Pages From an Ozark Herbal is now online in HTML. I have made a lot of major changes since previous PDF drafts, including more/better sketches, significant cleanup of text, some new reference sources, and some new photos. In the next couple of months, I have a dozen plants to add along with a number of new drawings for existing entries.
At some point in the next couple of days I will try to put up a PDF file for download, as long as it does not end up obscenely large.
There are several bills currently under discussion in the Missouri legislature which would prohibit participation in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) mandated by the USDA. Implementing NAIS would be crippling to many small and family farm operations, so we strongly support these bills. This article provides background on the issues, discusses the proposed legislation and summarizes our recent conversation with our district representative, Don Ruzicka. [Updated]
