A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
I have had this … pile in my yard for nearly six months. It grows and shrinks, but mostly just sits there doing nothing spectacular — at least nothing I have been able to notice. Six months is the amount of time I have most often read that it takes for a pile like mine [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2009
This objective has all kinds of oddities wrapped up in it – little efforts I never imagined engaging in, not even up to the moment of doing. Take today, for instance. In trying to reduce the percent of our property covered in grass, I spent part of the morning removing a rather modest square-footage from [...]
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