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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Heirloom"”.
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Investigation of Yield and Quality of Grafted Heirloom and Hybrid Tomatoes
Tomatoes (<i>Lycopersicon esculentum Mill</i>) are one of the most popular vegetable crops grown for fresh market and processing in the U.S. Grafting involves the uniting of a shoot or bud scion with a rootstock to form a compound plant, mainly for managing soil-borne diseases and increasing crop …
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Heirloom and Hybrid Tomato Yield and Quality in Organic and Conventional Production Systems
… yield and quality of three tomato cultivars, two heirlooms and one hybrid, under organic and conventional management techniques to see if producers concerns are valid. The heirloom cultivars used were 'Cherokee Purple' (CP) and 'Mr. Stripey', (MS) the hybrid cultivar was 'Crista' (CR). The study …
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Metal Dissolution From Silver Plated Flatware by Organic Acids
Many pieces of heirloom dishware and flatware continue to see occasional use. Because most flatware items are made of metal and ingestion of certain metals can cause serious health effects, the safety of using heirloom items must be examined. The goal of this effort is to determine the character …
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heirlooms in search of the fifth ecology
… Awakening. A time that requires a new type of heirloom seed institution, one that is decentralized and accessible, one that designs for the entire life-cycle of the seed. Where once in nature, heirloom seeds found ways to move by themselves, by wind, by ocean current, in the bellies of animals, …
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Improvement of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for regional food systems in the northeastern United States
… improved agronomic performance to non-commodity, heirloom-like market classes that hold potential for increased consumer engagement and higher grower returns. To this end, Chapter II describes efforts to combine important disease resistance for three major pathogens in the northeastern United …
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Bottling Hell: Myth-Making, Cultural Identity And The Datil Pepper Of St. Augustine, Florida
… datil is a locally popular and regionally unique heirloom pepper endemic to St. Augustine and the surrounding environs. A romantic origin story and local lore are embedded on this spicy pepper, tying it to north Florida's Minorcan population, a group descended from indentured workers brought to …
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Educational hardware for feedback systems
… the inverted pendulum - a decades-old Course VI heirloom and featured demonstration - is restored to its past glory.
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Effects of plastic mulch, row cover, and cultivar selection on growth of tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculerntum Mill.) in high tunnels
… greater for Merced than any other cultivar. The heirloom tomato cultivar Brandywine produced significantly less early total and grade 1 fruit per plant than Merced or BHN 543.
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Daughters of Shanghai
… set that’s worth more than money. It’s a family heirloom that for three hundred years has been passed down from mother to daughter. After the communists won the civil war, it became a bourgeois relic and a crime to own. Its motif depicts a snowy scene, the Tao plum tree, Confucian bamboo, and …
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Darwinian humility : epistemological applications of evolutionary science
… evolved or exists. In "Human Morality: Lie or Heirloom?," I argue that, contrary to the popular conception of their descent, human moral belief systems might ultimately be the result of ancient parental deception. The project unfolds against the backdrop of Darwinian naturalism, that all living …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
… of utility; resisting commodification through heirloom-value; and resisting consumerism with a scrap-quilt aesthetic.</p>
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Digital life stories: Semi-automatic (auto)biographies within lifelog collections
… artistic endeavours and as a generational heirloom.
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Fruit cluster pruning impacts on yield and quality of three tomato cultivars in an organic high tunnel system
… were 'Cherokee Purple', a widely-studied heirloom, and two hybrids: 'Jet Star' and 'Lola'. Parameters measured included total yield, individual fresh fruit weight, soluble solids content, marketable yield, and non-marketable yield. Averaged over two growing seasons, individual fresh fruit …
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Unearthing living memory: from displacement to place making in 'Konstansie'
… river and Strawberry lane. Protected heirloom seeds serve as vessels for alternative narratives where growth and storytelling are intertwined. The act of collection and banking, allows for memory to be gathered where seeds become repositories genetic and cultural memory, serving as …
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Molla's music
… liberation practised in plain sight, on the only heirloom that persists from her past. When she dies, her granddaughter has a heritage that beckons to be resolved and remembered. She does not play the piano she inherited from her grandmother, but starts to investigate its past. In the course of …