Red State Green

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, and although there are many unhappy things to think about that surround the day, it seems better to focus on the things to be grateful and thankful for.
So I’d like to open it up to anyone this weekend who would like to share what it is they [...]

Boy, Crunchy Chicken is going gung-ho with the challenges! She’s got a local Thanksgiving one (which I probably should join, but right this second I don’t know where my free range turkey came from…), a fall book club going, and (this is the one I’m doing) the Freeze Yer Buns challenge, to turn down the [...]

Sharon Astyk has something going called the Competence Project, and it looks interesting. The idea is to pick something you want to learn to do and get good at it.
Since I don’t seem to be able to post on her site (this has been going on for a while and has yet to be figured [...]

Miranda Edel (of Riot for Austerity fame) got a wonderful video/article done about her in her local news. Go take a look.
Such an improvement over the dismal (and bordering on dangerous; she felt scared people might try and take her kids away from the way they wrote about her home!) article Sharon Astyk got in [...]

Here’s an interview with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that I found extremely interesting. Check it out for yourself.

I haven’t done a link day in a long time, and I’ve found some lovely ones I thought I might share with you:
Okla-vore – this is a lovely little blog I just ran across, which has some really interesting links.
Next Up? The Food Crisis — by Bob Waldrop, who’s the founder and president of the [...]

Yes, today. In November.
If you have never started a garden ever, or even if you have your outdoors garden under a foot of snow right now (like they do in northern Indiana, according to the news), and you didn’t set up to do a winter garden, you can still start growing food.
I’m sure right now [...]

Well, let’s see….
Harvested some lettuce and carrots.
Shucked more sunflower heads (making a dent in the pile in the bowl on my kitchen counter).
As far as ‘preps’, I’ve been working on a sturdy base for my 300 gal. water barrel, and between my husband and I, we’ve worked out a plan to get the thing not [...]

Want to express what you think Obama should do when he becomes President? You can go to White House 2 and make a list of what you would do if you were President.
The website owner plans to present this to President Obama, and it would be great to have some conservatives weighing in over there. [...]

An open letter to Sarah Palin
Dear Mrs. Palin,
Speaking to you American-to-American, average Jane-to-average Jane, woman-to-woman, and mother-to-mother (in exactly that order), I do indeed think you cost Mr. McCain the election to the position of President of the United States of America. I’m not saying you’re entirely to blame, dear, but you were a very [...]

It’s educated vs uneducated now.
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images [...]

Well, I’m glad all the hubbub is over so everyone can get back to work. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the election fairly distracting.
Planted red winter wheat today, harvested some purslane. Found out the rabbits like dry leaves!
I found out that from a post on an email group talking about how sheep [...]

20 tasks now that the election is over, by Robert Waldrop (who not only is the president of the Oklahoma Food Co-op, but a friend IRL):
Now that the election is over, it is time to go to work.
If you are happy about the election, the ideas below will help you do your part to heal [...]

The Crosby Mint Farm is still up and running for now, so if you wanted to buy from them and thought it was too late … it’s not. They can still use your help.

McCain’s concession speech last night was very classy. I wish he would have given those kind of speeches when he was running his campaign. He didn’t have that whine or the fake dad-trying-to-act-cool mannerisms that made him seem bumbling and wimpy rather than statesman-like.
He almost seemed relieved to have it over with, to tell you [...]

I got to my polling place at 8 am after dropping the kids off, and for the first time ever there was A LINE to vote. Not just a few people — this line stretched down two halls, out the door and all the way down the sidewalk. There must have been at least a [...]