Word: cornes
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...York, near me, it's very difficult to find fruit that hasn't been sprayed with chemicals at least once. In other regions, like the upper Midwest, most big farms don't grow any vegetables for local markets, conventional or organic. Instead, they produce commodity crops like corn and soybeans for sale to food processors. At a large Hugo's grocery store in Jamestown, N.D., last summer, I noticed only one local product: flour, which is milled in-state from local wheat. But there were organic apples and oranges from out of state...
Scientists at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln are developing ways to make textiles from farm leftovers like rice straw, chicken feathers and corn husks. These newfangled fabrics are part of a trend of eco-sustainable synthetic materials. In fact, clothes made from things you might eat are already in stores. Here are a few ways to get some fiber in your fibers...
Husky Clothing Ingeo is made from corn, resulting in a fabric that is not only sustainably grown but also biodegradable. It's showing up in hiking socks from Teko and in chic fashions from designers like NaturevsFuture...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association were definite stand-outs. So where did it come from? “We hijacked the Adams House kitchen,” said Tim J. Old ’10, a member of Harvard Kung Fu, who prepared a vegetarian menu including baby corn and tofu in a mango sauce. “We’ve been cooking since noon.” While many groups chose to outsource their cooking, the members of the Irish-American Society rolled up their own sleeves and took to the kitchens of Eliot dining hall. From their...
...speaker showed how eight deer can be raised for venison at the cost of feeding one cow. Other topics covered: growing garbanzo beans, converting corn into lighter fluid and raising edible snails and crayfish. The farmers were interested, though some were skeptical. "A lot of good ideas got thrown around here," said Ed Ackerman of Minnesota. "But the bottom line is profit. Anybody can raise a crop, but you can't succeed unless you can sell...