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It's
Too Tight To Breathe In Here
Imagine you’re going to spend six months in a lovely bubble,
far from the cold of a New England winter. You’ll need to
bring along a few key items — heat to keep you warm, cozy
furnishings, food and storage, some cleaning supplies to keep it
all spic and span, and comfy clothes. Recreational materials are
optional, but this is your basic list. Once inside, zip up tight
to keep the outdoor air and elements from raining on your affair.
Now you’re ready to float comfortably for the next half year,
zipped up tight like a Zip-Loc Baggie with your comfort space inside.
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Vermont
Fresh Network
Preserving the Edible Landscape
It may be cheese that’s melting in their mouths, but what
they’re showing the rest of the world is that it’s perfectly
possible to eat your landscape. The cheese that Chef Doug Mack uses
to make his fondue is created at Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven. The
farm is home to a handful of Jersey cows that produce the milk for
the fondue cheese. It’s one of many agricultural havens that
define the Vermont landscape and nestle among the undulating fields
and pastureland of Addison County. If there were no market for the
cheese, then there would be no cows, and the open fields could just
as easily feature condos as cattle.
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Free Network Preserving the Edible Landscape |
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Modified
Seeds: Friend or Foe?
Hot debates over biotechnology and genetic engineering are taking
place under the golden dome in Montpelier this spring. For the past
couple of seasons, genetically engineered (GE) corn seeds have been
planted on Vermont farmland. The GE corn has a naturally occurring
insecticide, Bacillus Thurengensis (Bt) spliced into its genes to
kill corn worms and borers, major problems for farmers. Another
GE corn variety resists the herbicide Round-Up, so when weeds sprout
in the corn fields, the farmer can spray Round-Up with no harm to
the corn plants. GE seeds are produced by Monsanto, one of the largest
chemical companies in the world. Monsanto also produces Round-Up
and the GE soybean seeds now being planted in Vermont.
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Elsa
Hilger: Genius on the Cello
At 100 years of age, Elsa Hilger has not lost her ear. Born on
April 13, 1904 in Trautenau, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
Elsa loved music long before she ever picked up the cello. The youngest
of eighteen children (only four of whom survived), Elsa sat in a
corner listening to her sister’s violin lessons with the famous
instructor Ottokar Sevcik. Impressed by the 9 year old’s attentiveness
during the lessons, he told her parents, "She has a cellist’s
hands, such a good stretch." Convinced he was right, they bought
their daughter a half-size cello and Sevcik became her first teacher.
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