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Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
Image by author Home/General/Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity? Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity? This post shares four things. The one that takes up the most space is about those two little words “food crisis” that are starting to make headlines. There’s a reason they’re making […]
Ginger in a RealFood Garden
Ginger in a RealFood Garden Ginger has thrived at our place since I learned to think about what it gives and what it needs in terms of its connections to the other plants around it, to me as the ginger-grower, and to me and my family as the ginger-users. Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a super useful […]
Empowered Thinking for Deep Change
Empowered Thinking for Deep Change We’re so in the habit of controlling each other/being controlled that we’ve forgotten how to think for ourselves. We’re so overwhelmed by the challenges we face that we assume there’s nothing we can do (and it’s all our fault). And we assume that controlling each other is necessary and failing […]
2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden
Image by author 2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden In my experience, leafy greens are among the easiest kinds of veggies to grow. But they don’t keep for very long and after you’ve given basketfuls of them to your friends and eaten stir-fried leafy greens, leafy greens in soups, in stews, […]
Seeing through the seductions of science and technology
Seeing through the seductions of science and technology The history books in our schools tell us that scientific and technological advancement have freed us from boredom, ignorance and oppression; from drudgery and repetition; from dirt, disease and malnutrition. Let’s briefly examine these assumptions about what “progress” has achieved, and consider where we go from here. […]
Nature’s Original Toothbrush
Photo by vadim kaipov on Unsplash Nature’s Original Toothbrush Researching the topic of homemade toothpastes recently, I began to wonder what people did before there were plastic toothbrushes. Turns out that we’ve been cleaning our teeth since probably before we walked upright on two legs. In this article, I’ll share what I’ve recently learned about how it was done (and […]
Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food
Image by author Kate Martignier Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soils, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills? In the first article in this series we discussed the relative […]
Beyond Eggs – Part 1
Beyond Eggs – Part 1 The Pros and Cons of Free Range and Mobile Chicken Pens Well-managed chickens can provide eggs and meat as well as composting assistance, sanitation and pest reduction, soil amendment services, and entertainment. But poorly managed chickens tend to focus all their talents and energy into very destructive pursuits, as you […]
Two Different Kinds of Healthcare–Part 1
TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE – PART 1 The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience. Modern pharmaceutical medicine is like the medical equivalent of fast food – it’s fast, it’s convenient, and too much of it erodes our health over […]
Backyard Chickens, and the Interconnectedness of All Things, Part 3
BACKYARD CHICKENS, AND THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL THINGS. PART 3 This article is Part 3 of a Series that is mostly about chickens. It’s not a how-to-care-for-chickens article, but a how-to-appreciate-the-specialness-of-chickens article. If you are interested only in chickens and would like to read about the funny things one of our roosters gets up to, […]
Backyard Chickens, and the Interconnectedness of All Things
BACKYARD CHICKENS, AND THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL THINGS This 3-Part Series articles starts off with our cultural lack of understanding about our place in the web of life, which is at the root of why our efforts to address ecological destruction aren’t working yet. If you were mainly interested in chickens, stay with me – […]
