It’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) season, time to buy your farm share if you haven’t already. Why would you want to buy a CSA share if you have a Farmer’s Market to got to? Well, with a CSA share you develop a direct relationship with a farmer and their farm. You find yourself in conversations …
Pi is the Best Number
Happy Pi Day everyone! I usually say that four is my favorite number when asked, but I think 3.14 might be the best number because pie: Yes, this is a deep dish cookie pie, modified from Chocolate Covered Katie’s recipe. What a world we live in when what is basically a giant chocolate chip cookie …
Springy
Sunbathing After a week of thawing and carefully biking to work on puddles frozen overnight, then biking home through what were practically small ponds, we’ve achieved 55F/13C! It feels so warm that I have a quilt hanging out on the line to dry instead of indoors on a drying rack. And it feels so warm …
Make it Local
One of the things that has become obvious in this pandemic time is that when it comes to the neoliberal globalization project, we have been sold a bill of goods. A deregulated extractive capitalist economy run by a few enormously rich corporations in the name of cheap goods, efficiency, and just-in-time delivery has failed so …
Let the Seed Starting Begin!
It’s almost the last weekend in February and the polar vortex has finally departed, so what does that mean? It’s seed starting time! Technically I should wait until next weekend, but I need some growing green friends to care for right now, and really what difference will one week make? Seed starting for me over …