone got up during the night, so did Mama, she raised caine, until the lights were out and we were back in bed.
I think she thought we were meant to sleep the night through and then too there was the chance we would wake up her babies.
It did take some getting used too, if you went in the kitchen, she would stick her head in, over the barrier Bill put up to keep her in the one room and she would fuss.........
LOL, it took me a minute to realize that you had made the head move....
Thanks for sharing.
LT: "Ha! This old rag?"
;-P
Thanks for the ping LucyT. The expression on that cats face is priceless.
WHAT THE!!!???
With sixteen cats here at the RQSR, of course that one reminds me of one of ours.
psssst...don't tell anyone you saw me...
The weatherman lies—he lies, he lies, he lies, and he gets paid to do it! LOL Standard summer forecast here is—hot, hazy, humid with a chance of afternoon thunderboomer. The weatherman might as well take the summer off, here, anyway!
I think that’s why they get so excited at even the hint of a hurricane!
I love goats, and have had milk goats/toggenburgs. Not much grass around here to feed cows, we have really sandy soil, and what grass there is doesn’t have much nutrition. Milking anything is great—if you could just do it when you needed milk! Twice a day, 365 gets old fast, esp if you have to work, and my crowd doesn’t like goat milk anyway. Sigh.
Men are such strange creatures sometimes, aren’t they? We sell chainsaws and trimmers and lawnmowers at the garden center, and guys will come in, I’ll tell tehm something, and they’ll say no—I want to talk to the man. Granted, he knows a lot more than I do, but I can tell them basic stuff!
Heaven forbid a man come in with a chainsaw with the safety brake on. All it requires to fix it is flipping a lever. Oh no. I carry it out to the shop, hand it to Wally and say, here—brake’s on. You tell him. LOL
I just this minute found your photo of the clothing; I’m hope the neighbors didn’t hear me laughing. Thanks for posting it.
1. NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2008
Release #08-401
Recall Hotline: See Listing Below
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Simplicity Brand Drop Side Cribs Recalled By Various Retailers Due To Serious Entrapment And Suffocation Hazard To Infants and Toddlers
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Simplicity Brand Drop Side Cribs
Units: About 600,000
Retailers:
AAFES, of Dallas, Texas
Babies”R”Us, of Wayne, N.J.
Burlington Coat Factory/Baby Depot, of Burlington, N.J.
K’s Merchandise (out of business)
Meijer Distribution Inc., of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Nebraska Furniture Mart, of Omaha, Neb.
ShopKo, of Green Bay, Wis.
Target, of Minneapolis, Minn.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, of Bentonville, Ark.
Importer/Distributor: Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa. (this company is no longer in business)
Hazard: Due to sizing problems with the crib’s hardware, the drop side can come off the tracks. When the drop side detaches or partially detaches, it creates a hazardous gap, which can lead to infant entrapment and suffocation.
Incidents/Injuries: SFCA and CPSC are aware of nine incidents in which the drop side detached on cribs that are part of this recall. There have been no injuries.
Description: This recall of Simplicity drop side cribs involves models that used a different style of hardware from those cribs recalled in September 2007. The recalled model numbers include: 8620, 8745, 8748, 8755, 8756, 8778, 8810, and 8994. The recalled drop side cribs have a date code, which can be found on a label on the headboard under the mattress support, which ends in 05DH, 05GB, 06DH, 06GB, 07DH or 07GB (examples: 1806 DH or 0507 GB). The recalled model names include: Aspen and Crib N Changer Combo, Gabrielle, Camille, Providence and Shenandoah. Only the brand name “Simplicity” can be seen on the label on the headboard.
Sold by: Department stores, children’s stores and mass merchandisers nationwide from January 2005 through August 2008 for between $150 and $300.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cribs and find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. Consumers should return the recalled crib to the place of purchase for a refund or store credit. SFCA Inc., of Reading, Pa. is working with retailers to carry out this recall program.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact:
AAFES - (800) 866-3605 - www.AAFES.com
Babies “R” Us - (800) 869-7787 - www.babiesrus.com
Burlington Coat Factory/Baby Depot - www.babydepot.com
Meijer Distribution Inc. - (866) 280-8419 - www.meijer.com
Nebraska Furniture Mart - 800-359-1200 - www.nfm.com
Shopko - (800) 791-7333 - www.shopko.com
Target - (800) 440-0680 - www.target.com
Wal-Mart - (800) 925-6278 - www.walmart.com
SFCA Media Contact: Amanda Lahan, (202) 466-6210, amanda.lahan@pbnco.com
To see this recall on CPSC’s web site, including pictures of the recalled product, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08401.html
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2. NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2008
Release #08-402
Firm’s Recall Hotline: (877) 253-3483
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Aqua Lung America Recalls Apeks Scuba Diving Regulators Due to Drowning Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Apeks Second Stage Scuba Regulators
Units: About 25,000
Distributor: Aqua Lung America of Vista, Calif.
Manufacturer: Apeks Marine Equipment Ltd., of Blackburn, England
Hazard: These regulators can be missing the diaphragm cover which can cause the diaphragm to become displaced during a dive, allowing water to enter the scuba regulator. This poses a drowning hazard to divers.
Incidents/Injuries: None.
Description: This recall involves Apeks TX, ATX, and XTX second stage regulators that have never been serviced. Apeks and TX, ATX, or XTX is printed on the regulator.
Sold at: Authorized Apeks dealers nationwide from February 2000 through June 2008 for between $420 and $1,450.
Manufactured in: England
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop diving with these regulators and visit an authorized Apeks dealer for a free inspection and free installation of a diaphragm cover, if the cover is missing.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Aqua Lung toll-free at (877) 253-3483 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, or visit the company’s Web site at www.aqualung.com
To see this recall on CPSC’s web site, including pictures of the recalled products, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08402.html
Wonderful photo and caption.
If I had that red dress I would wear it today, beautiful.
Thank you for sharing with us.
I like smiling at the photos.
LOL, now you have confused me.
Laughing, I see the cute kitty, she is related to the ones here.
I can’t decide if behind the kitty there is a horse or a pig.
The white sheep skin or fleece, I know.
What is that brown thing? A Kangaroo?
It looks like it has flippers, so that is a seal family, fur of a Kangaroo and the head of an Ant Eater....
Is it dead or alive?
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