The Potato Beetle assault continues. Despite our best efforts to pick off every beetle and every egg we could find, some have hatched. These little larvae are nestling themselves into the smallest folds of the leaves and slowly devouring the potato plants.
On the upside, they are easier to kill than their hard shelled parents.
Now available: The Orange & Black Anthology 2004-2007 in paperback for only $7.99. This book is a collection of every Orange & Black newspaper published since it’s inception in 2004.
For more information about this student newspaper that we ran, have a look at the website: http://www.theOrangeAndBlack.net.
This invasive species is trying its best to over run the entire farm and in some plots is succeeding. Like a tentacled sea monster reaching up from the deep sea strangling anything and everything, most of our poor vegetables don’t stand a chance. Even our emotional well-being is threatened by this killer weed.
By the name it is obvious that it comes from Japan. One might assume, like other unwanted invasive imports, the Japanese knotweed hitched a ride as a seed with another desirable cargo. The spread of this “killer bamboo” (it’s not really related to bamboo at all) must have been unintentional, right? Wrong. (more…)
AS A BOY, I PULLED OUT DOZENS—perhaps hundreds—of survey stakes in a vain effort to slow the bulldozers that were taking out my woods to make way for a new subdivision. Had I known then what Ive since learned from a developer, that I should have simply moved the stakes around to be more effective, I would surely have done that too. So you might imagine my dubiousness when, a few weeks after the publication ofmy 2005 book, Last Child in the Woods, I received an e-mail from Derek Thomas, who introduced himself as vice chairman and chief investment officer of Newland Communities, one of the nation’s largest privately owned residential development companies. “I have been reading your new book,” he wrote, “and am profoundly disturbed by some of the information you present.”
Leave No Child Inside | Orion magazine
Find out if the FBI was watching a member of your family! The site takes your information and automatically writes a letter for you to print and mail to the FBI.
The Daily Mail (UK) has a very interesting article by about the decline of children’s ability to roam. It cites research into the link between nature and mental health and, just like Richard Louv, goes as far as to suggest that nature deprevation can have a detrimental effect on metal health.
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere.
It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision.
Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas’s eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.
He is driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home.
Read How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail
Many variables are blamed for the dramatic ADD, ADHD, Autism, and other unexplained anomalies seen in children these days. In his book, Last Child in the Woods
It’s summertime, but are the kids outside playing? In today’s high-tech world, more and more children spend the majority of their time indoors playing video games or watching TV. San Diego author Richard Louv thinks missing out on the wonder of nature is bad for our children’s health. Learn more about “nature-deficit disorder” Monday night on Full Focus. Guests: Richard Louv, “Last Child in the Woods” Author; Prof. Thomas Roberts, Chair, SDSU Dept. of Child & Family Development.
Watch the video after the jump…
Frontline: A Class Divided
One day in 1968, Jane Elliot, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power thirty years later.
YouTube DirektA Class Divided - Part 1
Watch parts 2 – 5 after the jump…
As the battle of the weeds wages on, our fight for produce is threatened by another enemy. The insects have begun their invasion. One of the most prolific pests that we are seeing is the potato beetle. While not appearing in numbers that pose much of a threat now, they have begun laying their orange eggs in preparation for a coordinated attack. Our best defense? Persistently hand picking and destroying the beetles and their eggs.
Once they polish off the potatoes, they are quite happy to move onto tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. The more time put into removal of this insect and it’s eggs up front, the better the plants will fare.
E-discovery rules add summer IT work for schools
September 2005 updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) require that electronic documents — including e-mail and perhaps even instant messaging logs — be available as evidence in civil court cases.