This is Witchpace news for Friday the 29th of March 2024, I'm CMDR Buur. In Elite Dangerous News this week, we've an update on accessing the two Titan debris fields and we take a look at the first powerplay 2.0 details released breaking down what it will mean for the galaxy later this year. You know how this bit goes, please like, subscribe and ding that little bell so that YouTube shows you all our content and if you'd like to directly help our work here at the Burpit you can also support us through Patreon, links to that and everything else are in the description below. Before we get into the main subject of today's news we wanted to let you know that the caustic cloud around the former Titan Taranis has now all but completely dissipated. Whilst there is still a green haze the caustic effects of the cloud have stopped completely and the wreck can be explored and indeed pillaged almost without resistance. I say almost without resistance as the Thargoids themselves do jump into the system but whilst they're not completely passive they're nowhere near the danger that they were and there are also NPC AX patrols that will engage them. The second Titan to be destroyed, Leigong this week entered its first phase of caustic cloud dissipation. You can now enter the cloud but the caustic damage permeates throughout the entirety of the still rather dense mist so caustic sinks are advised if you intend to visit. As we've reported previously these can now be purchased from one of the bubble's many rescue mega ships without the need for a material based unlock. The community goal that we reported on last week to recover Titan Drive components is still running up until the next Thursday's server tick and we're seeing a degree of anecdotal evidence at least that Leigong is a better source of those components than Taranis if you're having trouble locating them. The monthly frontier unlocked livestream arrived on Wednesday this week and with it came what had been built to be a deep dive into the power play refresh that is expected to arrive later this year. The original plan frontier for the livestream was that Simon Brewer who is a principal pipeline artist at the company would be interviewed on the show. Simon was unfortunately taken ill on Wednesday and so lead game designer on Elite Dangerous Luke Betten valiantly jumped into the breach at the last minute instead in a pre-recorded interview. Holly Bennett who had previously co-hosted the last two frontier unlocked streams alongside Arthur Tolmey unfortunately left frontier developments in the last month meaning that poor Arthur was left to front almost the entire stream completely on his own a job that he very ably managed with a plomb. In a tweet earlier in the week the stream had been billed as a quote deep dive unquote that deep dive moniker set a somewhat different expectation for the stream's content than was actually delivered on the night as what we actually saw had more of a first look feel to it rather than featuring an in depth look into the mechanics of power play 2.0 the stream instead offered a more surface level look at some of the artwork and assets that are being wielded as part of the update with some broader overview looks at what their inclusion means to the revamped system. That's not to say the stream was without value quite the opposite in fact and what was revealed starts to give a clearer picture of where frontier are going with power play for the uninitiated power play as it stands in very broad terms allows commanders to pledge their service to a galactic superpower and more specifically one of the political figures within that superpower to increase that individuals influence and reach and gain rewards as a result one of the problems with the current system and there are many is that the effects of power play and the given powers reach and influence aren't largely echoed in the game world outside of a few rather dry maps and charts what was shown and talked about as part of the interview with Luke was how the effects of power play in the galaxy will actually be reflected in the live game environment when power play 2.0 launches to demonstrate this principle the interview started by showing the now familiar starport interior space in three different stages of power play influence exploited fortified and stronghold with each state change came increased visual cues to reflect the amount of power and influence that in this case Ashling Duval had over the system the exploited state demonstrated some light propaganda in the form of adverts carrying Ashling's name and some imperial insignia on the floors and Luke also mentioned that in the early stages of a powers encroachment on a system we may even see graffiti reflecting the local populations initial resistance to a power entering a system as the states progressed through fortified and into eventually stronghold the amount of propaganda increased demonstrating a degree more permanence eventually showing up as large amounts of physical signage with huge hanging portraits of Ashling Duval adorning the ceilings the conversation also mentioned that what they referred to as the station's vending machines would display different content depending on the power that was in place in the system by vending machines we're assuming the team are referring to the station's mission terminals and exactly how the content their changes isn't yet clear and wasn't shown on the stream the conversation also briefly touched on a further state that isn't yet being shown that state being contested the team didn't elaborate any more on any details but there definitely was an implication that perhaps there is more to a contested station where two powers are vying for direct control with each other that perhaps is reflected in more than just the aesthetics but we'll have to wait for a future livestream to get more information on that next the conversation moved on to show the reworked power play filter in the galaxy map in the current iteration the various powers sphere of influence are shown as literal coloured bubbles whilst it can be impressive to look at in its current form it's also somewhat unwieldy and oftentimes it can be difficult to get a solid handle on who is where the footage shown of the new map instead replaces the hard border bubbles with blooms of colour to show the various influences and system states which it's hoped will make it altogether more readable Arthur mentioned that one of the goals of the reworked map will be to help players find a power pledge to it and see their efforts having a meaningful impact on the galaxy describing it as a far more reflective system in terms of player effort to reward Luke was also keen to point out the new system overall will make it clearer if players are pushing back against your power and where that push is happening the final thing that Arthur and Luke showed was a feature that will appear in a powers stronghold system that feature being a stronghold carrier fleet the carrier at the centre of the fleet would act as a hub for players supporting the associated faction and it was surrounded by a number of capital class support vessels none of the ships shown were of a specific class that is present in the game at the moment but they all shared components and design cues that are very much present in the game and at least one of the support vessels was of a specific design that was originally destined to be an exploration themed fleet carrier from the original gamescom official fleet carrier reveal trailer in around 2019 before the fleet carrier system was redesigned into what we know today you'll find our original coverage of those designs linked on screen now if you haven't seen it before the official frontier trailer that it references has since been removed after frontier redesigned how fleet carriers were going to work if you're not a supporter of the power that owns the fleet then it's fair to say they're not likely to be terribly welcoming of your presence without giving any more details the team did say that opposing players would be able to mess with the carrier in some regard in the footage shown we