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Community Chorus Concert December 7
Sunday December 7th is the date for the Christmas concert by the Estill County Community Chorus. This year the concert will be performed at 3pm at First Baptist Church, 351 Broadway, Irvine. The Irvine United Methodist Church Handbell Choir as well as the Estill County Dulcimer Club will also be on the program. Debbie Carlyle, Phyllis Dawson, Peggy Garrett and Dr. J.D. Hill will be singing solos as well as Faye Reece and Edsel Daniel singing with the chorus in “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer” Rehearsals are held Thursdays at 7pm at First Christian Church, Main Street, Irvine. Everyone is welcome! Auditions are not required. Rehearsals will be every Thursday night, except Thanksgiving November 27th. Please come out and join us. We still have a few binders for new members. The Estill Arts Council has once again partnered with the Community Chorus for this endeavor. Donations will be accepted at the concert. These donations help to provide honorariums, when needed, as well as the purchase of music. Carol Anne Wilson is the Director with Nancy Farmer as the accompanist. Ann Siudmak will be assisting with rehearsals as needed. If you have sung with the chorus before we are asking that you come back and sing with us for this very special Christmas Concert. Scholarships are still available. Please see Carol Anne Thursday night or call her at 859-556-0163 for more information.
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There will be plenty of opportunities to buy unique, locally made items for holiday gifts at the 11th annual “Christmas Arts & Crafts Show”, sponsored by the Estill Arts Council. It will be Sat., Dec. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Central Office gymnasium, 253 Main Street, Irvine. Features of the event will include arts and crafts, free art activities for children, silent auction of arts and crafts items, 50/50 pot, concession booth with chili/hot dogs, and live entertainment. Nearly 30 local artists/craftsmen will feature a wide range of quality made items. A silent auction will include items donated by Estill County artists and craftsmen and a 50/50 pot winner will win half of the proceeds. Local entertainment will include the Joyful Ringers handbell choir, Angel Chorus from the River City Players “Best Christmas Pageant Ever”, Debbie Caryle, and Sheila Niece. Donations of $1 for adults or a can of food for the Food Bank will be accepted at the door. Proceeds from the event will be used to support the activities and programs of the Estill Arts Council. Come celebrate and spend the day! Enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of the holidays.
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Readers’ Recipes No Bake Chocolate Mint Cheesecake From Jennifer Banks of Irvine
Chocolate pie crust 1 pkg of cream cheese softened 2 cups of heavy whipping cream 1/2 cup of sugar 1 tsp of vanilla 1 cup of chocolate ganache 1 tsp of peppermint flavor handful of mint chocolate candies (like Andes or mint chocolate chips) 1. Pour a thin layer of chocolate ganache over the bottom of the crust, place in fridge to cool. 2. Pour Whipping cream into a chilled bowl, add sugar and vanilla, then beat until stiff peaks form. 3. Fold half of your whip cream into the softened cream cheese, add the mint flavor. (if the mint flavor gives you a bitter taste add a bit more sugar ) 4. Pour cream cheese mix into pie crust. 5. Spoon left over whip cream on top. 6. Use some crushed mints or chocolate mints as decorative garnish on top of your pie. 7. Let cool for about 2 hours before serving, can also be served frozen Hot Cocoa Mix From Jennifer Banks of Irvine 4 cups powdered sugar 2 cups cocoa 5 cups powdered whole milk (not non-fat) 2 tsp salt (scant) 4 tsp corn starch 2 pinches cayenne pepper Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Store in airtight container. Use between a 1/4 and 1/3 cup of mix for a mug of hot chocolate. Put the mix in the bottom of a mug and pour hot water over top. Stir and enjoy.
Chocolate Fudge Sprite Cake With Marshmallow Frosting From Jennifer Banks of Irvine
Cake: 1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix 1 can Sprite Zero Mix together in large bowl. Be careful, it will foam a bit. Spread in 9x13 baking dish and cook at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Check at 30 minutes but usually takes closer to 40 in my oven. Cake will still be quite moist even when done, use your best judgment. Let cool for 1 hour before frosting. Frosting: 4 large egg whites 1 Cup sugar 1 pinch of salt 1 tsp vanilla Place all ingredients except the vanilla into a bowl which you can place over a pot of simmering water. You could use a double boiler here instead. Whisk the egg white mixture constantly over simmering water until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is hot to the touch about 5 minutes. Pour the mixture into a bigger bowl and beat with an electric mixer for 3 minutes. Add the vanilla while beating. The mixture will be ready for the cake! Recipes from Buck Thorn’s Blue Collar Cookbook From Jerry Ison of Slade Maybe this year you’ll want to try a main dish other than turkey. Here is a recipe that can be used to prepare both some wild and domestic birds. Preparing Quail Or Doves Or Grouse Or Cornish Hens with Rice Ingredients: 4 - 5 Quail or similar sized birds (grouse, Cornish hens, etc) or eightten doves.
