I was immediately drawn to the paradox of the title Meat: A Benign Extravagance, a book by Simon Fairlie published originally in the UK and then by Chelsea Green here in the US. I eat meat myself, and luckily I [...]
When I was in college, I spent a summer on a work camp in Moyamba, Sierra Leone. It was through a program called Crossroads Africa. About a dozen American and Canadian college students joined forces with young Africans to start [...]
Our water storage shares the bottom of the kitchen pantry with our cardboard recycling. Home water storage is one of those good ideas for just-in-case. If your water suddenly wasn’t coming in the pipes, how easily would you cope? We [...]
Salvador Dali gives time a well-deserved surreal look. Image via Wikipedia Too much to do, too little time. Things get away from us. We forget errands, or even more important things. As for doing the things we really care about, [...]
Baker Creek Seeds…Image by Brande Jackson via Flickr Last night I sorted through my packets of seeds, most of them heirlooms from Baker Creek Seeds, and pulled out a few to plant this afternoon. Here in Colorado at 8,000 feet [...]
In January my husband Kelly flew to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a couple weeks. Vacation basking in the sun? Not hardly. He was there to consult and train on an earthbag demo home going in. His accommodations were conveniently located [...]
