New chilli grenade packs a punch Ananova + NPR Interview

Ananova - New chilli grenade packs a punch

Try the new Extreme Pepper Spray Nachos with this.




This just in 25 March 2010: NPR has an interview with a chef who's making burgers with this. EMTs have had to go to the restaurant several times to help patrons. NPR's News Blog covers this http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/pepper_bomb_india_ghost.html

The podcast and transcript is here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125184572

They share also a video

Environmental Restoration in Texas from All Things Considered

Wonderful interview long on practical stewardship.

Texas Rancher An Unlikely Environmentalist: NPR

"David Bamberger converted 5,500 acres of some of the most badly damaged and overgrazed hill country in Texas into a showpiece of environmental restoration. Bamberger has been hailed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and has won the state's top voluntary land stewardship award.

A visit to Bamberger Ranch is like a trip back in time. Instead of cedar brush and barren limestone breaking the soil's surface, large hardwood trees surround grassy meadows. Wild turkey and deer wander in the open, and bobcats lurk in the hollows hunting game"

USDA Policy Encouraging Local Economic Growth

USDA changing policies to encourage local food production in an All Things Considered interview with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsak.

Know your farmer know your food is focusing on creating wealth in rural communities.

Note that the policy of emphasizing the economic clout of smaller scale producers on the local economy has become more of a focal point for policy: entrepreneurs matter, throughout the network that produces food.

This production network goes well beyond the farmer or rancher. It encompasses the systems and people supporting markets. Distribution companies, information technology, newly transformed landscape companies, web designers, broadband providers, retailers...

So the first law of ecology from Garrett Hardin: "You cannot do only one thing."

More of the story at: NPR.org - Farmers Markets: Fresh, Local, Government-Approved