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Wild Bill’s Tomato Tart Recipe From Bill Gordon of Stanton Ingredients One pie crust 8 oz. Mozzerella cheese 4 ripe Roma tomatoes, sliced ¼” 10-12 fresh Basil leaves, coarsely chopped Olive oil Salt and pepper to taste 1. Heat oven to 350. Use tart pan or pie pan. Make your crust (I use only King Arthur flour and real butter, but a store-bought refrigeratorcrust will do fine. Put crust in pan and half-bake empty for 20 minutes. 2. Remove from oven, add cheese, arrange sliced tomatoes on top to cover, then generously sprinkle on the chopped Basil leaves. Drizzle with olive oil, add S & P. 3. Bake for 30 minutes; crust tips should be turning a bit brown. Serve like pizza.
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Marcum & Wallace to implement Electronic Health Records Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital (MWMH) continues to lead health care transformation as it implements a fully comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) system. This over one million dollar investment initiative for Mercy Health, known internally as CarePATH, includes the leading EHR system, Epic, and will significantly enhance care delivery and support the national trend toward population health management. EHRs are the next step in the continued progress of healthcare that can strengthen the relationship between patients and clinicians. Instead of paper copies of the past, CarePATH/Epic will take a patient’s entire medical history, inpatient and outpatient visits, and assemble everything into one, single electronic file or electronic health record. That record will be viewable instantly by hospital staff on a MWMH computer, by a MWMH doctor using her iPad or other handheld device, or by staff on a computer in an office of any of the three MWMH Primary Care Clinics. The data, and the timeliness and availability of it, will enable MWMH clinicians to make better decisions and provide better care. “This instant access is simply incredible,” says Susan Starling, MWMH President and CEO. “Living in the digital age affects every aspect of our lives. In the healthcare arena, EHR is one of the most
exciting aspects of the digital age. Most important is the ability for our patients to access their medical record via ‘My Chart;’ anytime, anywhere.” The CarePATH/Epic implementation will be completed November 9, 2014. MWMH primary care clinics in Irvine, Beattyville, and Clay City have had electronic health records since 2012. Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital, a member of Mercy Health, is recognized by Becker’s Healthcare as one of the “Top 100 Great Community Hospitals.” MWMH has extended the healing ministry of Jesus by improving the health of our communities for more than 50 years. For more information, visit www.marcumandwallace.org.
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Dental Care and the Holidays By Adam D. Stowe, D.M.D.
It’s that time of year again. Seems like we just got past the harshness of last winter and we’re already on the verge of it again. I’d like to suggest that the weather isn’t the only potentially harsh element that we face this time of year. Our diets can be a source of destruction on our teeth if not managed properly. Starting with Halloween, then Thanksgiving, followed up by Christmas with all of its get-togethers and festivities, some of us allow our teeth to be exposed to an onslaught of sugary foods and snacks and the results can be disastrous if this pattern continues. Before I get accused of not being compassionate or realistic, hear me say that I love the holidays as much as the next guy. I swipe the Butterfingers out of my kids’ jack-o-lanterns every chance I can get! I’ve also been known to graze at the family gatherings throughout the holidays, visiting and revisiting the dessert table. So I’m not setting out to convince people to completely avoid all of our cultural traditions that revolve around eating during the holiday season. However, I would like to shed some light on the subject of tooth decay so that the readers of this article can enjoy all the special dishes throughout the holidays that they desire without the fear of needing to see the dentist to treat the aftermath. Before I give advice on how to keep a mouth free of decay, it’s important to understand a couple of points about how the process of tooth decay starts. Bacteria are the starting point of tooth decay. Everyone has bacteria in his/her mouth, even the most healthy, cavity-free person. These bacteria feed off of the sugars in the foods we eat and when they digest the sugars, their waste products are acidic. If the acidic waste of the bacteria is allowed to hang around long enough, it will begin to break down and dissolve healthy tooth enamel. Once the enamel is weakened enough, the bacteria have a way in to the inside layer of the tooth that is much softer than the enamel and the cavity starts. The longer it is left untreated, the bigger the cavity gets! Eventually, tooth sensitivity, fracture, toothache, or abcess can result. Although the holidays are a time that we indulge our appetites, the pointers that I’m going to share to help avoid tooth decay can be applied year round. The principles of Quantity, Content, and Time are at the core of maintaining a healthy mouth. In order for our normal oral bacteria to develop problems with tooth decay, they really like a 1) Large Quantity of food with 2) high Sugary Content that is allowed to have exposure to the teeth for a 3) Long Time. With that in mind, I offer the following suggestions as we approach the holidays and for all year long: 1) Moderation! Try to keep your food/drink intake to a reasonable amount
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2) Don’t sip sugary drinks like soft drinks, lemonade, or sweet tea over long periods of time. Rather, drink these beverages along with meals. The chewing process helps to minimize the contact of these sugars with the teeth. 3) Drink water after eating to help rinse food residue off of the teeth. 4) Brush/Floss your teeth after meals. Even if you don’t have access to toothpaste, the action of the toothbrush bristles will do wonders to keep teeth cleaner. 5) Never Never Never eat/drink and go directly to bed! That’s asking for trouble. There are probably other ways to help maintain a healthy mouth but these are just a few pointers. Enjoying the upcoming holiday meals, treats and goodies doesn’t mean that we have to fear the onset of dental problems associated with tooth decay. Putting these measures into practice can help you be “worry-free” about the possibility of cavities this holiday season. At Complete Dentistry of Stanton, Dr. Adam Stowe and his staff are committed to helping people establish and maintain healthy mouths. We’re located at 210 N. Main St. in Stanton, Ky. If you’re interested in being cared for by a compassionate, diligent, highly skilled dentist and staff, call us at (606) 663-6021 and set up a new patient examination. Time will be taken to treat you as you deserve to be treated.
