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It is a really simple idea - things that can't go on the way they have been, usually don't. Sooner or later things that have no future just stop. We all know intellectually that we can't all live and consume like middle class Americans, that our kids are going to have a harder time because of our way of life, that Empires end and ecological disasters cause things to come to hard stops. We know it, but we don't KNOW it. This blog is about coming to KNOW, and figuring out where we go from here. I'm a science writer, teacher, environmental activist and small farmer who is trying to put her lifestyle where her mouth is, and live in a way with a future. When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc.

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February 28, 2010

Nobody But Us Chickens...More Songs for the Farmer In You

Category: music

The amazing Louis Jordan performing "There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" - fabulous!

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Waking Up and Getting Growing

Category: music

In the face of this, I need some inspiring music for spring.

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Of Course Nature is Out of Control - Duh!

Category: Climate Change

MSNBC's headline is perfectly accurate, and conveys precisely the right amount of fear and worry-making, about precisely the wrong thing. That is, nature is out of control.

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February 26, 2010

Things to Read While I Bask in the Infinite Beauty of My Snowy Place...and Dig

Category: Misc.

Three feet and counting so far. The prediction for the "upper elevations" (that would be us) is that we could get another 1-2 feet before tomorrow night. So while I am lost in meditation of the stunning beauty that surrounds...

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February 25, 2010

NOFA and NESEA

Category: appearances

A friend of mine observed "Wow, Vermont NOFA got Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and New Hampshire got...you? I mean I'm sure you'll be great..."

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Growing In Sacks, Pots and Whatever You've Got

Category: poverty

We tend to think that little gardens here and there make no difference, but in fact, they add up rapidly. Consider the impact of US Victory Gardens in WWII, for example.

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Climate Change Deniers Being Led by...Climate Change Believer?

Category: Climate Change

I think this is more compelling evidence for the proposition that many of the people who are most invested in discrediting climate science are intellectually dishonest, doing it for political or economic gain, rather than out of sincere conviction

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February 24, 2010

So You (Don't Particularly) Want to Be a Farmer

Category: agriculture

This post is not for my readers who have enthusiastically embraced the agrarian lifestyle, whether city farmers and suburban permaculturists or outright farmers or wanna-be farmers. This post is for your loved ones.

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Why Bunnies are Cuter than Babies

Category: human nature

Not as off-topic for this blog as it might seem, I thought this (which I found through Gene Expression, one of my new favorite reads) essay on the merits of evolutionary psychology to be a very good and clear way...

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February 23, 2010

What To Do When Snowed In for the Better Part of a Week Without Power

Category: Book Stuff

We're in a particularly good period of reading chapter books - Asher at four is ready and interested in sustained narratives, which means that all four kids are old enough for lengthy read alouds. And everyone has a chapter book - or often two, one with Mom and one with Dad - going at any given time.

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