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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With poetic clarity, Margaret Anna Alice, has put into words the exact conclusions that I have reached in my own three + year search for understanding of the lay of the land of our cultural environment. Like Margaret says on her substack (see link below), I have also noticed that as the Official Narrative has
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Source: Blackrock to Take Zelenskyy’s Panhandling Act to the Next Level “Of course, Biden—or that is, since he is obviously cognitively impaired, his neocon “advisers”—do not give a hoot about the suffering of average Ukrainians victimized by free-hand oligarchs and corrupt government officials. It’s all about Russia, China, and the role of the world hegemon.”
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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
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“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
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