Grow the Change
28 July 2009

Busy as a bee

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Been canning and harvesting for the market garden this week, so I'll leave you with some pictures from the garden. Bumble bees are in a...
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23 July 2009

Growing by degrees

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The food cycle has finally reversed flow, there is more food coming into the house than we are able to eat... time to stock the pantry. With...
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20 July 2009

Chocolate and Collaboration

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For the last three years we have been living in a conservative rural area, where the unemployment/ welfare and illiteracy rates are well ove...
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17 July 2009

Nature walk

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My Nana is a special lady, full of character and one tough cookie. She showed me how a woman can do anything she puts her heart into, and my...
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13 July 2009

Blooming

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I do love vegetable flowers, and watching them unfold gives me more than an aesthetic satisfaction because the edible fruits are soon to fol...
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06 July 2009

On Safari

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After one entire week without a single ray of sun, we breathed a deep sigh of relief and exhilaration when the clouds and heavy fog finally ...
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02 July 2009

Extremes

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All told, out here on the East coast, this June was reported as the darkest June on record, ever. And for all of that cloud cover we accumul...
30 June 2009

A Cutworm Fence: protecting row crops from cutworm damage

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Putting physical barriers, such as tin-foil or paper collars, around transplants is a common method of controlling cutworm damage . As immat...
26 June 2009

Garden Tour

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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 ...
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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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