Red State Green

Hi, everyone!
We’re having a bit of a cool spell — it’s only 90 instead of 102 here! — and our summer is going pretty well. I just read Sharon Astyk’s blog, which reminded me to do my Independence days update. It’s been quite dry here, the bit of rain we got a couple of days [...]

This looks like fun!

Le Tour de Fleece is a spinning challenge done during Le Tour de France (July 4-26). You can pick any challenge you like during that time, from learning to spin to spinning enough yarn for a major project.
My challenge will be to spin every day, I’ll be posting here to let you [...]

It’s been hot and humid here, with no rain for a couple of weeks. We could use some rain.
Planted: corn, more tomato plants, shallots.
Harvested: chard, onions, peas, blackberries, a strawberry here and there.
Froze the peas, also still drying weeds for the bunnies. Have a couple large bags full now.
Today I’m making broth out of chicken [...]

Dmitry Orlov does it again: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
I’m in the middle of reading this and it’s just a great article.
One quote I really like:
It is an unfortunate fact that the recent centuries of settled life, and especially the last century or so of easy living based on the industrial model, has made many people too [...]

This Saturday, as part of the five day long deadCENTER film festival here in OKC (which starts today!), a group of short films will be featured dealing with issues of sustainability and food.
Information below or visit deadCENTER’s website www.deadcenterfilm.org
Sustainability Focus Films

Saturday, June 13th at [...]

Photo collection of people’s fridges
After I saw that (and the entertaining link left by another photojournalist who also has a fridge collection from around the world), I went to look at my fridge.
A can of beer (husband’s), green onions, miracle whip, lemon juice, lots of free-range eggs (they last a while in the fridge), a [...]

Seems that summer is here — temperatures in the 90+ range, sunny, and humid.
Planted four more tomato plants, harvested a lot of onions and scallions, some peas, and a couple cups of blackberries (which disappeared like magic! ). And of course lots of weeds for the rabbits.
Made a braid of six of the [...]