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Yesterday, I started planting our garden for next year! I put in a row each of garlic and elephant garlic. I used a good bit of bone meal under the sets and then put down a good layer of grass clipping/leaf mulch. A light dusting dolomitic limestone finished the planting. While we've just had a hint of winter so far in Indiana, it won't be long until it's time to start poring over garden catalogs and starting seed under the indoor plant lights. The garlic sets I put out were from Johnny's Selected Seeds, an excellent supplier of seeds for northern latitudes. The elephant garlic sets were saved from this year's crop, but the original sets came from Johnny's as well. Some of my other favorite seed and garden supply vendors are:
Bill Moyers: America 101 I read an article last night by Bill Moyers, America 101, that eloquently states as I cannot my fears about the state of education and our country today. In a stinging indictment of our current commitment to education, Moyers begins: Let's be honest about what we mean by "urban education." We are talking about the poorest and most vulnerable children in America - kids for whom "at risk" has come to describe their fate and not simply their circumstances.
He continues: Yet teachers now are expected to staff the permanent emergency rooms of our country's dysfunctional social order. They are expected to compensate for what families, communities, and culture fail to do. Like our soldiers in Iraq, they are sent into urban combat zones, on impossible missions, under inhospitable conditions, and then abandoned by politicians and policy makers who have already cut and run, leaving teachers on their own. Since most readers of Educators' News are teachers, what Moyers is saying about education is a known to them. But Moyers also expands his treatise the include the earnings and class gap that has been engineered by social conservatives working under the guise of conservatism and Christianity. He tells it like it is. Wikipedia has a good bio on Moyers. And here's the original link to the article.  Send feedback to
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