Red State Green

It’s funny how you get involved in something.
I started organic gardening a few years after I bought my first home, back in the early 90’s. This was mainly for fun and to have some homegrown vegetables. My husband was interested in making rock terraces and he made me some wonderful planters.
Later, I learned about pesticides […]

On one of the email groups I belong to, someone asked what our plans were for eating local over the winter. Now, if you live in a warm agricultural state, this isn’t going to be an issue. But for those of you where the winter actually gets cold, it’s something to consider.
I’ve been thinking of […]

This little animated video (less than 3 min.) talks about the energy needed to produce food in the US through commercial means (like to your grocery store). It’s safe for work and worth watching if you’ve never thought about such things before.
The Food-o-meter

$100 and an essay could get you a farm
One hundred dollars and a darn good story: That’s all Rose and Dennis Wallace want in exchange for their 43½-acre farm.
The Wallaces intend to hand over the deed to the winner of an essay contest they’re sponsoring. Put the right words together explaining why you would want […]

The rainbarrels got here yesterday. Now I have to get a base for them to stand on stable enough that they won’t tip. 55 gallons of water weighs a lot, five times that (actually, I’m going to buy one more, so six times that) weighs a lot more.
Once I get them filled up I’ll have […]

I like buying gardening books, because with every one I get new ideas. But you can’t go and say ‘this is how you do it’ with 100% chance of being right, and here’s why.
Gardening, like medicine, uses science, but has so many variables you can’t control that you really can’t call it a science. Just […]

Republicans for Environmental Protection just announced their 2007 Leadership Conference.
This conference is designed to help Republican elected officials, candidates for office, and concerned citizens understand and address in a conservative way the key environmental and conservation issues of our day—those interrelated matters of energy, land conservation, and global warming—as well as quality of life and […]

First it rained nineteen days straight, then no rain for almost two months, then last night. I was up all night from my NOAA radio going off. Tornado warnings.
No tornadoes showed up, but we got four and a half inches of rain, and most of my corn was flattened from the wind. Not a big […]

My internet is still wonky, but we have a guy coming out to look at our network this weekend. In the meantime, I’d like to leave you with this article (actually a pointer to another article): Learn from the fall of Rome.

Our household is having some internet issues, which is why I haven’t posted in a while. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to reach this site today.
Hope all of you are well.