How'd you guess?

Oh, that reminds me of the time me and my friends when to McDonalds (halal one) and sat outside to eat... and there was bee next to us! We kind of all jumped out of our seats... how embarrassing.

Insha'Allah whenI go eritrea I'll take a picture of a thing they call hanziz or something, it is like a beatle with wings and u tie its leg or something to a string and it flies and you play like that.

I'm sure malaikah will like it.

*Crosses Eritria off places to visit list.*

Er, just to keep this post on topic, I once saw the weirdest insect in the backyard, it had a X on its back!

Oh, and pomegranate are one of the worst fruits to grow youself when it comes to insects... there were so many SPIDERS hiding in that weird part of the bottom of the pomegranate!

Today they are not anymore under harasment but years ago certain children played with them exactly how did you described:

Yea, wow, mr Hanziz we meet again!

I hope insha'Allah one day I will have a garden and I will grow stuff.

My garden this year is a little small for Minnesota. Here it is.




The lettuce is coming up.



The people across the street from me have a little bigger garden.





It is all corn and has really shot up in the past couple of days

LOOL bro Abdullah! Compare your garden with therees! LOOOL! I thought the big one was yours at first!

Mashallah tho, at least your planting good stuff like lettuce!

Kewl pics Masha'Allah.

My parents are keen gardeners I would say, we have all sorts of flowers growing in it inlcuding red/yellow roses, jasmine flowers, and other types of flowers. we ghave cherry tree n and tomato plants.

Perfect container gardening, Woodrow!

The lettuces look wonderful.
Obviously you have to hang them up high, so the horses can't get to them!

Close enough. We don't have the fencing up yet so the horses are still in SD. We had planned to free range them, but everybody around us planted corn so that is out.

Once we get the fencing up we still won't be able to have a garden as we will need all of the acerage for the horses.

So.... Woodrow... your neightbours, big family to feed, yeh?

Most of the farm land this year seems to be planted in corn. In the past corn was one of the smaller crops and the largest crops were potatoes, soy beans, and sun flowers. But at the moment the ethanol plants are paying top dollar to produce E85 gasoline substitute. The ethanol plants are planning to produce at least 1,000,000,000 Gallons of it in 2008. It sells for almost half the price of gasoline and it appears Minnesota will stop using gasoline throughout the state very soon. E85 currently sells for $2.55 at the gas stations and Gasoline is right at $4.00 per gallon. The price of E85 is dropping as more is produced.

Source: http://www.ffeic.org/assets/File/Eth...0Minnesota.pdf


The giant farms in Minnesota are owned and operated by local Co-ops and/or the Native American tribes

no agribusiness in minnesota?
here you will see HUGE fields planted with one crop. i think it's called monoculture.

It the past the huge firelds were potatoes, sunflowers and soy beans. It now looks like corn is going to become the dominate mono crop. At the moment it is in the biggest demand.

At this point their is plenty of E85 to support all of the automobiles in Minnesota and over half of the production is being exported to other states. I suspect the production has maxed and as E85 begins to sell in other states, people within will produce it and have no need to import it from Minnesota.

i think the gov't subsidizes growers of corn and soy.