The following excerpt is taken from Shannon Hayes’ newest book, Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously. When I was in graduate school, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview school food service directors from around New York State. My most memorable conversation was with […]
Ula Wins
Ula: Daddy, can I have a balloon? Bob: I just gave you a balloon. Ula: But can I have another balloon? Bob: No, I already gave you a balloon. Ula: Yes, but I need another balloon. Bob: For Pete’s sake, Ula. What do you need another balloon for? Ula: I just need another balloon. Bob: […]
Health Lessons from a Local Diet
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve been fully immersed in the local food movement, investigating and promoting the ways that it helps to heal the earth, build community resilience, improve local relationships, enable healthier partnerships between humans and livestock, and improve our well-being. That last attribute has been an interesting sticking point for our family […]
Toothpaste, Part 2
Golly. It sure is nice to post a little something on a blog and get such a deluge of information. Here’s what I can share from yesterday, based on blog posts, FB comments and correspondence I received on the post: 1. The role of coconut oil in the toothpaste is anti-bacterial. 2. Be leary of […]
Toothpaste Day
I’m fond of the maxim A woman who doesn’t change her mind doesn’t have one. This is particularly true when it comes to the subject of fluoride in toothpaste. When the kids were babes, I swore off fluoride, convinced it would poison their pristine minds. I pestered and poked through our food coop until I could find […]
From Homeschooling to Unschooling
From Homeschooling to Unschooling March 17, 2012 Tags: homeschooling, traveling with kids Our new classroom Bob and I didn’t have a clear homeschooling plan when we decided to take Saoirse and Ula to Europe. Truth be told, I suppose it is more accurate to say that we didn’t actually make this decision to come. I […]
Asking For Help
Asking For Help March 5, 2013 Tags: family farming, sustainable agriculture Bob and I acted as though it were completely natural when Sara and Raymond, friends of ours with a CSA about 30 minutes from here, wrote about a month ago and asked us if we’d assist them with a barn-raising at the beginning of […]
But can we feed the world?
Photo by Seth Joel Sooner or later the question comes up, whether it is between two friends sharing a pot of stew made from local grassfed beef and their garden harvest, livestock farmers gathered on a pasture walk, neighbors working together to tend a flock of backyard chickens, or organic vegetable producers discussing yields at […]
Cooperating Across Generations
Cooperating Across the Generations January 29, 2013 Tags: family farming, parenting Farming should be about making way for the next generation, as well as serving the needs of the present. If there’s a romantic image that tugs at our heart strings as much as the thought of homegrown tomatoes, it’s the multi-generational family farm. In […]
The Price of Corn
This past weekend I made a trek out to central Wisconsin to speak at the state’s annual grazing conference, which typically draws farmers from all over the Midwest. This was the second time I’ve been invited to join these folks, and I remembered it fondly from back in 2009, when the conference center was packed, […]
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