Grow the Change
03 April 2009

A rare visitor

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Update on the Freezer Cold Frames . They are working out splendidly. Last evening, we put the lids on just as the sun was setting, and the t...
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01 April 2009

Appropedia Needs You

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Staying connected to the internet is a challenge in rural areas. Services are limited and expensive, and often the perfect site for a homes...
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31 March 2009

Turn your freezers into cold-frames

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Ever since we ditched our fridge and freezer for food preservation, we have found some excellent uses for the well insulated and sealed boxe...
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27 March 2009

Harnessing the dogs

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It was a glorious +8C (45F) and sunny yesterday. The snow is slowly melting, and then freezing over at night, which makes it pretty easy to ...
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25 March 2009

Breaking open

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The world is not ending. I do not see an end, I see that we have destroyed our way of life, and our home is changing, beyond prediction or r...
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21 March 2009

Promises

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We celebrate the re-appearance of small things: rain, fresh milk steaming in a pail, a perfectly formed rose-brown egg in the nesting box, r...
20 March 2009

Local resources

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We were graciously gifted this week with some treasures, to us anyway, another's throw-aways. We have been looking for a stationary bike...
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16 March 2009

Out in the sun

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Everyone got out in the sun today. We have had some gorgeous sunny days this week, but it's just hanging at the freezing point in the da...
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13 March 2009

Unfurling their leaves like banners

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It's that time of year for us. The sun is high in the sky, and the season is upon us, even if there is still three feet of snow on the ...
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09 March 2009

Every 3 Seconds

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