Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition Category: Roundups | Comments(15)
Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.
To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.
The Frugal Roundup
How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)
Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)
Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)
Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)
40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)
Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)
5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)
A Few Others I Enjoyed
* 4 Quick Tips for Getting Out of a Rut * Young and Cash Rich * Embracing Simple Style * First Trading Experience With OptionsHouse * The Exponential Power of Delayed Consumption * How Much Emergency Fund is Enough? * 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind * Save Money On Car Insurance
>>>Mostly grown over with cedars and scrub oak. First thing is that it’s going to be easy for me to just set my “orchard” trees over in that area.<<<
That should be great! May have to watch any apple trees for Cedar Rust. (lots of little round circles on the leaves) May want to try spray with Borax solution every few weeks to control it. It usually doesn’t severely harm the trees, but they are very susceptible to it.
LOL, even Gentiles can get gentle rains... September/October/November is usually a really nice weather time in the Lone Star State.
Sooooo happy you found your place!
White House Garden Produce Could Be For Sale At Local Farmer’s Market
Is First Lady Michelle Obama working to bring her passion for fresh fruits and vegetables
to the streets of the nation’s capital? Or at least to a stretch of Vermont Avenue
near the White House?
Mother Earth’s Children - The Frolics of the Fruits and Vegetables - 1914
“I’ll be grown up,” said Caraway,
“And out of school Thanksgiving Day;
And that’s a good thing, too, ‘cause you see,
They can’t make cookies without me.”
Campus to serve as national model for community gardening and environmental education
(August 25, 2009 - Columbus, Ohio) - Franklin Park Conservatory announces the opening
and dedication of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus on September
9, 2009. Located on the grounds of Franklin Park Conservatory, the campus will serve
as a national model for community gardening development, education and outreach.
“In communities across the country, Americans are experiencing the pride associated
with the renewal of community gardening,” said Jim Hagedorn, chairman and CEO, ScottsMiracle-Gro.
“At ScottsMiracle-Gro, we are equally proud to support this growing movement through
the establishment of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus, a national
resource for community gardening.”
An Urban Farm in Bremerton, Washington
My husband and I operate an urban farm on Bloomington Avenue in Bremerton, Washington.
At first our goal was to grow our own food. That was easy.
Then a neighbour who
loved gardening, but no longer could, gave us space in her yard for garden beds,
and the neighbour on the other side, who didn’t want to have to mow the inconvenient
front strip of his yard, gave us more space.
1889 - Lydia Williams feeding chickens in the garden of her cottage - New Zealand
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All these stories here:
City Farmer News [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102698587931&s=1304&e=0014UnqcELJdYzK1PPl7Az3ZJs8rop80gyksjMNQ05oO3cEMGATX3phYd7KXnZXaBR23fQBs7yQA-r7bqTBayPVlqkgWDoWjvEGWfNTsUkUtHbXF2jj9tU0GNLeOjDaRSvG]
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
My old soil books by Rodale, talk about mental illness and growing food on mineral depleted soils...
If you listen to police scanners, you will quickly learn that America has a real mental illness problem, so much so that if the subject is “off his meds”, the officer is alerted.
I suspect the meds themselves only make the mental illness worse.
Interesting report on soil...
granny..........
http://tribes.tribe.net/effectivemicro/thread/d6b8fd03-e2c7-4650-a658-51fdf4f013ad
Beneficial Indigenous Organisms (BIM)
topic posted Tue, August 8, 2006 - 1:19 PM by conrad
from Gil A. Carandang
gil_carandang@hotmail.com
www.herbanafarms.com
One of the major workhorse beneficial indigenous microorganism used in natural farming is lacto bacilli. This particular beneficial microorganism is popularly used in composting that specifically arrest foul odors associated with anaerobic decomposition. Lactic acid bacteria thrive and feed on the ammonia released in the decomposition normally associated with foul odors. So if you need to decompose or ferment wastes less foul odors, lactic acid bacteria is the specific bacteria to use. Its application in organic farming is enormous. In aquaculture, one of the problem is related to water quality. Poor water quality stresses the fish which in turn stunts their growth and affects their health. This is very evident specially on high density and tank aquaculture. The ammonia produced through fish excretions pollute the water and stress the fish. With regular addition of this beneficial microorganisms to the water, this ammonia problem is minimized, if not fully arrested. It helps hasten or complete the denitrification or converting wastes into forms not harmful to fish.
Spraying diluted solution of lactic acid bacteria serum to the plant and soil helps plant growth and makes them more healthy. As it is applied to the soil or the leaves, these beneficial bacteria aid in the decomposition process, thus allowing more food to be available and assimilated by the plant.
Lactic acid bacteria is also known to produce enzymes and natural antibiotics aiding effective digestion and has antibacterial properties, including control of salmonella and e. coli. To farmers, what are observed are the general health of the plants and animals, better nutrient assimilation, feed conversion and certain toxins eliminations.
