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One hundred fifty years ago the typical vegetation throughout the Palouse consisted of perennial bunchgrasses, which grew in tufts or clumps, accompanied by many different kinds of "wildflowers." Together, the grasses and flowers gave the appearance (in spring and early summer at least) of a lush meadow, or Palouse Prairie. This type of vegetation occurs in relatively moist environments, where the climate is almost wet enough to support the growth of trees. The principal bunchgrasses of Palouse meadows were Idaho fescue, bluebunch wheatgrass, and prairie junegrass. Short shrubs, especially snowberry and wild rose, were common. Mosses and lichens were an important but inconspicuous feature.
Early morning sunlight reaches across the Palouse revealing the contours of the land. Sunrise this morning was at 0504 and the photo was taken at 0521. I found the rift running through the middle quite fascinating and used it as best I could as a leading line.
Starting to get a little better at photoshop, though we have been waiting for cs4 which was suppose to be here this weekend.. never showed up :/ we have our new computer though.. just no photoshop on it so kinda bummed.. but it is an amazing computer to look at photos! Such a large screen I can see soooo much detail! Perfect for viewing and editing photos, but until we get cs4 I will continue using cs3 to edit on our old mac.
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From today's adventures along the trail =] I have a peculiar obsession with sepia tones and overlays... hmmmm.
I love wheat grass. I grow it and snip off a bit to put in my fruit smoothies. It might sound odd to some (as it did to me at first), but it's sweet and loaded with nutrients. It's fun to grow this over the winter, as it brings a bit of summertime into the house.
Here's some info on wheat grass:
~Wheatgrass is the young wheat plant. It is 70% chlorophyll in its juice form.
~The high chlorophyll content of wheatgrass acts as a "magnet" in drawing out toxins from the body.
~Chlorophyll has been shown to produce an unfavorable environment for bacterial growth in the body and therefore effective in increasing the body's resistance to illness.
~Wheatgrass has more vitamin C than oranges and twice the vitamin A as carrots. It is also rich in vitamins E, K, and B-complex.
Here's my favorite 'Green Smoothie' recipe:
* 1 cup green grapes
* 1/2 cup fresh pineapple
* 1/2 cup wheat grass
* 1 cup ice
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Confession: This was taken yesterday at Quail Gardens, a little botanical garden less than half a mile from my house. I love browsing around there; even in winter there are so many interesting plants to photograph.
I had a wonderful time today with one of my favorite Flickr friends, Kellene....I drove up to Orange County where we met over a delicious lunch and chatted for more than three hours! She is so awesome...a kindred spirit in many ways and a really genuine, fabulous, interesting person! So, because of my long lunch, I had to dig into my archives!
This is similar to the photo Echo 29 uploaded to the VW Bus Lovers group. It is owned by a person who has a juice bar in the San Diego State College area of San Diego, California.
Holga 120 wide pinhole camera
Kodak Portra 400 @200 ASA
Weizengras (Triticum aestivum)
Beim Workshop über gesunde Ernährung
in der Projektwerkstatt Niemandsland e.V.
Wheatgrass really adds a healthy pop of color to any home. I can't believe this was just a bunch of seeds seven days ago! Letting them sprout in water really does the trick. After, I let them germinate for a few days in the dark and then moved them to the sunny window ledge. This type of wheatgrass is called Liquid Sunshine from Botanical Interests☀️ Excited to give this to the chickens as a snack! Since there isn't much grass around for them to munch right now, this is perfect! Hopefully this will get devoured in a couple of days!🐓
We've published a new article on our site,
here's an excerpt: There are numerous good-quality masticating juicers out there on the market, but when it comes to finding the best juicer for wheatgrass, the choices seem to be much more limited.
Several reasons can be mentioned regarding this challenge. For one thing, wheatgrass is a particular type of leafy...
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Agriculture is North Dakota's largest industry. About 90 percent of the state's land is used for crop farming and cattle ranching with about 24 million acres of cropland. On average, North Dakota producers plant about 7.5 million acres of wheat with production totaling 320 million bushels. North Dakota and Kansas are most often the top two wheat producing states.
The climate, rich soil and flat land of the Northern Plains are perfectly suited to the production of spring wheat and durum. These classes of wheat are planted in April and May with harvest generally taking place from late July through September. The time lapse between sowing spring wheat and plant head development is usually 65 to 80 days. It takes another 20 to 30 days for the kernels to ripen for harvest.
