Practicing the principles of permaculture gardening presents some interesting challenges for gardeners. For example, composting for the garden requires a proper ration of 1 part greens to 2 parts browns. While collecting greens is never a problem this time of year when the lawn gets cut every week, coming up with the browns is considerably […]
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Christmas is one of the most important days of the Church year, second only to Easter itself. Celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is the culmination of the mystery of the incarnation, the feast of God becoming flesh. The Divine choosing to become one of us. Emmanuel, God-With-Us. And so, we feast
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We are heading into the cold/flu season. Surprise! It happens at the same time every year. Hopefully, we won’t lose our heads over it this year like what has happened in recent years past. Because I’m interested in uncovering and learning the lost wisdom of more natural remedies using plants (food) as medicine, I recently
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While eating lunch with a new friend (Cheryl Dufrane) who read aloud to me a poem that she had recently penned, I knew I wanted to publish it here. With her gracious permission, I have included it in this post for your edification and enjoyment. Read it. Savor it. Think about it.
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As an eternal optimist, I knew the day would eventually come when I could proclaim some good thing that came out of the manufactured Covid 19 fiasco. Though it has taken awhile, the dust has settled somewhat and that day has finally arrived. Actually, I could name off a whole list of things but today
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Ever curious to see how people are using their creativity to grow food in whatever space they have available, I did a double-take when I passed this big white house in Clarksville this week. In fact, I turned around and went back to investigate. I was intrigued with the tiny but exceptionally tidy little garden
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Once I became committed to eating fresh, local food in season, I became more aware of the growing seasons of various fruits and vegetables. To eat seasonally, one must know and plan for when a fruit or vegetable can be readily sourced. For example, right now local strawberries are out but peaches are beginning to
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Joel Salatin gives the opening testimony to the Congressional Judiciary Committee in a talk he titled “Where’s the Beef?” Regulatory Barrier to Entry and Competition in Meat Processing
I am just beginning to wade into my experiment with permaculture, meaning “permanent agriculture,” but my desire and intent has been to create a thriving and sustainable garden that requires less maintenance and benefits the environment in a way that works with nature, rather than against it. In farming, this practice is referred to as
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Something extraordinary happened to me the summer before I entered the sixth grade. I didn’t recognize it as extraordinary at the time, nor do I recall anyone around me thinking so at the time. Rather, it was one of those quiet, unobtrusive markers driven into the ground that provides insight into the essence of a
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