can clearly see for example some of the familiar cargo hold door systems that can be hacked and opened on existing mega ships in the game using the right equipment so it's a fair bet that these existing mechanics and perhaps a few others at the very least will be implemented here as well whilst we don't yet know any of the finer details of how powerplay is going to work in 2.0 it's very apparent that one of frontiers goals has been to make its presence felt in the game even if you're not actively participating in it one of powerplay's many problems at the moment is that an awful lot of players don't actually know it exists and if they do know they don't really have a reason to care about it beyond the acquisition of some of the more unusual and powerful modules it provides as well as making its presence felt in the game to the average player fdev have to make power play matter to that same average player beyond the aforementioned gear acquisition it's the gameplay that's associated with getting players to care about powerplay as well as the important visual cues we've now seen that will ultimately draw more players in and we're very intrigued to see what frontier have planned for that gameplay in a future update what do you think of the powerplay reveals in this month's stream will you be trying powerplay for the first time later this year and what gameplay would you like to see around the new carrier fleets let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then oh seven commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time


or all the employees in Qatar in different sections or in different sections. What I have to let you, the latest information that is coming from the Ministry of Public Health is that those that have been confirmed of COVID-19 and have been quarantined for the last 14 days, the 14 days as per the Ministry of Public Health are called C-cliff days. And your employer has to pay a full salary for those 14 days. Likewise, the seven days where you have what you call health isolation. Health isolation, what do we mean by health isolation? We look at those days where you have to isolate yourself when you are feeling like you have signs of COVID-19. As per the Ministry, those days are also called C-cliff days. So guys take it right. Let's say for example, you felt uncomfortable. You felt uncomfortable on Monday. You feel like you have signs of corona. You'll have what you call a health isolation for the seven days. Those seven days, you will take what you call the Ministry officials will take what you call a PCR test or what you call a COVID-19 test. But when they realize that you are COVID-19 positive or if they realize that you have COVID-19 or corona, you will have to quarantine yourself for the more 14 days. Meaning the seven days before, which are isolation days, plus the 14 days of quarantine, all those days are called C-cliff days as per the Ministry of Public Health. So guys, check that one out. So make sure as you leave the hospital or as you leave the quarantine center wherever you will be, take that C-cliff certificate that has those days spent because it is the same certificate that you'll have to give to your employer so that he can pay your full salary as per the information that is coming from the Ministry of Public Health. However, the Ministry also states that we have we have two categories. We have two categories. We have what we call the active infectious. Then we have the Nani infectious. For the active infectious, we are looking at the active infectious, actually we are looking at the situation whereby you have the signs of COVID-19. The real signs of COVID-19, like you have fever, you have high fever, you have cough, you have short shortness of breath, then you have difficult to breathe. That means at that time you have Corona, but still they will not still a PCR test will be taken to certify that you have Corona. So you will go under what you call the quarantine, you will go to quarantine or you will be hospitalized or hospitalized for quarantine for the 14 days until you get to recover. The minutes we say is those days that the 14 days that the employer spends in the hospital are cold sick leave and your employer should make, should pay for those days. So guys, don't forget to get your certificate, health certificate paper when after you complete those 14, after you complete those 14 days of isolation. We have two things that we need to understand and that is what you call the infectious and infectious. Remember I told you that the infectious, the infectious, the infectious signs, all the active infectious, we are looking at the real signs that are associated with Corona. Like for example, high fever, cough, shortness of breath, then you also have what you call difficult to breathe. So that means the quarantine days you will have will be 14 days until you recover. Then we have what you call the non infectious. The non infectious is that you have the signs that look or that show like you have Corona, but it's not Corona, but how? Those signs can be verified by the medical team by taking your PCR test. But if they realize that you are negative or your PCR test report is negative, they will advise you to health isolate yourself for seven days to see if they can track more signs of COVID-19. So guys, I just want to remind you, I just want to let you know that still even those seven days that you have to health isolate the cold, sick leave as per the Ministry of Public Health. And as per that time, as per that time, that old employers who have health isolation or quarantine for the 14 days are entitled to a sick leave payment or a full payment of a salary. Okay. So we say that we say that we say that look at an example that for the infectious, we look at for the infectious for the infectious signs. When you have Corona, normally you can normally these are situations where you come into touch with the person infected with Corona or when you tested and you caught COVID-19 positive. So that means they will have to quarantine you in the hospital or any in a quarantine center that is available per the Ministry of Public Health. And if you have the non-infectious signs, the Ministry of Public Health says you can do what you call, you can do what you call, you can do health isolation whereby you can isolate yourself from your home provided you have that enough space that can enable you to isolate.  But remember guys for all this that we have to say still we have to consider that we have to consider the professional measures or we have to take into consideration the professional measures that are put in place by the Ministry of Public Health for us for the safety of our lives and for the safety of the people we work with all the time. Remember don't forget to put on your mask whatever you have to move out in the crowds you should put that one as one priority. Social distancing also is very important just the protection of you and me and to avoid getting into getting and avoid getting into touch with either the affected person at a time. Also the Minister of Public Health also says that and says that all your atras should be on all the time. Atras should be on all the time because it is one tracker that will enable track in case you come into contact with the affected or infected persons. So guys let us take care of ourselves, let us follow the guidelines that are being given by the Ministry of Public Health for our safety for my safety and for the safety of people around. But remember whenever you take those days either the 14 days or the 17 days remember to take the sick leave certificate that is from the doctor you have that sick leave certificate that you will have to present all the six certificate that you have to present to your employer so that he can pay you your full salary or he can pay you your full money at the time. 