...MWA NOMOGRAPH: DIARY FOR BAHAMAS’ GROWERS, 2013 (A PUBLICATION OF MICHAEL WALLACE AND ASSOCIATES) wallacemichael1945@gmail.com By Mike Wallace B. S. (Agr), B. S. (Chem), Member, American Chemical Society “Every garden is a chore sometimes, but no real garden is nothing but a chore” Grasby, 1986 Almanac “Unless you are faithful in small matters, you will not be faithful in large ones.” Luke 16:10 Michael Wallace Apt 2 Tivoli Gardens West Atlantic Drive P.O.Box H-45077 242-351-8248 (H); 242-442-2141 (Cell) Freeport, Grand Bahama Bahamas CONTENTS OF YOUR GROWER’S DIARY • (Unofficial) List of Public Holidays for 2013 • Composite Calendar for 2013 • Suggested Annual Growers’ Garden/Farm Plan • Development: Planning for Changes • Directory • Emergency Preparedness for Hurricane Season, 2013 • Farm Credit and Farm Assistance Opportunities • Preparing the Garden Area • Table of General/Average Monthly Weather Conditions • Herbicides/Weed Killers • Make 2013 a Year of Prayer for Self, For Families, For Communities, and for Our Country • Identification and Management of Common Crop Pests • Listing of Contacts (UNOFFICIAL) PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR 2012 - New Year’s Day …… 1st January - Good Friday …….. 29th March - Easter Monday …….....
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...Niger Delta areas, Banga soup is commonly eaten with various fufu recipes: Starch, Pounded Yam, Semolina, Garri and Cassava Fufu. In the South Eastern parts of Nigeria, Banga Soup is referred to as Ofe Akwu where Ofe means Soup / Stew and Akwu means palm fruit and is used mainly as stew for the White Rice recipe. How to Cook Banga Soup/Stew [Video] The palm fruit oil extract used in cooking Banga Soup / Stew is quite different from the Palm Oil used in cooking Nigerian food recipes. Palm Oil is pure oil extracted from the palm fruit pulp at high temperatures while the palm fruit oil extract used for the Banga Soup is extracted at a very low temperature and is a mixture of oil and water. Palm fruit oil extracted for Banga Soup contains less saturated fat than palm oils. Ingredients for Banga Soup 1 kg Palm Fruits or 800g tinned Palm Fruit Concentrate Beef Dry Fish Vegetable: Scent Leaves for Ofe Akwu or dried and crushed bitterleaves for Delta-style Banga Soup 2 medium onions A handful crayfish or 2 tablespoons of ground Crayfish Salt and Chilli Pepper (to taste) Ogiri Okpei (Iru) 1-2 big stock cubes Before you cook the Nigerian Banga Soup Extract the palm fruit concentrate from the palm fruits. If using the tinned palm fruit concentrate, open the tin and set aside. Cook the beef and the dry fish with 1 bulb of diced onion and the stock cubes till done. Wash and cut the scent leaves into tiny pieces. The scent leaves give the Banga Stew (Ofe Akwu) its unique aroma and taste. If...
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...despite the fact that I work-out five times a week, doing various physical activities such as, yoga, P90X, hip-hop abs, playing basketball, and running. Within this assignment, I will create a healthy eating plan for myself, implementing my personal recommendations from choosemyplate.gov website and my recommendations from mypyramidtracker.gov website. Furthermore, I will discuss my current eating habits and ways on how I plan to implement my healthy eating plan into my daily lifestyle. On any given day, I consume on average 2-3 8oz cups of Spanish espresso, way over the recommended daily amount, along with 1 12 oz. regular mountain dew. However, other than that I drink 1 full glass of 2% milk, 4-5 12 oz. bottles of water, 1-2 serving of fruits and vegetables, 4-6 serving of meats and beans and to be honest an unknown amount of fats, oils, and sweets. Other than the obvious no-no foods and drinks that I consume on a daily basis, I feel that my daily diet is not all that terrible. I am a 28 year old African-American female, 5 foot 10 inches tall, and I weight approximately 171 lbs. According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute website, based on my current weight, height, and age, my approximate body mass index...
