New To Farm Life

A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.

Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Life as a Microbe (The End of the Food-Chain)

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It is a maxim of ecology that "wherever there is something to eat, there will be something to eat it." At least I think it is: I ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Throwback Thursday - Post from the Past

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Lately I've been pretty lazy about writing. I'm not entirely sure why, but ever since we got back from our year in Oaxaca (www.newt...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Appliance Recycling

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We have terrible luck with appliances. Really just very very bad. Last December, the furnace died in the middle of the one and only cold sna...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Things I Saw Today, and Stuff I Thought About Those Things.

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1) A bunch of goats in the house. I let the goats out to browse, and contrary to all my previous experience, I tried to do something else wh...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Ethical Eating and "Carbon-Costly" Meat

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I came across this article today (below, edited), which covers a report given on the carbon footprint of producing various types of meat. No...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Off-the-Grid Energy

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I don't want to give the impression that I'm the only one playing the self-sufficency game around here: Homero has his own project t...
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