Grow the Change
28 November 2008

Winter delights

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Penelope and Juniper are looking quite pregnant. The books say that most of the development happens in the last two months of prengancy, and...
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24 November 2008

Sweater socks: Part 2

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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...
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18 November 2008

Some of the little things

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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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12 November 2008

Homegrown Popcorn!

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In our garden this year we planted about 20 row feet of popcorn. Not being a necessary crop I demoted it to the newly turned ground with ju...
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10 November 2008

A Goat's Economy

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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...
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03 November 2008

Viva la Kraut!

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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...
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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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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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