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...Butterfly Garden The Butterfly garden plants are primarily native plants with some noninvasive foreign plants that provide a continuous supply of nectar and host plants for the butterfly and caterpillars, as recommended by the NJ Native Plant Society. Plants should be obtained from local nurseries within 50 miles of Newark that propagate native species. Three possible sources are Toadshade Nursery, Clemeson Farms and Bowman Nurseries. Some plants, such as fennel, dill and parsley are easily propagated from seed. There are six types of endangered butterflies in NJ. These are: Mitchells Satyr, Arogos Skipper, Appalachian grizzled Skipper, frosted Elfin, Silver-bordered Fritillary and Checkered White. We hope to provide food source to feed these. The butterfly site, basically a prairie meadow, should be in an open area with good circulation and receiving more than six hours of sun each day, so probably on the south and east side of the buildings. The plants can be planted spring or early fall. The “recipe” recommended by the NJ Native Plant Society is 1/3-1/2 grasses to ½-2/3 wildflowers. Native grasses are especially good later in the season after the flowers have bloomed. Minimal maintaince is key, since NJIT doesn’t have many resources for this and mowing once a year in the early spring before nesting season should be enough. Adult butterflies require nectar from flowers which are more decorative and can be...
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...Experience: Café Circa Full bar. Cigars. Atmosphere. Jack Daniels and Apple juice. Wings. Good service. These are just a few of my favorite things and they reside at Café Circa. One of the gems in the historic Edgewood avenue side of Atlanta, CC is an interesting and pleasantly underwhelming restaurant that combines Caribbean and Latin infused cuisine. Underwhelming because it has décor and ambiance that is sexy and quiet, not a screamingly overdone design, which many establishments have. The interior gives the feel of a very sultry living room, inviting and comfortable. The seating layout is functional and relatively open. Tables are spaced in a manner that allows for quiet private conversation. Did I mention a full bar? One of the few establishments that actually has apple juice at the bar. If you haven’t tried apple juice and Jack Daniels, you are missing out on and losing at/in life. Period. I digress. Prices at CC, were comparable to quality. The most expensive item is about twenty four bucks. So for two people, you will spend about fifty bones with tax. Now let’s get to the reason why you are reading this in the first place, the food. An appetizer of guava jerk wings kicked off the experience. Yeah, it sounds random and leaves you asking who in the world would combine guava and jerk. Granted, jerk is good enough but guava came out of left field. Believe me, it works!! Very tasty, savory, and flavorful. If you want to be fancy and need to serve something...
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...For many foods which we now enjoy and rely upon, we must thank the people of the Americas who domesticated or discovered them. Many of our everyday foods originated in the ancient New World. Of the world's top 26 crops by tonnage, eight originated in the Americas. A third of United States crop value depends on foods that were first grown in the Americas. Without food crops from the New World, Indonesian satays, Indian curries, and even pizza would be unrecognizable. Let's look at some of the incredible variety of foods from the Americas and their impact on history. POTATOES Today, in the United States, we grow 250 varieties of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum). Incredibly, Andean natives were already cultivating three thousand varieties before the Spaniards arrived. The Spaniards first encountered the potato in 1535. Initially, they fed potatoes, in combination with another well-known plant, coca, (link Medicines that Changed the World: The Wonders of the Coca Plant) to their Indian silver mine laborers, which kept the slaves working at a feverish pitch under incredibly difficult conditions. Eventually, potatoes were transported back to Spain, then dispersed throughout the world. Today at least 130 countries grow some variety of potato. | | Potatoes arrived in Ireland toward the end of the sixteenth century. By 1625, the potato was a cheap and nutritious staple. By the end of the eighteenth century, an Irish citizen might eat up to ten pounds of potatoes a day. Potatoes fueled...
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...RES/351 Business Research Ethics Individual Eloisa Montoya Beech Nut was a wholly owned and operated company that was ran fully by Nestle, which is a manufacturer of infant formula. Beech Nut was their company that made juices for infants and children. In 1982 Beech Nut found an entity that would cut their costs by a lot, and offered them apple juice concentrate, which again, was at a very low price. After using this product for just a little while, an employee started wondering why and how this company was offering apple juice concentrate for such a low dollar amount, so he decided to investigate further. During this employees investigation of the apple juice concentrate, he came to find out that the concentrate actually had no apple juice concentrate at all in its contents, instead this was a concentrate that was entirely chemical based and man-made. This employee went to his bosses with this information, and in turn, Beech Nut as well as Nestle did absolutely nothing. After trying to get this stopped and having no luck, this employee finally just quit the company all together. Soon after this employee quit, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started their own investigation, and it was noted that Nestle and Beech Nut were not cooperative at all. Apparently Beech Nut had thousands of dollars worth of merchandise stored and they were scared that the Food and Drug Administration was going to confiscate it, so instead of turning it over to the Food and Drug Administration...