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Everyone knows the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. How they landed at Plymouth rock after a grueling forty day voyage aboard the Mayflower and then endured a long and bitter winter. What many don’t know is that the Pilgrims did not originally intend to land at Plymouth Rock. They had planned to land south of the Hudson River, but they missed a bit. And, they were running out of essentials and beer. That’s right - beer! An entry from the actual Mayflower log states: “For we could not now take time for further search our victuals being pretty much spent especially our beer.” That first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims wasn’t the first such celebration in the New World. Settlers in Canada and in the colony of Virginia had already celebrated their Thanksgivings many years earlier. The Plymouth Colony celebration was also a reflection of the English harvest festivals. After the rough time the Pilgrims had endured the previous year, it seemed that truly Salvation had been generous. The Indians had taught them how to grow corn and their cribs were full. They had bountiful crops of other vegetables, plenty of game from nearby forests and fish from the streams. They had gathered berries which they made into sweet wines and, importantly, they were at peace with the local Indians for which they were justifiably thankful. Governor William Bradford set aside a day for prayer and feasting. Chief Massasoit and eighty or ninety Indians were guests, invited to share the bounty out in the open air. There were games and contests, races, songs, sermons and many prayers of thanks. Captain Miles Standish paraded his “garrison” to impress all in attendance (or was it to impress Pricilla?). It is not clear exactly what day was chosen. Some sources cite December 13 others say is was in late October. George Washington declared January 19 as the first official day for Thanksgiving and for many years there was no clear consensus as to when the day should be celebrated. For many years, Sara Josepha Hale (author of the song, “Mary Had A Little Lamb”) tried to get an official day designated as Thanksgiving Day. Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November be a “day of thanksgiving’. President Roosevelt moved the day ahead a week in 1939, to give businessmen the benefit of a longer Christmas shopping season. There were many who protested this change. In 1941, Congress legally established the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. Nowadays, we celebrate this uniquely American Holiday by gathering family, feasting on the traditional turkey and cranberries, and watch Cowboys battle Lions. Or Vikings test the mettle of Buccaneers.
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Raven Kerby, Treasurer, and Whitney Ferrell, Secretary, accepted funds for the local chapter from the State’s AG TAG program, which comes from those who register their KY Farm License Plates and make a voluntary $10 donation. Sent by Whitney Ferrell, Estill Co FFA Secretary.
Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer has pioneered the Kentucky Farm license plate program, adding a direct benefit for Kentucky FFA and 4-H. When a person purchases a Kentucky Farm License plate, they have the opportunity to donate $10 which is divided equally between Kentucky FFA, Kentucky 4-H and Kentucky proud. The FFA share for this fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 was 169,280.21, a 51,206.88 increase from 2012, the first year of the program. The Kentucky FFA foundation distributes half of the funds generated from a county back to FFA chapters in that county. The half retained by the Kentucky FFA Foundation is used to support a variety of state level programs. “When Kentucky farmers renew their license plates, they can add a voluntary $10 donation that will be split evenly among these three fine organizations,” said Commissioner Comer, a former state FFA president . “FFA and 4-H give Kentucky’s young people opportunities to participate in constructive activities while they learn the value of hard work and discipline. Kentucky Proud helps Kentucky producers find new markets for their products. All three programs are vital to the future of Kentucky agriculture and Kentucky as a whole.” In Estill county, 21.97% of those purchasing farm plates are also making the $10 contribution. Kentucky FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of more than 14,500 students through premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agriculture education, including those here in Estill county. If you are renewing your farm plates this year, we encourage you to show your support for the FFA and make $10 contribution.
