I planted an extra row last fall so there were three rows to harvest. One row was alone and the bulbs in that row were much smaller. Conclusion: garlic likes company. Either that or the adjacent, crazy, out-of-control oregano patch sucked the nutrients out of the soil in that area of the garden. Anyway, yum.
Go here for information on the 2010 Grange Sugar Supper!
The Broad Brook Grange in Guilford, Vermont will host a sugar-on-snow supper on Saturday, March 7, 2009.
Seatings are at 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00 PM.
Adults: $10, Child (ages 5-12): $5, Preschooler (4 & under): $2
Reservations: 802-257-4067
Directions: From Brattleboro, take Rt. 5 South until you see the Guilford Center Store on your left. Take an immediate right onto Guilford Center Rd. and follow for about 3.8 miles. Broad Brook Grange is on your right, a large white building with red doors.
In response to their recent mail service issue, Google put up a dashboard where users can view the status of Google Apps services.
The web was all a twitter with users unable to access Google's Gmail. It's so easy to take for granted that Google services will be available 24/7. I wonder how many people will now set up a local mail client (like Thunderbird) with POP or IMAP to backup their Gmail accounts. I just did. To do this yourself:
Download Thunderbird if you don't already have a mail client.
Enable IMAP in your Gmail account.
The recently passed stimulus bill contains $7.2 billion for expanding broadband access in rural areas. But in an NPR broadcast that aired today the former FCC economist, Michael Katz, argues that the money is ill spent. In fact, he comes down pretty hard on country places:
"Other people don't like to say bad things about rural areas," Katz began. "So I will."
The stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to expand broadband Internet access into "underserved" and rural areas. Katz listed ways that the $7.2 billion could be put to better use, including an effort to combat infant deaths. But he also spoke of rural places as environmentally hostile, energy inefficient and even weak in innovation, simply because rural people are spread out across the landscape.
"The notion that we should be helping people who live in rural areas avoid the costs that they impose on society … is misguided," Katz went on, "from an efficiency point of view and an equity one."
Environmentally hostile? Hmm, and all that concrete and pollution in our urban areas is not hostile to the environment? Weak in innovation? OK, maybe we'll keep all our livestock, grain, vegetables, and fruits for ourselves, thank you very much.
An article on ars technica last week has some more:
Katz argues that...rural residents enjoy far lower housing costs than denizens of highly wired urban areas. (He even offered his own tongue-in-cheek proposal to require rural residents to buy their own broadband service unless it would cost more than the difference between the cost of rural living and that of keeping a flat in Manhattan.)
Well, our housing costs may be lower. But so is our income.
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