Here’s a simple method of collecting this type of microorganism. Lactic acid bacteria can be collected from the air. Pour rice wash (solution generated when you wash the rice with water) on a container like plastic pot with lid. Allow air gap at least 50-75% of the container. The key here is the air space. Cover the (not vacuum tight, allowing air still to move into the container) container with lid loosely. Put the container in a quiet area with no direct sunlight. Allow the rice was to ferment for at least 5-7 days. Lactic acid bacteria will gather in 5-7 days when temperature is 20-25 degrees C. Rice bran will be separated and float in the liquid, like a thin film, smelling sour. Strain and simply get the liquid. Put this liquid in a bigger container and pour ten parts milk. The original liquid has been infected with different type of microbes including lacto bacilli. And in order to get the pure lacto bacilli, saturation of milk will eliminate the other microorganisms and the pure lacto bacilli will be left. You may use skim or powdered milk, although fresh milk is best. In 5-7 days, carbohydrate, protein and fat will float leaving yellow liquid (serum), which contain the lactic acid bacteria. You can dispose the coagulated carbohydrate, protein and fat, add them to your compost pile or feed them to your animals. The pure lactic acid bacteria serum can be stored in the refrigerator or simply add equal amount of crude sugar (dilute with 1/3 water) or molasses. Do not use refined sugar as they are chemically bleached and may affect the lactic acid bacteria. The sugar or molasses will keep the lactic acid bacteria alive at room temperature. One to one ratio is suggested although sugar, regardless of quantity is meant simply, serving as food for the bacteria to keep them alive. Now, these lactic acid bacteria serum with sugar or molasses will be your pure culture. To use, you can dilute this pure culture with 20 parts water. Make sure water is not chemically treated with, like chlorine. Remember, we are dealing with live microorganisms and chlorine can kill them. This diluted form 1:20 ratio will be your basic lactic acid bacteria concoction. Two to four tablespoons added to water of one gallon can be used as your basic spray and can be added to water and feeds of animals. For bigger animals, the 2-4 tablespoons of this diluted lactic acid bacteria serum should be used without diluting it further with water. Lactic acid bacteria serum can be applied to plant leaves to fortify phyllosphere microbes, to soil and compost. Of course, it will help improve digestion and nutrient assimilation for animals and other applications mentioned before. For any kind of imbalance, be it in the soil or digestive system, lacto bacilli can be of help.
One of the popular beneficial microorganism innoculant sfrom Japan (EM) contains lactic acid bacteria as its major component, including photosynthetic bacteria, yeasts, actinomycetes and fermenting fungi. These are pure culture imported from Japan and can be subcultured through the use of sugar or molasses. These other microbes can be cultured in several ways by farmers themselves.
One technique in culturing other beneficial microorganism is getting them fro your local aged forest. One way is finding a healthy old robust tree in your local forest. Check the humus litter around the tree. The tree should have accumulated real deep humus, litter, compost of at least 2 feet to 1 yard deep. In this area through observation, we can deduce that soil fertility and microbial biodiversity are high. Our goal is to trap and culture these diversed, aged beneficial indigenous microorganisms. The technique that we use in trapping these microorganisms is the use of carbohydrate like cooked rice. Microorganisms will be attracted to food. So generally, what we do is to put the cooked rice on a flatter container with lid. For example, you can use a plastic lunch box and add about an inch of cooked rice allowing air space in the container. What is important here is a larger area to trap those microorganisms. It is suggested that you cover this container with metal netting or equivalent protecting it from animals like rats that may undig your container once you bury it in the litter, humus of your local forest. In 2-10 days (relative to temperature), you may undig your container and will notice contamination of microorganisms like white and other color molds on the cooked rice. The cooked rice has been infected now with microorganisms of your local forest. The next step is to add 1/3 amount of crude sugar or molasses to the infected cooked rice. After a week, the concoction will look like sticky, liquidy rice. You may then add equal amount of crude sugar or molasses to keep it for storage, arresting microbial activities, in a cooler area. To use, you may dilute this serum with 20 parts water. This diluted form shall then serve as your basic forest microorganisms. You may strain it and put in a container.
Another version of trapping similar forest microorganisms is simply getting the litter, humus and spreading them sparingly to the top your cooked rice. Forest leaf molds can also be used. The same procedure will be followed as described in the culture of local forest microorganisms.
Another method of gathering microorganism is through burying your container with cooked rice on bamboo plants litter. Apparently, bamboo through observation and experience in the East, attracts powerful beneficial microorganisms as the roots of the bamboo exude sugary substances that attract beneficial microorganisms. The same procedure is followed as described before in its culture.
An equal specific method is trapping beneficial microorganisms of specific plants you want to grow or growing. For example, if you want to trap and culture beneficial microorganisms from rice, you should then select healthy, vigorous rice plant, cut them and put inverted cooked rice container over the cut rice plant. Again, beneficial microorganisms specific to rice will be attracted to the cooked rice. You can use this technique to any other plant of choice and the same procedure of culture will be used as previously described.
One of the most popular nitrogen-fixing bacteria is rhizobium. It is amazing that when we coat our legumes with these specific bacteria, legumes grow well and more nitrogen is fixed on the soil. Amazingly enough, basic culture of these beneficial bacteria is simple. Once we have seen those nodules created by the bacteria fixing nitrogen on the roots of the legumes, we can assume that there are lots of these rhizobia and nitrogen fixed. Just pull out the legumes plants on a very specific stage, especially towards their flowering/fruiting stage. A simple method of culture is simply get the soil with these leguminous bacteria and mix with crude sugar with equal ratio of crude sugar. Rhizobium bacteria will proliferate feeding on the sugar and thus can be mixed with your next batch of legume seeds for inoculation. Our concoction or recipe of beneficial indigenous microorganism (BIM) is 50% lactic acid bacteria and the rest is 50% of the other microorganisms cultured. So you may use 1part forest microorganism, 1 part bamboo microorganism and 1 part specific plant microorganism mixed with 3 parts or 50% lacto bacilli. The more diversed microbes, the better. However, we will still use 50% of the total beneficial indigenous microorganisms to be lactic acid bacteria. The rest you can experiment and make your own observations and formulations. I cannot really tell you specifically what microbes we get from the different sources we have mentioned. As a rule, I only use the above BIM for plants. For animals, I use just pure lacto bacilli for we have isolated this as described. We have used the bamboo microorganisms for fermenting feeds to be fed to animals.
