Here is a directory to find raw milk produced across the United States.
Hartman Creek State Park, WI~Universe in the Park
Hartman Creek State Park will be offering Universe in the Park which is an outreach program from UW-Madison’s astronomy department. You can view the stars and night sky around 8:30pm Friday, August 5 at the park’s amphitheater.
Roundup Ready Will Kill Crops……..
I was astonished as I was browsing a website to have found this Monsanto ad. Located near the end of the ad in small, fine print there was a list of unfamiliar ingredients that a crop must be tolerant to. The ad noted, “Roundup brand agriculture herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate.” While crops that are tolerant to glyphosate are genetically modified crops.
Peachtree City, GA – Where you don’t need a car, you just need a Golf Cart
How to make refigerator dill pickles – Quick Recipe
Here is a fast recipe to make dill pickles. The cucumbers only need to be refrigerated for 2 hours. This recipe makes them easy to enjoy!
How to make refigerator dill pickles – with no canning or cooking, easy, tasty and illustrated!.
Eat Wild
Eat Wild offers direct links to local farms across the United States that sell natural, grass-fed products. I was happy to have found that most farms and their butchers offer tours to the public to see where their product is in the food chain before it reaches our grocery stores or farmers markets.
Black Earth Meats
I have been questioning for sometime where the meat I give to my family and myself comes from? This includes: the farm, the butcher, and the store or market where I purchase the meat. To me this is important. I was happy to come across Black Earth Meats, located near Madison, WI. Black Earth Meats is a 100% organic meat market that butchers and packages the upper Midwest’s meat. The meat packaged here comes from organic farms in WI that have no hormones, no antibiotics, and that are humanely raised. I was impressed with their informative website. There are ways to follow the food chain back to the farm. This is an article that gives information on how to find where your meat comes from. http://host.madison.com/77squaresunday/article_d7f1367e-7a69-5bd6-9e9f-973d88e7506e.html
Laptops Powered by Typing, Pacemakers Powered by Blood Pressure
Research at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) demonstrates how mechanical pressure can be turned into electricity via a nano-scaled piezoelectic film.
The team’s research lead, Dr. Madhu Bhaskaran explained, “Our study focused on thin film coatings, because we believe they hold the only practical possibility of integrating piezoelectrics into existing electronic technology. The power of piezoelectrics could be integrated into running shoes to charge mobile phones, enable laptops to be powered through typing or even used to convert blood pressure into a power source for pacemakers — essentially creating an everlasting battery.”
via Coming Soon: the Laptop You Power by Typing | CleanTechnica.
Rubber Mulch: Safer playgrounds
Rubber Mulch: Safer playgrounds, Landscape Rubber Mulch and Surefoot Arena Rubber Footing.
Recycled tires used at children’s playgrounds!! Zach and I recently saw numerous playgrounds in the Madison area that are covered with recycled tire mulch. This seemed to be softer and more resistant than wood chips, sand, pebbles, etc. The mulch can improve overall safety for children while playing, while there are also other options like soft play areas which you can get from sites like softplaydesignandinstallation.co.uk.
Today, I am researching where I would like to recycle my tires from my vehicle. Piling them up in a landfill will not be the best option for me. This site provides information about the types of products that are being made from recycled tires.
