Digital Farming- What’s The Deal?

...astoral life. I’m not sure I get this. I spend all day outside in the dirt making things grow. At sundown, I lock up the chickens. Then I harvest something to make into dinner or on a special evening, I’ll make a big batch of jam or sauce and spend hours canning. I’d rather spend as little time online as possible. I can’t wrap my head around how a video game can in any way replicate the experience of farming. I may be an urban dweller, but I get m...

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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

...r.com/xQxVJE4rUl — Sam Jacob (@_SamJacob) July 16, 2019 True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission https://t.co/3xJaU9GHLu — Julie Smith (@foodmarketday) July 16, 2019 I’m assuming L.A. bike and housing twitter have seen the opening of Americathon. It’s a dream and a nightmare.https://t.co/RYv7y7OtE0 — Sean Meredith (@seanmeredith) July 15, 2019 We’re testing more AVs than ever and traffic deaths keep going up đŸ“ˆ We’re ma...

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These Cheese Puffs are Gangsta

...Relentless cheese puffs! Like so many things in our neo-liberal life this “food” acts more as a vehicle for capital accumulation and “branding” than nourishment. I always come back to the evergreen Onion gag about Nike supposedly giving up on making shoes and just doing ads. Maybe Snoop has strayed too far from his musical roots, what with his cavorting with Martha Stewart, chilling with Rick Caruso and clowning around at the Olympics. Perhaps, li...

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Seed, nut and fruit energy bars

...is mix roughly 50% dried fruit with 50% seeds and nuts of your choice in a food processor until it forms a dough which will hold shape. If necessary, add more fruit or nuts until you reach this consistency. This stuff is very forgiving–you have a lot of leeway. How much should I usee, you ask? 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups of each is enough to start with. (Yes, you do need a food processor, though I suppose you could cowboy this whole thing using a mortar a...

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