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The Local Rule
I wrote an essay for catapult magazine‘s GOING LOCAL issue. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book. Check out ERB’s review here and an interview with the author, Norman Wirzba, here.
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vacation food
Pardon my absence here – we took a last minute family vacation to Seacrest, Florida last week. Seacrest is sandwiched between two famously planned communities that epitomize New Urbanism –…
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Junk food isn’t cheaper
I love Mark Bittman, especially today, debunking the myth that junk food is cheaper than real food: In general, despite extensive government subsidies, hyperprocessed food remains more expensive than food…
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Fall garden clean-up
Our garden is seriously winding down at home. There are still lots of tomato plants with green tomatoes longing for warmer days to ripen up, but everything else is looking…
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Fall garden clean-up
Our garden is seriously winding down at home. There are still lots of tomato plants with green tomatoes longing for warmer days to ripen up, but everything else is looking…
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Wendell for Wednesday
The ‘drudgery’ of growing one’s own food, then, is not drudgery at all. (If we make the growing of food a drudgery, which is what ‘agribusiness’ does make of it,…
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Seed Sale!
Nature’s Harvest, our favorite (and only?) local seed company, is having a fall clearance sale. Now is a great time to stock up for next season’s garden. OR buy some…
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Why I Farm/Homestead/Garden
Gene Logsdon’s blog has this ongoing series called “Why I Farm,” in which farmers/homesteaders/gardeners tell their stories about why they do what they do. I’m fascinated by the series and…
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Wendell for Sunday
I found reading Wendell’s reflections in the days following the attacks particularly enlightening. I’ve spent the last few days imagining how different our world today would be had we heeded…