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Getting Ready to Preserve Peaches Choose ripe, mature fruit of ideal quality for eating fresh or cooking. Dip fruit in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds until skins loosen. Dip quickly in cold water and slip skins off. Cut in half, remove pits and slice, if desired. To prevent darkening, keep peeled fruit in ascorbic acid solution of 1 teaspoon or 3000 milligrams ascorbic acid or vitamin C per gallon of water, or use a commercial ascorbic acid mixture according to dir

The sight of animals in advertisements, gleefully licking their lips or holding a bone aloft or generally seeming hungry, is easy to miss. We anthropomorphize creatures all the time, so it makes sense that cartoon versions would decorate menus and food commercials. But look closely, as Ben Grossblat, the founder of the Suicide Food blog did, and there’s a whole perverse world of farm creatures seemingly excited to eat members of their own species. Grossblat’s te

Sorghum can be planted as a pure stand or intercropped with maize, beans, and cowpeas. Variety of sorghum Your choice will depend on what you plan to do with it. Different varieties have different tastes. White sorghum varieties are preferred for beer brewing and the two most popular are Sila and Gaddam.They have bigger grains, higher starch, and sugar content that is good for fermentation. They are also low in tannin (an element in sorghum that reddens the seed). Sorghum var

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As the drought outlook for the Western US becomes increasingly bleak, attention is turning once again to groundwater—literally, water stored in the ground. It is Earth’s most widespread and reliable source of fresh water, but it’s not limitless. Wells that people drill to access groundwater supply nearly half the water used for irrigated agriculture in the US and p