Different type of microorganisms thrive on different type of foods. As you can see, we use principally carbohydrates and sugars. But it will be equally important that we provide these beneficial indigenous microorganisms with other nutrients. In fact, we mix or add fermented plant extracts (fermented plant and fruit juices), ginger-garlic nutrients, brown rice vinegar and fish amino acid. That’s why in most instances, we mix these beneficial indigenous microorganisms with bionutrients to make it more effective.
In the creation of biological nutrients, bionutrients, the basic process is the traditional fermentation. Fermentation process is a better system than simple extraction like boiling the plant materials, through infusion like making tea. In the United States, where compost tea is getting popular in organic agriculture, compost is made into tea, sugar or molasses are added, fermented to increase microbial population. A simple general formula or recipe in fermentation can be done for plants. For example, seaweeds. If you simply infuse seaweeds (which are quite difficult to breakdown, therefore hard to extract active ingredients), you may not get a more potent extracted active ingredients. If you ferment the same materials by adding sugar or molasses, it is easily broken down (biologically) by microorganisms and thus making nutrient more available. Microorganisms get their energy from sugar in fermenting the materials. Most healthy foods are fermented foods. Through fermentation, food are easily broken down, enzymes created, nutrition improved. That’s the reason why fermented foods like yogurt or kimchi (Korean pickles) are more nutritious than plain milk or vegetables.
In making bionutrients, the simple formula is to add 1/3 crude sugar or molasses and mixed with materials to be fermented and extracted. For example, let’s take papaya fruit fermented extract. We chop as thinly as possible ripe papaya, unwashed and unpeeled. We then add 1/3 crude sugar or molasses to the total weight or approximate volume of the papaya materials. Put the materials with at least 50-75% air gap and cover loosely with a lid and let it ferment for at least a week. After a week, you will notice some molds and microbial infections and will start smelling sweet, sour and alcoholic. The materials are then strained and liquid generated will be your pure fruit papaya extract. You can dilute this with 20 parts water. This diluted form can be used as bionutrient, using 2-4 tablespoons per gallon of water. Again, this extract can be added to animal drinking water and feeds, to compost pile or sprayed/watered to plants leaves and roots. This will be a good source of nutrient for plants or animals, and also for our beneficial indigenous microorganisms. Papaya extract is good source of enzyme pappain, beta-carotene and Vitamin C for example. So extract any plant material and just try to find out what kind of nutrients they have you can use for animal and plant nutrition. Should the materials you intend to use for extraction do not have much moisture (as compared to our papaya fruit example), you may add water enough to the level that will moisten all the materials.
Kangkong (water spinach) Fermented Extract
This is essentially used as growth promotant. Kangkong is sometimes called water spinach. It is a kind of vegetable that typically grows in fresh water. It can also grow in highly moist soil. It s basic characteristic is it grows very fast, similar to the rapid growth of kelp in the seas. To the natural farmers, this kind of plant or similar plant for that matter have natural growth promotant. In the scientific agricultural parlance, we speak of natural growth hormones like gibberellins, auxins and cytokinins. Plants that grow fast will have a better concentrations of these natural growth hormones. By observation, kangkong or kelp or even mugwort will fall on this category. Thus, axillary buds of kangkong, plants like cucumber, squash and watermelon will be good materials to ferment for this purpose. Once these are fermented, active ingredients extracted, you may use this to spray and/or water your plants. You will notice a great improvement in the growth of your plants.
One of the major fermented extract we use for plant flowering and fruiting, specially for vegetables, are extracts from banana, squash and papaya. Apparently, these materials have high level of potassium especially banana, and beta carotene. Although I have not tried a similar recipe using materials readily available here in the US, I will presume that materials substitute can be used. For your own experimentation, you can possibly use comfrey, squash and carrot. Le me know if they will work. In the Philippines, when we induce flowering of mangoes, conventional agriculture use potassium nitrate. We have tried with success natural materials high in nitrogen and potassium. Interesting enough, our local organic farmers have experimented using seaweed extract in inducing flowering of mangoes. Isn’t it seaweed extract have lots of natural growth hormones and trace elements, and good source of nitrogen and potassium? Check out the kinds of materials you can ferment and use to induce growth, flowering and fruiting.
As a general rule, the higher the protein of the materials, when composted or fermented, the higher the nitrogen. We use a lot of fish scraps to generate high nitrogen on our fish extracts. Here in the US, fish emulsion is pretty popular. Again, on basic fermentation of this material, we use crude sugar or molasses, third ratio of the fish scraps. I personally like using molasses than crude sugar not just for cost considerations, but molasses minimizes those fishy odors. I have added lactic acid bacteria in fermenting these fish scraps that arrest the foul odors very evident of fish emulsion foliar fertilizers.
A lot of agriculture advisers have used calcium phosphate for better plant growth, health, pest and disease controls. Natural farmers use this bionutrient very specific. Under the theory of Nutrioperiodism developed by a Japanese horticulturist, Yasushi Inoue in the 1930’s, plants and animals need a very specific nutrient relative to the stage of their development. In the plant, there is the essential vegetative growth , changeover and the reproductive periods. In animals, like humans, there is the infantile, juvenile and adulthood. It is not only critical to provide the right nutrient at the right stage of the development, but also critical to use or apply specific nutrient of calcium phosphate in the juvenile or changeover period. For the plant, for example, we know that nitrogen is critical on the vegetative stage as potassium is critical in the flowering and fruiting stages. It is however, the changeover period that is most critical that will determine the quality of the final reproductive stage. At this stage, an additional nutrient is badly needed by the plant. And this is calcium phosphate. Calcium phosphate is good for plants’ “morning sickness”. It is the stage that additional baby needs to be fed or the process where flower/fruit is about to come. Ash made from soybean stems are excellent for this purpose.
