This has been a busy week. A bunch of plants I ordered came in, along with my solar oven! I made an apple cake in it yesterday, which turned out perfectly. Yum…
Also, I took a continental knitting class today. Now I know how to knit! (Well, at a beginner stage, but it’s a start […]
Vertical farms
Downtown Manhattan is hardly a place you would associate with agriculture. Rather, with its countless restaurants, cafes, shops and supermarkets this is a place of consumption.
And so every morsel, every bite of food New Yorkers munch through every day must be trucked, shipped or flown in, from across the country, and across the world.
Now […]
For the first time, I haven’t had this post set up beforehand. So today I’ll go through my bookmarks and see what I haven’t shared with you yet:
How does our ‘ecological footprint’ compare to the rest of the world? I found the article fascinating (but then, I’m a sucker for cool graphs )
In order […]
Today my son and I picked pears. He climbed the tree, while I picked the low-hanging ones as well as a few of the bad ones that fell to add to the compost bin. It was fun — we got to be outside and spend time together.
Here’s the links for this week:
Some photos […]
$100 and an essay could get you a farm
One hundred dollars and a darn good story: That’s all Rose and Dennis Wallace want in exchange for their 43½-acre farm.
The Wallaces intend to hand over the deed to the winner of an essay contest they’re sponsoring. Put the right words together explaining why you would want […]
Here’s some interesting articles I ran across this week:
Consumerism, from a Christian perspective
Consumerism is not merely a tendency to buy lots of stuff or even to enjoy shopping and the hunt for a great bargain. It is, instead, a posture of the heart that seeks to fill its spiritual void with consumer goods. What makes […]
I tried out a new farmers’ market today. This one was bigger and more impersonal, and had a bunch of resellers. But I did find some good homegrown items (apples and squash), and had a talk with an old beekeeper who was selling honey.
I asked him how his bees were doing. He said,
The trouble with […]
I found my city’s farmers’ market today, and discovered that there’s a couple growing huge beautiful watermelons not six blocks from my house. I also talked to a teenager in our town who sells the vegetables he grows, and I bought some nice summer squash from him. I talked to another couple who grow blueberries. […]
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