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So I want to keep this a practical video on basically how to take your heart rate really you're lying in bed and Bear in mind you can do this any you don't have to do it in bed I mean obviously your morning heart rate resting heart rate needs to be done in bed But if you want to take your pulse in the middle of the day or if you want to take your pulse out on run manually You can do that too. There's really two ways to do it Two fingers not your thumb because there's more of a pulse in your thumb So use these two fingers and under here on the side here. There's a little I Don't know what to call it in there You'll find it. There's a place where you can feel your pulse. So just play around a little bit be quiet And there it is, you know, that's your pulse you can't find it. Just look around a little bit The other place is here on the wrist on the side of the thumb Going down here. There's like a couple of tendons and in between those two tendons You can feel your pulse It's best on the left arm because it's closest to the heart, but you can do it on the right arm too Play around again find your spot and there it is. There's the pulse now in order to take your pulse you have to obviously Have a watch because you have to have a you have to time it. It's beats per minute, right? So if you want to do a full minute you can do that and that's what I do in the morning I'm just chilling out. I'll take a full minute. I'll just put my fingers there I'll look at the watch and It'll just be in some kind of random place. Let's say now. It's on 15 16 17 seconds 19 20 hits 20. I start counting Then I'm just counting counting counting and every now and then I'll have a look at the watch And then as soon as it's approaching 20 again one minute later I'll get ready and then 20. Okay, stop and then whatever I count to do. That's my Beats per minute. That's my heart rate. Usually in the morning for me. It's about 50 Nowadays as you're getting fitter your resting heart rate will also go down So that's one way to do it But of course if you're you know, if you don't want to spend one minute You can obviously do 20 seconds and just time whatever number you get to by three and then you have 60 seconds one minute Even lower you can do 10 seconds But you know the lower you go in terms of the seconds the more room for error there is so But that's something you have to keep in mind when I'm out for a run if I use my watch it, you know, it reads the heart rate from my heart rate Monitor but Every now and then I want to check if it's correct. I want to just do a manual test and Because when you're stopping to take your heart rate your heart rate will start going down, right? If you're out running you start recovering as soon as you stop So you have to be quick you have to take your heart rate quick and what I do then is that I just do do it for like six seconds I count it for six seconds and then I just time it by 10 You know, so if my heart rate is 12 for six seconds I know my heart rate is roughly around 120 beats per minute, right? I Think that's it though. I think that is for today You know, it's a good tool Taking a heart rate and it's really pretty easy You just but it takes a little bit of practice to begin with finding where to do the heart rate as well as being able to sort of Look at the seconds on the watch While counting there you have you don't have to you shouldn't focus on counting the seconds then you lose track count your heart rate but just Lock in on the number where you started. So if I'm starting at 30 seconds, I'll just Start counting I knew I know I started at 30 seconds and then when it reaches 30 seconds again I'll stop counting so that takes a little bit of practice, but you'll get the hang of it soon enough We can talk more about heart rate another time. There's a lot to say about heart rate. The heart is an essential organ For health for the body. I mean you wouldn't live without the heart But especially as endurance athletes were very interested in how the heart works So I'd love to get into that in future videos. Let me know in the comments what you think about this Do you take your morning heart rate? What is your resting heart rate endurance athletes? They always like like to brag about their resting heart rate as I said minus It's about 15 nowadays. I've been down to like 46 45 at one point Probably due to some other reasons than fitness though Let me know your resting heart rate and Yeah, if you have any questions Want to learn more or whatever you can always contact me You can just go to our website at sweet natural living calm and go to the contact and you can send me an email there Hope your running is going well. Thanks for watching. Hope you're having a good day. See you around


Welcome, everyone. My name is Julie Garden Robinson and I'm your host for today's Field to Fork webinar. This is brought to you by North Dakota State University Extension. This is the seventh year we've done the series and we're so glad you joined us today. The next slide shows our upcoming webinars. Next week, Byron, an assistant professor and extension food safety specialist from the University of Nebraska will be joining us and telling us about developing safe food products. So if you've ever thought of coming up with your own food product, I think you'll learn a lot from him. Following that, we'll have Jan, who's a professor and extension entomologist from NDSU, talking with us about attracting pollinators to your garden. The next slide shows our webinar controls. Because of our large number of participants, we've had over 750 join us for the entire series. We invite you to post your comments in the chat box. So let's practice finding and using the chat box. So click to open the chat and then type your city and state in the chat. And while you're doing that, our next slide provides an acknowledgement. I have a special request. I asked that you do our survey at the end of this program. We ask that every week that you participate. This program is sponsored in part with grant funding from the USDA's agricultural marketing service. So again, right after our, our webinar, there will be an online survey that will be emailed to you directly. And I will be providing prizes to the lucky winners and I have lots of prizes so you can even win more than one prize. So be sure to include your complete address on the follow up form and be sure to include your city, state and zip code. Again, I welcome you to today's webinar and I'm very pleased to introduce our speaker. Esther McGinnis is an associate professor in the North Dakota State University Department of Plant Sciences. I'm also an extension horticulturalist and the director of the extension master gardener program, and I'm sure there are several of you master gardeners on the call. For graduate students conduct research in the areas of native plant evaluation, pollinator conservation and plants for rain garden environments. The administrator of the extension master gardener program, impactful initiatives include planting pollinator habitat fighting food insecurity community beautification and basic plant diagnoses. So thank you so much Esther for your talk and it's all yours. Julie, and thank you for inviting me I always enjoy interacting with your field to fork audience. They're always a very gracious and receptive audience. Well today, I'm going to be talking to you about fighting food insecurity in our communities. So that's kind of a deep topic for us today. Now my talk is going to be a little on in on the unorthodox side so I'm going to tell you instead of, I'm not going to give you an outline what I'm going to talk about instead I'm going to give you an outline about what this talk isn't about. So this is not going to be your typical gardening talk I'm not going to give you recommendations for the best cultivars of beans I'm not going to tell you how to prevent powdery mildew on cucumbers. This talk is not going to be about problems in some distant community or some distant country instead we're going to be focusing on problems that are in our region and may even be in our neighborhoods. This isn't to talk about just an urban problem. We're going to talk about rural problems to. First of all, this is not about situations that are beyond your control. So we've got a lot of situations out there that we have no control over we have no control over what's going on in the Ukraine. We really haven't had control over COVID and such. So instead, I prefer to focus on programming where we can make a difference where we can have an impact, because then we're motivated to go out and do something that we can really change our communities. And I have, you know, I've built my career on making a difference. So I started off in law, and I have to admit at a certain point I left that profession to study horticulture and to eventually work for extension, because I wanted to have an impact on our communities for the better. And that's what this whole program is about. Now, there may be some of you saying how can I have an impact. Well, I love this African proverb. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. So I want all of us to be mosquitoes by the end of this presentation. The first thing we need to do before we can understand how we can make a difference is we need to understand the problem and understand the scope and realize that it's an immediate problem in our communities. When I think of North Dakota, I feel a lot of pride. This is my home state. I'm really proud of our agriculture industry, because we're number one in the production of so many things. We're number one in the production of dry edible beans, navy beans, pinto beans, number one in the production of canola that goes into canola oil, flaxseed, honey, and dry edible peas. But when I think of my great home state of North Dakota, I think of us as being the bread basket of the United States. So we're number one in the production of Durham wheat, we produce spring wheat. So really a land of plenty. But at the same time, there are disparities. Now I found this data on a feeding America website, and this is a snapshot in time showing that approximately one out of every 15 North Dakotans experiences food insecurity. So roughly about 50,000 people. Now keep in mind this really is a snapshot this does fluctuate with the economy this fluctuates with all the shocks that we've had. And we're going to talk a little bit more about that, but just know that a significant number of people and this is data coming to us from feeding America. We know that more children than adults are food insecure so one out of 11 children are food insecure. So what is food insecurity seems like everybody uses it in a little different manner. So I turned to the USDA for the definition and the USDA definition is lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. So think about that a little bit more. It's quite a simple definition when you think about it. It doesn't seem to tell a whole lot. At the same time, it's broad enough to encompass a couple of different things. When you think of food insecurity, there's a lot of people that think about quantity. So people not having enough food, you know, which would be synonymous with, with hunger, you know, whether that's on a day to day basis or whether that's infrequently. That's one end of the spectrum. But this food security definition is broad enough to encompass quality also, which implies nutrition.  You know, they may not be hungry, but at the same time they may not have access to food that helps them live an active, healthy life because they're not eating the fruits and vegetables are not getting the antioxidants and vitamins. So food insecurity encompasses both hunger but also the lack of nutritious food. That ends of the spectrum. And to make that just a little bit clearer. We've got the survey from the USDA, and you know it's showing different characteristics of individuals that are food insecure. So we've got some individuals that are experiencing anxiety that their food would run out. For some individuals, the food that they purchased did not last until their next paycheck. So individuals that could not afford a balanced meal. So this is where nutrition comes in. And then we get to more of the, what we think of as hunger. People are eating smaller meals or they skipped a meal. They ate less than they wanted to. People are very hungry and started, you know, skipping meals and actually lost weight, or did not eat entire days. So you see the full gamut of what food insecurity encompasses. Food insecurity is not just an urban phenomenon. We've got food insecurity in every county in North Dakota. But there are five counties that have food insecurity rates that are greater than 10%, two of them are urban and three or not. So Cass County, which includes Fargo and then Grand Forks County are of course urban. But we have three other counties, Benson, Roulette and Sioux County that have greater than 10% food insecurity rates. But we have, we have food insecurity in every county regardless of whether it's rural or if it's urban. We have data showing that food insecurity has fluctuated and worsened during the beginning of our COVID-19 pandemic. So when, when the pandemic struck, it certainly had a great effect. And the Great Plains Food Day Food Bank data shows this. In 2019, the year before the pandemic started, Great Plains Food Bank, which, which occupies, you know, most of North Dakota and goes a little bit into Minnesota. They provided the equivalent of 12 and a half million meals to over 100,000 individuals. So with the pandemic, the demand for food greatly increased and we saw that close to 18 million meals were provided by Great Plains Food Bank to, you know, close to 146,000 individuals. So you see how this fluctuated, and it increased by 42%. Unfortunately, we're over the worst of the pandemic and the economy seemed to be on the up and up during 2021, but then we, we have new challenges that are happening we have inflation. I went to the grocery store yesterday and I was just shocked at what hamburger costs. And we know that our, our supply chain issues are having a major effect on inflation so food prices are going up the price of gasoline. So for individuals that cost more for them to get to work so maybe they have to then, you know, purchase less as far as food. So inflation is having an impact and we saw that coming into play in 2021. So we have the Ukraine and Ukraine is also the war and the Ukraine is having a major impact in that the Ukraine is a big producer of wheat and barley. So we know that they're not able to plant their crops at this point in time and that may have an impact on our food prices because, you know, we're a global economy. And so this is coming into play and will will make matters worse for those individuals that are food insecure in 2022. Now, fortunately, we have fantastic food pantries. So think of the food bank as being kind of the overarching structure like the wholesaler that that sends supplies to food pantries and the food pantries are what we deal with at the local level. So food pantries provide, you know, lots of wonderful meals to our individuals in the communities. And you'll notice that they're of a certain type. You'll see a lot of canned goods and also box goods at food pantries and this is because they're shelf stable. So it makes sense that food pantries don't have enough room to refrigerate everything so they want a lot of canned goods and a lot of box goods. But at the same time, they recognize that fresh fruits and vegetables are very rare, but very valuable for individuals. So we do have food pantries that have refrigerators that can accommodate fresh fruits and vegetables, but there's fewer of them that are donated. And the types of fruits and vegetables that are donated tend to be past their prime. So think Hornbockers or cash wise that are donating strawberries that are close to spoiling or maybe there may be even some that have some mold on them. So what's being donated isn't necessarily of the best quality. So there's just fewer fresh fruits and vegetables that are available to those that are food insecure and that drastically affects their nutrition. So this was a point of inspiration for the master gardener program. So the master gardener program has been working in this area since 2014 so we've been donating fresh fruits and vegetables and having master gardeners earn volunteer credit since 2014 and they've had a major impact. Now, I could