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...Head: Essay Paper Fruit & Seeds nita brown Strayer University Mr. Kenneth Jones May 28, 2010 1 Why are some fruits sweet and some sour, whereas others have no specific taste? Each fruit has its own distinct taste, which will differ in some way form the taste of any other fruit. Fruits having more of fructose taste sweeter, while those having more acids taste sour. There are many fruits, which almost equal quantities of fructose and acids. In general raw fruits contain more acids but on ripening, the quantity of acid in them decrease and the amount of sugar increase. Fruits contain fructose, certain acids, vitamins, starch, proteins and cellulose. Fruits that are sweet are, watermelon, guavas, and apples. The fruits that are sour are, lemon, raw mango, and limes. How does the ripening of a fruit affect the process of seed dispersal? Fruit development and ripening are very unique to plants. They represent an important component of human and animal’s diets. Analyses of fruit –ripening mutants and ripening –related gene expression suggest higher levels of a development that remains to be defined. A fruit not only protects the seeds inside it, but also may aid in dispersing those seeds away from the parent plant. The dispersal of seeds is important because it reduces competition for sunlight, soil, and water between the parent plants. The role of sunlight signaling in fruit carotenoid may be examined by the...
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...Research Ideas The crime life of SwMt Facts/other info * They are tougher than a reg SwM Advantages * They are feared * Make tons of nuts/acorns by running walnut casinos and through acorn extortion * Keeps the gangs under control exp: chipmunk street gang under control out of fear * Having some of the rat patrol in their Back cheeks Disadvantages * Always the chance of being road kill * Risk of going to the nuthouse * Their wife and kids could be squirrel bait At anytime * Going nuts due to that they are constently Under nutvalance Outline Introduction * General topic: crime life of a SwM * Limited topic: SwM as a Nutpin * Thesis: The SwM known as the Nutpin Body paragraphs * Advantages * Disadvantages Conclusion: Trying to get out of the crime life The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel with Mustaches Since the enormous increase in population within the Squirrels with Moustaches (SwM) community, there has come a group of tougher SwMs. These now tougher Squirrels with Moustaches are known as the Grey Moustache family. They have come here from Elm Wood Treeville. They live the life of a crime family and there is one top SwM known as the Nut Pin. His name is Harry “Nuts” Squirrel. There is a constant threat of Harry “Nuts” Squirrel becoming road kill, being sent to the nuthouse, and always being under Nutvalance. In this wild life that the tough Squirrels with Moustaches...
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...RECIPE: Braised Meatballs The key to making these meatballs is to brown them first in a skillet and then braise them in a sauce of red wine and tomatoes. Serve them with crusty bread or spaghetti to sop up the sauce. SERVES 4 to 6 INGREDIENTS 10 oz. ground beef chuck or veal 10 oz. ground pork shoulder 2 oz. minced pork fat or unsmoked bacon 2 oz. prosciutto, minced 1 ¼ cups loosely packed flat-leaf parsley leaves, minced, plus more for garnish 2 tsp. dried oregano 1 ½ tsp. fennel seeds 1 tsp. crushed red chile flakes ½ tsp. ground cumin ¼ tsp. ground allspice 7 slices white bread, finely ground in a food processor Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ⅔ cup ricotta, drained in a strainer for 2 hours 2 tbsp. milk 3 eggs, lightly beaten 6 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for greasing ¼ cup dry red wine 4 cups canned tomato purée 1 cup beef or veal stock or water Grated parmesan, for garnish RELATED: See A Dozen Classic Cookie Recipes » INSTRUCTIONS 1. In a large bowl, combine beef, pork, pork fat, prosciutto, parsley, oregano, fennel seeds, chile flakes, cumin, allspice, and bread crumbs and season generously with salt and pepper. Using your fingers, mix ingredients until combined; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together ricotta, milk, and eggs; add to meat mixture and gently mix until incorporated. Chill for 1 hour. 2. Heat oven to 300°. Grease 2 rimmed baking sheets with oil and set aside...
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...The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel Harry “Nuts” Chrissy Taylor ITT Technical Institute Research Ideas The crime life of SwM Facts/other info * They are tougher than a regular SwM Advantages * They are feared * Make tons of nuts/acorns by running walnut casinos and through acorn extortion * Keeps the gangs under control exp: chipmunk street gang under control out of fear * Having some of the rat patrol in their Back cheeks Disadvantages * Always the chance of being road kill * Risk of going to the nuthouse * Their wife and kids could be squirrel bait At anytime * Going nuts due to that they are constantly Under nutvalance Outline Introduction * General topic: crime life of a SwM * Limited topic: SwM as a Nutpin * Thesis: The SwM known as the Nutpin Body paragraphs * Advantages * Disadvantages Conclusion: Trying to get out of the crime life The Under Tree Crime Life of the Top Squirrel…Harry “Nuts” Since the enormous increase in population within the Squirrels with Moustaches (SwM) community, there has come a group of tougher SwMs. These now tougher Squirrels with Moustaches are known as the Grey Moustache family. They have come here from Elm Wood Treeville. They live the life of a crime family and there is one top SwM known as the Nut Pin is also known as “The Boss”. His name is Harry “Nuts” Squirrel. There is a constant threat of Harry “Nuts” becoming road kill, being sent...
