Red State Green

Found dead at his desk at the age of 82.
He might have been working on a column
Rest in peace, sir.

… but I got a link to this video in my email today, and I just had to share it. It’s all about how to quickly put a water feature in your yard. If you use edible plants and fish, you have a pretty close to instant aquaponics garden! How cool is that?
Garden Girl TV: […]

Two nights ago, I had a pumpkin from out in the backyard I thought might need eating (Remember this little guy? He’s been sitting on my counter for months now, happy as can be),

and some boxed organic chicken broth in the cabinet. So I found this really good recipe for pumpkin soup over on Recipezaar, […]

Today is my obligatory ‘local’ post (even though we eat local almost every day!) but this time, we have a picture of the Famous Salad ™!

Isn’t it purdy? That’s the sort of thing I get from my garden on a twice weekly basis.
We also had home-cured pork (from a friend who showed me how to […]

I just got a new spam filter put on, and my spam went from 100 a day to nothing. My comments went to nothing, too, which makes me suspicious ….
If you’ve gotten your mail eaten use my contact page and let me know.

Sharon had this up over on her blog, and I love it. It encompasses why I “grow my own”.
You can be sure:

the food is fresh
it has no added chemicals
how it was handled (you know if you washed your hands!)
of what was used to fertilize it
it was picked ripe for best nutrition
you’ll have food for your […]

I ran across this article the way I run across a lot of things, read a blog that links to another, that links to yet a third, which links to something really interesting.
This guy is anything but conservative, but you will enjoy this:
Symbol and essence
SUPER TUESDAY is over. Today is Non-Super Wednesday. And regardless […]

This kid has made a working bicycle, completely out of wood!

Designing and building a wooden chain that would actually work without breaking proved the greatest challenge.

LOL
Ladies may start them too.
Someone posted this question on Yahoo’s GardeningOklahoma list, and I thought some of the rest of you might like my answer.
I am anxious to start planting and working outside again.
Any suggestions as to when I should start seeds indoors for planting this spring.
All you need is dirt and something […]

Here’s an interesting article, even if it gets a bit weird at the end: The Waking-Up Syndrome
[…] While the sky may not be falling, this day-after-day onslaught of alarming news is making it more difficult simply to overlook the triple threat of environmental, climatic and economic concerns. It’s leaving many of us feeling like Alice […]