spend an hour talking about the impact that master gardeners have had in respect to food security but I limited myself to one slide here, because I want to make sure I've got time to inspire you to go and do good in your communities. So the end you see extension master gardeners impact with respect to food security is we have lots of groups that have tended large community gardens, you know, such as our might not master gardeners tended a fantastic community garden and they send hundreds and hundreds of pounds of produce to their local food pantry. We have Cass County master gardeners that work with Jack Wood and growing together where they work with new Americans, and teach them how to grow fruits and vegetables and share the bounty of their gardens with them therefore fighting food insecurity. We've got master gardeners that have started seed library so I'm thinking James Town and Fargo in particular, and what they have done is they have solicited seed donations for major companies package them into smaller seed packets, and then provided them to library patrons that would otherwise not have been able to afford seeds to grow their own food. We have master gardeners that have gleaned crops that were still in the field. And then our veggies for the pantry works in Cass in Clay counties. They have a little unique take on it. Their approach is to ask home gardeners to bring their surplus to collection points throughout the metro area on Monday nights. After work, you know we've got these fantastic collection points people take their produce to them, and the produce is then delivered in the morning to the food pantries. So since 2014, this collection of individuals has grown collected gleaned and donated on close to 111,000 pounds of produce, which is the equivalent of 444,000 servings. This is all the work of individuals, but I, and collectively it has this massive impact. So, decided to use this quote here I don't know this particular individual but I love the quote individually, we are one drop, and together we are an ocean. So this is at the point where I want to plead with you to help make a difference for North Dakota food pantries.  So I'm starting big we'll get to the home gardeners here. If you're a home gardener, think about planting an extra row of vegetables specifically for the food pantry. I love this picture here I wish this were my garden this isn't but but you can you get the picture you know plant an extra row, and then take care of it and donate that to the food pantry. If you're lucky enough, maybe you have a number of raised garden beds. I consider dedicating one raised garden bed as a giving garden for the pantry and then, you know, get your kids involved get your whole family involved in growing that one plot, and you can teach them not just horticulture and gardening, but teach them the joys of sharing the bounty of your garden with those that are in need. So there are a lot of life lessons that we could be that we could be teaching in a giving garden, or if you consider if you're like running a daycare. There are lots of opportunities where you can get others involved in being generous. I'm going to leave out the apartment dwellers. The apartment dwellers may not have room for may not have an in ground garden, but consider planting an extra container, you know on your balcony or, or on your patio. So there are ways that all of us can become involved all of us can have a deeper stake in our community and be able to share with those that are food insecure.  It doesn't have to be that row if you'd rather just, you know, take bits and pieces from all parts of your garden, it will be greatly appreciated by your food pantry, but it's a family effort because a lot of lessons can be learned here. I have an incentive for you. Now I don't want to sound like a TV salesman here but I really, really want to motivate you to help your local food pantries. The Extension Master Gardener program has done is we, we just purchased a bunch of seed packets so they're coming in the mail just ordered them yesterday. And this is specifically for our field to fork audience here, but we have ordered five different types of vegetable seed packets like carrot, carrot, Lincoln P, Blue Lake Beans, Space Master Cucumber and Detroit Red Beets. So these are crops that would be greatly appreciated by food pantries. Now we'll send you a free packet of seeds. If you agree to donate some amount to the local food pantry from your garden, and then report the totals to us at the NDSU Extension Master Gardener program at the end of the season. So I'm willing to send you free seeds, but we would love to see you donate some of your produce to the food pantry in return. So as a further incentive, we want to help you be successful in the garden. We would send you an email once or twice a month that will give you some gardening tips because we want to help you grow the most that you can so you will have access to share with food pantries.  So how do you prevent that, or how do you deal with blossom and rotten peppers and tomatoes. How do you grow in your giving garden? What would be the most useful for food pantries? Well, fortunately, that question has been answered for us. The North Dakota Department of Egg has put together a list of the most valuable produce for food pantries, and this includes apples, beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, melons, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, winter squash, and zucchini. So you'll notice that the list here includes the most durable of the vegetables that you would find those that have a little bit longer period of time before they go bad. So you'll notice that lettuce and some of our leafy greens aren't on here. So we want more durable vegetables going to the food pantry and some of these can stay out overnight, if necessary, if in fact refrigerator space is running a little bit low. Well, I should go back. One thing you'll notice here is that you won't see sweet corn on this list. We do have a number of sweet corn producers that donate a large amount to the food pantries. So I wanted to point that out. But other things to think about is, you know, it's better to be donating a commonly known vegetable, one that is a little easier prepared than maybe some of our more exotic vegetables. I think of Swiss chard is being just a, just a hair more exotic than the others and maybe less appreciated at the food pantry. You know, the same with Brussels sprouts, although I have to admit in my household Brussels sprouts are our favorite vegetables, loved put a little olive oil and garlic salt on them just fantastic. But, you know, keeping in mind our audience we want to grow something that they would use. Now the stakeholders at food pantries do vary quite greatly. So while at the same time I'm telling you to grow common stuff, you may want to check with your food pantry, particularly if you have new Americans in your group. So I asked this from Barbara keys one of our master gardener she sent me a list of what new Americans and West Fargo would like to see at the food pantry. So they have a little bit different lists they'd like to see some of the herbs cilantro and parsley they'd love to see Chinese vegetables. So I'm assuming that would be bok choy. They'd love to see some kale pumpkins. So you have to, you have to know who the stakeholders are for the food pantry. And if you do have new Americans in your area they may want some of the more exotic things. If you grow for them maybe consider giving a call to the food pantry and seeing what they would need and what would be really appreciated for their audience. So when in doubt, you know, ask. So where do you donate. The North Dakota Department of egg has a fabulous website is called their hunger free garden project. And it's wonderful we didn't have to compile a list of produce donation sites instead it's already done for us by the Department of egg. So this is last year's map it could change but these are the food pantries that will accept fresh produce donation. And you'll notice that they're scattered across the state in the urban areas there are