Here is a simple, natural method of generating calcium phosphate. Get eggshells and roast them enough to generate some good ashes. Afterwhich, dip these roasted eggshells on about equal visual volume of vinegar. Allow it to sit for a couple of weeks until eggshells are practically broken down by the vinegar acids. You may use this diluted 20 parts water and can be sprayed or watered to the plants during the changeover period.
When this is applied to that changeover period, it will improve plant health and productivity. The use of calcium phosphate is important to natural farmers. This however, does not mean that we shall forget the nutrient timing application of other critical nutrients for plant growth both macro and micro nutrients, given at the right stages and combinations.
We consider this very important bionutrient needed by the plants used by natural farmers.
The original recipe of the natural farmers of Korea use not only the ginger and garlic materials, but also Chinese herbs like Angelica acutiloba, Glycurrhiza uralensis and Cinnamomum loureirii. These Chinese herbs have one basic common denominator, they are good for digestion. We have used simply equal amount of ginger and garlic, less these Chinese herbs. This is our natural antibiotics we use for plants and animals.
Remember the high level of sulfur on garlic? It is a good fungicide. The ginger-garlic extract is quite different from the plant extracts we have discussed. We soak the chopped up ginger and garlic in beer or wine overnight or 12 hours. Then we add 1/3 crude sugar and let it ferment for a couple of days like 5-7 days. They we add alcohol which stabilizes and arrests fermentation. The alcohol should be at least 40% proof. The active ingredients of the ginger and garlic is extracted in finale with the use of alcohol similar to herbal tincture we are familiar with in homeopathy. Remember that ginger and garlic are highly medicinal and highly nutritious. We have used them as natural antibiotics and in preventive medicine. We have used this concoction on chicks and chickens and have made them healthy throughout. Of course, we also use them when we see animal weakening and when they are sick. We have used them on fungal problems of plants. We have used them for rheumatism. The uses are enormous both for plants and animals. The potency of your plant extracts are relative to active ingredients that are available from the plants you are extracting. Most importantly, the part of the plants. For example, the energy on the plant part is most concentrated on the seed, fruit, leaf and other parts of the plants, to that general order. Seed is where the plant procreate itself. By simply adding moisture and heat, seed will germinate and will derive its nutrient for growth from its own seed. What natural farmers are saying is that the energy or nutrition is more potent on the seed, fruit will be second and on the leaf third. That’s the reason why when we ferment seeds like grain, our dilution for use is 1:1000 instead of 1:500. This is just a guideline.
Sometimes, you can use more diluted form but with more frequent applications. There is really no clear cut rule. Things have to be based on experimentations, experiences and observations.
Improved, more potent, otherwise know as bokashi in Japan is essentially naturally fortified with macro and micro nutrients, or bionutrients and biodiversed beneficial indigenous microorganisms.
Here is a typical recipe we use in the Philippines:
- Rice Bran 10 kilos
- Copra Meal 20 kilos
- Coco Peat 20 kilos
- Chicken Manure 30 kilos
- Charcoal Dust 20 kilos
- BIM* 1 liter
- Molasses 1 kilo
- Bionutrient 1 liter
• Beneficial Indigenous Microorganism
Similar recipe can be adopted here in the US, replacing or substituting similar materials above. A basic formulation that I use is very similar to the general formulation I use for animal feeds. Basic formulation consists of 80% carbohydrate, 17% protein and 3% Vitamin/Mineral. When we apply this formulation to our designer compost, we likewise find 80% carbon source, 17% nitrogen and 3% trace elements, as a matter of rule.
For the rice bran, you can substitute wheat or any inexpensive grain bran. Our copra meal or the materials residue after extracting oil from coconut can be substituted with corn meal or inexpensive meal that has ample amount of protein. Soybean is a good substitute or any other legumes. Coco peat can be substituted with peat moss. I will probably use sawdust or any materials high in carbon and lignin. Any kind of grain hay can also be used. Any kind of animal manure can likewise be used. It is however ideal to use chicken manure because of its more potent ingredients as far as macro nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and calcium, not to mention its good source of micro nutrients. Charcoal dust is used for it is a basic carbon which natural farmers find a good media or substrate for proliferation of beneficial microorganisms. And of course, the use of molasses (as sugar source) that really improve the population of microorganisms since it is a basic food source for them. Bionutrient will be a concoction of high level of macro and micro nutrients. Depending on your goal, like higher level of potassium for example, we kind of emphasize our bionutrient with fermented extract high in potassium. Likewise, if your intention is to have a more potent level of nitrogen, our bionutrient shall emphasize high level of nitrogen source like fish emulsion or plant leguminous extract. You can likewise add and ferment rock dusts. The general key however, in this designer compost formulation or bokashi is potent biodiversed beneficial indigenous microorganisms and bionutrients. You may adjust this basic recipe relative to your requirements and observations. When you try to analyze our Philippine basic recipe, you will notice that it is pretty much satisfying the general formulation I have mentioned as to carbohydrate-carbon, protein-nitrogen and vitamin / mineral - micronutrients ratios. The real key to this recipe is providing a greater population of biodiversed beneficial indigenous microorganisms and bionutrients, with lots of carbon and organic matter. I bet you, it will make also good compost tea.
