Word: equinox
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...conquer the world and appears content to defend its strongholds away from the sidewalks and roads where the green happy grass also begins to shake off its winter layers. People seem to be more pleasant around March 1st. I think this is because somehow they sense that the equinox is approaching, and soon the darkness of winter will be eaten away by more and more light each day. This idea excites us enough that we eventually push our clocks ahead and lose an hour of sleep so that in our excitement we can greet the day earlier. But despite...
...farming thus combines organic practices--like the banning of pesticides and chemicals--with somewhat mystical ideas such as basing planting and harvesting schedules on the position of the moon, sun and stars. It's full of colorful details like burying a cow horn filled with manure at the autumnal equinox. One Italian biodynamic vintner has even placed loudspeakers around his vineyards. Although he claims that playing Mozart makes his vines grow quicker and healthier, the more perceptible result of blaring Symphony No. 40 in G Minor is that it scares the bejesus out of grape-stealing deer, boars and birds...
Sunset conveniently distracts from the trash lazily floating in the Charles River at River Sing. Celebrate the Autumn Equinox by singing along with five Boston-area choirs and two, um, giant puppets, Osun and Poseiden. Yeah. Bring your own bell to ring in the semester...
Concerned about treatment of farm animals? Then look for the new "certified humane" label on menus and in supermarkets. The label promises that the animals ate antibiotic- and hormone- free diets and were compassionately raised. The extra care costs more, but chefs like Todd Gray at Equinox in Washington and Patricia Yeo at New York City's Sapa swear by the quality and taste...
When a winemaker counsels others to bury dung-filled cow horns on the autumnal equinox and takes cues from the lunar calendar for everything from vineyard treatments to bottling, it's easy to dismiss his advice as hocus-pocus...