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• Native Bees Are Back

  
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  I love bees.  We live too close to too many people, including an endless sea of hyper-allergenic children and their hyper-litigious parents, to have honeybees at the house, which is a shame.However, we still need bees to pollinate our garden and our flowers, and to be honest, we just like having bees around.  So, ...
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• Around the Farm

  
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  Been a busy couple of weeks on the farm and somehow I dont feel like Ive gotten anything done.  The main project that Ive been working on has been our irrigation ditches. They were neglected, though not terribly, but were in an unwieldy position for efficient crop watering as we plan to do. The only thing they were ...
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• Yes, charge for water

  
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  From a look at the hysterical comments , it seems that a bunch of activists have their panties in knots over the statements by Nestles Peter Brabeck.[1] In this video (from 1:55), he discusses whether "we should privatise water supply for the population" and says [paraphrasing] that "water should not be given free ...
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• Landscaping Ideas for Water Conservation

  
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  Landscaping comes last when building a house and  homeowners often defer landscaping until after they move into their new home . That’s not the best idea as now you’re juggling lots of added expenses – window coverings, new furniture to fit new living spaces plus landscaping. You guessed right, if you realized ...
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• Watering cans and easy watering in the polytunnel

  
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  With the warmer weather this week I have been lugging a lot of these around. It can get really hot inside a polytunnel during the day and all my precious plants need lots of watering. As you all know, I love my polytunnel. But one of the things I dont love, is that the previous owners of our house erected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adapting agriculture to a changing climate

  
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  This is a guest post by Dr Gavin Kenny1, a New Zealand scientist who has worked on agricultural adaptation to climate change in NZ and world wide. He has a very interesting and informed perspective on the sorts of things NZ agriculture should be doing to address climate change as it happens — exactly the [...] [Get ...
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• Sunday, May 5, 2013

  
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  I wish to THANK each of you for sending wishes of returned health for Riley.  Kimberly says he is having some good days right now…with all of your Magic thoughts (and special medicine)  we all hope he can turn the corner .  We are going to Grand Junction today to see him…and his parents. Nothing really new ...
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• ORBIT Female Shank Mender, 5/8”

  
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  * Pro series * Heavy duty brass construction * Stainless steel clamp * Repair 5/8” hose
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• Why is Marin-Friendly Gardening Important?

  
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  by Robin McKillop Perhaps the interconnectedness of gardens, watersheds and people is nowhere more apparent than in Marin. Almost all of our water supply comes from local rainfall, collected from local watershed lands and stored in local reservoirs. Unlike most Californians, people in Marin live in the same ...
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• Water quality trading in Florida

  
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  A guest post by Tina Reine of Water Investments Group The Florida Water Quality Credit Trading Bill is now being considered in both the House (HB713) and the Senate (SB754). On April 25th it was placed on third reading in the House by the State Affairs Committee and in the Senate, it was read for a second time.* ...
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• Before digging in Illinois be sure to call 811, JULIE 800-892-0123 or CHICAGO DIGGER 312-744-7000 to avoid buried utilities

  
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  Whether you are preparing to install a tree, pond, hedge, drainage system, new concrete or even a road side mailbox be sure to call 811 (or your local One-Call system) to learn if there are any buried utilities (electric, natural gas, communication cables, drinking water, sewer, etc.) nearby that will need to be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hawke’s Bay irrigation saga gets murkier

  
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  The inherent problems with one arm of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) promoting the mega Ruataniwha dam and irrigation scheme while another arm attempts to act like a regional council, came to the fore in a tangled council meeting last week. I attended a presentation by newly established Transparent ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — It’s Warming Up

  
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  It’s warming UP!!! Boy, Fuzzy and I are sure enjoying it! Lots of work going on….the water is about done in the alfalfa field — today is the last day.  Dad has water in FIVE PLACES!!!  Five different fields on the farm and we get to go to ALL of them all the time. Today we go to just one ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mahindra Group sees 500 MW opportunity in solar power

  
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  The Mahindra group, which forayed into the solar power sector three years ago, said it could add another 500 megawatts (Mw) over the next 24-36 months. This opportunity, however, was not restricted to the projects it had won under the … Continue reading →
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• CHENGDU, 九寨沟 - DAY 5!

  
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  15 APR 2012 HONEY! before we left the place where we tasted honey, the natives there sang a song to us... a guy showed us an invitation card which entitled them to perform at some place over there. i know its something to be proud of for them... later we proceeded to this ...
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• A.G.R.I = Analysis of Global Risk Intelligence from the Environmental Parliament

  
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  “It is the mark of an intelligent educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Of an even higher intelligence is the mind that is able to entertain conflicting thoughts without prejudice and preference until such time that the merits of each are fully manifest and thus allow for the correct ...
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• EVENT | George W. Bush Presidential Center Dedication

  
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  The dedication ceremony for George W. Bush Presidential Center will be held today including a parkland designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. The design reflects the Bush’s love for their native Texas landscape and includes trees from their ranch tree farm. MVVA have spent over 2 and half years on site ...
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• Delmar the Toad and Irrigation

  
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  Slight chance of rain tonight, slight chance on Saturday. There are transplants that need watering. I started yesterday hauling out sprinklers and such and opening up my water outlets throughout the garden. The cover says, "Irrigation Control Valve" -- its really afaucet in the ground with a lever rather than a ...
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• The tail of the migration

  
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  Today’s update is a quick note to inform you that much of the monitoring in the coming days will be local (rather than beyond the irrigation field). The rains have intensified in the week gone & while the floods have not been as intense as in the past year in the region (due to the renovation of the dyke wall to ...
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• World’s #1 Bottled Water Seller Wants to Privatize Water Supply

  
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  Doug Hornig and Alex Daley with Casey Research comment on how the World Bank’s Ismail Serageldin put it so succinctly: “The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water.” With that revelation in mind, the 68-year-old Nestlé chair Peter Brabeck has raised some cogent issues regarding water. Brabeck ...
  3 weeks ago

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