I have deliberately included this bokashi in this presentation to show that we natural farmers consider beneficial indigenous microorganisms and bionutrients of great importance for soil fertility and animal health. As we establish a healthy fertile soil, we observe healthy plants, animals, community and planet. Living soil is dependent on biodiversed microbial populations and nutrients that create a stable, balance and harmonious soil that determines healthy plants and animals. As we “farm with air, water and sunlight”, and nutrient, we likewise farm with microorganisms vital to soil fertility.
As sustainable agriculture is based on soil fertility to perpetually sustain production, so is soil fertility is determined by diversity and balance of microbial ecologies.
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Effective Microorganisms (EM)
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Share your recipes, questions, uses, and experiences with Effective Microorganisms (EM).
EM technology has now become a major science, assisting in the creation of sustainable practices for agriculture, human health and hygiene, animal husbandry, nature farming, environmental stewardship, disaster relief, construction, industrial, community activities and more.
EM, aka effective microorganisms or efficient microbes, are a cluster of beneficial organisms - developed by Dr. Teruo Higa, a horticultural professor at U of Ryukus, Japan - which ferment organic matter in an anti-oxidative way.
The essential basic technology of EM is a consortium of five or more species of microorganisms, from across at least three classes of organisms, in a synergistic culture (called a consortium) which produces lactic acid under anaerobic fermentation and which also produces an environment (in the liquid or plant matter under fermentation, etc.) which is highly antioxidative and regenerative, or syntropic (aka anti-entropic) and which contains numerous powerful antioxidants, largely produced by phototrophic anaerobic bacteria known as purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB).
EM has found useful applications in the following areas, and likely many more:
• agriculture: for conditioning soil, compost and plant wastes. It has been proven that continued use of EM can convert a soil to a truly sustainable type of soil, called a zymogenic soil
• agriculture: for feeding livestock, for waste treatment, for odor control and pest management (e.g., flies);
• manages odors, improves feed utilization, improves health and vitality
• agriculture: for treating or controlling various fungal diseases or pests of plants
• lawn maintenance: for treating soil and compost or organic fertilizers, for preventing fusarium and molds
• buildings and architecture: to maintain healthy buildings and building materials (lumber, concrete, plaster, etc.), to prevent “sick building syndrome” and extend life of materials
• as a deodorizer for barns, waste treatment areas, homes, etc.
• as an aerosol spray deodorizer for home, agricultural and industrial use
• household: pets, odor control, treating pet wastes on floors, for shower stalls, kitchen sinks, dishpans, garbage pails, toilets, drains, sinks, sink drains, compost buckets, etc.
• human and animal use: ingestion of a wide range of antioxidative and regenerative products made from EM, as a healthful probiotic and antioxidant supplement
• waste treatment
• wastewater treatment
• septic waste treatment
• for remediation of polluted or unbalanced waterways, streams, bays, ponds and lakes
• toxic waste remediation
• preparation of waste biomass material for bio-conversion into fuels such as biodiesel and others
These beneficial phototrophic microorganisms are also used to make EM ceramics, bokashi, EM-X ceramics, EM salt, antiox brews, fermented antioxidant brews and many more products.
Please join a young movement and spread the word promoting this Earth Saving Revolution.
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University of Okinawa research science paper - a good reference paper on microorganisms in Organic farming: www.agriton.nl/higa.html
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What the heck are those? I usually look for the green onions sans ice myself....<<<
Don’t look at me for the answer.....LOL
I don’t have a clue, but do worry when I see so many food alerts all in a row, in my mailbox.
Our food is not safe.
We like to travel Texas and Utah in particular. Utah is so clean and the scenery breathtaking. Last year we stopped in St. George for several days, the older part, and that was very interesting.<<<
St. George is lovely, we spent 2 nights there about 25 years ago, LOL, I was taking a college history of Mohave County class and it included a field trip to Pipe Springs National Monument, which is actually in Mohave County.
It was before the boom hit and still a lovely small town, lovely and I would have loved living there.
If you want a photo taking trip, go to Flagstaff, Az, cross over Page Dam and go into Utah, go the eastern route and when you get to the road that goes to Cedar City.
I took rolls of film, saw sights that I did not know existed, and fell in love with Utah on that trip.
I had intended to spend a night in Cedar City and go on to Reno, Nevada, where my brother and I thought we might like to retire.
Instead I spent the week in a cheap motel at Cedar City and never have got to Reno.
Like you, I require wide open spaces and less people is better, it is good that I am on the way out, for I would hate the next 80 years in this world.
I was born in the Panhandle of Texas, and that is an area that I do not want to live in again.
WOW prices have really jumped in the last 6 or 7 weeks. Particularly the produce and meat prices!<<<
Tell me about it.
No food is grown here, it is all shipped in, so our prices are already super high.
It is all so scary and going to get even more so.
I heard the Las Vegas Police dispatcher send an officer to a home in vegas last night, she said “The child said she couldn’t go to school, for they had no food at home, she missed 4 of the last 5 days of school”.
At least the Officer will know how to get help, for they went at once.
The one thing the Las Vegas Police does best, is to act at once, when a child is involved. The copter is up and the dogs out, if one is late from school.
I’m glad you still put me in the “To” bracket...! <<<
I feared that I was over alerting you and haven’t pinged you to so many bread recipes, will do better in the future.
Of course, you can check for those you missed, this winter when the snow is deep and the hours are long.
As long as you check in and we know you are ok, that is the important part, for you have enough recipes to keep you busy till winter..........LOL
Finally got to spend the holiday weekend camping at Moosehead Lake. The state has made wonderful rustic campsites in many places along the lake. Outhouses, fire rings and picnic tables right on the very edge of the lake.<<<
Fantastic!!!
And with all the folks not using the camp ground, nature is showing up again.
We started camping in a 55 Chev wagon, slept 3 in the back and one on a cot or in the front seat.