The soils are commonly the Williams soil series. The Williams series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately slow or slowly permeable soils formed in calcareous glacial till. These soils are on glacial till plains and moraines and have slope of 0 to 35 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 40 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 14 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
Depth to carbonates ranges from 10 to 30 inches. The soil typically contains 1 to 10 percent coarse fragments but ranges up to 20 percent. Stony and cobbly phases are recognized.
USE AND VEGETATION: Cultivated areas are used for growing small grains, flax, corn, hay or pasture. Native vegetation is western wheatgrass, needleandthread, blue grama, green needlegrass and prairie junegrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North-central South Dakota, central, and northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana. The soil is extensive.
For more information about this soil, visit:
www.soils4teachers.org/files/s4t/k12outreach/nd-state-soi...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/W/WILLIAMS.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
…because a change of seasons, is coming…
Your comments are always welcomed and appreciated, but mostly I want to thank you, for just taking the time to look.
This is my workspace. I built the Shelf myself with a tray inset and planted some wheat grass for a nice color. The shelf is also light from beneath for a nice ambient glow at night. I love the dual monitor setup and mounted the 23" HD Cinema display with a VESA wall mount. I also built the desk from a door, attached it to the wall with a cleat and and attached two legs from EQ3. I'm still in school and have lots of group projects, so the large desk is perfect for two people. All in all I love having this workspace in my bedroom. Suggestions welcome. Let me know what you think!
Cascade Mountains - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Flight: One brood from late July-October.
Caterpillar Hosts: Various grasses including Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), canary grass (Phalaris), wildrye (Elymus), and wheatgrass (Agropyron).
Adult Food: Flower nectar.
Habitat: Grassy areas in chaparral, sagebrush, woodland, gardens, and small streams.
Range: Very common. British Columbia south to southern California; east to Montana, Colorado, and Arizona.
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The Crooked River Basin lies in the heart of central Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains and Deschutes River and south of the John Day River. The appropriately named Crooked River, fed primarily by mountain creeks and springs, twists and turns for 155 miles before emptying into the Deschutes River and Lake Billy Chinook. In some sections, the Crooked has carved deep canyons through the landscape; in others, a broad floodplain reveals the river's historic penchant for creating new channels during heavy floods.
The journals of early travelers describe the region before widespread EuroAmerican settlement began taking place in the 1860s. Peter Skene Ogden, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trapper, led several expeditions through the High Desert, searching for beaver. He saw grasses standing "seven feet high" and streams lined with willow. The benchlands above the Crooked River valley, he wrote, were "a most dreary barren country." Ogden also came across several large "Indian camps," an "Indian weir" for catching fish, and evidence that Native Americans, mostly likely Northern Paiutes, had set fire to meadow grasses.
Early travelers' journals paint two pictures of the Crooked River Basin. Along the river valleys, beaver dams and wetlands created vast riparian areas, which encouraged biological diversity. Considerable stands of grasses and willows thrived in the rich soils, and anadromous fish (fish which live in the ocean but breed in fresh water), such as salmon and trout, spawned in the river. Above the river, the benchlands exhibited fewer signs of life. Separated from the river and plagued by low rainfall, the landscape was rocky, exposed, and dotted with few trees. What did grow were tufts of hearty bluebunch wheatgrass, which resisted drought and nourished the wildlife and, eventually, the cattle, that roamed the region. Source: © 2017 - Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society
"It's so good I could just bury my face in it", says Patrick. num num num!
Nooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Blindingly bright, isn't it? It's that way in person, too. It literally glows. My cat doesn't go for this stuff, but I bought a pot anyway, to bring some sunshine into my home.
To ensure that, Father's Day is a good time to make sure Dad and everyone in your family are eating plenty of dark green, leafy vegetables.
The diets of animals similar to us makes it clear that we were designed to eat plenty of greens. The USDA has based its food recommendation of making vegetables the most important food on our plates. That's because studies have shown that those who eat plenty of green vegetables live longer and have less incidence of degenerative disease. Even so, nine out of ten people in the United States don’t eat enough of these health-giving foods.
Pines’ #greensuperfoods provide a convenient and economical way to increase the green in your diet. They are available in powders, tablets and capsules.'
Our website (wheatgrass.com) provides a store locator to find a store near you, Accept no substitutes. Poorly grown and poorly packaged products in plastic tubs and paper packets are devitalized. Further, Pines is the ONLY #vegan-friendly wholefood #wheatgrass and #alfalfa company in Kansas that is 100% organic and that has never produced pesticide-based feed for the mechanized meat industry. All our products are certified #organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, #Kosher and #raw.
