...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 delicious liberty he may well be, and is, envied by those who must yield something to the whim of the…
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 can't implement all of the rules...But...I'll be sneaking them in one at a time till the majority have become habits...…
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 year. Although the corn crop is good in most of the midwest, there’s not much profit in it. Some go…
The Winter Harvest Handbook Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses by Eliot Coleman
I think I posted this once before over on Coffee Muses...But it says a lot so let's spread it around some more...
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 failure, as a result of a virulent form of E. coli. Nestlé USA has recalled more than 300,000 cases of…
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 efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring -- argues that buying and eating…
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 be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life...Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture…
