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	<title>Bifurcated Carrots</title>
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		<title>US Justice Department and USDA to Investigate Monsanto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearings in Iowa are to begin to investigate possible antitrust activities of Monsanto.
What do you think?  Is the fact that 92% of America&#8217;s soybeans and 85% of corn are being grown with Monsanto&#8217;s seeds a problem, or is it just as Monsanto claims that they have a superior product so it&#8217;s natural for farmers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/us-justice-department-and-usda-to-investigate-monsanto/</link>
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		<title>Starting Peas Indoors</title>
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I set a batch of pea out a few days ago, and I&#8217;ve just started another indoors.
These past two years I&#8217;ve been using a method I found on the Real Seeds website, in the archives of their newsletters I think.
The basic problem in our area is if you direct sow pea seeds, they often just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/starting-peas-indoors/</link>
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		<title>Dead Graft</title>
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As you can see the rest of the plant is doing great, but the grafts I posted about several weeks ago didn&#8217;t make it.
So the lessons for me seem to be the following:

Citrus bud grafting is normally best done in summer or fall
I should have taped the graft tighter, and SHOULD HAVE USED PARAFILM TAPE.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/dead-graft/</link>
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		<title>Jamie Oliver TED Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
While browsing Anne&#8217;s blog, I came across this great video of Jamie Oliver.  I guess by now he&#8217;s someone pretty well known on both sides of the Atlantic.  While I like Jamie a lot, there are clearly some points I disagree with him on, so I&#8217;m going to say something about these too.
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/jamie-oliver-ted-talk/</link>
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		<title>Paquebot 2010 Tomato List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomatoes! 
Paquebot recently asked me to update the list of tomatoes he&#8217;s offering from what I posted here for him last year.
Paquebot lives in Wisconsin, USA.   He&#8217;s offering more than 200 tomatoes, organized into the year grown, giving an indication of the age of the seeds.  Tomato seed are normally good for about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/paquebot-2010-tomato-list/</link>
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		<title>Seed Network Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been very busy lately, and I&#8217;m behind on updates people asked me to make on the Seed Network page.  Some people asked for updates an embarrassingly long time ago, and I think they are all now taken care of.
I&#8217;ve also gone through and just done a general clean up of old links and removed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/03/seed-network-updates/</link>
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		<title>A Favorite Non-Gardening Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else out there read the White House blog?
Maybe it&#8217;s not something everyone would admit to, but I read this blog from time to time and find it very interesting.  With as many as 5-10 posts per day, many of them very long, I certainly don&#8217;t keep up with them all.  I do however [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/a-favorite-non-gardening-blog/</link>
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		<title>Holy Beans</title>
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Years ago now, I posted the advice that if you save beans from your garden, you should freeze them before storing them.  This year, I&#8217;m paying the price of not following my own advice.
In addition, these probably have something to do with it:

These are sacks I buy my coffee in.  I&#8217;ve posted about this before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/holy-beans/</link>
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		<title>New Frontiers in Genetic Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing some older posts from Matt&#8217;s blog, and I came across this.
In fact this is something I&#8217;ve known for a while, and coincidentally sent Matt an email about the other day, but I&#8217;ve never posted here on the subject.
It&#8217;s just a fact, the science of genetic engineering (GE) is quickly moving out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/new-frontiers-in-genetic-engineering/</link>
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		<title>Blogs to Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent post on Monsanto stirred up quite a commotion!  I was having a look at some of the people who commented and followed the links back to their blogs, and I discovered a couple of new ones I hadn&#8217;t seen before, that deserved special attention.
Matt of The Scientist Gardener is studying the unintended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/blogs-to-watch/</link>
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		<title>Citrus Grafting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided a few months ago it was time for me to get into the world of plant grafting.  I posted a few weeks ago about some pre-grafted fruit trees I bought, as well as some root stock.  I expected this all to start in the course of the coming months, but then I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/citrus-grafting/</link>
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		<title>Monsanto in Cyberspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monsanto is Here
A number of posts have been made in recent weeks on different blogs about Monsanto buying nearly all commercial seed companies, everywhere.  There was a particularly good one on the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog.
It&#8217;s pretty clear in the aftermath of all this consolidation, the next frontier for Monsanto is the Internet.
This blog has received [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/02/monsanto-in-cyberspace/</link>
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		<title>Dumping High Fructose Corn Syrup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve been to the US twice in the last couple of years, one of the things I&#8217;ve noticed is the apparent increasing rejection of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).  A year ago, it was astonishing.  Everything, just absolutely everything was full of HFCS, and excruciatingly sweet.
There&#8217;s little doubt, I wasn&#8217;t the only one who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/01/dumping-high-fructose-corn-syrup/</link>
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		<title>Non-GMO Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I don&#8217;t live in the US, I don&#8217;t know if something like this is already generally known, but this looks like a great resource for people who don&#8217;t want to eat GMO foods.
I think we really need something like that in Europe, because there are so many loopholes by now that let in GMO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/01/non-gmo-project/</link>
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		<title>Kokopelli in New Conflict</title>
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Kokopelli Seeds of France, who last year was fined more than €17.000 for selling &#8216;illegal&#8217; seeds, is involved in a new legal conflict.  Baumaux, the same company that instigated the previous legal action against Kokopelli Seeds has now registered the ownership of the name Kokopelli and is selling a new variety of tomato with it.
Baumaux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2010/01/kokopelli-in-new-conflict/</link>
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