Grow the Change: crafting

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Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

10 November 2009

Wool hood and scarf for Winter Biking

I'm inevitably prone to catching the knitting fever this time of year. It's the crisp temperatures and the adding of layers... what...

29 April 2009

The Resourceful Re-purposed Sock

We were offered a spot to Guest Post over at Not Dabbling in Normal today. I re-posted a New and Improved version of making Sweater Socks ,...

26 February 2009

Making liquid dish soap

Finally got around to making a batch of soap. It is my second batch, and I am still a bit intimidated by the lye. I was also terrified of ...

12 January 2009

Hand-Maiden Brassiere

A few years ago I was in town shopping, and stopped at the discount clothing store to replace my worn sports-type bras that I wore for worki...

24 November 2008

Sweater socks: Part 2

Sweaters that make the best socks are XL men's knit, with a tight stitch. Round neck or turtle neck are better than V-neck. I am also ex...

18 November 2008

Some of the little things

We do the best we can to live according to our conscience, here on our homestead. And living within limited means dictates some of our less...

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Freija and Beringian Fritillary: We believe that growing our own food is the most radical and effective way to promote social justice, equality and sustainability. Everyone, to some extent, can grow their own food. It makes even more sense for communities to grow their own food, sharing responsibilities and costs. It requires a restructuring of values, the kinds of values that are necessary for a consumer culture to wake up to the exploitation and poverty we perpetuate throughout the world. Our socially and environmentally exploitive food-culture perpetuates the very resource wars and poverty that concern so many of us. Growing food brings our environment sharply into focus; we learn how much we rely on healthy food, healthy soil and an healthy ecosystem. On our homestead, and in this blog, we practice and advocate human-scaled food systems, with an intimate hands on approach, as a way for everyone on this earth to be nutritiously and sustainably fed, from the first world to the third world. Our diverse, closed-loop homestead is to us, a relevant form of protest, as well as a constructive way to build a sustainable future. We are all in this together. Not one of us lives on this earth alone.

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