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Local Success Story .... Small Business Saturday in Beattyville, KY [Note: Reprinted from 2013]
Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. First observed on November 27, 2010, it is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature corporate business and e-commerce stores. By contrast, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize businesses that are small and locally owned. For the first time, Beattyville/Lee County took advantage of this nation wide event by creating a sweepstakes to encourage local shopping and there was an outstanding response in attendance and economic impact from this one day! The sweepstakes was simple, visit participating businesses and submit an entry. The rules only allowed for one drop per person per store. Therefore in order to have multiple chances, participants had to travel around to all business location. There was a large turnout to the Small Business Saturday event in Beattyville on Saturday, November 30th, 2013. The blue “Shop Small Drop Boxes” were stuffed with 966 entries by the end of the day. For many shoppers on Saturday, they visited local business for the first time or visited businesses in town they have not been to in a long time. Holiday shopping was done at home. For many business, they saw an increase in traffic in their stores which results in more sales. When shopping occurs locally, 80 cents to every dollar stays and circulates locally. Feeding the local economy and allowing local business to remain open.
Editor’s Note: I get excited about Small Business Saturday each year. After all, this magazine is a small, locally-owned and operated business. So, in more ways than one, I’m invested in it. This story was written by Dedra Brandenburg last year after Beattyville’s first organized Small Business Saturday event. I remember thinking then how impressed I was with the results and how much fun it was for their community. I thought I would share their results with our readers to demonstrate just how much one day of shopping locally can boost the economy of your communities. If your area is planning an event this year, be sure to participate!
On Saturday in Beattyville 51% of the participants purchased an item while going around to all the businesses. This means every other customer who entered a store made a purchase. Of the purchases made 33% were between $1-$25. Using the survey information from the 966 entry cards, it can be concluded that on Saturday the local economy was boosted by $20,000. On Monday, December 2nd the drawing for the 5 sweepstakes winners occurred at the Tourism Center Caboose. In attendance were event sponsor representatives including Carol Kincaid from the Chamber of Commerce, Robert Stamper from Beattyville/Lee County Tourism, County Judge Steve Mays, Mayor John Smith, and Dedra Brandenburg with Tourism and Lee County Economic Development. Five winners were drawn to receive $100 each and they were Elizabeth Hollon, JaCinda Warner, Harold Bailey, Danny Jewell, and Brandon Caudill. www.atcky.com
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To The Editor To:
Citizens of Estill County and their Officials Business and Church Leaders
From: Debbie Rison Re:
Saturday, November 15 is our Annual Holiday Open House Stop In!! 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Helping Hands Shelter
As many of you know, I am CEO and founder of Helping Hands Outreach Ministry. We are laying a faith based non-profit foundation in the community providing food, clothing, furniture and necessities to the needy regardless of circumstance. Founded in 2010, we have grown by God’s grace from concept to active ministry. We have collected and delivered food to over 200 children and given clothing and furniture to numerous families. Through gracious donation of time and resources, we have a building staffed by volunteers at least 32 hours a week. We want you to know that the vision of Helping Hands extends well beyond our current activities. We aim to open and operate a homeless shelter that provides skills training to get homeless people back on their feet and an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence. Recent estimates suggest there are at least 21 homeless people in Estill County who sleep in cars, tents, or on the ground, and potentially another one hundred people who drift between house to house dependent on others for a place to sleep. With so many in need, the time is now to begin making our vision into a reality for our community. I ask that you join us at a meeting to discuss the Helping Hands Shelter and begin the planning process. Let us work together as a caring community to help those in need. We can bring them food, shelter and tools to get them off the street and back to productivity. The end result will foster growth of those in need as well as the community at large. Our meeting is scheduled for 6:00pm November 13th at the Estill County Court House. “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” Proverbs 16:3(ESV)
Thank you and May God’s Blessing be with you.
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Members of the community gathered at Ravenna Florist & Greenhouse on Halloween evening to remember victims of domestic violence. Purple ribbons were pinned on a scarecrow that was located outside. -Dave Severson photo
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Cornbread And Milk. By Madeline McIntosh Sawyer of Beattyville Trying to grow up in the good old days wasn’t easy. We were a family of eight. Six kids Marietta, Madeline, John, Jeffery, Rhoda and Martha and Mom and Dad.
Choices as to what we had to snack on were very limited.
Mom cooked three big meals a day, every day. So we really eat good country food. Gravy and biscuit, bacon and eggs, homemade country sausage and ham, for breakfast. Then for dinner and supper we always had things like fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, fried potatoes and sweet potatoes, green beans, corn and lots more. We always had cornbread. Big pones of cornbread baked up golden brown in Mom’s big cast iron skillet. She only had one skillet that she used especially for cornbread and we were not allowed to use it for nothing else. We usually had left over cornbread. It was almost as good cold as it was hot. When it was hot we filled it full of good home made cow butter. But when it was left over and cold, we always had a big glass full of milk and crumbled up cornbread. WOW was that good. Mom milked the cow twice a day and she always had gallons of good cold fresh cows milk. And we could have all of it we wanted. Any time of the day. Corn bread and milk had to be the best snack in the world. Or at least we thought it was. When we didn’t have enough cornbread left over for ever body to have some. Me and Marie would go to the kitchen and make up some cornbread cakes.
