My wife calls them rats with long legs. They devastate the garden. They spread Lyme disease. Now here’s another reason to hate deer: meningeal worm. Ever heard of meningeal worm? Neither had I, until our 8-month-old girl goat started limping. First it was the right leg she was favoring. We thought she’d been stepped on […]
It’s fairly well accepted that eating less leads to longer life. An ongoing study of rhesus monkeys reinforces the idea that restricting calories means less chance of disease and extended lifespan. The results come from a study of 76 monkeys underway at the University of Wisconsin, soon to be published in Science magazine. Researchers allowed half […]
In the years since we turned our front yard here in the District of Columbia into a kitchen garden we’ve had few problems with pests or diseases. I attributed our good fortune to being fairly isolated from any large plantings of vegetables. How would the pests find us? I also figured we were just brilliant gardeners, […]
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