I'd like to draw attention to an organization, the Organic Seed Alliance , not because it's new, but because they have been doing so...

by (the elusive) Beringian Fritillary This week we helped a local farmer with his carrot harvest. He practices Integrated Pest Management, a...

With the incredible rainfall we've had here in the east, there's been ample opportunity for fungal diseases in the garden. The late ...

We are growing some test plots of small grains and seeds in the garden this year. Mostly, these plots have taught me about the growing condi...

My how the garden grows! Rainbow after a thunder shower only 10 days ago... The view from the kitchen table this morning. There's a lot ...

Mr. Fritillary asked me a pair of thought provoking questions, and my answers were all the more genuine because he asked them without contex...

Well, among today's international radio news headlines, after the news of Japan's lowest stock market level since 1983, and China...

In my post A conversation on ecological sustainability , I made these statements: "I no longer believe that over-population is the domi...

So 2008's harvest is now removed from the sidebar, and I've posted it here for posterity. May the new growing season be more bountif...

The next four months, December through March, bring our harshest temperatures and stinging wind. The average overnight temperature for Janua...

This is what we get these days. We no longer get showers. When it rains, it really rains. Twice we have gotten a wheelbarrow of water in 24...

Thanks to Paul at A posse ad esse , I was encouraged to try my hand at making saurkraut. I have been a reader of Weston Price material, and...

We just watched the closing discussion from the 2008 panel at the Slow Food Nation Conference in August. The panel consists of some of the ...

Celebrate Food Sovereignty, and learn more about La Via Campesina's International Peasant Movement. "The food crisis is the most dr...

We have recently been reading about the work The Hunger Project does around the world. They provide a sustainable framework that does so muc...