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...found that 13% of the people showed medium preference for the drink because they are not very fond of cherry flavor. They also have diabetic, cholesterol and heavy weight problem for which they are not allowed to take this sort of extreme sweet drink.7% people did not like this drink at all. They admitted very frankly that they do not take any sweet or soft drinks because they are strong alcoholics and as they take whisky on a regular basis, they have lost their taste for any light or juicy drink. In the case of strawberry drink I found that 59% showed strong dislike towards the drink. They commented that they did not like its sweet and sour taste because strawberry is basically a sour fruit and a lot of sugar added to it in the drink actually destroyed the original flavor and taste of the fruit.26% people liked it very much because they are mad about strawberry flavor and with whatever food it is added they are likely to like the food. They are also fond of sweet...
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...Salad, souvlaki, plaki, dolmos) Indian- Dals (legume based dishes, birynas (rice based dishes), vegetable curries, tandoori chicken Italian- Red sauces, primavera (no cream), piccata (lemon), sun-dried tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, lightly sautéed, grilled. Latin-Spicy chicken, black beans, salsa, picante, soft tortillas, gazpacho, Vera-cruz styles dishes (tomato based) 4 MONDAY Low fat and fat free milk served daily. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 1 FRIDAY Oven Baked Chicken Patty/Wheat Bun BBQ Pulled Pork/Wheat Bun Garden Fresh Entrée Salads Sweet Potato Fries Steamed Corn Fruit Blend Juice Golden Baked 8 Chicken Nuggets Asian Egg Roll Garden Fresh Entrée Salads Sweet Potato Fries Farm Fresh Green Beans Chilled Pineapple Chunks Fresh Fruit 15 Oven Baked Chicken Patty/Wheat Bun Crunchy Fish Nuggets Garden Fresh Entrée Salads Sweet Potato Fries Farm Fresh Corn Cobbette Fruit Blend Juice Fresh Fruit 22 Golden Baked Chicken Nuggets Oven Baked Fish Patty/Bun Garden Fresh Entrée Salads Sweet Potato Fries...
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...The peanut,, is a species in the legume or "bean" family. The peanut was probably first cultivated in the valleys of Peru.[1] It is an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (0.98 to 1.6 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, pinnate with four leaflets (two opposite pairs; no terminal leaflet), each leaflet 1 to 7 cm long and 1 to 3 cm (⅜ to 1 inch) broad. The flowers are a typical pea flower in shape, 2 to 4 cm (¾ to 1½ in) across, yellow with reddish veining. Hypoglycemia means "under the earth", after pollination, the flower stalk elongates causing it to bend until the ovary touches the ground. Continued stalk growth then pushes the ovary underground where the mature fruit develops into a legume pod, the peanut – a classical example of geography. Pods are 3 to 7 cm (1.2 to 2.8 in) long, containing 1 to 4 seeds. Peanut oil is often used in cooking, because it has a mild flavor and a relatively high smoke point. Due to its high monounsaturated content, it is considered more healthy than saturated oils, and is resistant to rancidity. There are several types of peanut oil including: aromatic roasted peanut oil, refined peanut oil, extra virgin or cold pressed peanut oil and peanut extract. In the United States, refined peanut oil is exempt from allergen labeling laws. References Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), "Peanut Program" International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), "Groundnut (peanut)" Putnam, D.H. & Oplinger...
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...Several government officials, agro-processors, farming entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector converged on the premises of the Fond Assau Agro-Processing Plant in Babonneau for its formal opening on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011. This modern facility was co-funded by the Republic of China on Taiwan and the Government of Saint Lucia at approximately Two Million EC Dollars (EC$2 million). The Taiwanese Government supported the refurbishment or modernization of the existing SLBC facility at the cost of EC$1.5 million and the land had been purchased by the government from the defunct St. Lucia Banana Corporation (SLBC) for approximately EC$280,000. The lively proceedings were led by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Forestry, Hubert Emmanuel, who served as Master of Ceremonies (MC). Deputy Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Sonia Monrose delivered welcome remarks to an expectant audience. She noted that agro-processing serves to enhance food security; while improving the value chain by transforming primary agricultural produce making them ready-vacuum-packed for our busy housewives, house-husbands, restaurants, hotels, motels, supermarkets and other retail outlets throughout Saint Lucia.The Chairman of the Saint Lucia Marketing Board (SLMB), Mr. Stephen Best, pointed out that the Fond Assau Agro-Processing Centre, is a momentous occasion reflecting the foresight and vision of the Minister of Agriculture, Ezechiel Joseph; and...
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