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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.
Category: Cooking
Tastes in food are obviously personal, but so are tastes in labor. Just as I'm fascinated by the implicit personal tastes that shape our supposedly objective evaluations of good food, I'm also intrigued by how we feel about certain jobs.
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Category: adoption
We're going to have a late night zombie-prevention session in our room ;-), so you definitely want to come!
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Category: adoption
In other news, I've agreed to push up the deadline for _Making Home_ my adapting-in-place book to this fall (since I've got all this free time now ;-)), and the book will be available next spring! So there's some good news!
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Category: 31 Books
und sandpit - hey, it is summer, you've got to kick back with a book. But what book? The contemporary equivalent of _The Devil Wears Prada_ isn't exactly the stuff of anti-consumerist legend. He may not be that into you, but since really you are both into your garden, who gives a hoot? No, we need our own summer reading list, and of course, your blogiste has you covered.
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Category: Angelina's Ark
I'm still not moving to any stupid farm. I don't want to touch eggs that came out of a chicken's butt. Lambs poop everywhere - everything on a farm poops all the time. There are tomatoes in the supermarket, and Grammy Rose grows them on her balcony. And I don't want to leave my home and my school and Gramma and Grammy Rose and go where there's nothing but trees and white people.
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Category: food preservation
Canning is a fairly new technique, developed for Napoleon's army in the early 19th century, we've had canning for less than two centuries. On the other hand, human beings have been putting food by as long as there have been human beings.
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Category: Book Stuff
The funny thing is that I'm not usually a total overachiever - I'm much more of a slacker, and I think after three years of insane overachieving, my inner slacker is back. This is actually probably a good thing, if my goal is (and it is) doing good work but also having a good life.
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Category: Book Stuff
First of all, I present to you, the cover for my new book (not yet finished, but it will be really soon) forthcoming this fall. I didn't think it was possible that they could come up with something prettier than...
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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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Category: Book Stuff
My happy-happy-joy-joy of the day. Apparently Independence Days needs a second print run, only 3 months after its release! Yay! So just in case you are wondering why the heck you'd want to store food, and wanted to start from...
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Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Preservation
