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Executive Summary: Plants: Standard tubelings still available for all categories ( Hazel , Chestnut and Hickory-Pecan ) except MP-BFL-Haz. We expect most orders taken now to ship around mid-June, some categories still available earlier. Bare-root dormant tubelings SOLD OUT for 2013. Nuts : A few hazels and hickories still available from the 2012 harvest. Chestnuts from 2012 sold out. Details to come, but right now we're preparing for the Short Course that starts tomorrow!

  The past few days saw the publication of a major piece of diet / medical research, in the New England Journal Of Medicine.   The NEJM is one of the top peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, highly respected.   The study, basically, measured the effects of a traditional "Mediterranean diet" - in a large group of people (over 7,000) over a long period of time (median of 4.8 years); in Spain (where access to the correct foods is good.)   In the world of medical research, this is an extraordinary achievement; it's incredibly hard to follow so many people, for such a long period; but they did it.   The major reason this hit the news now- the study was shut down .  By the "medical ethics" watchdogs.  Because the results were so very clear, that to continue would be causing unnecessary deaths and illness- in the control group.  They knew it.   Most of the world media picked this up as another "yes indeed, olive oil is good for you!" story; ...