Wednesday, July 23 2008, 12:46 pm
Come to the First-Ever Slow Food Nation!
The first annual event of Slow Food Nation takes place on Labor Day weekend 2008 in San Francisco with enjoyable, accessible and educational activities for all. Check out all the event details at http://slowfoodnation.org/.
Slow Food Nation is a subsidiary non-profit of Slow Food USA and part of the international Slow Food movement. It was created to organize the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair.
Slow Food Nation is dedicated to creating a framework for deeper environmental connection to our food and aims to inspire and empower Americans to build a food system that is sustainable, healthy and delicious.
The first annual event of Slow Food Nation takes place on Labor Day weekend 2008 in San Francisco with enjoyable, accessible and educational activities for all. Check out all the event details at http://slowfoodnation.org/.
Slow Food Nation is a subsidiary non-profit of Slow Food USA and part of the international Slow Food movement. It was created to organize the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair.
Slow Food Nation is dedicated to creating a framework for deeper environmental connection to our food and aims to inspire and empower Americans to build a food system that is sustainable, healthy and delicious.
linkage: http://slowfoodnation.org/
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Friday, June 13 2008, 2:53 pm
Yaks!!!
linkage: http://hangbellyranch.com/
Found these guys on Craig's List...
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June 14, 2008, 8.36 pm
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Yaks indeed
John
Wednesday, June 4 2008, 6:01 pm
linkage: http://pathtofreedom.com/
hat-tip: I Love Cob
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June 5, 2008, 5.57 pm
abreiling(a)gmail.com
loved that! funny, was just going to pass along this link i stumbled upon: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/02/moneytales.DTL
my neighbor and i just talked in depth about developing part of our horse coral property in SC into a garden, this was very inspiring towards that goal...
my neighbor and i just talked in depth about developing part of our horse coral property in SC into a garden, this was very inspiring towards that goal...
anna
June 10, 2008, 11.18 pm
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp
yoor bess fren!
Tuesday, April 8 2008, 12:39 pm
Three kids, a red tractor, and 170 acres...
linkage: http://tinyurl.com/4ptk2g
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Friday, July 21 2006, 11:45 am
We bought some hot dogs from Organic Prairie and MAN, THEY ARE GOOOD. They taste like the platonic form of beef jerky, like what the kind you can get at 7-11 is trying to be (through chemicals) but never quite achieves...
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Sunday, June 25 2006, 8:41 am
I found an interesting interview with Joseph Pearce about E.F. Schumacher, who -- I didn't know this till twenty minutes ago -- converted to Catholicism.
...the whole Catholic concept of subsidarity is that both economic and politics should be done on a human scale; it's not only about small businesses but also about small government, that we want the de-volution of power away from big central government back to regional government; we want laws that do not encroach upon the rights of the family...
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Friday, June 23 2006, 11:49 am
...from the bachelor dept...
So a few days ago I went down to the store and bought a few armloads of fruits, vegetables, cheeses, and other good stuff. So my bachelor lifestyle is more balanced in its dietary and nutritional intakes. Although I did finish off a bag of turkey-jerky yesterday (0% fat). Someday I want to grow lean, grass-fed beef that is leaner and healthier than that turkey, and make jerky out of it.
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Monday, June 5 2006, 4:56 pm
I've been thinking about "no product" living. We are now so used to commercial entities taking interest in all the vagaries of our daily lives that it seems unthinkable how people live 80, 100, or 180 years ago.
People making their own soap, their own clothes, growing their own food, building their own homes, making their own tools for their gardens.
It seems like everyone these days has a commercial interest in everything. There is a product marketed for EVERYTHING. Advertising campaigns relentlessly pound us with the ideas that if we are not buying these things, and if we do not NEED these things, we are backward, inept, and impotent.
In reality, it is just the reverse.
We don't need to BUY what we eat, what we garden with, what we live in, even what we power our homes or vehicles with. There is no one reason for the way our lives are set up today, just many small reasons, which are the many small, greedy visions of those who produce and convince us to buy, what we purportedly NEED.
Now we work to make money to buy things which we would have had of ourselves and our own resources... if we did not work to make money.
This is a destructive cycle, a catch-22. Spinning around in it reduces quality of life, both for individuals and society as a whole.
People making their own soap, their own clothes, growing their own food, building their own homes, making their own tools for their gardens.
It seems like everyone these days has a commercial interest in everything. There is a product marketed for EVERYTHING. Advertising campaigns relentlessly pound us with the ideas that if we are not buying these things, and if we do not NEED these things, we are backward, inept, and impotent.
In reality, it is just the reverse.
We don't need to BUY what we eat, what we garden with, what we live in, even what we power our homes or vehicles with. There is no one reason for the way our lives are set up today, just many small reasons, which are the many small, greedy visions of those who produce and convince us to buy, what we purportedly NEED.
Now we work to make money to buy things which we would have had of ourselves and our own resources... if we did not work to make money.
This is a destructive cycle, a catch-22. Spinning around in it reduces quality of life, both for individuals and society as a whole.
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Thursday, May 25 2006, 12:04 pm
For a vineyard to become certified, the land must be farmed for three years without the use of chemicals. The vineyard is inspected twice within that period by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), the state’s regulatory certification organization. Monitoring is yearly after certification.
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Monday, May 22 2006, 7:26 pm
My tomatoes are doing really well!
My private theory is that plants just want to grow, so if we get out of their way and let them... and love them... they will!
(are the hippie police gone yet? is it safe to come out?)
