March 2011

Rejected

by bdunn on March 30, 2011

in Farm

In the past when I’ve bought property, the catch was finding the right place and successfully negotiating a price acceptable to both me and the seller. Financing was almost an afterthought. Yesterday we found out it doesn’t work that way anymore, especially if what you are purchasing is a small farm property. Despite both of [...]

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Spinning Trash Into Mulch

by bdunn on March 28, 2011

in Garden

Now comes the time for dragging dormant tropical plants into the warmth of Spring for those couple of weeks before Nature’s cook turns the oven up high for summer. You could feel it over the weekend, when the old mercury topped 85 degrees and the rain still refused to fall and you wondered again whether [...]

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Night Dogs and Birdlights

by bdunn on March 25, 2011

in Critters, Garden

The night cat was annoying, but tolerable. She had obviously chosen to tiptoe over Emily’s three pumpkin hills because the dirt was soft and molded into fluffy mounds, and the night cat wondered how they might feel beneath her paws, the prints from which dribbled daintily from hill to hill, hopping over the little moats [...]

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3 More Reasons

by bdunn on March 24, 2011

in Be Afraid, Big Ag, Energy, Factory Food

Here are today’s three reasons why it’s better to buy your food from local growers/producers than it is to get your food from companies who buy it cheap from other countries, then ship it across the continent (or the planet) to a store in your town, which then jacks up the price to cover shipping [...]

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2nd Day Of Spring

by bdunn on March 22, 2011

in Nature, Photography

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Strong to the Finish

by bdunn on March 18, 2011

in Recipes, Vegetables

Recommended: Samish F1 Hybrid Spinach Usually I prefer my vegetables open-pollinated because, for one thing, I like to save seeds from selected plants that outperformed their brothers. You can’t save seeds from hybrids because they don’t breed true. But I made an exception and tried an F1 hybrid spinach called Samish, and Popeye would love [...]

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It Can’t Happen Here

by bdunn on March 17, 2011

in Corporate, Energy, Government, Self-reliance

It could be my independent nature or maybe a genetic streak of isolationism – or maybe simple fear – but when news of a an epic crisis crosses my computer screen, sometimes my first reaction is to find a way to mentally wall myself off from the event, and convince myself that, while it’s undeniably [...]

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