There is a good feeling about being outdoors and I never learned to enjoy hotels and motels.
I am so glad you got to go and camp.
I get my sandwich/reading/relaxing fix on those days.<<<
I know the feeling, ate and read for many years and now it is the computer, no wonder that I eat so poorly, I need hand held foods......one hand, for the other is for the mouse.
I have also got seedlings of apple and lemon trees started from store bought fruit last year. Have several peach seeds that I am going to chill and try to get started as soon as I get the extra time.<<<
Laughing and ‘seeing’ you out there, sneaking seeds into the gov land, Guerrilla farming at its finest.
The young play at it and and think they invented something new, but Johnny Appleseed did it long ago.
I envy you, your place will be wonderful and who knows where the property lines are, exactly?
Reminds me of a parcel of land that I sold in the mid 1960’s, when I sold real estate in Ramona, California.
A man had bought 40 acres of fair land, but wanted more, so every couple years, he fenced in more of the land around him.
Took in another 120 acres, from the adjoining land and pushed into the State forest that adjoined him.
The Buyer came in a few days after his offer was accepted, he was an investor and a good one, who had gone back over the weekend to take photos and said “Something is very wrong on my mountain top!!””
So we paced it and it was, all very wrong on the guys side.
The escrow lasted over 20 years, but in the end we lost, for the Gov settled and the original seller refused to sell on the old terms, as a big boom had hit the area.
So if you get to use it for 30 or 40 years, that should meet your purposes....LOL
Should we take up a seed collection for you to plant?
Anyone remember the boxes of German Chocolate frosting mix - it was a powdery thing you’d add a liquid to? They were so much better than the plastic-tasting stuff that comes pre-mixed in a carton. And I don’t like the frosting I make from scratch near as well a those old boxes of German Chocolate frosting mix. ;(<<<
LOL, I missed the mixes for frostings, as I made them from scratch.
If you want good, check the bar of German Chocolate, should be in baking supplies and on the back will be a recipe for German Chocolate cake, now that is good and do use the frosting it calls for......fantastic.
Maybe Garibaldi chocolate? or some name close to that.
Goody, my memory worked:
Original frosting:
German Chocolate Cake Frosting - All Recipes
Coconut Pecan Frosting for German Chocolate Cake. ... 1/2 recipe to this next time - and will double the recipe if making a 3 layer cake. ... I only had sweetened condensed milk, so I cut back on the sugar a bit and it worked great! ...
allrecipes.com/Recipe/German-Chocolate-Cake.../Detail.aspx - Cached - Similar
And if that was not enough to get you going, look at this page:
[Ducking and you had better quit throwing pots and pans at me....LOL]
Beet and Yogurt Salad
Posted by: “Dorie”
Beet and Yogurt Salad
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/8 teaspoon black mustard seed
1/8 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 cups plain yogurt
1 (15 ounce) can sliced beets, drained
salt
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat, and add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds begin to pop, add the cumin seeds. Stir for about 10 seconds, and remove from heat.
In a large bowl, gently stir yogurt with beets. Stir in mustard and cumin seeds, and season with salt to taste. Garnish with chopped cilantro.
Dorie
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Great work!!
Penumbra Neuron 5F Select Catheter
Audience: Neurosurgical and invasive radiology healthcare professionals, hospital risk managers
Penumbra and FDA notified healthcare professionals of the Class 1 recall of the Neuron 5F Select Catheter, used to remove blood clots or foreign objects from blood vessels. Due to a manufacturing error, the catheters may contain pin holes and exposed wire braids which may result in a brain clot or a blood vessel puncture, and this may lead to possible death. The device was distributed from May 5, 2009 through June 12, 2009.
Any adverse events or quality problems that may be related to the use of this product should be reported to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program online, by phone [1-800-332-1088], or by returning the postage-paid FDA Form 3500 by mail [to MedWatch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787] or fax [1-800-FDA-0178].
Read the complete MedWatch Safety summary, including a link to the FDA recall notice, at:
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm181725.htm
You are encouraged to report all serious adverse events and product quality problems to FDA MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
Sustainable Agriculture News Briefs - September 9, 2009
Weekly sustainable agriculture news and resources gleaned from the Internet by NCAT staff for the ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service Web site. The Weekly Harvest Newsletter is also available online (http://attra.ncat.org/newsletter/archives.html#wh).
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News & Resources
* Conservation Stewardship Program Resources Available
* USDA Official Highlights Support for Local Food Systems
* Direct Marketing Presentations Available
* Farmers Work to Add Staple Crops to Local Food System
* New Jersey Farmers’ Market Report Released
* Video Features Sustainable Crop Research
Funding Opportunities
* North Central SARE Farmer Rancher Grant
* Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant
* Value-Added Producer Grant
Coming Events
* Ag in Uncertain Times Webinar Series
* Plant Your Own Ginseng Patch Workshop
* Freshwater Prawns Field Day
* Strengthening the Goat Industry
News & Resources
Conservation Stewardship Program Resources Available
http://ofrf.org/policy/federal_legislation/farm_bill_implementation/csp_resource_page.html
If you are a producer applying to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Organic Farming Research Foundation has several new additions to its CSP Resource Page. New resources include a list of ‘frequently asked questions’, contacts for organizations who provide CSP assistance, and updates from USDA officials.
