Archive for August, 2009
Hello there! What a beautiful summer day for a neighborhood stroll. This morning I grabbed my two boydogs, my little point-n-shoot, and some tupperware. My mission: free food from my very own cityscape. That’s right, Urban Foraging – an underground gathering technique akin to dumpster diving or guerrilla gardening. But let’s be clear: there’s a [...]
Image by eyebrizzle If you’re reading this on a computer screen, you’re part of a new reality; a world where you’re granted greater options – an almost overwhelming array of ‘choices’ – more so than anyone else before you. So why, then, does the 21st century condition seems to be that of helplessness? Why do [...]
“Early to bed, early to rise” is how the saying goes. And so it applies on the farm as well: “early to bloom, early to die“. I planted my snow peas first thing this season, way back at the beginning of February, and they bore their yield before anything else, in June. And as it [...]
For this month’s Monday Mission, we’re each challenging ourselves to take our dietary habits to the next level. That means on every Monday, omnivores will be going vegetarian, vegetarians will be dining vegan, and vegans like me will be eating within a 100-mile radius – going ‘locavore‘. To be perfectly honest, this is more difficult [...]
Oi there lovelies, and Happy Friday! It’s time for the wonderful weekend again, and that means it’s time for comments, critiques, thoughts, support, and suggestions. What’s been on your brain of late? Which section of the site would you like to see worked on? (the food? the fashion? the farm?) What is it that YOU’RE [...]