Back in the good old days living back up in the holler on the farm, I do have to say that life was good. We didn’t have things like potato chips, soda pop, snack cakes or ice cream when we were growing up. But we always had big homemade fruit cobblers like blackberry or rhubarb and peach. And Mom always kept a big home made chocolate cake with egg white icing on hand. She made chocolate and peanut butter fudge and popcorn and lots of popcorn balls. And of course lots of CORNBREAD AND MILK. We would all sit on the porch at night together as a family and we talked and we laughed and we played in the yard. We enjoyed everything that was given to us. We didn’t take too much for granted. Especially all the family time that went along with all the good down to earth, cornbread and milk I have an awful lot of wonderful memories of my life growing up in the country. I am part of a large family. We always had our Mom and Dad around. Daddy never worked away from home and my Mom was a farmers wife and worked hard in the gardens and the house. We are all blessed to have been raised up in the holler where we were always around people we loved. We always had our grandfather and our grandmother. They all taught us as much of the old ways as they could. I remember a lot because I lived it. I am greatly saddened by the fact that I lost my Daddy, James McIntosh back in February 2014. I will always try to write and keep it going in the memories and things he told me and taught me.
We mixed up our cornmeal and flour and milk just like we were going to bake a big pone of cornbread. Sometimes we added an egg. But only if Mom had a couple dozen. Because it took a whole dozen for our breakfast every morning. But we got us a skillet and put some grease in it and we dropped the cornmeal batter by the spoon full into the hot oil and fried the cornbread until it was golden brown. We fried them until they were golden brown on each side in the skillet. And then we crumbled them up in a glass of good cold milk. We fried lots and lots of them and they were all eaten before we went to bed. Daddy always grew lots of good bread corn to take to the mill and gave ground into corn meal. So we always had lots of home ground corn meal to make our cornbread out of. With a big family, you had to have lots of bread. Whatever in the world would Mom and Dad have done without a milk cow and bread corn on the farm. We truly enjoyed and loved cornbread and milk. It was wonderful. Mom always made lots of extra biscuits every morning too. She left them setting on the back of the wood cook stove to keep them warm. And whenever we wanted a snack, we went and got us a cold biscuit and put jelly in it or if we had it, we would put peanut butter in it and we had a good cold glass of milk with it. And we could have this snack anytime through the day. And most of the time just a cold biscuit and a glass of milk would do us. Now my Mom and Dad loved cornbread and buttermilk. But us kids never did like buttermilk.
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Wilderness Wanderings . . .
By Bill Gordon Stanton, KY
Indian Pipe
Just the other day I was taking a morning walk with my dog Sammie and we came across this really cool plant. It was not long after first light; before sunrise, and in the subdued, misty dawn light filtering down through the wilderness canopy, the plant cluster looked eerie and “ghost-like” in appearance. The plant I saw was Indian Pipe; sometimes called Ghost Flower or Corpse Plant because of its highly unusual look. It is a really fascinating plant deserving of some “nature detective” scrutiny, as you will soon see.
can actually grow into the roots themselves. Now, get this- each different kind of tree will only allow certain types of fungus to draw sugars from the tree sap, thus giving the fungus plant the ability to store food in preparation for making its fruit…the mushrooms you see growing above ground. And that fungus plant will allow only the host tree to draw in needed minerals for healthy plant growth, flowering, and fruiting. Well, pretty neat, but what’s the big deal? Well, it is a REALLY BIG DEAL with the new research. It does not develop this relationship with a tree. Instead, it “hooks up” with a compatible fungus, and somehow (we don’t
It will grow in small clusters or communities, and since they are perennial, once you find some, they will most likely be there year after year for you to observe. Looking a bit closer at this plant, the six inch stems resemble very thin pure white asparagus. The leaves, hardly noticeable on the stem and looking more like scales, do not develop. There is no need to do so, since they don’t contain chlorophyll or manufacture food. Indian Pipe develops one flower at the tip of the stem, and as it grows it bends over so the plant takes on a striking resemblance to, …well, an Indian’s pipe. The flower is a real flower, although it will fool you with its looks. Sorta like a flower drawn by a Manga cartoon artist, this surreal-looking thing may have some red or purple color to it, and as it matures and gets ready to disperse its seeds, it may be trimmed with black. Pretty weird plant, huh? Well, just wait ‘till you find out how it eats. Well, if this plant doesn’t have chlorophyll it cannot manufacture its food (sugars) and therefore can’t get energy from the sun like all green plants do. I’ll give you nature detectives a clue. It is a parasite. BUT, it DOES get its energy for growth from the sun, and it is a very special kind of parasite. I’ll share its secrets with you, but first I need to explain a little about soil fungus and trees, and some really exciting new research. Scientists have known for quite a long time that fungus and green plants have a mutually beneficial relationship. When you think fungus, think about all those