Related ATTRA Publication: Accessing the New Conservation Stewardship Program
http://attra.org/csp/
USDA Official Highlights Support for Local Food Systems
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Kathleen Merrigan, released a memo called ‘Harnessing USDA Rural Development Programs to Build Local and Regional Food Systems’ (http://sustainableagriculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/local-food-memo.doc.pdf) (PDF/313KB) that is the first in what is promised to be a series of highly-anticipated Department activities to raise the profile of federal programs that support regional food system development. Merrigan states in the memo that she plans to play the role of ‘matchmaker’ during this Administration to ensure that USDA program administrators better understand how existing programs throughout the agency can serve the efforts of building local and regional food systems.
Direct Marketing Presentations Available
http://www.extension.org/pages/West_Coast_Direct_Marketing_Summit_Presentations_Available
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released West Coast Direct Marketing Summit: Case Study Presentations (http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5078874&acct=frmrdirmkt) (PDF/12MB). These presentations were made at The Direct Farm Marketing Summit: Developing Sustainable Foodsheds to Enhance Food Access and Nutrition, which brought together government agencies, nonprofit organizations and farmers to investigate ways farmers can sell directly to the public. The presentations included discussions about urban agriculture, implementing wireless electronic benefits transfer in farmers’ markets, several stories of successful direct marketing innovations by farmers and many other community and education direct marketing projects.
Related ATTRA Publication: Direct Marketing
http://attra.org/attra-pub/directmkt.html
Farmers Work to Add Staple Crops to Local Food System
http://www.athensnews.com/component/content/article/20-entrepreneurs/28831-full-circle-of-food
Brandon Jaeger and Michelle Ajamian are pioneering a local food system based on a traditional idea: staple foods like grains and beans should be processed, milled and consumed in the same area in which they are grown. Food-lovers acquainted with the local food scene know that a wide selection of natural foods are available at local businesses and farmers’ markets, but Ajamian and Jaeger believe that staple food crops — and a local facility that can process and store them — are the missing pieces in the local food economy puzzle. Last year Jaeger received a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program to plant test plots of staple food crops that could eventually become the base of a new, localized staple food system in southeast Ohio. The project is now known as the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative.
New Jersey Farmers’ Market Report Released
http://www.extension.org/pages/Rutgers_Food_Innovation_Center_Releases_Findings_on_Community_Farmers’_Markets
The Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC), a unit of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in Bridgeton, has released the findings of a recent study entitled New Opportunities for New Jersey Community Farmers’ Markets (http://foodinnovation.rutgers.edu/FarmersMarketGuide2009.pdf) (PDF/25MB). The study, initiated in May 2007, was conducted in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, in order to assess best practices for community farmers’ markets. This report should prove highly valuable to those involved, or looking to become involved, in community farmers’ markets, whether in a vendor or management position.
Video Features Sustainable Crop Research
http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/newsreleases/2009/090309_systems.html
Matt Liebman, Iowa State University’s Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, leads a research program at the Iowa State Marsden Farm in Boone County that promises to improve the economic performance of cropping systems while at the same time protecting environmental quality and human health. His team is comparing different crop rotation systems over time. One of the objectives of this project is to find a system that relies less on fossil fuels without forfeiting yields and profits. “The dominant cropping systems in our country depend heavily on fossil fuels for fertilizing crops, drying grain and powering machinery. Reducing dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining productivity is a big challenge,” Liebman said. To learn more about this project, check out the report in the new on-line video section, On the Ground with the Leopold Center, at: http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/eco_files/ground.html.
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Funding Opportunities
North Central SARE Farmer Rancher Grant
http://sare.org/ncrsare/prod.htm
The North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) has issued a call for proposals for farmers and ranchers to carry out Sustainable Agriculture research, demonstration, and education projects on their farms. A total of approximately $400,000 is available for this program.
Proposals are due December 3, 2009.
Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant
http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/directmktg/blbw.jsp
The Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (BLBW) grant program invites pre-proposals for projects that are likely to stimulate Wisconsin’s agricultural economy by increasing the purchase of Wisconsin grown or produced food by local food buyers. Pre-proposals will be accepted from individuals, groups, businesses and organizations involved in Wisconsin agriculture, agritourism, food retailing, processing, distribution or warehousing. Projects need to show how they will stimulate Wisconsin’s agricultural economy by increasing the purchase of Wisconsin grown or produced food.
Proposals are due September 21, 2009.
Value-Added Producer Grant
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=1Ww2KpQdMK2THFWNnw1ytj6gJXQs4n1DgVvNSHgjwgzdhX3kLpQ8!-1795806398?oppId=49282&mode=VIEW
The primary objective of this grant program is to help eligible groups — independent producers of agricultural
commodities, agricultural producer groups, farmer and rancher cooperatives, and majority-controlled, producer-based business ventures — develop strategies to create marketing opportunities and to help develop
business plans for viable marketing opportunities. Eligible groups must limit their proposals to emerging markets.
These grants will facilitate greater participation in emerging markets and new markets for value-added products.
Proposals are due November 30, 2009.
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Coming Events
Ag in Uncertain Times Webinar Series
http://www.farmmanagement.org/aginuncertaintimes/?page_id=469
Beginning September 9, 2009
Online
The webinar series resumes on September 9 with ‘Operating in the Face of Uncertain Markets.’ The September ‘markets’ series will cover commodity as well as direct, niche, and alternative markets and strategies. On September 9, Matt Roberts from Ohio State University and Jim Robb from the Livestock Marketing Information Center will kick off the series focusing on the outlook for grain and live stock markets. All webinar start times are at 9AM Pacific. (10AM Mountain, 11 AM Central, and 12 noon Eastern)
Plant Your Own Ginseng Patch Workshop
http://www.pasafarming.org/our-work/educational-outreach/field-days-and-intensive-learning-programs/plant-your-own-ginseng-patch
September 12, 2009
Brookville, Pennsylvania
This is an in-depth workshop on ginseng forest farming in Pennsylvania and the region. The basics of ginseng biology, husbandry, regulations, and markets will be covered.
