Snail Theft Hits France Before Holiday Rush Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....2/04/world/europe/fr

Ruined Rice Fields and Broken Rail Lines: Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Cyclone Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an economic crash.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....2/04/world/asia/sri-

Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....2/04/business/econom

EP 70 Maximizing Soil Function – Stories of Regeneration Part 3 Soil is very much alive. And hungry too. Some estimates go as far as saying that there is more life in a teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on the planet. You just need a microscope to see the vast majority of it. Or you do what grain farmer Blake Vince did, and bury a pair of “tighty whities” (underwear) in the soil to produce proof of the existence of this vast and diverse soil microbial community. In the soil, you’ve got well-known critters like earthworms, bacteria and fungi and lesser-known ones like protozoa and nematodes, who have this tendency to eat the bacteria and fungi. In this bustling environment where a lot of things are eating each other, there is an exchange between soil organisms and plants so both sides of the equation get what they need to survive and thrive and produce food for the rest of us living above ground. This interaction between the soil and plants is something that fascinated Blake Vince, who farms mainly soya and corn in southwestern Ontario
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I would like the Ground to Freeze! Swath Grazing! Burning Brush Piles! Almost got Stuck!
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