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 […]
Ginger, Food as Medicine, and Returning to Ancient Paths Read More »
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
The Unlikely Gardener Read More »
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
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
The Photo Essay: Carrots Read More »
Autumn is perhaps my favorite season of the year. Late Autumn is the time of harvest, the frenzied growing, blooming, and efflorescence of life coming to a close. This natural process is a necessary fact of life that is true of plants in the garden as well as animals in the field. Thanksgiving, not a
Quest for Connection Read More »
“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent
The Kitchen Garden Read More »
The past two years have been a wake-up call to me and to many other Americans like me. Previously, I have never allowed myself to confront the possibility that we Americans might not be the good guys after all. Until I experienced what we have all been through for the past two years. A government
Personal Vision 2022: Call to Action Read More »
The atrocities of the past matter as lessons for today. We are all citizens of the global village in a struggle between freedom and oppression, hope and fear, democracy and dictatorship. This brief documentary (summarized in the notes below) is a slice of history that was hidden from the world for ages. It is important