different types of fungus and mushrooms you can see on a hike in the woods. These are parasitic plants…and they have no chlorophyll. All those fungus have hair-like roots called hyphae that are literally everywhere in the rich, moist humus of the wilderness. Dig into this humus layer with your hand and you will see tiny whitish hairs or even whole mats of the hyphae growing all through the soil. These hyphae are tiny, and are really good at something. What they can do really well is dissolve minerals from the soil and take them into the plant. OK, now look up at the trees overhead. Trees have huge amounts of plant mass above ground, and their countless billions of leaves are really good at doing their thing… manufacturing food for the plant (sugars) using energy from the sun. They are actually energy producers; they make more energy (for the benefit of all living things on this earth) than they use from the earth…because they operate on solar power. Never, never underestimate the value of a tree. Ok, so the tree (any green plant really) manufactures sugar from the sun. We always thought the tree gets its other nutrients in dissolved water from the soil, but research has shown that the roots are actually pretty lousy at pulling in minerals. Now, here’s the really cool part. What we now know is that almost every single green plant on earth has a beneficial relationship with some type of fungus. The hyphae grow in masses around the tree roots, and
know how yet) it convinces the fungus to share its minerals…and some of the sugars that the fungus gets from its green plant host. It gets the solar-produced sugars that the tree wouldn’t give it, with the added benefit of also mooching minerals and water from the obliging fungus. The Indian Pipe gets everything it needs for growth, while giving nothing back (at least nothing that is known yet. I personally believe there is no free lunch, but there is a lot we just don’t understand yet). This very special relationship is called a mycoheterotrophic one (we’ll just leave that word alone, too big for me). And now…for the rest of the story… Remember the Corpse Plant? Well, that mass of fibrous roots of the Indian Pipe gets all covered in the tiny hyphae of the host fungus, so it looks like the Continued on Page 23 www.atcky.com
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Winter Care for Roses Winter seems to be heading our way whether we are ready for it or not. Pruning your roses may be one of those odd jobs that you get done before the winter winds howl at your door.
Mike Reed
Powell County Extension Office
All Turkeys Beware! We can watch turkeys in our back yard most any day. They are entertaining for most of us out in the country, but a nuisance when they destroy our tomatoes in the garden. Wild turkeys are back and in big numbers, but growing turkeys for everybody’s Thanksgiving table requires hundreds of large buildings filled with gobblers. Most of these are grown on contracts with farmers and large meat companies in select areas of the nation. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of turkeys produced this year will total over 271 million, which is up again this year. Turkey sales will amount to over 4.3 billion dollars for turkey producers. The record production of turkeys occurred in 1996 when over 300 million turkeys hit the grocery store. That year, we were able to find turkeys for 69 cents a pound! Most of the turkeys you will consume during Thanksgiving week will be raised in either Minnesota ,(the largest producer of turkeys in the United States), North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and Indiana. These six states combined will produce over two-thirds of the nation’s supply of turkey and turkey products. The average American will eat over 13.3 pounds of turkey this year, most of which will be consumed during Thanksgiving weekend. Even with good turkey production in the United States, we import over Five million dollar’s worth of live turkeys each year from Canada. On the other hand, most of the cranberries, sweet potatoes and pumpkins you eat next week will come from the United States, although we do import some cranberries from Canada and some sweet potatoes from the Dominican Republic. Occasionally during this time of year I have someone ask me why we don’t grow cranberries. Cranberry production itself is an exact science which requires just the right amount f water, and cooler temperatures than we have in Kentucky. If you want to watch the step by step process, get on the Internet and go to Ocean Spray. com for a virtual tour of a cranberry bog. The process of growing and harvesting cranberries will amaze you. Cranberries are grown in five U.S. states-Wisconsin and Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington. Cranberries have certain limiting cultural requirements. Cranberries need a sandy soil with a pH of 4.5-5.0. They also need a great deal of water which must surround the cranberry bog. Cranberry bogs are constructed with only a 1% slope and are planted in this flat area. Cranberry plants only grow to be 3-4 inches tall. Cranberry plants can live a long time-some bogs are as old as 100 years old. It takes 3-4 years before plants are productive and will bear a crop. Once the crop is ready to be harvested, farmers must flood the bog with thousands of gallons of water and cranberries are floated off the bog, corralled into small baskets called berry boats and pulled out of the water to head toward the processing shed. Cranberries are also a vital part of our Thanksgiving dinner-we consume 400 million pounds of cranberries a year-20% of that will be eaten this month. When you sit down with your family this month, remember to count your blessings in the process-one of which may be the farmers who bring it to the table for all of us!
