Yesterday was busy again… well, today was, too.
Harvested a lot of snow peapods. I have a quart bag full in the freezer now. I also am getting a collection of peas drying for seed for the fall.
The cutworm-eaten tomato tops haven’t survived. At least I started a lot of them.
Went shopping and found the material […]
Remarks given to the Vestas Wind Technology Training Center, today, in Portland, Oregon.
The full text here.
Discuss.
This is what I’ve been talking about all along. I am so in this challenge: each day, do something that promotes independence (I like to call it self-sufficiency) –
1. Plant something….
2. Harvest something….
3. Preserve something….
4. Prep something….
5. Cook something….
6. Manage your reserves….
7. Work on local food systems….
Go read the entire article, which will give you […]
You might have noticed that I joined a couple of webrings (if you look near the bottom of the sidebar, you can see the links). One of the people running the spinning webring emailed me asking was I sure I wanted to join a spinning ring, seeing as I hadn’t posted about spinning since last […]
Take a look here …
Charlton Heston died yesterday at the age of 84.
I almost didn’t listen to Julie Frieder, research analyst for the Calvert Group, because this topic didn’t sound all that interesting to me. But the weather was blustery out, and they moved her from outdoors to where I already was, so I stayed. Am I glad I did! This turned out to be a speech […]
Found dead at his desk at the age of 82.
He might have been working on a column
Rest in peace, sir.
Two nights ago, I had a pumpkin from out in the backyard I thought might need eating (Remember this little guy? He’s been sitting on my counter for months now, happy as can be),
and some boxed organic chicken broth in the cabinet. So I found this really good recipe for pumpkin soup over on Recipezaar, […]
Today is my obligatory ‘local’ post (even though we eat local almost every day!) but this time, we have a picture of the Famous Salad ™!
Isn’t it purdy? That’s the sort of thing I get from my garden on a twice weekly basis.
We also had home-cured pork (from a friend who showed me how to […]
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