This is a nice interview with plant breeder Dr. John Navazio, which spawned some thoughts about seeds, saving seeds, and propagating plants that do well in your garden.
If you’re a relatively new gardener (and even if you’ve been doing this a while), this time of year you’re being inundated with seed catalogs. How do you [...]
Hope everyone is having a lovely time.
We had our daughter and son-in-law over for dinner (after they dug their car out of the snow!): local ham, baked beans with local bacon, locally-grown baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions, homemade cherry and peach/apple pie. The apples and peaches were locally grown as well.
I finally got around to taking pictures and wanted to show what I had been working on all this time (click on the pictures to expand):
This is the yarn I made during that spinning marathon several months ago. I finally got it washed and measured and skeined.
The salmon is from hand-painted merino/mohair roving [...]
Crunchy Chicken’s doing another Freeze Yer Buns challenge.
There are a couple of people selling poultry at great prices here: I’m off to pick up some $5 chickens. Not a pound, a CHICKEN. My friend got 40 of them and they are HUGE. I ordered 5 as I don’t have room in my freezer for more [...]
Check out this Oklahoma City video “The Cost of Green”
There’s a lot of good stuff here about the costs and savings of “green” practices and technology in Oklahoma.
Between two kids in marching band and getting the garden (and rabbits) ready for winter, it’s been busy here.
This is our first year with the whole marching band thing, but it’s been a lot of fun, not to mention getting to know all the other parents and their children (or should I say, young men [...]
Slow Food OKC is hosting their 5th Annual Fall Picnic, Sunday October 11th at the Harn Homestead in OKC. Live music, local food prepared by Oklahoma City’s finest chefs, local beer and wine, and activities for the kids. $25/person before October 5th, which includes everything.
We ask you to please reserve early – we try to [...]
Hi, everyone!
Doing well over here, busy like anything getting ready for my daughter’s wedding this Saturday, but I wanted to tell you about the local food fair tomorrow (Tuesday, July 14) at the Harn Homestead in OKC. (click the link for a pdf flyer all about it)
It’s sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Oklahoma [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.
Just been a little busy.
We got the daughter graduated (whew!), the boys are doing their band thing every day, and we’ve been doing a lot of discussion about the wedding, which is in mid-July. Fortunately my daughter has found a place she really likes, [...]
Been fun the last couple of weeks, getting ready for my daughter’s graduation, my boys starting the high school band (they integrate the junior high kids into the high school band right about now), and of course doing all my usual.
Here’s the recap:
Planted two tomato plants, and put up a post and twine trellis for [...]
Sharon Astyk’s post reminded me about Independence Days, which I had thought about in the “oh yeah I need to be doing this” but not in the sense of “oh yeah I need to do this NOW”. Thanks for the nudge!
So we’re back on. She has altered the rules a bit … every day you [...]
They didn’t sit around waiting for the state to repair the flood-damaged road to Kauai’s major park (which supposedly cost $4 million that the state of Hawaii didn’t have and were told would take two years to repair). Their businesses depended on the revenue that visitors to the park brought in; they faced bankruptcy if [...]
Oklahoma had the highest growth in direct farm sales in the nation from 2002 to 2007, a whopping 209%! Second came Oregon with 163% growth.
Venues for direct farm sales include farmers’ markets, roadside stands, CSAs, pick-your-own sites, online sales, the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, and farm-to-school programs.
Basically, anything where the farmer is selling directly to the [...]
It’s also about human decency.
From Gourmet magazine:
A little slavery is okay, just not too much of it.
At this writing, that appears to be the official government position in the state of Florida, and it could explain why the fields of the Sunshine State provide such fertile ground for modern-day slavery. In the past dozen [...]
I like the idea of not wasting stuff.
People talk about how much restaurants and supermarkets throw away. I stood in Brahm’s yesterday and watched the people behind the counter throw away three orders of fries and an order of chicken strips that fell on the floor, then a whole waffle ice cream cone – just [...]
The stats program for this blog is different from most, in that it doesn’t seem to let you know what people were searching for to find this place. But it does have the top most read (meaning you clicked on that link to read/comment/send the link to someone else) pages, which I find very interesting.
These [...]
I’ve been gone a while, haven’t I? Didya miss me?
This week I went to a wedding, went back to playing World of Warcraft (my whole family got copies of The Lich King), and have been having fun on chess.com
And it’s supposed to snow today! Yippee!
But Sharon posted her Independence Days update the other [...]
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 [...]
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