Recent content by ~gd

The USDA is in charge of corn on the farm and in markets The FDA when it is food and packaged as such~gd

What are you going to do about the top? You might want to take a look at this http://www.leevalley.com/US/garden/page.aspx?p=67288&cat=2,2280,54307 it was akit to hold rainwater but should work for drinking water. note that is a kit. i have wondered since I first read your post how would you...

I shave only when it starts to itch or for special events. I use a prep razor to cut the long hair first, Prep razors are used before operations Simple and safe the prep work is done by the lowest level medical [and vets] workers. To clean the mutiblade jobs I use my water pic and a wornout...

Nope I was dead wrong, some idiot managed to transfer a gene from a flounder into a tomato so the tomato could be kept refrigerated to extend its shelf life. The USDA jumped on that pretty hard and it wasnot even allowed to be field tested, it changed the direction of most research projects. The...

You Win I didn't see the sign. but it does make me wonder who is set up to use 50 gallon drums of beverage concentrates. ~gd

I should NOT post! I have recently been warned by Niffty that even when my facts are right my tone offends so please skip this post if you are easily offended. Let me start with sex, things that reproduce by sex includes many plants and insects and I think all animals. It is natures way of...

It might have been a bottler because now the syrups are handled by distributors in 5 gallon ss tanks which can be pressurized with carbon dioxide.

I don't know if they are available in your area but look/ask about food grade plastic drums used to ship olives [greece italy and spain] pickles Jewish deli and products from Mexico. Usually they are non returnable. Here they used to be free for the asking but a ladies group turned it into a...

Oh he wom't suffer he just will be shooting blanks until he gets enough light to start produceing viable sperm.

Well if you didn't make absolute statements like this " Wood-to-wood contact on a deck is pretty much death to both pieces of wood. :-)" maybe I could resist poking holes in them. You seem to make the mistake of many posters and think we all face the same climate. We DO NOT! that is why I gave...

Really? I will have to tell my wooden planters that sit on my Deck that they and the deck are doomed? Funny they looked very healthy when I changed the soil only about a month ago. Of course my deck is 5/4 pine with the grain 'cups' pointed down and a uniform space between them for drainage and...

Ducks are more light sensitive than chickens, They can often be 'fooled' into laying by slowly increasing the 'day length' right now the natural day length is getting shorter about 12/21 or22 the days start getting longer if I remember right when the lights 'days' get to 14 hours or so they will...