Popcorn has more than 100 strains that vary in flavor, tenderness, presence, color, shape, and hulls. Regardless of the color of the kernel, once popped, all corn is white – don’t let commercial cheese or colorings fool you. There are two strains of corn most often chosen for popping—mushroom and snowflake. Mushroom pops small and round and is preferred by companies that make caramel corn. Snowflake pops up large and fluffy. It is served at the movies and sold for home use.
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Why TV Conservatives Never Talk About The Ten Commandments
It’s as if you had taken an orange, sliced it in half, and only concerned yourself with one of the halves. —Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City (1969) Obviously Schaeffer should have said, “You have a spoiled orange, while I ...
Read More »Track Your Marketing Efforts
One of the biggest keys to business success is a strong marketing plan. But it’s not enough to simply implement your marketing strategy; if you want to repeat your successes and avoid wasting money and effort, you’ll need to track your marketing efforts closely. Every marketing endeavor needs to be analyzed to find out what works and what doesn’t. One way of doing this is to track your return on investment (ROI). You can track your ROI for sales and for profits.
Read More »Rain Water Filtration: The Options and the Necessities
From a personal perspective, one of the smartest things anyone can do to increase your access to adequate water supplies is to set up a rain capture system that will allow you to harvest the water that falls from the sky for your own use. Of course, when you begin to collect rainwater using the basic, time-tested design of gutter to spout to rain barrel to storage, it will be necessary in most cases to treat the water by filtering it before you...
Read More »Growing Beautiful Melons
Melons have been enjoyed for more than 4,000 years. They originated in the hot valleys of southwest Asia, specifically in India and Iran. Early American settlers grew honeydew and casaba melons from seed brought with them from home as early as the 1600s. The first mention of melons in recorded history was found in John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins in 1395. It suggests that the word was derived from the word Melos (the Greek Cyclades Islands, best known for...
Read More »Natural Pain Relief
Many people suffer with chronic pain. If you do, you have probably tried over-the-counter treatments, prescription medications, and other treatments, but the pain goes on. You may be asking if there are natural treatments for chronic pain, but lets try to understand a little something about chronic pain before we discuss treatments....
Read More »Saving Seed For Future Harvests
Maybe you are too young to remember, but there was once a time when packaged seed was rare. In those days, next year’s harvest depended on successfully harvesting seed from this year’s vegetables. Saving seed may not be as necessary ...
Read More »Financially Fragile: 50% Of All Americans
How would you rate your financial health? Most of us would like to have more money, but we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as financially fragile. Yet the harsh reality is that faced with a financial challenge, many American families ...
Read More »The Beet Family
Some of you probably looked at the title of today's column and cringed a bit as you remembered those nasty beets you faced in school cafeterias or were served from a can. That's also a shame. Beets got a bad reputation with many people because they've never had them prepared properly. We'll get back to that point in a few moments. As part of my continuing series on vegetable families, I'd like to introduce you to the beet family.
Read More »How To Get Your Business in The News
In recent weeks we’ve shown you how editorial coverage can help promote your business for free. We’ve covered the steps to writing a quality press release, and we’ve given you tips for scoring more PR in your local area. Today we’d like to help you find some unique ways to get your business noticed by the media....
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