definitely more than one site. You may notice that in fact your food pantry the closest one to you is not listed on here, but that doesn't mean that they might not necessarily take fresh produce, but in that situation, you may want to call them in advance to make sure. But the food pantries on this particular map are those that have the capacity to refrigerate fresh produce and they tend to have a little bit greater capacity to distribute fresh produce. So here's a little close up of it I just chose my not and I just happened to click on one of the sites. So if you click on the map. You will get this little box on the right. So I'll give you the name of the food pantry, he'll give you the name of the contact, the address, potentially an email, and I'll tell you when that pantry is open. And when are good times to drop off the bounty from your garden. I like that this particular site tells you where to leave it go in door number one and put it on the white shelves. So this is all information that will be at your fingertips thanks to the North Dakota Department of Ag. I'd be remiss in a field to fork seminar if I didn't say something about food safety I've learned a lot about food safety from Julie garden Robinson she has done some some great seminars for you know professional producers and I've learned a thing or two about her so thank you to Julie for that. But I just wanted to mention the food safety tips that apply to growing produce for donation to the food pantry. So with food safety. The first thing is don't use uncomposted manure in your garden. I'd say that uncomposted or aged manure is one of the more dangerous things you can add to your garden because of the risk of salmonella, you know Listeria, Campylobacter E. Coli. So these are all bacteria that cause foodborne diseases, and we want to make sure that we're not getting people sick so we need to be very careful when we grow food for other individuals. If you think of patrons that go to a food pantry, I wouldn't be surprised if a relatively large percentage of them have health difficulties. Maybe they have diabetes or heart disease, or any number of illnesses we certainly don't want to get these individuals sick so food safety has to be paramount in our mind when we're donating to a food pantry. We want to keep animals out of the garden so don't allow your pets in the garden. And if you can, you know figure out a way to fence off your garden that's really helpful and prevents animals from introducing disease born pathogens. Think about how you're applying pesticides and read that label really closely. We really don't want an excess of pesticide residue on the fruits and vegetables that go to food pantries. So read that label really carefully. If there is a pre-harvest interval on there, obey that. So the pre-harvest interval would tell you, okay, you're putting this insecticide on, you need to wait X number of days before you harvest it. So that gives time for some of that residue to go away. When you donate, be picky about what goes to the food pantry. We want quality produce to go. We don't want to donate something that's going to rot or spoil right away, so we wouldn't want to be donating cracked tomatoes. We want to give produce that you would feel comfortable consuming. If you don't feel comfortable consuming it, then it's not a good object to be sent to the food pantry. And in fact, we don't want to add to the burdens on the food pantry of having to sort through everything and throw out what's on the point of spoiling. So we want to take produce to the food pantry that still has some time before it goes bad. And just common sense, wash your hands before harvesting. I've talked with a fair number of producers that have produced for farmers markets and I'm surprised how few people wash their hands. But this is this is really important. I know people think of gardens as being dirty. But that's not what we're necessarily worried about. We're worried about the germs that we could be bringing to the garden on our hands.  If you're reusing a grocery bag, make sure that it's clean. You know, if you happen to have some hamburger juice or something that's leaked, that's not good. That's not good at all. So if you use common sense, you know, one last food safety tip here is to harvest before I mean right before you take it to the food pantry, then you don't have to worry about it so you know, harvest in the morning take it over to the food pantry. If you're going to harvest and it's going to be a couple of days before you get to the food pantry with your delivery then make sure that you refrigerate it. If that particular vegetable requires refrigeration. Now think about as you transport your vegetables to the food pantry, don't put it on the floor of your car, you know, put it in a crate or put a sheet down in your trunk. So we want to make sure that the items are clean. All right, I'm going to put in a plug for the great work that Julie does. So we have lots of food pantries they're like okay so Esther we've got these clients that want to do something with their squash but they don't quite know how to prepare their squash. Now fortunately Julie has a lot of good resources on there. Pinching pennies in the kitchen is quite relevant because you know she talks about using modestly priced ingredients and there are recipes out there for that. And then of course Julie has a lot of great resources on field to fork on how to prepare specific items you know, for example okay you've got these carrots what can you do you know make carrot fries or something along those lines I have to admit I've got one of Julie's recipes and I I'm making carrot fries that were that was on your calendar absolutely just it's one of our favorite recipes. So, and you see extension has the resources to help food pantries you know go from, you know, field to fork. Now to receive seeds from the extension master gardener program we have just a small number of stipulations here. I ask you to agree to donate your produce to a North Dakota food pantry, or you know if it's like a border county or border city like more had or East Grand Forks, you know that we consider that to be close enough. And in fact we do support a lot of our food pantries and more had an East Grand Fork so our master gardeners do contribute to those. We're asking that you report to us at the end of the season, the total amount that you donated to your food pantry and the name of your food pantry. So for me this is a pilot project. We're putting, we're spending money on seed packets from pine tree seeds, we want to see if in fact we are increasing what's being donated to the food pantries. We want to see what sort of impact we're having and you know do we go bigger and better next year so this is all great feed feedback for us. So that's some of the stipulations. We do have a form to use here this is a Google form. So I'm going to ask Scott or Julie to copy and paste that particular form into the chat box. And one of the things that I want to show you out there that's all you need to do is click on the link, and then you can fill in your name and your address and we'll send you a packet of seeds will also ask for your email address. Now here are the seeds that are going to go out again. We're not going to allow you to choose the seeds, you're just going to it's going to be luck of the draw, because otherwise it's going to be too hard for us, you know to keep track of that, etc. So these are the seeds these are some common cultivars that are out there. Please know that our seeds supplies are not unlimited so we're going to limit the number that's going out there. But we just want to provide you with the seeds. Now, can you keep some of this for yourself sure. Can you grow other crops and donate to the food pantry sure but we just want to give you some incentive to do this to think about the food pantry to think about what you're eating. So that that's our attempt here is we'll send you the free seed packet, and ask that you donate something to your local food pantry. I mentioned that we would email you once or twice a month with vegetable gardening tips, some of