Growing Awareness News
Growing Awareness was picked up by the widely-read change.org blog. There are some very fine food/farm docs coming out this year. Check em out: sustainable food blog
A fee weeks back, Lasercave covert operative Greg and overt operative Jade (myself) attended the EcoFarm Conference put on by the Ecological Farming Association in Pacific Grove, [...]
4 Must-See Sustainable Ag Documentaries
Flood Update
Only 13 months after my mom’s house was flooded with 1 ft. of water, another major flood from the Chehalis River filled the Independence Valley. Luckily they dodged the bullet this time around. The waters came close, but were lower than predicted, a good 2+ feet below last year’s level. Minor cleanup, but nothing [...]
Blessings in the New Year
We welcomed the New Year with powerful -15F wind whistling against the frosty windows in Portland this year. It almost felt like the wind was bringing the change and transformation that I know is coming in 2009. As I sat meditating on all the intentions and prayers that I [...]
Winter in Portland: Update
Biggest snow since 1980! Things are slow and fun here. Lots of movies, lots of coffee, heads right, slippers. I don’t go out that much in the snow, but neither does Clucksly:
All is frozen in cold unfeeling ice.
This tree was made possible by Prince! Seriously. He gave a big donation [...]
Winter in Portland?
Snow. Ice. Cold. Coldest day since 1988, people are saying.
The chickens huddled under their coop all of Sunday, but still managed to lay two eggs, collectively. The top dressing of mulch i threw around the garden did little to soften the damage from consistently sub-freezing temperatures, but It seems like the [...]
mushrooms can save the world?
Incredible.
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushooms can save the world
halloween plans
a list of ideas of my own or those which have come to me by suggestion, for halloween costume ‘08, mostly to do with my hair:
jimmy page – with my sister Jenny as robert plantpresident somebody (??) for group Battlestar Galactica costumeearly / like-a-virgin-era madonna for group phases of Madonna costumediana ross for potential group [...]
New bike! Buy my old one, tall people!
My favorite thing is my new bike.
Ride from HJF to Portland went so well and fast on this beauty.
Tall people in Portland, buy my old red 60 cm Schwinn Super Sport! A great bike!
sweet annie
I grew Sweet Annie in my garden this year. It grew tall and tree-like, almost as tall as me. The little flowers just started opening, so today I harvested and made the most fragrant ‘lil wreath. Its camphor-like smell has filled my apartment.
Sweet Annie, Artemisia annua, is a hardy annual also known [...]
helsing on the radio
my mom recently talked about the flood and its impact on helsing junction farm on the radio.
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=15667