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Winter Survival Foods
Trees provide several sources of nourishment in the winter wilds, but they generally require more processing than greens and are not as palatable.
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Sap Rising: a collection of short stories
<i>"Sap Rising"</i> by Christine Lincoln is an award winning short story collection published in 2001. The collection of centers around a community and its young black residents.
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Strawberry Sap and Asiatic Garden Beetle
Strawberry sap beetles and Asiatic Garden beetles are both very naughtly critters to have around. Control them or your garden will perish. Both are similar in looks and shape but both do very different things in the garden.
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The Sap is Runnin'!
A look at making syrup from our own maple trees for the first time.
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Sweet Mother Nature - Part Two
Sap of the sugar maple has begun to flow. This is just the first step in the making of maple syrup, as the people of Meyersdale Pennsylvania know quite well. Yes, they know how to celebrate the making of maple syrup.
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Cambodian fish paste from the Lake
On the banks of the Tonle Sap River in Cambodia, hundreds of families congregate to collect the tiny silvery fish which they mash into a pungent paste used in Kymer food.
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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Gorgeous, fragrant flowers, edible pods, food and habitat for monarch butterfly and other insects, a source of material for string: the virtues of milkweed go on and on.
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Dandelion
Traditionally, dandelion leaves are eaten as a spring tonic, to gently cleanse the body with the change of seasons, but they are also edible in summer and fall.
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Leaf Miner
Conkers have their uses and the tree is a European favourite. The Horse-chestnut leaf miner is a threat which might worry arachnophobes!
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Making Maple Candy
Learn creative ways to enjoy sweet maple syrup with Don Harlow's recipe for Maple Candy.
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Maple Sugaring
It's a Maple Sugar Harvest. Visit a family farm in New England and discover the art of making maple syrup. You'll learn how to tap trees, gather the sap and make syrup.
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Pinyon: The Desert Pine
Pinyon Pine (pinus edulis) is a beautiful though slow-growing tree, that offers incredible structure to a desert garden.
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Frankincense
The botanical name of this leafy forest tree is Boswellia Thurifera, and it hails from the Burseraceae family. The tree is most commonly known for the highly scented gum resin that it gives off. This resin is obtained by making a deep, longitudinal incision in the trunk of the tree.
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New Hampshire: How Sweet It Is!
It's that sweet time of year in New Hampshire when the sap is running. Take a journey with me through the delicious world of maple sugaring.
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Sweet Mother Nature - Part One
Each year around the time we celebrate Valentine's Day, nature begins a process that eventually adds a very sweet, delightful addition to our table fare.
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How to Tap a Maple
Whether you want to drink the nutritious sap or boil it down to make syrup, you can tap maple trees in your own yard, using a drill and a spout from the hardware store.
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Pigments: Historical Cool Hues
Many gorgeous cool pigments such as azurite and verdigris and "royal purple" used in paintings before the mid-1800s are now rarely used due to toxicity or impermanence.
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Red Maple Trees
With half the sugar content of sugar maple sap, red maple is nevertheless used in some regions to make syrup because it is widespread and grows fast.
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Sangre de Drago
Sangre de Drago (Croton lechleri, Euphorbiaceae) is a forest tree found through much of north-western South America.
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GENEVA-A FRUIT LOVER'S PARADISE
The Geneva experiment station in upstate New York is a favorite destination for fruit growers in the region.
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Gifts -- Uniquely New Hampshire
Whether you are shopping or browsing, you'll find New Hampshire shops have a wide array of gifts and decorations. Lets go shopping in New Hampshire - online!
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Plant surface beauties
See the dimples, the pimples, and goosebumps.- a vast spectrum of plant surface appendages.
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Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Pol Pot's killing fields may have been eradicated, but the new threat to Cambodia's Angkor Wat is mounting visitor numbers but hotels are there to cope with this.
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National Geographic Megafishes Project
The National Geographic Society's project to tag and study at least 20 species of large freshwater fish is intended to raise awareness of potential extinction.
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Thailand & Cambodia by Bike
Cycling through Nortthern Thailand and Cambodia is a new way to see the ancient Lanna & Khmer kingdoms, thanks to a trip offered by a group specilaizing in bike tours.
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Top Global Brands
Who says the dot.com boom is busted? Topping the list of global brand gainers in 2006, one Internet giant saw its image valuation appreciate by a whopping US$6 billion.
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Visiting Cambodia - Beyond Angkor Wat
Many travellers to Cambodia only see the sites of Angkor. But there is much more of note in Cambodia. Here are some suggestions.
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Visiting Quebec City
Often called the cradle of French culture in North America, Quebec City offers the best of both new and old world vacation escapes.
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