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The Nation's Food
I'm not really sure how much people know about their food. I'm pretty sure that most people don't even know someone that is a farmer, unless it is from a farmer's market or something similar. As far as I can tell people don't know squat about our food system and not just the normal things like most of the corn and soy that goes into foods any ( Read more... ) -
Politics and Bullshit
Ok, so anyone who ever reads this knows that I may be a tad out-spoken about things. All this crap about recession, is something, I find, rather annoying. People are whining that their food costs are rising. Well I've got news for you people, food has been completely under and de-valued in america forever. I'm sorry that you can't have tomatoes ( Read more... ) -
Life
Today I started some peas and fava beans in containers with a trellis and did a second planting of lettuces and radishes. We ate our first salad of pea sprouts, baby lettuces, and chickweed today. It was good, but it was hard to cut enough lettuce to amount to anything without feeling like I was cutting all of it. I started seeds in paper towels ( Read more... ) -
Amazing Re-usable Lint Roller
So in the interest of being more environmentally friendly, as always, we got a re-usable lint roller. This is what it looks like.
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Bubble Wrap
So, I think that it has been about several millenia since I posted last and I am going to rectify that right now. Whilst the cat tries to get me to pet him and type. There was actually, what I considered, a useful piece of advice in the Mother Earth newsletter that I have an e-subscription to. They suggested taking bubble wrap spraying it with ( Read more... ) -
Me!
I keep wanting to post, but never get my lazy butt to that point. Last night we had dinner with my boyfriends parents. It was really the first time in about 4 years that we had a decent conversation without too many lulls. Of course this comes with a few addendums. We only spent two hours with them the entire night and I was pretty much drunk ( Read more... ) -
Gardening and Cats
Well, things have been busy here. Work has been annoying so I don't get much time to do my gardening, but here are some pictures of what is growing so far. Hopefully today I will get to put in another bed and put corn, melons and beans in it!
Here is my spring garden.
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Green Corps
So, a couple of weekends ago I spent my last weekend of freedom before I started working again and a second round Green Corps interview weekend. I don't have much more to say about the situation. If you have read not for profit watch they pretty much summed everything up. I actually felt bizarre afterwards it was like the words on the website ( Read more... )
