Tagged With "agriculture"

"The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals: one beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, each separated by intervals of slight warming" Swiss Farms and Villages were destroyed by the advancing glaciers during the mini-ice ages. 1.6C is not a great recovery in 100 years.

That sure looks like a fun time, Paul! I love fairs like this, especially ones where kids get involved with their animals and projects. Great pictures, thanks!

Excellent pictures Paul! I enjoyed my visit to the fair through your eyes

Oh the wonderful childhood memories this article and photos brought back! The photos are excellent and really show what a fair is all about: fun, family and farm!!

My head is still spinning from the rides, and the wonderful quality of the pictures only helped to create the impression of being there...I'd much rather spend my time with the also-beautiful cows...

Super photos, vivid and alive!

Swiss vineyards near Sion           Photo: Valery Heritier / Wikimedia   A Swiss federal agriculture expert says that climate change  is “positive overall for Swiss wine growers because it guarantees better...

A growing number of French vintners are turning to horses instead of tractors to till their vineyards...and it's not just for looks!

Seesaw visits a century-old wasabi farm, and learns how the small green vegetable with the intense flavor is grown and prepared.

As world leaders gather in Paris for a world climate conference, Norway struggles with a possibly related issue—or at least one the Prime Minister believes is related.    Prime Minister Erna Solberg (photo above) has managed to offend...

The Norwegian PM is clearly a fanatic that has not only lost touch with common sense, but is questionably grounded to reality. If the future of the world hangs in the balanced based on the number of times cows fart, then we might as well resign ourselves to Armagadeon. I think the Prime Minister is more full of hot air than the Norwegian cows are.

In the UK the number of winter related deaths (hypothermia - flu - respiratory) has fell by nearly 6,000 people a year. That's for an average 5'f (2'c) increase in the winter months. And were using less fossil fuel to heat our homes ! In 1814 wine producers in Northern England abandoned growing grapes because the climate was getting colder. I'll be happy when we get back to growing grapes here again. In January 2014 China had a quarter of all its territory under a cloud of smog. That's 600...

Sadly, common sense and science knowledge don’t appear to be requirements for achieving high office. Solberg’s nonsense brings to mind a U.S. president who considered ketchup a school-lunch vegetable and told a campaign audience that "Trees cause more < http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pollution > pollution than < http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Automobile > automobiles do." On the other hand, Solberg’s not the inventor of the cow fart theory…search the internet and you’ll find that...

I've heard that cows have as many as 4 stomachs. So I suppose that's to be expected after eating all your greens !

Yes, GarryRF, they do have a compartmentalized stomach designed to allow them to graze quickly if they need to, then carefully chew and digest their cud when they've time to ruminate. One might argue that a cow is a near perfect biological machine. We know they are useful to humans because of the milk, cheese, butter and meat they provide, but that's not the point. They are vegetarians and drop back on the pastures they graze their waste nitrogen, a wonderful fertilizer. And they exhale lots...

Thank you SeeSaw for such a fascinating look at a Wasabi farm! Welcome to TravelGumbo! Hope we see a lot more!

I learned many things about wasabi from your post. Had no idea that it had to grow in flowing water, for instance. It is less of a strong mysterious paste now, thanks, Seesaw!

Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm always so interested in seeing where our food comes from

Jonathan L recieved a huge sunflower from his CSA.

Sylvia shares some snapshots of the scenery on the journey to Machu Picchu.

Denmark's huge Roskilde music festival has contradictions.   On the one hand, it's noted for a focus on the environment and sustainability; on the other it's noted for huge volumes of beer consumed on site.

Stokesley is a market town in rural North Yorkshire with a well established agricultural past and community. The origins of the annual fair stretch back to 1223, when Henry III granted Stokesley, a charter to hold an annual fair.