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Basically we prune roses for four different reasons: to encourage new growth and blooms; to remove dead wood; to improve air circulation and to shape the plant. Pruning is fairly simple, but different types of roses require different types of pruning. Last year our winter was brutal to our roses. If you have hybrid tea roses, prune now only those scraggly canes that are being whipped around by the wind. Any large canes can cause the plant to sway back and forth and actually be uprooted during the winter. You can prune most of the plant early next spring or go ahead and prune in December. Prune canes down to 24”. Leave older canes a little longer to shape the plant. Remove any dead canes. Hybrid teas and grandifloras bloom on new wood and will need to be pruned each year. You will notice how pretty the roses are at the Kentucky State Fair in August. If you check out those plants in mid -winter you will see that they are trimmed down to 18-24 inches and mulched heavily each year. The ever-popular Knock-Out roses which bloom all summer need minimal pruning. Ever-blooming roses do not need to be pruned the first two years in order to establish the plant. After the second summer, use the “one third” method and remove only one third of the growth-usually old and diseased canes. Knock-outs bloom on mature, but not old woody stems, so removing too many canes can reduce blooms for next summer. Climbing roses need to be pruned in spring after you realize how much dead and damaged wood you will have left. A harder pruning and shaping of the plant may take place during the first flowering. Miniature roses (f they survive the winter), should be pruned only to shape in the spring. Rambling, Old fashioned roses which bloom only once in the early summer should be pruned after flowering only to shape the bush. What could be even more important than pruning this winter would be mulching your roses, especially if you have hybrid teas. Most old-fashioned and rambling roses are quite hardy and do not need extra winter protection. Hybrid teas and grandiflora roses may be injured during a severe winter and need their graft union protected. How many times have you bought a rose and enjoyed its beauty that first year, only to be surprised the second year when it basically grew wild and not exactly the color it was the previous summer? The problem here is that the winter chilled the plant and killed the graft union. That graft insured your blooms and your desired variety of rose. To prevent winter injury, cover each rose with some form of garden soil and mulch now. The mound of soil should cover each graft union of each rose. To do so apply 10-12 inches of soil or aged compost or aged sawdust. DO NOT use grass clippings, new sawdust or leaves. These materials may tie up the nitrogen to the plant or simply blow away during the winter. Mound dirt or mulch around each plant and leave until April, when all danger of frost is past. Don’t be too anxious to remove mulch too early. After properly mulching and pruning each rose, you should be able to enjoy each rose plant next summer. For more information, contact your local Extension Office and ask for the publication on “Growing Roses in Kentucky”. Continued on Next Page
Mike Reed,
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Happy Thanksgiving !!! On the last weekend of this month, we will honor and remember the Pilgrims that came here to this new world, primarily for the sake of religious freedom. They endured hardships that we will never imagine. They lost over half of the people they set out with, but still they MADE time to say “Thank You” to their creator. Thanksgiving was not just a holiday, but a life changing event. Does our Thanksgiving holiday have the same meaning that it was intended? We carve the turkey and talk to our relatives we’ve not seen in months. We may say a blessing we’ve not said in a year and then we’ll over indulge in too many dumplings and too many pieces of pumpkin pie. We all are so blessed on a daily basis, that we ALL forget just how blessed we are. Our grocery stores and most our pantries at home are filled with food, yet we whine about what’s for supper. We pass up a wide variety of churches daily, but feel too tired to go to church on Sunday. We gripe about who got elected, but we were too busy to go to the polls and vote. We complain about our school system that has let our kids down, but we can’t talk to our kids at night because they’re texting their friends they have not seen for the last 10 minutes. We fret over insurance and health care, but we refuse to exercise and eat right. How we all need to take a close look at our lives and what really has meaning in our lives. I just wonder if the Pilgrims could see us now, would they have ever made the trip? Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Take time to be thankful each day. Take special time to be with your family. Take care of yourself and above all, thank the One who holds it all in His hands.
“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Bernard M. Baruch
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corpse is wrapped in a shroud (sorta like a mummy, or I tend to get the mental picture of a plastic wrapped roll of hamburger in the grocery store). This shroud-covered root mass can lay corpselike for years while it slowly draws in enough sugar and minerals to produce the flower stalks once again. P-r-e-t-t-y n-e-a-t plant, this Indian Pipe. “According to scientists at the University of California, if the current rate of extinction continues, Earth could lose three quarters of its species within the next three hundred years. Some are famous and beloved, like the lions of Kenya and the tigers of India-but most are small and obscure. Each species belongs to a complicated web of energy and activity called an ecosystem. Together, these webs contain everything from microorganisms to mighty trees. We are only now beginning to understand how these systems work, and what one species in the ecosystem means to another. What could happen if a particular species is removed from an ecosystem? Could the whole ecosystem unravel? It’s probably best not to find out.”
