Northern & Central Midwest
October, 2011
Regional Report
National News - From NGA Editors
Learning about Healthy Foods with Food Corps
What is one of the best ways to help adults stay healthy? Helping children develop good nutritional habits early on goes a long way towards assuring not only a healthy childhood, but a healthy...
Is Fall Foliage Falling Back?
We're all used to setting back our clocks in late autumn to "fall back" from daylight savings time. Now, scientists are investigating whether we need to start resetting our "leaf peeping" clock as...
Roundup All Around
New research has come to the disquieting conclusion that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, the world's most-used herbicide, is present in significant levels in our air and...
The Politics of Climate Change
If you are expecting to hear some climate-change realism from the crop of Republican presidential candidates, you may have a long wait. In an October 4, 2011 Time Magazine website article,...
In the Garden
Planting Fall Crops
The cold weather is coming on fast, and I can't stand the idea of giving up my Swiss chard, mustard greens, and lettuce that are thriving right now. So I'm hauling out the cold frame. I still have some small Chinese cabbages and endive also, so I'm...
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Resources
Books
Building a High Tunnel Learn How to Build a Hoop House [Kindle Edition] by Brent Black and Dan Drost (Utah State...
Clever Gardening Technique
Use Coffee Grounds as a Great Deodorizer Save your coffee grounds. Whenever you put vegetable scraps in the compost pile, cover them with...
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Regional Reminders
- Lift Tender Bulbs
- Winterize Ponds
- Harvest Winter Squash
- Protect Against Critters
- Compost!
