Include heirloom vegetables in your garden this year
Bangor Daily News - 1/14/2012.By Reeser Manley – The new year brings catalogs by snail mail and email invitations to online catalogs, each sender hankering for a fraction of my seed money for 2012. I know something about the business of selling garden seeds. My first paying job in horticulture was with the George W. Park Seed Co. in Greenwood, S.C., a position I eagerly accepted when it became clear, back in 1975, that a master’s degree in botany plus 50 cents would buy a cup of coffee. |
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Shrimp reports lag; landings low
Bangor Daily News - 1/13/2012. By Bill Trotter – Ellsworth: As Maine fishery officials work to avoid another premature end to the shrimp fishing season, they are hoping new measures enacted this year will be of help. One of those measures is a requirement for all shrimp dealers in Maine to provide the Department of Marine Resources with reports every week about the amount of shrimp landings they have received. But according to DMR’s top administrator, only half the dealers have reported their landings to regulators since the season began on Jan. 2. |
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Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’
Grist - 1/13/2012. By Claire Thompson - Anyone who's been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system by placing the more than 70 crops they pollinate - from almonds to apples to blueberries - in peril. |
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Bacon roll a day linked to most lethal of cancers
The Independent - 1/13/2012.By Jeremy Laurance – The most fatal of all cancers is linked today for the first time with the consumption of processed meat. A daily bacon sandwich or a single sausage, equivalent to an average serving of 50 grams, is associated with a 19 per cent increase in risk of pancreatic cancer, researchers say. |
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