

TOOL TIME
While it’s too early to “gather ye rosebuds as ye may” so to speak, the time is ripe to gather your tools for a good once over before spring arrives. Take an inventory of your garden tools. Make sure you know where they are. If you have broken handles, replace them. If you have tools beyond repair, get rid of them. This is your tool-spring-cleaning so to speak. Next, gather up your spades, shovels, trowels and hoes which take the brunt of abuse during the growing season. When


GM Food?: food for thought in a new book
Do you know your food? How much do you know about genetically modified food? Many people not only don’t know what genetically modified, or GM foods are but they also don’t realize that they have been consuming them almost every day as ingredients in many of their favorite meals. The original intention of genetically modifying food was to create a world in which people would be protected from food scarcity; drought resistant, flood resistant, disease and fungus resistant foods