Low Mileage Food

Liz of Pocket Farm has retired from the blogging business, and this year’s One Local Summer is being hosted by Farm to Philly. If you don’t normally eat local, One Local Summer is a great way to ease into it, by trying to eat local one meal a week. It’s also a great [...]

Need Less

One of my daily blog reads is Zen Habits. Yesterday there was a great post that I thought I’d share with you here. The title of the post is 10 Tasty, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas. I want to try almost all of them.

The Dope on Hemp

62 Little Known Uses Of Vinegar

Spotted over at 10 Signs Like This, a link to an interesting argument about global warming that boils it down to a choice between two risks. Which risk would you take?

I spotted this link over at Worsted Witch: 100 reasons to get rid of your stuff. It’s not just a ‘why’ list, it’s also got 50+ helpful links on what do with the stuff you want to get rid of. Do check it out.

These Come From Trees

I spotted this over at The Simple Dollar. The title of the post is “Don’t Know How To Cook, But Want To Learn? Here Are The Only Two Books You’ll Ever Need.” The two books are How to Cook Everything, one of Joyce’s favorites, and one we hadn’t heard of before, The New [...]

How to be good to yourself

2006 is behind us. The first third of the year was pretty good, the rest of it not so much. The break-in in June while we were out of town and my current job woes (I hate being overqualfied for the kind of IT work I most enjoy) are the two sorest spots.
The [...]

I spotted this entry from Groovy Green over on Make Magazine’s blog this morning. I knew you could grow your own, but hadn’t read about anyone actually doing it until now.
Linky: http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=689

Yesterday we made our normal Saturday morning farmer’s market run, with our normal list of goods (does anyone want a list? I feel like I post the same things each week. We’ve been in a bit of a cooking rut lately, one that I’m hoping to get out of after I settle into [...]

Liz over at Pocket Farm is encouraging people to eat one meal per week made from local ingredients. She’s calling it the One Local Summer. Participants also get a chance to win an Eat Local Challenge market bag. Liz will be giving away one bag every 4th week in a random drawing, [...]

Something Joyce and I often talk about is the importance of being willing to spend more for the products that fit our lifestyle instead of simply shopping by price. Shopping by price alone is a great way to put people out of work, and it’s what has given us the rise of industrial agriculture [...]