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H. Mark Delman
Palo Alto, California
Interests: Marketing & general management professional. Interests include urban farming, photography, and travel.
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Posted Sep 7, 2014 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening Podcast
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BriteTap Chicken Water Covered in the San Francisco Chronicle
Posted May 5, 2013 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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BriteTap Chicken Waterer Designed For Thrift
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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BriteTap Chicken Waterer Easter Egg Hunt
Posted Mar 31, 2013 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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Thanks for the correction!
-Mark
Commented Dec 12, 2012 on Free Template To Create A Customized Label For Your Honey at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Free Template To Create A Customized Label For Your Honey
In this post I provide Adobe Illustrator files that you can modify to make your own customized honey labels. UPDATE: July 2016. I'm sorry but this file is no longer available for download due to a hard disk failure. After harvesting my honey this year, I decided to add a decorative label to ma...
They probably did that too! Thanks for your comment.
Commented Nov 14, 2012 on Eggs to Be Sold In Packages - May 1929 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Eggs to Be Sold In Packages - May 1929
Its now so common to see eggs sold in cardboard cartons that its easy to assume that they were always sold that way. Below is an article written in May 1929 that shows what I assume to be one of the earliest attempts to sell eggs to consumers in packages. Note that the cartons are not the ones...
Thanks very much for the link. Ill have a look and use Babelfish to do some basic translation.
Kind regards,
-Mark
Commented Oct 29, 2012 on Growing Wheat In Your Backyard Garden at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Growing Wheat In Your Backyard Garden
In October of last year, I planted an heirloom wheat variety called Frassinetto. In this posting, I'll let you know the results of this experiment as well as explain how to thresh, winnow and store the grain. Frassinetto Wheat Frassinetto is a variety of wheat from Italy that is reported to pro...
Chicken Owners Support New Product Development By Casting Your Vote For The BriteTap Chicken Waterer
Want to support new, innovative products designed for people who keep chickens? Then please cast a vote for us in the FedEx Small Business Grant program. The FedEx program will award a $25,000 grant to a qualifying small business with fans willing to cast a vote for them. ChickenWaterer.com is the maker of the innovative BriteTap waterer that shields water from dirt and poop so chickens get cleaner water and owners don't need to clean out filthy water pans. Cast Your Vote Here If we win, we'll invest the funds in developing new products for people who produce their own... Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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Pasta dough is hard. I think you run the risk of burning out the motor on your mixer.
Commented Oct 7, 2012 on Making Pasta from Wheat Berries at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Making Pasta from Wheat Berries
OK, I hear you saying, "what is a wheat berry?" It's just the term for wheat that has been separated from the hull but is otherwise unprocessed. In other words, it's whole wheat. In my posting on July 7, I showed you how to thresh and winnow the grain to yield these wheat berries. In this po...
Pasta dough is quite hard. I believe you run the risk of burning out the motor.
Commented Oct 7, 2012 on Making Pasta from Wheat Berries at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Making Pasta from Wheat Berries
OK, I hear you saying, "what is a wheat berry?" It's just the term for wheat that has been separated from the hull but is otherwise unprocessed. In other words, it's whole wheat. In my posting on July 7, I showed you how to thresh and winnow the grain to yield these wheat berries. In this po...
BriteTap Chicken Waterer To Be Displayed at the National Heirloom Exposition
If you live in the Bay Area and are interested in seeing a demo of the BriteTap chicken waterer, please come visit our booth at the National Heirloom Exposition (Sonoma County Fairground in Santa Rosa). We will be on display from Sept 11-13. We will be available to demonstrate the product and answer questions from 11 AM to 9 PM. Our booth is located between the bandstand and the live animal exhibits, so come on by! Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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Thanks for your comments. Good luck with your garden. -PlanterTomato
Commented Sep 10, 2012 on Best Containers for Starting Seeds at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Best Containers for Starting Seeds
In this last of a series of three postings, I describe the pros and cons of various seed starting containers and make my recommendations. Clay Pots - In my opinion there really aren't many "pros" to using clay pots. Their heavy, break easily, and are hard to clean at the end of the season. All ...