As the original green #superfood company in the modern natural food marketplace, for more than 40 years, Pines has followed the standards established in 1937 for how to grow, harvest and package wheatgrass, alfalfa and other cereal grasses. All Pines products are packaged in amber glass bottles with special metal caps that allow us to remove the oxygen from each bottle to protect against the deterioration that occurs with plastic and paper packaging. The special metal caps allow the consumer to tightly seal the bottles between uses to keep the greens fresh and vibrant.
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I had to trim some of my wheatgrass because it was getting unruly. It's snowing like the dickens out here. It's nice to see a little green.
Some days you make big plans and go on the lookout, with unpredictable results, for an encounter with another stranger. Other times, all you need to do is be ready for someone to come to you.
It is by this second method that I met Alain and Mélanie at Les Jardins de Métis (also known as the Reford Gardens) earlier this September. I had been there earlier in July on a grey day with persistent rain. I wished to have a second look as I had been favorably impressed by these very well planned and maintained gardens. Decades later, they respect the vision of their founder for this rather northerly site. Elsie Reford, a woman from a very wealthy Montreal family created the gardens in the mid-1920s.
When I got there, there were two TV crews on site. In learned it was the week-end of a special event called “La Grande table”. It made sense that the Gardens would organize an event dedicated to northern cuisine and local foods. There is an excellent, refined restaurant in the Villa Estevan. I had eaten an excellent meal there in a serene atmosphere at my previous visit. This building that was originally the fishing camp of Lord Mount Stephen and later, Elsie Reford’s house.
When the lady at the admissions office told be with enthusiasm that there was a competition between five chefs that was being filmed in direct live streaming; I wasn’t totally thrilled. I can’t help thinking food is better enjoyed calmly without all that showbiz. I shrugged it off, avoided the café and went on.
As I was finishing my visit, I came across an area where there were kiosks offering local food produce. I was tired and feeling flu slowly overtaking me. My taste buds were shot. I thought I would just have a quick look for future reference. That was without counting on Alain who was clearly the most proactive person amongst the folks waiting for visitors. He warmly insisted that I taste one of his green shooters made fresh on site by Mélanie. It was a mixture of wheat grass, ginger and apple.
I said OK but I’ll take your photo after that. It was that simple.
In the condition my sense of taste was in, I can only confirm that the shooter was of a beautiful green and that all ingredients were pressed fresh in front of my eyes.
We chatted a bit. I learned that Alain and Mélanie are partners in life and business. They operate a massage therapy spa named Rosélia Sinensis in Ste-Anne-des-Monts, farther north in Gaspésie. They initially started offering these types of shooters and similar healthy smoothies to their spa’s customers. This vegetal offering is becoming a second line of business for them under the name Le Vert à boire. Ste-Anne-des-Monts is a rather far from the main agricultural areas of Québec. A concentrated shot of liquid greenery can certainly be an interesting and nutritive addition to the diet of their fellow citizens.
There was likely a modest turn out for “La Grande table” as it was the first edition this year. I certainly hope it was a profitable experience for Alain and Mélanie who posed for me in front of their wheat grass shoots. Who knows, this may be an “Au revoir”
Should you read any French, you can look at their Facebook page here www.facebook.com/levertaboire/
Certains jours, vous pouvez faire de grands projets et aller, avec des résultats bien imprévisibles, au-devant d’une rencontre avec un nouvel inconnu. D'autres fois, tout ce que vous avez à faire est d'être prêt à laisser quelqu'un venir à vous.
C’est par cette seconde méthode que j'ai rencontré Alain et Mélanie aux Jardins de Métis plus tôt en Septembre. J'avais été là en juillet par un jour gris avec de la pluie persistante. Je souhaitais y jeter un second regard. J’avais été favorablement impressionné par ces jardins très bien planifiés et entretenus. Des décennies plus tard, ils respectent la vision de leur fondatrice pour ce site plutôt nordique pour de tels jardins. Elsie Reford, une femme d'une famille très riche de Montréal, les a créés au milieu des années 1920.
Quand je suis arrivé, il y avait deux équipes de télévision sur place. J’appris que c’était le week-end d'un événement spécial appelé "La Grande Table". Il était logique que les Jardins organisent un événement dédié à la cuisine nordique et aux aliments locaux. Il y a un restaurant raffiné dans la Villa Estevan. J'y avais mangé dans une atmosphère sereine un excellent repas à ma précédente visite. Ce bâtiment était à l'origine le camp de pêche Lord Mount Stephen. Il fut plus tard la maison d’Elsie Reford.
