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Before and After Permaculture
...An aspirational alternative to the future of jetpacks and space colonies I blogged about yesterday, came to me via the folks at Petaluma Urban Homestead. Noting that I said I was going to sit in on Larry Santoyo’s Permaculture Design Course (PDC), Suzanne of Petaluma Urban Homestead sent me before and after photos of her backyard saying, “This is what happened after I took my PDC!”...
Homegrown Evolution Food Review: Backpacker’s Pantry Huevos Rancheros
.... While this product has an impressive shelf life and ease of preparation, making it appropriate for emergency food supplies, we’ve had better freeze dried entrees. Our fellow campers had the same reaction to the visual look of the cooked and re-hydrated product: dog vomit. The taste wasn’t all that bad, but it had the overly salty and questionably seasoned feeling of almost all dehydrated foods. Imagine eating just the seasoning packet from a bow...
Brunch at the End of the End of History
...nease I’ve just mentioned while, possibly, wielding immense power over our food and drug system. Like his far right compatriots, RFK Jr. does the same two step rhetorical dance by first accurately calling out the rot at the core of our food and medical systems but then going on to misdirect our attention from the real cause of the problem: a system based on capital accumulation that only provides food and healthcare as an afterthought. RFK Jr’s rh...
Bisphenol-A
...the early onset of puberty in girls. We’ve done our best around our little urban homestead to eliminate plastics from our lives, but where we still encounter BPA is in canned foods which we like to have on hand. Next time you pop open a can take a look at the inside–odds are there is a nearly invisible clear plastic lining which is where you’ll find the BPA. So with BPA we have yet another one of those throw up your hands in disgust, anger and des...