I've gotta hurry up and purchase and put the last (planned) cherry tomato (or maybe pear tomato, those are good) plant in the ground, 'cause it's getting late in the season. Although it did just start to get warm, so it might still be okay. And I want to get a basil plant, and some tomato food/fertilizer stuff.
But even the chili plant and the bell pepper plant look like they are doing well. It's almost time to break out the tomato cages.
My private theory is that plants just want to grow, so if we get out of their way and let them... and love them... they will!
(are the hippie police gone yet? is it safe to come out?)
I've gotta hurry up and purchase and put the last (planned) cherry tomato (or maybe pear tomato, those are good) plant in the ground, 'cause it's getting late in the season. Although it did just start to get warm, so it might still be okay. And I want to get a basil plant, and some tomato food/fertilizer stuff.
But even the chili plant and the bell pepper plant look like they are doing well. It's almost time to break out the tomato cages.
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Tuesday, May 2 2006, 7:47 pm
Spending money on increasing efficiency of current energy use is seven times more efficient (i.e. seven times more returns per dollar) than spending that money on nuclear power development or building.
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Tuesday, February 21 2006, 7:51 pm
Anyone have any Land Trust contacts in central coastal California? 'Cause I'm think of getting the TSG and I some new pairs of bib overalls and going a-Land-Trust-a-hunting...
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Tuesday, February 21 2006, 5:46 pm
Eating is an agricultural act.
- Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
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Tuesday, February 21 2006, 4:01 pm
I saw these guys's RAW MILK! in the local Good Earth Store in Fairfax, as TSG and I walked down to get coffees before starting our Tuesday work-on-our-theses day this morning.
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December 13, 2005, 4.52 am
"It is the heartfelt wish of the Holy See delegation that support be given to the activities and practices of rural populations (in which the importance of the family cannot be overstressed).
"They constitute the basic economic foundation for most developing countries..."
On this note, he called for the upcoming U.N. conference on agrarian reform and rural development, due to be held in Brazil in March 2006, to "give 'voice' and support to those people who daily practice small-scale agriculture."
"They constitute the basic economic foundation for most developing countries..."
On this note, he called for the upcoming U.N. conference on agrarian reform and rural development, due to be held in Brazil in March 2006, to "give 'voice' and support to those people who daily practice small-scale agriculture."
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December 8, 2005, 1.33 pm
So let me get this straight...
We restrict all commercial agricultural exports and imports, demand that farmers support local cities and populations (and vice versa) and thereby eradicate trucking/shipping costs and oil consumption. People eat healthier, more local, etc.
Excess agricultural products are purchased by the government using monetary aid funds and money currenty given to farmers as subsidies and then shipped to third world countries where they are given directly to starving people for free.
Eventually specialty items are re-introduced as imports, when American farmers demonstrate that they cannot or do not want to produce those products.
This would fix the following problems:
(1) import products driving American farmers out of business
(2) farmers' lives being ruined by unpredictable fluctuations in the markets of countries on the other side of the world
(3) other countries peoples being ruined by import of American surplus
(4) money wasted in the form of subsidies
Obviously cost of food would initially rise. However, farming could become more decentralized, reversing trends in the last eighty years. Food could become less processed before entering the home, which could regain its status as a center of production as well as a center of consumption. Less prepared foods and more work done in the home has significant advantages across the board.
What else?
This prompted by an article in the paper (L.A. Times?) about Honduran and American (Sacramento) farmers both suffering. Dec. 4th paper, I believe.
We restrict all commercial agricultural exports and imports, demand that farmers support local cities and populations (and vice versa) and thereby eradicate trucking/shipping costs and oil consumption. People eat healthier, more local, etc.
Excess agricultural products are purchased by the government using monetary aid funds and money currenty given to farmers as subsidies and then shipped to third world countries where they are given directly to starving people for free.
Eventually specialty items are re-introduced as imports, when American farmers demonstrate that they cannot or do not want to produce those products.
This would fix the following problems:
(1) import products driving American farmers out of business
(2) farmers' lives being ruined by unpredictable fluctuations in the markets of countries on the other side of the world
(3) other countries peoples being ruined by import of American surplus
(4) money wasted in the form of subsidies
Obviously cost of food would initially rise. However, farming could become more decentralized, reversing trends in the last eighty years. Food could become less processed before entering the home, which could regain its status as a center of production as well as a center of consumption. Less prepared foods and more work done in the home has significant advantages across the board.
What else?
This prompted by an article in the paper (L.A. Times?) about Honduran and American (Sacramento) farmers both suffering. Dec. 4th paper, I believe.
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joe(a)t-tine.com
dmoose.blogspot.com
It's all about the bloody politicans. Bloody pirates. Except that they're hurting themselves. *shakes head*
Dmoose
December 8, 2005, 4.20 pm
joe(a)t-tine.com
dmoose.blogspot.com
It's all about the bloody politicans. Bloody pirates. Except that they're hurting themselves. *shakes head*
Dmoose
November 22, 2005, 11.37 am
I haven't read this yet, and I forget where I first heard of it, but it looks to be good.
Borsodi: Flight from the City
Borsodi: Flight from the City
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November 19, 2005, 5.51 pm
The agricultural school dean was interviewing a freshman. "Why have
you chosen this career?" he asked.
"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,"
replied the freshman.
The dean was impressed. "Your father made a million dollars in
farming?"
"No," the student said. "But he always dreamed of it."
you chosen this career?" he asked.
"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,"
replied the freshman.
The dean was impressed. "Your father made a million dollars in
farming?"
"No," the student said. "But he always dreamed of it."
...my older brother emailed this to me...
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