Local Food Gift Ideas

I get these “green” catalogues in the mail at work, and every time I browse through one I keep thinking, wait, if people were being really environmental, wouldn’t they, I don’t know, NOT buy all the random crap in this catalogue? I mean, really, a wicker meditation chair? Are you kidding me? I still wish [...]

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What I’m Thankful For

The passage of S. 510 has left me rather depressed, I will admit. Very depressed, in fact. I have been very prone thus far in my life to making lots of excuses for not doing the things I say I very much want to do, and now I have an even better one for not [...]

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Pretty Pictures on a Friday

I feel like I should have something exciting to say, because it’s Friday, but all I can think about is going to see Harry Potter tonight. Is that wrong? Does that contradict all my speeches about economy and small scale this and that? So you’re getting a picture instead. Last Thursday, we played host to [...]

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Still Working It Out

Sigh. It’s all well and good to read all these books on local foods, and then I get in my car and drive through the landscape and realize it’s not reality. Not yet, anyway. And maybe not in my lifetime. The trouble of it is, this economic thing. There’s an endless conflict between what is [...]

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A Food-Laden Visit

While the blog posted automatically last week, I was busy eating. For once. One of my favorite people in the world, my sister-cousin Miss Clickclack herself, was staying at my house with her partner and I actually had people cooking food FOR me. It was amazing. I would get up every morning, do some work [...]

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Local Food Talk (Things to Listen To)

C-Realm Podcast: Fatuous Inefficiency Me talking about local foods! Me being snobby about tomatoes! What more can you ask for?

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Community or Death

I’m feeling dramatic lately, what can I say? Because I, like so many people my age, am again faced with the decision so common in this f-ed up society. Stay where I am, where unfortunately there are almost no career options, or move somewhere else where in theory there might be more than one place [...]

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Big Fat Hypocrite

I drive to work. I haven’t changed all my lightbulbs. I definitely haven’t checked the air pressure in my tires. I often leave the water running while washing dishes. I eat meat. Oh yeah, and I want to have kids. And I’ve stopped feeling guilty about it. I could make another list, one which would [...]

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Gifting All Around

I suppose for a bit I should attempt to be more cheerful. The thought of collapse really doesn’t depress me that much, though. I know I’m not the only one who feels that way, because I’ve been reading more and more lately where I find the same view expressed over and over again, and usually [...]

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Sustainable Farming (or not) Part 3

So now we’ve defined sustainability (flexibility, and the ability to adapt and change) and farming (using an area of land explicitly for the production of specific species), and it’s time to put them together. What do you get? The handsome fella said something at dinner the other night that made me do a little internal [...]

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