The Misty Manor, Mercers

As a lot of you know, I've currently got a graduate assistantship at Missouri State's William H. Darr School of Agriculture while pursuing my masters in plant science. Part of this program includes a plant sale, which helps raise funds for research in the greenhouse. This year, I've planted a huge variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers for your pleasure; both heirloom and hybrid varieties of vegetables, several types of herbs, and new flower varieties from our seed trials. These plants are looking great, and need to find new homes!

Here's a tentative list of what we'll have on hand:

In addition to the PDF of the current edition available for purchase on Scribd and the html version available for free browsing on our site. There is now a (free) partial draft of the 2nd edition manuscript on Scribd.

You can now purchase and download a copy of Pages From An Ozark Herbal from Scribd as a PDF (the same file included when some of you bought it on CD). This is experimental, but it will let you 1) use and search the Herbal offline (i.e. no Internet) and 2) help fund further improvement of the work. In particular, we are working on producing a Kindle/Nook friendly document in the near future.

Partially sealed buckets while we wait for the dry ice to sublimate.

A bag of dry ice.

Place the dry ice in the bottom of the bucket.

Weigh the dry ice using a kitchen scale.

Oats are being poured into the buckets on top of the dry ice.

We have just uploaded updates to Pages From An Ozark Herbal--- a notebook of edible, medicinal, and otherwise useful plants in the Missouri Ozarks. A log of changes is now being kept in the Appendix with individual change notes at the bottom of each page. The previous upload was from 11 August 2009.

A grape vine is basically a water pump which lifts water out of the earth to the leaves of the vine which may be tens of feet in the air. A cut grapevine (cut a deep "X" in the side) may drip clean, drinkable water for many hours.