I subscribe to a couple newsletters about foraging, and one, from a local person who teaches classes that I aspire to attending one day, had a blog post in her newsletter about spring greens to forage. Most of them I already knew about, but then she mentions sochan. What the heck it that? And I …
Category: Books
Thoughts on Reading
Some read, some not Last July I mentioned how I tried to zero out my Goodreads Challenge number in an attempt to move my reading away from a consumer capitalist, must read as many books as I can, must be productive mindset. I struggled to lower the number, because, what would people think? I’m a …
Happy 2024!
Hello? Anyone Home? Happy New Year Friends! The best thing about a new year is that there are so many of them. There’s January 1st, of course. But there is also Chinese New Year. There’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. There is Samhain (November 1 making Halloween New Year’s Eve), the Celtic New Year. …
I’m Tired of Talking About Climate Change
Last Tuesday was the final week of our fall/winter CSA share and in his newsletter our farmer, Eduardo, said that there were some big changes ahead for his family and this may have been his last season farming. Sure, there are plenty of other CSAs we could buy a share from, but Eduardo has been …
City Folk Move to the Country
I got an email from a local indie publisher the other day about a new upcoming book about a couple who lived in a city in Ireland and then moved to the country to pursue a rural agrarian homesteading sort of life, living lightly on the earth, discovering what it means to be rooted and …
