Food
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How Many Ep(idem)ic Fails Does Factory Farming Get Before It’s Finished?
This time we don’t have to get into the animal rights side of things, how cruel the factory farm system…
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How to Harvest and Use Queensland Arrowroot
Queensland arrowroot (Canna edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and…
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The Permaculture Pantry
Going to the supermarket, in this time of pandemic, has increasingly begun to look more like a game of Russian…
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How To Cultivate and Cook Wild Rice
When most of us think of rice, we envision paddies cascading down the mountainside of Vietnam or Indonesia. We think…
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Fun Facts of Peppers and Hot Sauce Recipes
There are a lot of things out in the world to which people become addicted, but hot sauce isn’t one…
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Making The Most Of What We Harvest
It’s nearing the end of our main growing season here in North Carolina. Halfway through October, our tomato plants are…
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Wild about Persimmons
I didn’t grow up eating persimmons. Somehow they made it into my vocabulary but never my diet. My British wife…
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Maitake Mushrooms
Temperatures are starting to suggest that autumn is arriving here in North Carolina. It’s teetering between summer swelter in the…
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Will this Type of Agriculture Feed Your Grandchildren?
You know that a system of agriculture is truly sustainable when the harvest occurs—increasingly abundantly—as a by-product of ecosystem regeneration.…
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Everything You Need to Know About Backyard Farming
Yearning for more sustainable living, an organic garden, but don’t know where to start? Dreaming of eating healthy vegetables and…
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Squashing the Surplus
If ever there were a crop to grow to make a person feel certain of a green thumb, it’s summer…
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Foraging for Chanterelles
One of my favourite parts, and there are many, about foraging food is that some things can only be grown…
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