This blog is ringing all my bells. Tana Butler is pretty smitten with the small farms in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay area and she does a good job letting you know why with a few words and a beautiful picture here and there. Thing is, I absolutely loved the area when [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
But What Does it All Mean?
Saturday, February 21, 2009
“I grew up on a chicken farm farmed in the old way. It wasn’t called organic back then, but it was much kinder to the animals and healthier for the humans too.” – Ruthanna, caller on 09.02.20 On Point – ‘Writing the Unknown Pakistan‘
My last post mentioned Ars Open Forum, one of the [...]
If I Had a Million Dollars
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Someone posted a thread on Ars Open Forum (you’ll hear that phrase out of me an awful lot!) this morning where they asked how we would spend a theoretical ’several million dollars’ (a couple million invested and one million liquid to re-arrange your life with. Apparently both he and his wife were mid-level Wall [...]
Indecisions, decisions, decisions.
Monday, February 16, 2009
I’m sure no one has been checking up on this site frequently enough to catch too many of the variations it has already been through, but it’s a good thing this isn’t a professional project or I would likely be fired for doing all my testing on a production system. Things are slightly more [...]
For now, my bookshelf is my toolbox
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Over the past few months I have been reading far more frequently that I had been for years. These are the books that have joined my library lately. The stack on the left is what I have read so far and the stack on the right is patiently awaiting my attention. The two in the [...]
In Very Broad Strokes
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Within the next five years or so I would like to be producing and direct-marketing sustainable, natural, organic, green, slow, local food. I’ll get into what that ridiculous list of words (along with others such as polyculture, permaculture, and rare breeds) all mean both to me and to others as we go along. For now [...]
Here We Go Again on Our Own
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
With a typical weakness for the grandiose my first impulse is to try and sum up everything this is supposed to be about in one post. Having already attempted to make essentially the same summary in several letters and a lengthy forum post I know that any such effort is going to wind up being [...]