Quand la dame au bureau des admissions me dit avec enthousiasme qu'il y avait une compétition culinaire entre cinq chefs et qu’elle était filmée en direct et diffusée simultanément en streaming, je ne fus pas tout à fait ravi. Je ne peux m’empêcher de penser que la fine cuisine est mieux appréciée en paix sans faire du showbiz. J’ai haussé les épaules, évité le café et je suis allé me promener dans les jardins.
Comme je terminais ma visite, je suis tombé sur une zone où il y avait des kiosques offrant des produits alimentaires locaux. J'étais fatigué et sentait la grippe me prendre progressivement. Mes papilles étaient désensibilisées. Je pensais juste jeter un coup d'œil rapide pour référence future. C’était sans compter sur Alain qui était clairement la personne la plus proactive parmi les gens qui attendent les visiteurs. Il a chaleureusement insisté pour que je goûte à un de ses shooters verts fait frais sur place par Mélanie. Il s’agissait d’un mélange d'herbe de blé, de gingembre et de pomme.
Je lui ai dit OK mais je vais prendre votre photo après cela. Ce fut aussi simple que cela.
Dans l'état dans lequel mon sens du goût se trouvait, je ne peux que confirmer que le shooter était d'un beau vert, que tous les ingrédients étaient frais et ont été pressés devant mes yeux.
Nous avons bavardé un peu. J'ai appris qu’Alain et Mélanie sont des partenaires dans la vie et les affaires. Ils opèrent un spa de massothérapie appelé Rosélia Sinensis à Ste-Anne-des-Monts, plus au nord en Gaspésie. Ils ont commencé à offrir ces types de shooters et des smoothies santé similaires aux clients de leur spa. Cette offre végétale devient une seconde ligne d'affaires pour eux sous le nom Le Vert à boire. Ste-Anne-des-Monts est assez loin des principales zones agricoles du Québec, un tel concentré de verdure liquide peut certainement être un ajout intéressant et nutritif à l'alimentation de leurs concitoyens.
Comme c’était la première édition de cette année, il y a probablement eu un nombre modeste de visiteurs pour "La Grande Table". J'espère que ce fut une expérience profitable pour Alain et Mélanie qui ont posé pour moi en face de leurs pousses d'herbe de blé. Qui sait, il s’agit peut-être d’un au revoir.
Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur Le Vert à boire ici : www.facebook.com/levertaboire/
This photo is part of my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
I used some expired wheatgrass powder to get the water green. :)
This really needs to be seen on black.
Although we all share responsibility for damage to our planet, #EarthDay seems an appropriate time to brag a little about what #Pines has done to reverse some of that damage.
Since 1976, our mission has been to teach the importance of eating more green vegetables with Pines Wheat Grass and to use profits to advance #sustainable #farming.
We have converted 2,125 acres to USDA certified organic for farmland and wildlife corridors and have provided markets for other organic farmers representing nearly 2,000 additional acres.
Our educational foundation and several shareholders contributed more than half the funds in an endowment for a Kansas' Waterkeeper program called “Friends of the Kaw.” The interest from that fund will pay the salary of a permanent Riverkeeper in perpetuity.
Besides our foundation being a major financial supporter of sustainable agriculture and #environmental organizations, Pines has contributed several million servings of #greens to feeding programs worldwide.
Pines has taken a strong stand against GMO farming, and for six years has maintained a Facebook page with more than 17,000 followers where we seek to encourage and educate about #organic agriculture and the dangers of GMO.
We are the only Kansas producer of #wheatgrass and #alfalfa that is 100% organic and #gmofree; the only one not to deplete the ancient water from the #OgallalaAquifer; and the only one with modern facilities built for organic human food rather than pesticide-based alfalfa for the confined-animal, meat industry.
Pines has taken a strong stand against plastic. We have always packaged in earth-friendly amber glass bottles with special metal caps that allow us to remove the oxygen from each bottle to prevent nutrient loss and environmental pollution that occurs with plastic.
We seek to encourage everyone everywhere to take steps in our individual and collective lives toward #sustainability and protection of land, wildlife and resources.
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My first ever pregnancy shoot.
This is my wife, Jessica, who is due in just a couple of months with our first child. She's 32 weeks now and we're both SUPER excited for the arrival of the newest member of our family next month.
Being a photographer, I, of course, had to take the opportunity to do a pregnancy shoot. This is my first shoot of this kind, so I'll certainly welcome critiques and/or comments. I'll likely only post just a couple of my favorites from this particular shoot since we have a series of shoots planned over the next couple of weeks. stay tuned... and thanks in advance for the critiques and comments!