Cindy Hadish
Homegrown Iowan offers independent reporting and connections to information about local foods, gardening, health, history and the environment, with a sprinkling of politics because, hey, this is Iowa!
Cindy Hadish began writing her “Homegrown” newspaper/online column while working as a health reporter in 2003, as an outlet for her gardening obsession.
A homegrown native of Iowa, she learned her love of the land from her mother and grandparents and inherited her interest in photography from her late father.
Now a freelance journalist, she has worked as a reporter in Fremont and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, most recently as a multimedia reporter at The Gazette/KCRG-TV9.
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Great site Cindy, to the point and very informative. An easy read to say the least that keeps me moving to the next interesting topic. Cheers to you and your team.
Hablemos Luego Mi Amiga
Barn
Thank you, Barney!
Cindy
The Cedar Valley Iris and Daylily Society (CVIDS) is having their Spring plant sale at
Discovery Park Shelter #1 in Muscatine, IA from 9 am to noon. This is a great
chance to pick up some very nice registered hybrid daylilies and iris as well as some
perennial plants. More information available at cvids.org.
Myrna Hass
Board member CVIDS
Dear Cindy,
It was a great pleasure to meet you at the caucus at Arthur. Too bad we couldn’t convince the Sanders folks to give us a delegate – they would still have had 3 but Hillary would only have gotten 1.
Hope to see you at the Linn County Convention.
Best regards – Jim
P.S. Nice photo of me in your GREAT webpage.
Thank you, Jim! Nice to meet you, as well.
My granddaughter (17) is researching information about climate change for a school paper. Your article about mosquitoes and wood ticks brings the broad subject of climate change into an understandable perspective. We live in Washington State–and the wood tick and mosquito problem is the same as Iowa and Minnesota (where I was raised). Back in the day, we had little or no problem with wood ticks. Mosquitos bit but carried no major diseases as they do today. Great article. –timely Thanks.
I just saw this for the first time. I was pleased to see the mentions of Clutier, where I am the librarian. I will be checking out your other items. Patti Kupka – another lifelong Iowan and proud of it.
Thanks for your note, Patti! I’ve enjoyed my visits to Clutier and was curious about the library. I’ll try to stop in sometime when it’s open.
I read your article on Alzheimer’s disease. Learn about the new discovery on Alzheimer’s cause. It’s chilling because more than half of all doctors don’t believe in Lyme disease (LD). The leading expert on LD in the states says half the bacteria in ticks isn’t even named yet.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50208/title/Do-Microbes-Trigger-Alzheimer-s-Disease-/
or http://tinyurl.com/ycgox9f3
In late 2011, Drexel University dermatology professor Herbert Allen
was
astounded to read a new research paper documenting the presence of long,
corkscrew-shape bacteria called spirochetes in postmortem brains of
patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Combing data from published reports,
the International Alzheimer Research Center’s Judith Miklossy
and colleagues had found evidence of
spirochetes in 451 of 495 Alzheimer’s brains. In 25 percent of cases,
researchers had identified the spirochete as /Borrelia burgdorferi/, a
causative agent of Lyme disease. Control brains did not contain the
spirochetes.
*Full story and comments*: http://tinyurl.com/ycgox9f3
*Contact /The Scientist/ magazine*:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?home.about
And by-the-way, L.D. Is an STD.
Cindy, your story on Alzheimer’s is excellent and much needed. Cathy Breitenbucher, a friend who worked with me in the sports department at the Milwaukee Sentinel years ago, is a coauthor, along with former Wisconsin Gov. Martin Schreiber, of a book about being an Alzheimer’s caregiver. The title is My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver. Its Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/MyTwoElaines. Cathy is a University of Iowa alum.
Thank you, George. That sounds like an excellent book. I’ll take a look into that.
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Hi Cindy,
How can I go about getting some articles and pictures from the Sokol Slet and Sokol Gymnastic articles. Great articles and pictures – Judy