MNR spraying Monsanto's herbicide over 2200 hectares of land in sudbury and what you can do about it right now!!

quick update on the issue,

if anyone would like to contact the mayor of sudbury and the MNR over this issue of spraying monsantos roundup herbicide over 2200 hectares of land, here is there info, if you need help writing a letter, feel free to ask me for ideas, heck,, you can take my letter I just sent.

mayor of sudbury (Marianne Matichuk) -mayor@greatersudbury.ca
705-674-4455 ext. 2514

MNR- mnr.nric.mnr@ontario.ca
1-800-667-1940


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/08/22/sby-sudbury-mnr-herbicide-spraying.html

MNR spraying herbicide ( ☣Round up☣ ) over 2200 hectares in sudbury, ☣ someone's been paid there 30 pieces of silver. ☣

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/08/22/sby-sudbury-mnr-herbicide-spraying.html



PLEASE take a second to see what our government bodies are doing to this country. This is beyond idiotic and the only conclusion after reading this is there is corrupt money orchestrating this operation. You do not need a special degree from an ivy league school to understand how bad of an idea this is yet they do it, and with out the publics consent. This isn't the first time and Im sure it wont be the last, but Im tired of it happening and Im gona try and do something about it. (please take a quick look at this article as I don't know if it will be taken down at some point.)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/08/22/sby-sudbury-mnr-herbicide-spraying.html





I looked up other spraying incidents and the odd thing was, I found an article but no story, go figure huh,
Here that is.

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2009/08/06/massey-men-worry-mnr-herbicide-killing-animals-and-making-people-sick

I don't know why the story was missing ( a little suspicious if you ask me ) but it was something about the MNR spraying (Round up - glyphosate) from helicopters over top of this area in sudbury, at least thats what I could understand from the little blurb on google.
( good to know since were looking for a farm, now I'll never to move to sudbury )
I tell ya folks, if we don't take a stance and stand together, this whole country will be gutted from the inside out. I no longer believe in protests, they are just a statement of how democracy has failed. I no longer believe in politicians because I've spoken to too many, sat down at many meetings and nothing has been done. We need more people mad about this, and not just mad, but willing to do something.
While I am just a small blogger, I figure If We could gather as many people as we can, as quick as We can and sign up to something so We all could get in touch when needed  ( email /twitter maybe ), We should be able to make an impact. I believe the goal should be no less then 2 / 3 thousand, once these numbers are standing as one, the combined force will be to strong for a government association to deny.
This group will grow over time and use there actions to stand for ways to make this country a better place, but only once we are united can we hope to challenge these atrocities.
as the old saying goes...

united we stand, divided we fall.

Ground cherries 〄〄〄〄〄〄〄〄〄〄〄〄

Ground cherries

                 

Im not sure how other people feel about these little guys but to me there awesome!!, they have such a crisp unique taste, I can bring them anywhere without bruising or damaging them, they come in there on protective casing so no dirt or bugs really, and produce more abundantly then most considering its size.

This will not be a long post, just a celebration of the ground cherry in all its glory.

Front yard garden !! ♻ Garden ♻ at ♻ the ♻ front ✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾✾ grass grass go away, grow somewhere some other day!!

Front yard garden

 HEY WORLD DID YA MISS ME!!,

I know, I know,, its been ages, but guess what ?? WE'RE MOVING !!!! YAAAA!!!
were looking for more land and its taking up a lot of our time recently. We've been all over this great province, Belleville, Orangeville, Fort erie, Port hope, Ramara, Orillia, Beaverton, Niagara, Keswick, Creemore, you name it, just searching for the magic spot and you know what? we thought we found it...twice,
but both time things fell apart due to other offers being firm and us not wanting to price battle,
YESHH EHH,
What a few weeks its been, I didnt even get the chance to post these pics, so you'll have to pardon the laziness and know that were much further along in the growing season then what is shown, I will post an update someday soon as our purple Brussel sprouts are so beautiful and big they are in need of some admiring, lol.
As you can see below the redina lettuce is picture perfect, probably one of the best/easiest lettuces I've ever grown. The colour is great for sprucing up walkways/ borders, its easy in planters and just add a few calendulas and you've got yourself a masterpiece.

Front yard garden - Rue - Lettuce - okra

Bell pepper - Variegated tomato - Basil - Mammoth Dill - Pansy

Here you can see some companion planting, We have a variegated tomato in the yellow cage along with some blushing bell peppers in front. There is a purple tomatillo hidden behind the tomato with mammoth dill and basil planted all around... and almost forgot, a pansy or two for attracting more pollinators.

Purple Brussel sprout

We decided to try our hands at a purple Brussel sprout this year as last year we grew the green ones and thought this would be an interesting change. So far, We like this one a little more then the green, the colour in this one is fantastic, We even get compliments on it as people walk by down the street, it just has this impressive look to it, almost a bit Jurassic, but in a good way. The great thing about this plant is its in the same family as your kale's and broccoli's so nearly the whole plant is edible, We like to make juices with the leaves. ( its also really great for photographers as it creates a hydrophobic effect with water on the plant making pictures look alive.)

