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 [...]
Things are going fairly well here. We’re finally thawing out from the blizzard on Christmas Eve, and temperatures are staying above freezing again, so I can get some work done.
I’ve been making bread more often. I found that if you use the Five Minute Bread recipe but divide it and put it in regular bread [...]
Here’s a good article on poverty and feeding yourself. I especially liked the list of tips on how to eat when you’re suddenly down on your luck.
I know very well that when you’re being worried like a rat by economic problems (and the health and other problems coming out of that), it can be hard [...]
If you’re looking to stock up on food and other grocery items, Amazon.com’s subscribe and save
program is one I’m really coming to like. You can order whatever they have and decide how often to get it.
For example, I get a case of Kleenex (we have allergies) every six months. They send an email before they [...]
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 just ran across an interesting site called Window Farms. The idea is to use the light and space of a vertical window to raise food plants in:
Their blog is quite fun to read, and gave me some ideas about what to do with a couple of windows in my house.
The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it
The challenge of feeding seven or eight billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It’ll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn’t going to happen.
We’ve had a run-in with the flu here (unusual for us), but everyone seems to be on the mend.
I’m still shaking my head at the hype about all this. So far this has got to be the mildest flu season as far as deaths in history (perhaps 4000 overall so far compared to the “normal” [...]
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown
This is mostly talking about climate changes and their implications for society, but it does have some discussions about population pressures and energy concerns. I just started reading this, and so far it’s better than the title (which I find a bit pretentious). You [...]
Gas prices are going up again, and it looks like that small spike in crude oil production back in 2008 is still holding as the peak of global oil production. (the little star on the black line of reality is what I’m referring to in all that speculation) Are we at the top of the [...]
Take a look at this four-part (actually set up as six short videos) video series by Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles (which I just happen to have at home). Seeing what can be done in urban Massachusetts, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sharon Astyk wrote a blog post the other day entitled Dreaming A Life that spoke of something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: why do we do what we do?
Why, when there is so much new attention to climate change, so much scientific consensus and so much activism, are governments so reluctant to [...]
How’s everyone doing?
We got in a LOT of peppers, and while looking around for recipes I found Supercook!
With this site, you put in what you have in your house right now (it gives suggestions that you can just click on — I think the only thing I actually typed was “peppers”), and it searches for [...]
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 [...]
Been keeping up with the spinning challenge … I’m doing a little every night, and it’s really good for me. I feel like I’m starting to get good at this!
Thought I’d do an Independence days update while I’m here–
Planted: potatoes, garlic, tomatoes
Harvested: tomatoes, carrots, strawberries (just a few, but very good!), chard
Preserved: more [...]
Got too much produce? Are your neighbors hiding because they don’t want any more zucchini?
Don’t you hate it when you have so much produce from your garden that some ends up going to waste?
I just found a wonderful website called Veggie Trader, which lets you put your excess produce up for trade or sale, without [...]
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 [...]
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