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There’s a cosmic connection between farm animals and children. So, as long as there are farms, we’ll have ample inspiration for children’s books.
On this edition, Mark visits the Central Experimental Farm with Ottawa author and illustrator, Crystal Beshara, to talk about growing up on a hobby farm, personification of our animal friends and her new book, When I Visit the Farm.
Other farm selections featured on Just One More Book!!
Somehow, I'm not too sure if Mr. Sheep trusts this little girl..... Just where could this lead?
Oh yeah.... a hair cut for sure!
By: At A Hen's Pace,
on 8/7/2008
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The kids are all about the rides...
...but Mom loves the animal barns!
Let sleeping pigs lie, I always say.
Had to post a picture of Chicklet with the baby chicks. We couldn't tear her away!
Here we are watching a sheep being sheared. This was no demonstration--just a couple 4-H dads trying to get the job done, while the sheep baaaaed incessantly, blabbing a black tongue out each time
We had a marvelous time on the family farm. (Thanks for all the nice comments on the farm story while I was gone, BTW!! Glad so many of you enjoyed it.)
It was wonderful to see my parents, grandmother, aunt, brothers, their wives and my five nieces--if only for a quick visit. It was too quick, especially with Professor Brother and his family from Kansas, with whom we only overlapped for one
By: Rebecca,
on 4/21/2008
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Pamela C. Ronald is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis and the co-author with her husband Raoul Adamchak of Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food which argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture–genetic engineering and organic farming–is key to helping feed the world’s growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. In the post below Ronald responds to an editorial by Paul Krugman.
“Most Americans take food for granted”, reports the New York Times in an editorial last week. I would add that we also take abundant water, vast expanses of wilderness and clean air for granted. The price of oil, global warming and skyrocketing food prices are changing the way we think about land. It is about time. Have we forgotten that land and its resources are precious? Have we forgotten how to be good stewards?
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n an editorial this week in the NYT, Paul Krugman places part of the blame on biofuels: “We need to push back against biofuels that turns out to have been a terrible mistake.” But this conclusion is premature and overly simplistic.
Whether biofuels offer carbon savings depends on how they are produced. If we destroy rainforests and grasslands to plant food crop–based biofuels, then Kurgman is right. This is a bad idea. Such an approach would release 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels. (Fargione et al, science 2008).
In contrast, biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands planted with perennials (so called cellulosic biomass) incurs little or no carbon debt and can offer immediate and sustained GHG advantages. Research on cellulosic biofuels have only just begun and there are tremendous opportunities. For example, plant biologists are working towards developing new and more productive non-food crops that can be grown on marginal lands. If we triple the yield of biomass we can use 1/3 less land. If we use the most ecologically responsible farming practices available (e.g. organic farming) to produce this new crop biomass, we can reduce the environmental impacts.
Nathanael Greene in an interview with Ira Flatow on Science Friday today said we need new innovations and we need to use them smartly. That is what should be done.
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There are some 'little stowaways' in the back of this cab.
This illustration is from a story that I wrote. Yes, yet another project, but I like working that way--having several projects going at once. If one starts losing steam, I switch to another. Then when I get back to the first, it seems fresh again.
I've fallen way behind...how sad. Well this week and the week before I was hell busy. Am pretty sure upcoming weeks aren't any better either. I had no idea how painful Art can be! I've had to draw ribcage, pelvis, umpteenth figures, value swatches,....................................Ouch!
Here's what I've done for this week's subject. It's been done so fast, maybe in 20 mins, that I can't remember how I did it exactly! Am sorry but I just wanted to be with you guys.
I miss you all sooooooooooo much :(
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
I did this one to look like a silk-screened poster. It could also be a book cover. This is Napoleon from George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell, and is perhaps the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. The plot is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal, but soon disparities start to emerge between the different species or classes. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be changed and manipulated by individuals in positions of power.
What's your name? (we Peter and Paul)
What's your age? (we 23)
Where do you live? (we live on the farm)
What do you do? (we plant weed)
One of my favorite 80s bands was Fun Boy Three. Born out of the Specials, Fun Boy Three was Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding. Hall had a torrid affair with guitarist Jane Wiedlin and the song "Our Lips are Sealed" became a hit for the Go-Gos and Fun Boy Three. They also had a hit with another collaborative effort, "It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)" with Bananarama. But, after three albums, Fun Boy Three was no more.
The song "The Farm Yard Connection" appeared on their second album "Waiting". It tells the story of two Jamaicans who support their families by growing marijuana. Treating their crop like true farmers, they sleep in the fields so no one upsets their hard work.
They sing "If the lawman come and took away our seed/Bam! goes another week's wages/Bam! goes our family's feed."
What's your name? (we Peter and Paul)
What's your age? (we 23)
Where do you live? (we live on the farm)
What do you do? (we plant weed)
One of my favorite 80s bands was Fun Boy Three. Born out of the Specials, Fun Boy Three was Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding. Hall had a torrid affair with guitarist Jane Wiedlin and the song "Our Lips are Sealed" became a hit for the Go-Gos and Fun Boy Three. They also had a hit with another collaborative effort, "It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)" with Bananarama. But, after three albums, Fun Boy Three was no more.
The Song "The Farm Yard Connection" appeared on their second album "Waiting". It tells the story of two Jamaicans who support their families by growing marijuana. Treating their crop like true farmers, they sleep in the fields so no one upsets their hard work.
They sing "If the lawman come and took away our seed/Bam! goes another week's wages/Bam! goes our family's feed."
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A kind of a twist...a "Cheese Doodle" Sunshine!
By: Claire Louise Milne,
on 4/27/2007
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I don't know, that old chap looks rather tolerant to me. Very charming.