Seed Living - home grown worldwide

If GMO isn't your thing, you're going to love this.

I don't normally post about specifically commercially blogs, but I'm making an exception because this is a pay what you can website.

Anna-Monique West's family’s new website is called SeedLiving and it's billed as

"Your source for buying, selling and swapping seeds and live plants".

We're talking open pollinated seeds and live plants.

It is entirely a pay what you can website.

Users may also post news & tips for free as well as events.

The site is international although they are based in Calgary.

Their goal is to provide an online community for those dedicated to biodiversity to learn from each other and possibly gain another source of revenue.

Rob Recommends His Dad. (Fair enough)

"Farm blogs is a great idea, you should run with it.

I'd like to recommend my Dad http://campbellshoney.onsugar.com He's the real thing. 75 yr old beekeeper in Canada."

Seems clear to me. Go check it out.

Beef & Livestock Notes (Alberta, Canada) Recommended

Beef & Livestock Notes was recommended by Scott at Cedar Cove Farm

Here's a word from Karin in Alberta Canada

Basically it was like my previous blog The Future Cow-Calf Producer, only a bit more formal and less personal. It's a blog that contains information and notes on beef production as well as livestock production directed at an audience that is interested and/or involved in livestock agriculture, an audience that ranges from the newbies to livestock to those veterans
that've been there, done that. And yes it is one of those unique blogs out there that have already gotten quite a few viewers per day already without even trying to advertise it.

* This is a great blog for those interested cattle and cattle raising. Liz

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The Future Cow-calf Producer (Alberta, Canada; General Resource)

The Future Cow-calf Producer was recommended to Farm Blogs by Scott, at Cedar Cove Farm.

It's an unusual blog, and if you are a cow lover, definetely one to visit regularly.

Written by a a 4th year undergraduate with a major in Animal Science, currently attending university at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, it's is all about beef cattle, from cow-calf to feedlot, facts and information that comes with knowing how to raise cattle economically and practically, as well as the general cattle industry.

The Future Cow-calf Producer wrote to me and explained more about her background, her plans for the future and her blog.

"I was born and raised on a mixed farm near Barrhead, Alberta, Canada. We have two quarter sections (~160 acres each) owned and operated by a family-run farm business for mostly hay (alfalfa-brome-timothy hay) and barley for grain and silage, with a little canola. We also have half of a quarter fenced off for pasture and drylot for backgrounding stocker steers.

I have been thinking and planning in the past year or so to turn our stocker operation into commercial cow-calf in the future, thus the blog I created.

I even share personal experiences with cattle from time to time, whether it be working at the vet clinic or going on a field trip for school."

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Ontario wrestles to revamp mining law (IHT)

LETTER FROM CANADA
Ontario wrestles to revamp mining law
SOUTH FRONTENAC, Ontario: When Peter Griesbach discovered someone had chopped down trees at his weekend house to make crude posts staking out a mining claim, he assumed he could rid his land of the uninvited prospector relatively quickly. He was wrong.
Indeed, seven years later Griesbach is still campaigning to change the provincial law that allows anyone who pays the equivalent of $26.50 to dig for pretty much any mineral on private property in much of rural Ontario.
Historically high mineral prices have set off a new wave of prospecting in Canada, and with it new battles over mineral laws, some of which date to the 19th century. Under the so-called free entry system, effective in much of Ontario, prospectors and miners have had relatively unfettered access to private land in many areas.
Now, after decades of promises to modify the law from successive governments, Griesbach and other landowners may finally find some measure of relief.
After a highly publicized clash between an Indian tribe and a mining company this year, which led to the jailing of one native leader, Ontario's government said it would alter the law by December. But change is so controversial that even the broad details of any modification will not be worked out for some time.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/america/letter.php


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Environmentalists weigh costs of Alberta oil sands (IHT)

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta: The huge dump truck sits parked under a massive mechanical shovel, waiting to transport 400 tons of oily sand at an open pit mine in the northern reaches of Alberta.
Each Caterpillar 797B heavy hauler - three stories high, with tires twice as tall as the average man - carries the equivalent of 200 barrels of heavy oil, worth $23,000 at the current prices.
"It's like sitting on your back porch and driving your house," said Todd Dahlman, the manager of Shell Canada's Muskeg River open pit oil sands mine in the Athabasca region of Alberta.
Shell, which has 35 of the gigantic loaders working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, has ordered 16 more - at $5 million each - as it expands its open pit mines. And it is not alone among major oil companies rushing to exploit the Alberta oil sands, which make Canada one of the few countries that can significantly ramp up oil production amid a decline in conventional reserves.
Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Imperial and other companies plan to strip an area here the size of New York State that could yield as much as 175 billion barrels of oil. Daily production from the oil sands, now at 1.2 million barrels, is expected to nearly triple to 3.5 million barrels in 2020. Overall, Alberta has more oil than Venezuela, Russia or Iran. Only Saudi Arabia has more.
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Just Another Day On The Prairie Recommends

"It's bull season and that means moving cows around, testing bulls and sorting the cows that go with them. I'd recommend Dennis Ranch who is a rancher/saddlemaker/cowboy poet in South Dakota and Thoughts From the Middle of Nowhere who ranches in South Eastern Montana. The rest of my reads Nita has listed. "

"Always try to keep folks happy, even if it means going out of your way to avoid 'em!"


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