Front yard garden with companion plants

Here we have some red okra, purple tomatillo, white bell pepper, basil ( purple & green ) sun flowers in the back, sam marzano tomato in the yellow cage ( middle ) and flowers for enhanced pollination.

Strawberries in front ditch

Good ol sprite checking out the plantings of front yard ditch strawberries ( YUP, in the ditch!!) What We did here was out of a  'what the heck' type moment and it turned out better then We had hoped. There were some extra strawberry plants laying around the other year and they just so happened to be the pink flower variety, so, We dug a few holes then planted away and last year they survived!! Now there  back in all there glory, pouring out pink flowers and big berries all year so far. We dont really eat them we tend to forgot about them and leave them for the animals, but its great to know we have more food then We know what to do with, and in an emergency, We're sure glad We have strawberries growing and not grass, lol.

Companion planting

 Companion planting - flowers for pollination, red celery behind, ground cherry to the left.

Red celery

 Red celery, so far, not as great as I thought it would be.

Ground cherries 

Ground cherries, as you might be able to see, its starting to develop a spider might issue and the discoloration in the leaves is a sure sign to anyone who's experienced with these little buggers.
This was the aunt mollies variety but I remember there was another that grew taller which I will try and source out next year, each year this aunt mollies has been so low to the ground, it almost seems to sprawl and never gets taller then 10 inches, when I grew ground cherries many years ago it got to 2 / 3 ft, I just dont remember where I got the seeds, and I've been searching ever since.

Redina lettuce

 Redina lettuce close up, just beautiful.

Variegated tomato plant

In this photo you can kind of see the variegation forming on the leaves, I am very impressed with this plant so far, it produces in abundance, its a showy tomato, and the taste is quite appealing, not so much meaty as it is an average juice tomato.

Lettuce path + rue

Here you can see our rue plant in flower ( at the front right with yellow flowers ) along side our lettuce, bell peppers, bok choi, basil, tomatillos and maybe even a dandelion.
The photo beneath is of our mini tomatoes , with 19 tomatoes on a spoon.

Mini tomato

Red okra!!

Our red and green okra seem to be coming in mighty fine, such a great colour to them. 

What plant is this!!!!♀♀♀♀♀♀♀ or this one ✿✿ or that one ❀❀ AHHhhhhh..... HELP!

Hey fellow growers I need your help!! its been two years now that I've had the pleasure to see this beauty but at the same time, this has been one of the hardest plants for me to put a name to, keeping me on this never ending journey to classify this gem of a plant is starting to test my patience, lol . while my first thought ( and still is) must be its some type of hardy orchid, but after many grueling hours of online research through databases, old botany books, items for sale, and even contacting older hobbyists, Im still left with nothing. it must be a hardy orchid, right?

Grapes, cantaloupe, kiwi, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries,

And now we eat. 80/10/10

tropical looking flower in Canada's climate 

Hardy orchid?

What plant is this?

Frogs

My open letter to the Toronto Star

Dear star, please get rid of Rosie Dimanno, PLEASE!! We as a community have had enough, We've had to listen to this lunatics rants for to long now. She has the most archaic views on life/ people/ race and politics that I truly fear the ignorance she is spreading. If this is something about readership/views, I tell ya, its not working. Her posts literally make me want to cancel our subscription with you ( one day this camel will not take anymore straw ). if this is what you do for hits, your out of touch with reality, discrimination is discrimination, what, you cant pick on anyone else so you think, HEY! I can still pick on "the pot heads" because they're still bad, right?. WRONG. Plain and simple, your a bully with a junkie habit of your own, you crave hits like any addict I've ever seen, you want people to talk about you, well congratulations on your goal, a bully author with an addiction for attention is sure something to be proud of. I'm not some old timer, cranky and distraught with views unlike my own, I'm 28, open, and trying to make this province a little better then the way I left it, but with people like Rosie, its like one step forward two steps back. How can you justify keeping a journalist on your team who clearly doesn't do any research? For example, a quote from her latest article, 
( if nicotine is so destructive of health, surely marijuana is no better ) CLEARLY she is stuck with her Jurassic opinions and not of facts or science, coupled with an unwillingness to research through propaganda, I don't know how she continues as a journalist. Anyone with a shred of common sense + google can find/ understand the health benefits of marijuana. For her to equate pot with stupidity is hilarious, offensive and downright wrong. ( watch the pot propaganda movies a little more there Rosie, lol ) Lets look at just a few people who smoke pot and see how stupid they really are. Carl Sagan - astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, astronomer Steve Jobs - inventor, entrepreneur, marketer The Beatles - I don't think I need to explain this one David Sazuki - Ph.D. zoology, activist, professor of genetics at university of B.C Bill Clinton - former president Stephen jay Gould - paleontologist, biologist, Francis Crick - nobel prize for figuring out the double helix structure of DNA Oliver Sacks - neurologist, author Richard Feynman - nobel prize winner for theory of quantum electrodynamics The list can go on and on. So Rosie, while you like to think of yourself as smarter then a pot smoker, lets be real, your the one blowing smoke.

Heres her article http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/07/legalizing_pot_endorsing_stupidity_dimanno.html Robert Simpson