Sharon Astyk’s original post, the inspiration for this series.
A mixed bag this week. I’ve got clients mad at me because of missed deadlines and three new work projects that I need to get started on, so non-work time was at a premium. (I suppose that “making money” counts toward independence, though?)
I spent the summer of 1976 in Alaska, on the Yukon, in a cabin, fishing commercially for salmon with three friends. We made everything we ate by scratch. Ground the wheatberries for bread, pancakes and chips (yes, we made chips!). Dried and smoked salmon strips for the bars in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and collected the [...]
Sharon Astyk’s original post, the inspiration for this series.
This week is a lengthy report; I paid attention to this challenge this week and have a lot of successes to tell about. I’ve also changed up some of the categories a bit, to make things clearer or to tailor the challenge more closely to [...]
As John McSame clumsily attempts to re-brand himself as an economist,
From ETC Group [link and blockquote added by biscuit]:
the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on genes in plants that the companies will market as crops genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses such as drought, heat, cold, floods, [...]
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Big Brown was perched on the brink of fame and fortune with a win at the Belmont today. Unfortunately, his jockey was more interested in saving his family from the pain of the mob who bet against the sturdy horse to be the first triple crown winner in 20 years.
I died a little today. I [...]
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Sharon Astyk’s original post, the inspiration for this series.
I haven’t accomplished much in this regard this week. Hopefully next week… Read about what I did manage after the break.
This morning, I picked my first blueberries of the season. Just a handful, mind you, probably about the amount most blueberry bushes yielded before the invention of petrochemical brews, but more than enough to whet my appetite for a bit of sweet in the morning.
And they’re simply lovely things: deep blue, sweet with that subtle [...]
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I host a live weekly audio program called “The Celsias Show” and recently interviewed Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst from the Cornucopia Institute, one of the truly effective watchdogs of the organic industry. Immediately after the interview, Jill Richardson (who many of you know as OrangeClouds115) joined me in a discussion that covered, in [...]
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For all those global warming deniers out there, read this: climate change could mean some parts of southern England will be too hot to for wine-making by 2080, according to a UK professor. Why? Rising summer temperatures have already started to evolve the UK’s wine profile, with some French grape varieties being successfully introduced there [...]
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I’ve always wanted to do a piece on my favorite foodstuff: bread. Without it, I’d be lost, never mind the low carbers, I need my daily bread. In moderation of course.