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Post by castanea on Sept 26, 2012 23:38:42 GMT -5
Just a couple pics from today's market, I think my chubby baldness adds needed gravitas to the display. And the other side. Nice display!
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Post by oxbowfarm on Oct 28, 2012 20:49:59 GMT -5
Found a new predator on the farm this month. Seems quite vicious.
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Post by steev on Oct 28, 2012 21:46:51 GMT -5
Hope that's mostly an herbivore!
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Post by templeton on Oct 31, 2012 6:01:14 GMT -5
Hey, identify with the chubby baldness, Oxbow! Wanna swap aches and pains stories?
Nice display by the way. Love the contrapuntal yellow/green bean display.
Could some explain the 'bit' as a unit of exchange?
T
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Post by oxbowfarm on Oct 31, 2012 6:36:48 GMT -5
Its a throwback to a point in our colonial history when the most common hard currency was the Spanish silver real. They'd cut them up in eight "bits" to facilitate making change.
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Post by templeton on Oct 31, 2012 7:05:01 GMT -5
Hmm.. gotta love that quirky north american attachment to historical anachronisms, hanging on to a unit of exchange that doesn't have a physical representation. Gives me hope... Was there ever fractional units of the US cent, in the way the British had the farthing? Oops, a bit off topic T
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Post by Drahkk on Oct 31, 2012 11:30:09 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 31, 2012 14:40:51 GMT -5
Now is that the predator who helped figure out pumpkin storage? Or is this a new one? Wow! Beets are sky high out there. Here they're getting $1.00 a bunch organic!
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Post by steev on Nov 1, 2012 0:10:33 GMT -5
Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar. I find few of the youthful here are any more familiar with this monetary convention than they are with the meaning of "lavatory". Language and cultural idioms change. One tries not to feel the poorer for it.
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Post by blueadzuki on Nov 1, 2012 7:22:58 GMT -5
Also while not "official" (at least on the Federal level), during the Great Depression, when change was at a premium and nethier people nor the goverments had the funds to make rounding a viable option, a lot of states (especially in the West and Midwest" issued tokens for the payment of sales tax denominated in "mills" (tenths of a cent). oh and technically the British system went a lot further down than the farthing, especially during the Victorian era. a farthing (1/4 of a british penny) was as small as was normally found in cirulation but the Victorian government issued smaller. There were half farthings (1/8) third farthings (1/12)(though those were technically minted for those colonies (like Malta) where British money circulated alonside that minted for the colonies, but where the native population was poorer and needed smaller denominations. They were legal tender in England though) and as far down as the quarter farthing (1/16th) there was also a silver 1 1/2 penny coin, minted for those who wanted to maximize specie. A common concept, in the days when all of the coinage was made of precios metals (and where, in theory, the face value of the coin was supposed to be EXACTLY equal to the value of the precios metal in it). was that copper coinage was really only useful for dividing up, and that since copper was non-precious, coins made of it were devoid of any real value (for a lot of our early national history, 1 cent coins were only legal for transaction up to 10 cents, 2 cent pieces up to 20, 1/2 up to 5. Beyond that, you HAD to pay in silver or gold.) Because of this, very small silver coins were often part of the issues of nations, to allow people to minimize the amount of copper in thier savings.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 10, 2013 10:36:22 GMT -5
Couple of pics from this morning. Outdoor plantings under row-cover near House #1 and 2. Interior shot of House #4 Spinach, beets, arugula, mizuna, radishes, chervil, dill, cilantro and couple of little blocks of oats and barley. This house is going to roll onto the next area sometime this week, these things don't need the house now and it will be easier to weed in the open.
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Post by synergy on Apr 10, 2013 11:21:09 GMT -5
Regarding the market display photo; from a female consumers perspective , it is visually appealing and oh my gosh, the signs even are colour coordinated to the vegetable . Nice !
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Post by steev on Apr 10, 2013 11:41:29 GMT -5
"Chubby Gravitas"? Wasn't he an associate of Nicely Nicely in "Guys and Dolls"?
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Post by dustdevil on Apr 11, 2013 10:08:07 GMT -5
Interior shot of House #4 Spinach, beets, arugula, mizuna, radishes, chervil, dill, cilantro and couple of little blocks of oats and barley. This house is going to roll onto the next area sometime this week, these things don't need the house now and it will be easier to weed in the open. Hi OX. House #4 is on wheels? How do you move it over without breaking/damaging it's spine? Could you please post a pic of your wheel setup?
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Post by bunkie on Apr 11, 2013 11:01:31 GMT -5
Yes ox, I was wondering about that too, moving the house. Everything looks like it's coming along nicely. Your market display is tops!
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