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By The Moons November 2014 10th-12th
Best planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable. Also plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. 13th-17th Poor for planting. Last four days good for killing plant pests. 18th-19th Favorable days for planting root crops. Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers now. 20th-22nd Plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South. Lettuce, cabbage, collards and other leafy vegetables will do well. Start seedbeds. First two days good for transplanting. 23rd-24th Poor planting days. 25th-26th Good days for planting peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California. 27th-28th Kill plant pests on these barren days. 29th-30th Good days for planting aboveground crops. Extra good for vine crops, where climate allows.
december 2014 1st-2nd 3rd-4th 5th-7th 8th-9th
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The big neighborhood nursery may want homeowner customers to equate high-dollar exquisite specimen trees as the way to have an uncommon yard that will look lovely and get you noticed. But there are many paths to an uncommon but outstanding landscape. I am going to suggest some lesser known and lesser used trees that perhaps you’d be proud to have in your yard. Everyone thinks of a maple tree when they start thinking about some bigger trees for the yard. And, let’s agree, there are some lovely maples in most neighborhoods. We will go beyond maples, but if a maple tree you require, how about a sugar maple, or the related black maple or caddo maple? Maybe a big leaf maple or a Caucasian maple? Or the snakebark or redvein vine maple for that smaller spot shaded by the house or by a larger existing tree? There are some exotic maples from Asia that might also work, including an evergreen maple and one whose leaves look like an elm. Oak trees are pretty popular for larger yards. But why settle for pin oaks when there are dozens of landscape-quality oak species? While you may have to search to locate unusual kinds, settling for pin or willow oaks like one of the neighbors has shouldn’t be an automatic reaction if an oak is in your future. There is red oak and shumard and scarlet oak for red fall colors. There is white oak and chinquapin oak for the tastiest nuts. Laurel oak would be different. Cork oak might grow where you live. Certainly the English oak is lovely. And the burr oak is mighty in stature. You might try the Chinese evergreen oak if you can find one, it is hardy to minus 5 or 10 degrees. Tulip poplar, sweet gum, American basswood, and the native American elm are all large trees good in the right place. The native elm has been hybridized to be tolerant to elm diseases, and the zelkova is a reasonable substitute. Ginkgo trees become large in time, and even bear edible nuts if you can find a female tree for sale. Beech trees grow large and also are lovely in the appropriate setting. Hackberry trees and wild black cherry trees are appropriate for the large lot, but the berries do make a bit of a mess if they are planted near the driveway, patio or pool. Not everyone thinks things out for fifty years, but a river birch can become a log four feet in circumference. And catalpa is a lovely tree, except for the mess when the beans fall. Same can be said for the Kentucky coffee tree. Some more modest sized trees that might work fine in the landscape could be some of these. Sassafrass, sourwood, silverbell or American holly for acid soils with good drainage. The rare Ben Franklin and Henry Wilson trees would be welcome in most
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yards. And, of course, the dogwoods. How about stuartia, parrotia, katsura, mountain ash and amalanchiers…and for soil with more limestone try redbud trees, snowbell, yellowwood and maybe Osage orange (be aware of thorns and big ole’ fruits). If evergreen trees are on your wish list for your yard, here are some that will work. For the neutral or alkaline soils, go with junipers, cedars, arborvitae, blue spruce or Douglas fir. For acidic soils, white pine and hemlock trees come to mind. But also, southern magnolias, Canaan and concolor fir trees, and perhaps a laurel tree or a giant redwood if you are in climate zone 7. The Norway spruce seems to adapt well to most soils except really wet ones that don’t drain. Same for cryptomerias and false cypress. Nannyberry, blackhaw and Allegheney viburnum as well as winterberry and possum haw hollies can have a lovely spot in the landscape and draw wildlife too. A very lovely small tree is the pawpaw, and if you plant more than one so they cross pollinate you will get some desirable half pound sized fruits that taste like banana custard or a bit like a honeydew. Shrubs really come in hundreds of options and I am going to save a discussion on unusual shrubbery for another topic and another day. Something that always strikes me as a bit queer is that the large homes often have the same scheme as some other home on the street or around the block. Uncommon, expensive trees in front of every nice home in the neighborhood actually makes them look common. So, if you want to think outside the box in landscaping your lovely home, you might actually get noticed by being different, even if you don’t spend forty thousand to landscape a $300,000 home. Pleasing landscapes can be created using native trees or just some that are different from the other guys. Diversify is a good word in landscaping just as it is in financial or retirement planning. If you desire to have a different looking landscape, find a designer who knows and loves plants to mold your yard into a paradise. The author is a landscaper specializing in water features. Website:www.rockcastles.net
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