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 [...]
I don’t know about your area, but the one thing I noticed when first coming to Oklahoma was a) the obsession with large lawns, and b) the sheer amount of chemicals and poisons used to take care of them.
If you’d like to get away from the last part, here’s an article you might find interesting. [...]
Gardeners are getting a nasty surprise
Gardeners beware — straw, manure and maybe even compost can kill your garden, thanks to the folks at the Dow chemical company. An herbicide called aminopyralid, released by DowAgroscience in 2005 and aggressively marketed to horse and cattle owners to control perennial weeds, has been associated with the loss of [...]
One thing I forgot when I did my “learn to feed yourself” series was the abundance of food we have right outside our doors. (otherwise known as eating the “weeds” or “wild food”)
Many of our so-called “weeds” were either used by the indigenous peoples for centuries, or else were brought here by immigrants. Much [...]
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 [...]
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