It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I can’t implement all of the rules…But…I’ll be sneaking them in one at a time till the majority have become habits…
From Amazon…Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

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The Winter Harvest Handbook
Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
by Eliot Coleman

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I think I posted this once before over on Coffee Muses…But it says a lot so let’s spread it around some more…

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Is eating locally produced food a civic duty?
The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group — one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring — argues that buying and eating locally bolsters American communities and [...]

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This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life…Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture of the autumn of 2008 [...]

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