Rodale Institute
 

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

13. Rodale Institute
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/home

J.I. Rodale was into organic farming for many decades before it became
a bit more "hip". *The Rodale Institute has been doing research on
organic farming versus conventional farming for over 60 years, and their
website is aimed at farmers, gardeners, and the general public alike.
*The "New Farm" link is the online incarnation of their print
publication that has been providing "farmer-to-farmer resources,
articles and personal stories" for over 29 years. *Under the "Tools"
menu in New Farm, visitors and farmers can find a "Crop Conversion
Calculator", "Organic Price Report", and "NewFarm Forums".
The Crop Conversion Chart gives five choices of crops, soybeans, oats,
corn,wheat, and barley to compare, and shows how many pounds of CO2 will
be saved based on the number of acres planted organically, and how many
cars would be removed from the world as a result. *The "Nutrition" link
presents visitors with "Research", "Organic News", and even book
reviews. *There is also an "Advocacy" heading with a request to support
Farm to School funding "to boost health, students, farms". [KMG]

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

Rodale Institute
 

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

Just some beauty.

15. Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings donated by Gillette G.
Griffin
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_...ollection&_pid
=pudl0026

Gillet G. Griffin donated these delightful Japanese and Chinese prints
and drawings to the Princeton University Library. Griffin is the curator
emeritus of graphic arts at the institution, and all told there are 282
pages of material here. Among the materials here, visitors will find
several small notebooks and a range of exquisite drawings. The first
image is a rather artful and lovely seated horse done by artist Aoyama
Seizan in the 1920s. As with the other collections from the Princeton
University Library, users will be able to zoom in and out on each image,
and they can also view archival details and provenance information.
Other items here include drawings of courtesans, pearl divers, swallows,
and a young woman drinking
tea. [KMG]

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

Rodale Institute
 

Bill who putters wrote:
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

13. Rodale Institute
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/home

J.I. Rodale was into organic farming for many decades before it
became
a bit more "hip". The Rodale Institute has been doing research on
organic farming versus conventional farming for over 60 years, and
their
website is aimed at farmers, gardeners, and the general public alike.
The "New Farm" link is the online incarnation of their print
publication that has been providing "farmer-to-farmer resources,
articles and personal stories" for over 29 years. Under the "Tools"
menu in New Farm, visitors and farmers can find a "Crop Conversion
Calculator", "Organic Price Report", and "NewFarm Forums".
The Crop Conversion Chart gives five choices of crops, soybeans, oats,

corn,wheat, and barley to compare, and shows how many pounds of CO2
will
be saved based on the number of acres planted organically, and how
many
cars would be removed from the world as a result. The "Nutrition"
link
presents visitors with "Research", "Organic News", and even book
reviews. There is also an "Advocacy" heading with a request to
support
Farm to School funding "to boost health, students, farms". [KMG]

Thanks for the link. I see they have Rss news feeds. Their are not many
news feeds on gardening that is worth reading. I will give rodale's a
try.


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Enjoy Life... Dan L (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)