The Morning Coffee: Alexander Black
…Amateur work has its own special charm. Freed from the commercial necessities which fetter the professional, the amateur need have nothing but the principles of art for guidance. In this
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Food Rules…An New Old Way To Eat
It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I
Continue readingSo Who Is A Real Farmer?
I am not a real farmer, my neighbors say, because I don’t do it for money. That’s almost funny because the economists are saying that nobody’s farming for money this
Continue readingMore Eliot Coleman
The Winter Harvest Handbook Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses by Eliot Coleman
Continue readingJoel Salatin Talking About Landscape Stewardship…
I think I posted this once before over on Coffee Muses…But it says a lot so let’s spread it around some more…
Continue readingFood Safety Now!
At least 69 people have become violently ill — 34 of them hospitalized — after eating uncooked Nestlé’s Toll House cookie dough. At least nine of those victims suffered kidney
Continue reading…Pursuit of Really Fresh Produce
Is eating locally produced food a civic duty? The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group — one of the organizations whose
Continue readingEarth Day 2009
This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would
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