Good food starts with good seed. Obvious, isn’t it? Yet in America, at least, it can be difficult to find good seed, by which I mean non-hybridized and open-pollinated seed, preferably organic. You know, the only kind of seed that existed a century ago. The sort of seed that Monsanto wants to eliminate, if not [...]

Categories: gardening, permaculture, rant
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Sometimes life goes more or less according to plan. Plans, however, often get tossed out the window.

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A Crude Awakening It took me awhile, but I finally managed to watch this documentary and I must say I really shouldn’t have waited. Peak oil is an important topic, particularly because we are nearing if not already beyond Hibbert’s Peak, the point at which oil production begins to decline because there just isn’t enough. [...]

Categories: book, rant
Tagged: book, rant

Most of you probably aren’t old enough to remember the television series “Wagon Train” so you also wouldn’t remember how Major Seth Adams would shout “Wagons Ho!” to get the wagon train moving. I’m not actually going in a wagon train, but it will be an interesting caravan. I’ll be driving that 26-foot moving van, [...]

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Goodness, it’s been a long time since my last post! Well, I’ve been busy, because I’m moving to East Tennessee. I hate to leave beautiful Oregon and the wonderful food culture of Portland. On the other hand, land in the Southern Appalachians makes up for a lot. There’s a long list of things I expect [...]

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Read Monsanto: The world’s poster child for corporate manipulation and deceit and decide for yourself.

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Time for an update, I think. The weather in Portland has been wet. Not wet like most years, but rainy almost every day until the last week or so. Wet as in we already had more rain by June 4 than we usually have in the entire month. Wet as in basil can’t survive but [...]

Categories: gardening, rant, urban farming
Tagged: gardening, rant, urban farming

One of the Ladies of Stumptown Savoury laid a larger than normal egg (on the left). She’s done this before. The egg is about twice the normal size, weighs about twice as much, and will have a double yolk. A three-egg omelet from two eggs–yet another reason to keep some chickens! Here’s a nice breakfast [...]

Categories: eggs, rant
Tagged: eggs, rant

Some of us don’t have room for a garden, but almost everyone has room for a container or two. I decided I should grow some things in containers to prove to myself that it’s worthwhile. I have three containers planted, and am already enjoying the results. A salad is a joyful thing, especially when it’s [...]

Categories: gardening, rant
Tagged: gardening, rant

As always on Memorial Day, I remember fallen friends and comrades, especially my best buddy, Brian John Bennett, who died saving his squad.

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