The text you type here will appear directly below the image When I picture a homeschooling parent, I can’t help but vision the über-caregiver; a person who is so lovingly in-tune with his or her children that they know exactly how to cultivate these young minds and give them a superb education. Through intuition and […]
Curriculum vs Life
Curriculum Vs Life January 6, 2012 Tags: homeschooling Apparently third graders are supposed to know all the states and capitals. This week for homeschool, Saoirse and I learned all the capitals of all the states. I must admit that while they were taught in my school, I never actually learned them. I’ve managed to live […]
Children’s Books to Cope with the Gifting Frenzy
Children’s Books To Cope With The Gifting Frenzy December 15, 2011 Helping our kids see more than what’s beneath the tree Christmas is just a few days away, and no matter how averse many of us may be to the social pressures of our consumer culture, we all still need to deal with the “gift […]
When A Farmer Hops Off The Fence
When an email from the group Food Democracy Now! landed in my inbox last week, asking farmers to occupy Wall Street, it seemed only right that I notify the subscribers of GrassfedCooking—a free monthly e-newsletter I run for other farmers of grassfed meats—and ask that they consider joining. Some farmers, myself included, heeded […]
Why A Farmer Would Occupy Wall Street
Why A Farmer Would Occupy Wall Street December 5, 2011 Every week during the growing season my husband and I cart our family’s grassfed meats to market, priced at $11/lb for pork chops, $7.50/lb for ground beef. Every week we meet someone who tells us the prices are too high. And yet, at those prices, […]
The Small Scale Poultry Flock
By Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Press, ISBN: 978-1603582902 ; $39.95 Ussery is a homesteader inVirginiawho has taken his passion for poultry to the written page. He paired up with Chelsea Green to publish a phenomenal resource that delves into everything from the philosophy of why and how we should be keeping poultry, to housing, starting […]
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
By Sepp Holzer Chelsea Green Press, ISBN: 978-1603583701 , $29.95 Originally published in German, Holzer’s book was translated for American audiences in the past year. When I first saw the book, I must admit that I didn’t think it held much applicability for the North American pasture-based farmer. However, as I spent more time with […]
A Handmade Life
By William S. Coperthwaite ISBN: 978-1933392479 , Chelsea Green, $25.00 Coperthwaite’s book was originally released in 2002, but I stumbled upon my dog-eared copy a few days ago, and thought it was worth mentioning here. It is not a farmers’ guide by any means, but for those of us who are deeply committed to […]
Grassfed, Paleo and Weston Price
I’ve received a fair amount of personal communication from people asking me for my take on Paleo eating. I’ve stayed relatively quiet about the issue in my online postings because my family has had to endure some grueling health crises in the past year, and it has taken me some time to wrap my head […]