Hi Thanks for the comment. I checked and you are probably right. The altitude at the airport is 5400. I dont know the city at all and its probably true that most folks live at that about that elevation. According the Wikipedia the elevation of the city has a large range and some parts would be 10 min and others 15. Thanks for fact checking.
Albuquerque
has one of the highest elevations of any major city in the United States,
though the effects of this are greatly tempered by its southwesterly
continental position. The elevation of the city ranges from4,900feet(1,490m)above
sea level near the Rio Grande (in the Valley) to over6,700feet(1,950m)in
the foothill areas of Sandia Heights and Glenwood Hills. At the airport, the
elevation is5,352feet(1,631m)above sea level.
Commented Sep 5, 2012 on How to Can Tomatoes at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
How to Can Tomatoes
In this posting, I'll show you how to can tomatoes using both the hot water bath method and with a pressure canner. By canning your tomatoes, you'll be able to enjoy produce from your garden all Winter long. Two Roads to the Same Destination The hot water bath and pressure canning method of p...
You might also want to consider givingStupice (pronounced Stew-Peach-eh) a try. Its a small, red heirloom from Czechoslovakia.
Thanks for your comments!
Commented Aug 28, 2012 on Review: Oregon Spring Tomato at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Review: Oregon Spring Tomato
Review of this early-maturing, red, slicing tomato. Oregon Spring is an extra early tomato variety developed at Oregon State University. The plant yields good quantities of 4-5 oz (4 inch diameter) red tomatoes in about 65 days, versus maturities of 75 to 100 days for most other tomato varieti...
Making Pasta from Wheat Berries (Podcast)
Posted Aug 18, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening Podcast
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Making Pasta from Wheat Berries
Posted Aug 18, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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New Chicken Waterer Puts an End to Dirty Unsanitary Water
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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Poultry Nipples And Why They Are Superior Chicken Watering Devices
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at BriteTap™ Chicken Waterer Blog
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How To Increase Your Chickens Egg Production With Cool Water
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at BriteTap™ Chicken Waterer Blog
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The Importance of Clean Water for Chickens and 6 Tips for Providing It
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at BriteTap™ Chicken Waterer Blog
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Growing Wheat In Your Backyard Garden (Podcast)
Posted Jul 7, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening Podcast
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Growing Wheat In Your Backyard Garden
Posted Jul 7, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
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This looks like a mistake on my part. Gasp!
The original Latin phrase is ubi mei, ibi apes - where there is honey there are bees. I inverted the expression because I wanted to make it where there are bees there is honey but it looks like I substituted a second ubi where it should have been an ibi.
I dont know Latin, but if you know some one who does, please forward to them and see if we can clear this up. Then Ill make the change to the template and repost.
Commented Jul 7, 2012 on Free Template To Create A Customized Label For Your Honey at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
Free Template To Create A Customized Label For Your Honey
In this post I provide Adobe Illustrator files that you can modify to make your own customized honey labels. UPDATE: July 2016. I'm sorry but this file is no longer available for download due to a hard disk failure. After harvesting my honey this year, I decided to add a decorative label to ma...
Hi Michaele:
Hmmm... hadnt thought of drying peas, but why not. Ill give it a shot.
You may have noticed that Im a little behind in my blog postings. I left the company I was working for and have created a company to sell unique urban farming products. My first product is a patent pending item I developed for the backyard chicken keepers. If you have a small flock, it may be of interest to you.
Ill launch the product in the next month and will post it to my blog as part of a broader marketing effort.
Good luck with your garden.
-Mark
Commented Jul 5, 2012 on A Good Start to the Garden Year at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening
A Good Start to the Garden Year
This is shaping up to be a good garden year. Earlier this spring, I planted Thomas Laxton and Laxton's Progress peas and we harvested over 20 pounds of sweet, delicious peas. Most were consumed fresh but we were able to put a few pounds away in the freezer for future dinners. If all goes well...
A Good Start to the Garden Year (Podcast)
Posted Jul 4, 2012 at PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening Podcast
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