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Maine women are rediscovering homegrown linen
19 May 2024 05:08 GMT
… , the straw-like plant with seeds that produce linseed oil, flaxseed … home linen production went with it.
Several Maine women are … flax was a staple planting for Maine farmers and homesteaders. Credit: … snow, and long ago growers would submerge them in ponds …
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10 States with the Highest Proportion of Farmers in the Population
18 May 2024 14:21 GMT
… in densely peopled Rhode Island.
The states where farmers make up … fills up a grain truck during the harvest of winter … University.
Beyond agriculture, oil and gas production plays a key … top 10 producer of poultry, hogs, cotton, cattle and grains.
Success! …
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Want to be on the big screen? These movies are filming in Massachusetts
16 May 2024 22:42 GMT
… and other cities in Massachusetts. Below is a list … casting calls coming up in Massachusetts.
A movie camera and … sschild@syracuse.com)
‘Cotton Fever,’ Boston
“Cotton Fever,” is a feature … realms.”
According to Backstage, production states the film is inspired …
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Newly discovered fluffy planet is so light, it's like cotton candy: researchers
15 May 2024 20:43 GMT
… its composition to that of cotton candy.
Dubbed WASP-193b, … according to astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who … solar flare following sun-produced geomagnetic storm
WASP-193b … compare its low density to cotton candy. Only the Neptune …
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MVU 8th graders plant trees and experience hands-on learning
15 May 2024 14:30 GMT
… eighth-graders planted trees at a Franklin farm last week … when they planted trees at a local farm.
Students helped … is conserved by the Vermont Land Trust.
The project … osier dogwood, silky dogwood, cottonwood, arrowwood viburnum buttonbush, silver maple …
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US Oligarchs Started One Civil War — and They Could Do It Again
17 May 2024 18:48 GMT
… security investments, but agricultural property.”
Most were farmers or plantation owners and, as … for ratification.” In New Hampshire, “of the known farmers in the convention 68 … the Cotton Gin made a few hundred families of southern planters richer …
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Honky Tonk Man: San Antonio's Bill Malone is country music's most revered scholar
17 May 2024 15:55 GMT
… Ken Burns’ writer and producer,” Malone said of his … Ken Burns’ compound in New Hampshire for four hours. It … grew up on a sharecropping cotton farm without electricity.
“Out … miles into Tyler. We farmed cotton, the ‘money crop,’ laughably, because we …
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John Kaag, in ‘American Bloods,’ follows the sprawling branches of a powerful dynasty throughout American history
17 May 2024 12:16 GMT
… -edition manuscripts, in the New Hampshire woods. Kaag wove this … -era house near Concord, Massachusetts. Spooked by a vision … -rousers bent on disrupting Cotton Mather’s Puritanical paradise. … last, the Blood family produced its own philosopher: Benjamin …
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May brings awareness to lyme and tick disease
17 May 2024 04:52 GMT
… small as a poppy seed and still transmit pathogens. … through the University of Rhode Island for identification and risk … known to repel ticks. Plants such as lavender, garlic, … cotton balls soaked with permethrin. Permethrin is one of the leading products …
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The Motley Fool: Risky commodities
16 May 2024 16:42 GMT
… or agricultural product — such as gold, silver, crude oil, cattle, cotton, lumber … 1922, when a retired farmer and insurance salesman founded … founded in 1752 in Newport, Rhode Island. Now based in Edison, … and men’s grooming products. My brands include Jockey …