HylaBrook's Blog

Love Canal: An Adult Bedtime Story for Earth Day

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:36:00 GMT

Once upon a time, long long ago, near a city called Buffalo, was a place where honeymooners go to see the massive water falls. In the city of Niagara Falls was an industrialist named Hooker who ...

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Earth Day 2008

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:27:00 GMT

I am celebratring my 39th Earth Day. The first, in 1970 was held just after a group in my home town of Rolla Missouri started a club called CURE, Citizens United to Restore the Environment.

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Raised beds using Frame-It-All system

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Everyone knows the value of raising garden beds to increase productivity of vegetable gardens. And everyone knows there are many ways to build raised beds at various costs and with various aes...

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Huge Sustainable For Profit Forest in Missouri

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:08:00 GMT

After the Great Depression and through the early 1960's,Leo Drey bought up forest land in Missouri that had been over logged. Much of it was being sold for default of taxes. He bought up 160,000 a...

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More on Straw Bale Gardening

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:41:00 GMT

After starting the straw bale gardens and setting up my rain barrels, I found that keeping the soil on top of the straw moist was a challenge, and watering with only the gravity pressure in the wat...

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What the Snowstorm of 2007 Did

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:32:00 GMT

The weekend of February 24-25 we got slammed. Ice, snow, wind, we got them all. Over 1000 power poles snapped in Iowa just west o...

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