Grow the Change
29 September 2008

Proving our bread wheat

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Mr. Fritillary set himself the task of figuring out how to thresh our bread wheat this rainy weekend. Surprisingly, the meat grinder did the...
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24 September 2008

Keeping the home fires burning

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Our trusty workhorse Pilgrim got harnessed this morning for the first time since spring. He is a willing and intelligent horse, we were luck...
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22 September 2008

After the Frost

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After 126 frost free days, we got a killer Friday morning. We expected a light frost, the weather predicted 2C (35F). I picked my ripe tomat...
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16 September 2008

Generating Alternative Power

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Generating your own power is much like growing your own food. The first step is to change your relationship to your power, much like your re...
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10 September 2008

Homesteading Skills: Building Barns

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We moved onto a bare piece of land in the fall, two years ago. Before us were 10 acres of clover and Timothy grass pastures, 90 acres of mix...
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04 September 2008

The Hunger Project

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

Our Homestead

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This is where we spend our days and nights. We both fully employ and engage ourselves at home. We have a diverse garden where we organically...
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03 September 2008

Out here

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Everything is set in motion out here: this earth turns before my eyes, it rocks beneath my feet. The sun advances and retreats its horizon, ...
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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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