Freshwater Prawns Field Day
http://www.kerrcenter.com/HTML/events.html#prawn
September 12, 2009
Cashion, Oklahoma
Join Oklahoma Producer Grant recipient Jeremy Eaton as he harvests his second crop of freshwater prawns (shrimp) from the pond on his farm northwest of Oklahoma City. At this free field day, Eaton will give a presentation on freshwater prawn production methods, potential problems, and harvesting and marketing information.
Strengthening the Goat Industry
http://www.sare.org/events/show_events.asp?event=2403
September 12-15, 2009
Tallahassee, Florida
The topics of this conference will include nutrition and pasture management, herd health and management, marketing and processing, reproduction and biotechnology, genetics and breeding, food safety and food science, technology transfer and delivery. This conference has been developed for goat producers, agricultural professionals, students and other interested parties. Sheep producers are encouraged to attend this event. This event is sponsored by SARE.
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New & Updated Publications
Biodiesel: Do-it-yourself Production Basics
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2009/08/27/biodiesel_do_it_yourself_production_basi_1
Procesamiento de Aves a Pequeña Escala
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2009/08/20/procesamiento_de_aves_a_pequena_escala
Finding Land to Farm: Six Ways to Secure Farmland
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2009/07/30/finding_land_to_farm_six_ways_to_secure
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[How insane are they, all of them?????
Should be good for increasing the crop of deformed and ill babies.
my opinion...
[Yes, I am cussing......as I know Mike, one of the babies from the cow growth tests, born without legs, missing one arm and part of another one.....God gave him a kind soul and an excellent mind......the miners in our group helped him invent ways to keep up with the best of them and he found the largest gold nugget in the area..........]
granny]
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2009/H1N1pregnanttrials.htm
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
http://www.niaid.nih.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Sept.9, 2009
Media Contact: NIAID Office of Communications
(301) 402-1663
niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov
NIAID Launches 2009 H1N1 Influenza
Vaccine Trial in Pregnant Women
The first trial testing a candidate 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine in pregnant women is launching this week, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today.
“Women are at higher risk of developing severe illness if they become infected with influenza virus while pregnant, which is why they are strongly encouraged to receive the seasonal influenza vaccine every year,” says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “Data indicate that pregnant women are at higher risk for complications from the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus as well, so this trial will provide critical information for public health planning.”
The trial is being conducted through the NIAID-funded national network of Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs).
“The American public has shown once again its remarkable willingness to step up and help during an emergency. The interest in this trial has been extraordinary, and participating medical centers expect to fill all the available slots for volunteers soon,” Dr. Fauci adds.
Up to 120 women 18 to 39 years of age who are in their second or third trimester (14 to 34 weeks) of pregnancy will be enrolled into this initial trial. Volunteers will receive 15 micrograms or 30 micrograms of a candidate 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur. All women will receive an initial injection and a second injection 21 days later. Safety data will be collected and assessed continuously throughout the trial by the study investigators and by an independent safety monitoring committee. Study investigators will take blood samples to determine how the immune system responds to the vaccine (for example, by producing antibodies) at set time points before and following each injection. Cord blood will also be collected to measure maternal antibodies transferred to the infants through the placenta.
Because the vaccine contains inactivated virus, it is impossible to become infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus by receiving this vaccine. The vaccine contains no thimerosal, a preservative, or adjuvant, a substance added to some vaccines to improve the body’s response to vaccine.
The design of this trial in pregnant women is patterned after clinical trials that opened in August through NIAID’s VTEU network. Those trials are testing the same vaccine in various groups of healthy individuals, including adults, the elderly and children. The candidate vaccine is also being tested in pregnant women because they represent a population who public health officials have recommended to receive a licensed 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine when it becomes available this fall.
The trial is taking place at the following six medical centers: Baylor College of Medicine VTEU in Houston; Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies VTEU in Seattle; Saint Louis University VTEU; Vanderbilt University VTEU in Nashville; Duke University in Durham, N.C.; and Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Temple, Tex.
In a paper published Aug. 8 in The Lancet, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that six of 45 people (13 percent) who died from 2009 H1N1 influenza between mid-April and mid-June were pregnant women. In addition, during the first month of the H1N1 outbreak, the estimated rate of hospitalization for H1N1 infection in pregnant women was approximately four times higher than it was in the general population. U.S. public health officials, following the recommendation of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, have designated pregnant women among the top priority groups to receive the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine when it becomes available.
Detailed information about this study can be found on the ClinicalTrials.gov Web site at
H1N1Vaccine in Pregnant Women NCT0093430.
NIAID is planning to conduct additional trials in pregnant women testing candidate 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines made by other manufacturers.
For more information about NIAID-sponsored clinical trials in pregnant women, see Questions and Answers: Trial of Candidate 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Pregnant Women.
Additional information about NIAID-sponsored clinical trials of candidate H1N1 vaccines: Clinical Trials of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccines Conducted by the NIAID-Supported Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units and Pediatric Trials of Candidate 2009 H1N1 Vaccine at NIAID Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs).
Visit www.flu.gov for one-stop access to U.S. government information on avian and pandemic influenza. A www.flu.gov webcast on H1N1 and pregnant women featuring NIAID Director Dr. Fauci is available.
Also, visit NIAID’s flu Web portal.
NIAID conducts and supports research—at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide—to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)—The Nation’s Medical Research Agency—includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
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Reference:
DJ Jamieson et al. H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection during pregnancy in the USA. The Lancet DOI: 10.1016/S014-6736(09)61304-0 (2009).
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