Often society takes an all or nothing approach to life, which often leads to finding ourselves caught up in the perception of absolutes. I might be a cat person, while you are a dog person. Your co-worker might only buy German cars, while you buy Japanese cars, and your brother buys only American cars. Your [...]

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The book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver is filled with numerous green goodies, tips, and knowledge. Unfortunately, not everyone lives on a farm with perfect growing conditions. And although the book is highly insightful, so many of their experiences are difficult to replicate at home with out advanced forsight and planning; however, the Friday [...]

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We’ve got potatoes! At the last Farmer’s market of the season I bought quite the bag of potatoes, which we grazed on for several months. Unfortunately, in January they started to sprout — I kept intending to use them, but forgot — and by March they looked more like mutant spiders than potatoes.  Around that [...]

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I must say that I am feeling rather accomplished. For my Birthday in April, I asked for and received a Singer Sewing Machine. And, so far I have put it to very good use! First I’ll tell you a bit about my machine and then I’ll tell you just why I feel so accomplished!
The [...]

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You have probably seen my call to eat vegetarian on occasion, but my guess is that so far you have not made any long term changes to your diet. Now, I know that I cannot force you dear reader to eat vegetarian; however, perhaps Mark Bittman (NY Times Food Writer) can convince you to lighten [...]

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