Grow the Change
31 October 2008

Frosty Blooms

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We woke up to a gorgeous frost late last week, the ice crystals were so thick it almost looked like snow. It was also my cue to bring in the...
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23 October 2008

New batch of Apple Cider Vinegar

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It is time to start this year's batch of apple cider vinegar. We used up the first harvest of early, unbruised apples for drying and pre...
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20 October 2008

A bit slow on the Slow Food scene

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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 ...
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17 October 2008

World Food Day

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Celebrate Food Sovereignty, and learn more about La Via Campesina's International Peasant Movement. "The food crisis is the most dr...
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15 October 2008

Bringing home the goats

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We are in love with goats. These gentle creatures fit perfectly into our homestead. Even with the smallest breed of dairy cow, a Jersey and ...
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06 October 2008

A final bloom of color

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I love this time of year, but it goes so quickly. These are some images from our bicycle "commute" to the internet access center. ...
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Garlic: the last crop of the year

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With our garlic bedded down, this year's growing season is officially complete. We planted 120 row feet of garlic, which could produce 3...
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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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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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