Pohat vs. Lopat Boy's CBL Basketball

Here's the first 2-1/2 minutes from last night's action between the Pohatcong Braves and the Lopatcong Launchers. A gallant effort by our lads but victory would prove elusive on this particular evening.

Growing Your Own

Which one of these will help feed your family?


This?

Or This?

Kitchen and vegetable gardens were once commonplace in America's rural communities and it would have been unthinkable for a family not to grow a good portion of their own food every year. Unfortunately, the green revolution, which was able to produce ever increasing yields per acre thanks to the inputs of inexpensive fuels and petrochemical fertilizers, also caused a decline in interest in this type home-based food production. Kitchen gardening was no longer an economic necessity for families who could now afford to give up their green thumbs and take up a new lifestyle of listless wandering through food courts, mega malls, and click n' play virtual reality worlds. No wonder we are now faced with an epidemic of obesity in this unhappy republic.

However, with apocalyptic horsemen beginning to ride hard on the public imagination, there is evidence that a bankrupt populace, enveloped in existential fear, may be developing a new understanding of what survival will look like in our post peak-everything world. While sales of SUV's, McMansions, and hand-stitched leather luggage may be plummeting, sales of seeds and gardening supplies are rocketing. It is never too late to dig up a patch of useless lawn and plant a life preserver of green crops instead. Expect success, expect failure. If you need good advice, here is one source I like and will continue to use this growing season :

http://www.amazon.com/Gardening-When-Counts-Growing-Mother/dp/086571553X

Things that I have grown (successfully): beans, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, cantaloupe, pumpkin, cucumber,broccoli, brussel sprouts, miscellaneous herbs, watermelon...

Had problems with: carrots, onions. Stay tuned.