those will come from you know our master gardener newsletter and such. I'm not going to spam you I don't have time to spam people believe me, all of us in NDSU extension are working very hard. We'll send you an email once or twice a month because we want you to be successful, so that you'll have, you know, wonderful yields and we'll be able to donate your surplus to food pantries. We'll also email you the link to the North Dakota Department of egg, so you can look up where your closest food pantry location is. If you happen to be cast or Clay County, we will email you when veggies for the pantry starts accepting donations. So remember veggies for the pantry collects produce on Monday evenings. So for those of you that work it's a lot more convenient so instead of trying to go to the food pantry during the middle of the day veggies for the pantry is meant to be a little bit more convenient and will be might be closer to your home in and then at the end of the season will email you asking for the total that you've donated and will also aggregate that and send you the statewide total at the end of the season so you can see, you know what has been done. So this is a fairly short talk but I felt like I said everything I needed to say in in 30 minutes so I just want to thank you for listening to me and I hope I just hope that I've inspired you to do something because you can make a difference. So think about if you donate vegetables to the food pantry you could be helping one family or more in your community so you can make a difference. So thank you very much. Thank you very much Esther that was really interesting and I hope you've inspired our guests we had over 100 people today. So I, I have some questions in the chat box. Let me see here. Let me go back. We have some links that we've placed in the chat. So you can check those out and thanks for the plug for the pinch and pennies in the kitchen I appreciate that. I'll also add that a lot of our extension agents have printed copies of a lot of materials available to. So I do a question from Amanda, are there restrictions on what can be donated, or do you need to register somewhere prior to a food pantry accepting homegrown produce. I'm not aware of there being any major restrictions. You don't need to register. You can just walk in with your produce. Now I think any of the restrictions are more of the common sense you'll making sure that the food is not spoiled but as far as I know there is no restriction. And we've never had a problem when we've had master gardeners take items to the food pantry. I have a question for me, how did you make the decision on those particular seats, how did you decide which ones to offer. Well, I went with some of the tried and true cultivars, but it also had to be something available through pine tree seeds I'll explain that part of this is economics, because we wanted to be able to afford these seed packets. So I didn't solicit free seeds from companies instead I went to pine tree seeds because they're known for having a little bit cheaper seed packets so they're they're like $2 a piece and such. So I needed to have something that was available there but I wanted a more try and tried and true cultivars, you know, some of them have been recommended by my colleague Tom Kalb.  Jennifer makes a comment about the North Dakota Ag Department and the hunger free garden project, and I believe that's still in effect. That is and that's what I was referring to with some of the resources so that's where we have our, our list and maps of food pantries throughout North Dakota and particularly the ones that accept produce donations. So we're very thankful to have this relationship with the Department of Ag, and to be able to use these resources because otherwise we'd have to put this together from scratch. And Anita made a comment she's from the local growing together community gardens and Fargo area. She said they track their donations then asked if you would like a record of that. That would be awesome Anita. So Anita is one of one of our fantastic master gardener so yes, yes we would love to do that and growing together does tremendous tremendous work in the Fargo moorhead area. And I think I think you have six somewhere between six and eight gardens in the metro area and it's it's truly truly you know, a treasure that that we have here in the community and just the selflessness of the individuals. And Anita said eight. So there are eight community gardens. And one of them is in the, in my church backyard. So it's kind of fun to watch it grow. Any other questions or comments for Esther. You can post those in the chat. Scott has placed a couple links that will get you to register for the program that she talked about. And I also encourage any of you who are not master gardeners and maybe from other states to consider becoming one. I've been a master gardener now for several years I think 10, and it's it's really very fulfilling it's a great thing to do.  Thank you for all that you do Julie. Oh yes. Deb asked how do you become a master gardener. Great question. Every year, we have a master gardener core course, which is a 40 hour course that master gardener trainees take. So, you have to be accepted into the program because we have certain communities where we have more master gardeners and we can accept in a given year. So there's an application if you're accepted you go through a background check because we do work with children, and then you take a 40 hour course that covers a lot of different, you know topics everything from ornamentals to edibles. How to take care of diseases and insects and such. And then there is an internship period in which you do volunteer service to become a certified master gardener we require 48 hours of volunteer service over two years. And we certainly help make that volunteer service fund so we've got all kinds of volunteer service possibilities. You know so we've talked about some of the food insecurity measures that we have taken that are part of that. And Laurie, thanks you for the shout out for the Jamestown seed library it's open and busy, and it's in the Stutzman County library so if you're in that Jamestown area. Check it out. So Laurie's done great work with that seed library and so we've our master gardeners are fantastic and so very innovative. Deb asked about the junior master gardener program. Yes, there is a junior master gardener program, and I'm not affiliated with that that has been split out so that Tom called is in charge of that. And the junior master gardener program as it's run in North Dakota is a grant program where Tom and a committee gives out grants to various county entities and you know they work with they work with children to teach them how to garden. And we all know that these children that eat fresh vegetables are more likely to consume fresh vegetables as they grow older. So, yes, there's that but that's run by Tom called. I'm looking up right now the link for the NDSU master gardener program and I think I found it here so. Scott, Scott's ahead of me. Thank you, Scott. So look in the chat box and he has posted the, the link to that and again, it's very rewarding and I would encourage any of you to consider doing that.  Certainly, there are a lot of places all across the United States we're looking for help in community gardening programs. So check that out. Absolutely. Any last comments. Well this was a great program Esther I thank you for it and I hope everybody is inspired and I am inspired as I look out my window and it's finally the snow is almost all gone. So I hope we all get our green thumbs out. Yes, yes, bring is coming yay. In the chat, I'm now posting the link to our survey so let us know what you learned today. And keep going to the end of the survey it'll only take you a couple minutes but when you click submit, you'll be taken to a link where you can sign up for a very cool set of prizes so, and there's more than one prize I have lots of prizes. So check that out. Well, thank you to everybody who participated and especially our presenter Esther. This was great. Thanks. Alright, thank you very much Julie.


