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So I just stumbled across the calendar for the monthly contra dance in Belfast, Maine. I'm falling in love with the contra scene up here, but reading through this left me uttering orgasmic squeals of increasing intenstiy. Here's the executive summary:- May-- Nightwatch (folk-baby kids I went to Oberlin with)
- June-- Notorious
- July-- Wild Asparagus
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Snugglepig
A bunch of new piglings just arrived at the farm. And now I understand the etymology of the term "Pig Pile."
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Feel the food production!
There's no time for a full post, but I'm just too proud of this bloggable moment to pass it up. I'm wrapping up the third week of my 6-month apprenticeship at Buckwheat Blossom Farm in Wiscasset, Maine. The apprenticeship means a lot of hard work but a lot of good food. I think I'm really starting to get into the flow and my kitchen will be ( Read more... ) -
February Tour 2007
It's been a quite amazing week and a half for me. I've criss-crossed New England, visiting farms and contra dances, and been met with incredible hospitality everywhere I go. The world looks so great right now, and I share some of it before memory fades ( Read more... ) -
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan, author of the awesome Omnivore's Dilemma, had a new essay published this weekend in the New York Times. It deals with the culture of nutrition, which is a topic that's particularly poignant to me. You see, in the past year I've become an official mostly-vegetarian, worked for organic farms for nothing but vegetables, experimented ( Read more... ) -
Fiddles, pickles, and cider
It was a good October. The first two weeks, I mostly sat around the house, but in a good way. I played a lot of fiddle and made pickles from the free vegetables I was getting from the farm. Oh the pickles! I'm eating great veggies long after the frost has come, and I didn't have to go to California to get them. There are cucumber spears, ( Read more... ) -
moment of hopeless sentimental idealism
Here's what a South Korean farmer had to say about the North Korean nuclear crisis:
"To be honest, I don't think about it. I work hard all day, so I don't have time to watch TV or worry about it."
What if everybody farmed? Would we still think we needed nuclear weapons?
(Heard on Morning Edition, farmI have a house! (plus a tangent articulating the benefits of participating in local agriculture)
Yup, its official. I've been moved in for a week and everything. I'm housesitting for a couple of contra dancers for three months. The arrangement is just perfect. I'd been looking for a short-term place, so I can get my life back in order and decide what to do next. Fall sublets are notoriously hard to come by in this town, and the Ithaca ( Read more... )Hegemony or Survival
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivered an inspiring speech to the UN General Assembly the other day, and I think you should read it.
The New York Times treated it as regular old Bush-bashing, and covered it with the headline Iran Who? Venezuela Takes the Lead in a Battle of Anti-U.S. Sound Bites, but here are some of the quotes they didn't ( Read more... )Back on the Blog
Well here goes. My attempt to revive this thing and the Contact with loved ones far away that goes with it. My life these days is a delicious cacophony of vegetables and fiddles as I divide my time between working on organic farms and getting progressively less bad on the fiddle. But I should backtrack a bit. To the start of the summer ( Read more... )