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Two elderly women's bucket list items have police knocking on their doors. Think of some activities you would like to do before you're too old. Skydiving might come to mind, or maybe getting scuba certified and diving the Great Barrier Reef. But for Josie birds and in Broken Brow, their bucket lists contain something else altogether. At 93 and 104 years old, respectively, Josie and and have lived very long and fulfilling lives. But there is one thing they've always wanted to do. Trust us when we say it's not what you think. Josie birds was a 93 year old grandmother living a quiet life in Manchester. So imagine her surprise when she opened her front door to see two police officers standing on her front porch. They were there to arrest her. Now Josie hadn't done anything wrong. But on top of the bit of anxiety that comes with police officers showing at your house to arrest you, the elderly woman was also a bit excited. But the drop by wasn't spontaneous. Josie's daughter Pam actually contacted the local police station a few days before they showed up at the house. But unlike most daughters with an elderly mother, Pam wasn't asking the department to check up on her mother. Actually, it was just the opposite. Pam asked the local authorities to go to her mother's house and slap handcuffs on her wrists. Why would Pam ask them to do such a thing? Josie invited the cops inside. She never expected what happened next, can you? A few days after Pam made the phone call, two Manchester police officers arrived at Josie's front door. After ringing the doorbell, it took a few minutes for the elderly woman to make it to the door. Once she opened the door and noticed who was standing there, Josie invited the two officers inside, not expecting they were there to arrest her. We mean, what could the 93-year-old possibly have done to have her daughter call the cops?  Well, we're here to tell you that it was a bit more civil and less forceful than anything you've seen in the movies. That means there was no struggle, yelling, or conflict of any kind. Josie actually went with the two officers pretty willingly. Instead of the typical police theatrics, these two gently clasped Josie's wrists in handcuffs. Then, in her front hallway, they read the elderly lady her rights. Of course, the two officers were having the hardest time keeping straight faces. After all, Josie technically didn't do anything. This whole scheme was set up by her daughter, Pam, who was having a great time watching the arrest. But why did she send the officers to her mother's house? After cuffing Josie and reading her rights aloud, the two officers escorted her out to their car. If you didn't guess it, this was Josie's first time riding in the back of a police car. And now here she was, being driven down to the town precinct to be charged and booked. The only thing was, she had no clue what she was being charged with. They didn't say anything while reading her rights. Now, she was just along for the ride. Once the two officers made it to their station, they went through all of the appropriate steps to book Josie. They sat the grandmother down on a seat while they filled out all of the paperwork. Then, something amazing happened. The officers took Josie to a cell, sat her down on the uncomfortable bed, and slammed the bars closed behind them. Josie was officially in the books as being arrested by the Manchester Police. Ironically, Josie wasn't scared about being arrested or sitting in a jail cell. It was exactly the opposite, actually. The grandmother was thrilled about the entire ordeal, smiling the entire time she was being processed. As it turned out, Josie had written about her arrest years before Pam called the local police station. If you can believe it, the 93-year-old lady wanted to get arrested. And her daughter was the one to make her dream a reality. Josie had written something years before that included getting arrested. Can you guess what she wrote? Years before, Josie had written out a bucket list. One of the items on the list was, in fact, getting arrested. With the help of Pam, Josie was finally able to check the item off her list. After getting wind of why Josie was sitting in a cell, an officer even went to speak with the elderly woman before releasing her. Interestingly, she wasn't the first to arrest the officer had heard about. And Brokenbrow is 104 years old and living in a senior home in Stoke Bishop, Bristol. Being in a home offered a lot of perks, including various activities the residents were allowed to participate in. But there was one activity in particular and was excited about, and it wasn't bingo night. On the contrary, the activity and was interested in would have one of her long-time dreams come true. It was just a matter of the home allowing her bizarre request. One of the activities the residents of the senior home are allowed to participate in is the Bristol Wishing Washing Line. It is a huge board set up in the community room, asking residents to fill out a form illustrating a wish they would like to have granted. The activity was part of a charity the home was supporting, but in saw it as her chance to make her bizarre wish. Now, she just had to wait and see if it was going to be granted. Anne's wish was to shed her good girl persona. Can you guess what she asked for? The answer is coming up next. The older woman had never committed a crime in her long life, so her wish was to get arrested. Never being on the wrong side of the law in her 104 years, and was ready to get into some trouble. Even if that trouble was technically fictional, the elderly woman was ready to have her wrists cuffed and to be booked in the local police station. Of course, with such an odd request, the Bristol police had no choice but to answer. The senior home workers got together to make Anne's wish come true. Their first step was contacting the Bristol Police Department. They were totally on board with making Anne's wish come true, sending a few officers over to the home. After seeing a few uniformed officers walking towards the otherwise quiet home, and knew her wish had been granted. She could barely contain her excitement as the three cops walked over to her. The officers tried to keep the smiles off their faces, but it was hard when Anne was so excited about being arrested for the first time in her long life. Due to her age, the officers took great care of clasping the cuffs around her wrists. Of course, Anne really didn't care what they did. She was just happy her wish was being granted, and she was able to experience getting arrested said no one ever. And couldn't believe this was actually happening. Her entire life, and played by the rules, never taking risks that could land her in trouble with the law. But after 104 years, a little rule breaking is just what the doctor ordered. Everyone at the senior home couldn't help but smile as the officers and workers at the facility helped a cuffed and out of her chair and down the driveway. It was time to go to the station. It was time for Anne to make her first appearance as a wanted person at the police station. After the police officers placed handcuffs on Anne's wrists, they read her rights. After, it was time to get the 104-year-old outside to the waiting police car. Escorted by a few of the senior home workers, as well as the officers, and couldn't help but smile as they helped her into the car. She was finally living her dream of being a bad girl, getting arrested and throwing her status as a good girl out the window. And was getting the presidential treatment when it comes to arrests. The elderly woman was able to sit in the front seat instead of the back. Well, we suppose some special treatment was given, considering this wasn't an actual arrest, but a wish. So all set in the front seat of the cop car, and was ready to head down to the station to be booked. Maybe they would even let her sit in one of the jail cells. After making sure and was safe and comfortable in the front seat, the officer driving took off towards the station to book the elderly woman. Were kind of curious what they booked her for. Maybe for being the coolest older lady in existence for wanting this last wish. Regardless, they finally made it to the station where, and was booked. And while everyone tried to make the experience as authentic as possible, no one could help but smile. The arresting officers and senior home workers were so happy they were able to work together to pull off making ends wish come true. After all, it was probably one of the most out there wish requests the home received, so they kind of had to make it happen. Even so, and is most likely the oldest person the Bristol police had arrested in, well, ever. And can add that to her list of accomplishments she most likely has after 104 years of life. For Josie and Anne, their time in jail was just what they wanted in their old age. After living life by the book and not taking risks that would land them in trouble with the law, getting arrested was their much needed rebellion. We should all take a page out of these two ladies books and create a bucket list. Of course, if you had getting arrested, maybe wait until you're Josie and ends age to check off the item.