Category: Living the life
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Sustainable/Self-sufficient/Subsistence? Labels.
Sustainable sounds so similar to subsistence. (Please excuse the alliteration) Subsistence is hand to mouth, then the hand is empty. Sustainable involves the land and using your hands to feed your mouth while enriching the land to grow some more. Sustainable growing is by nature more upwardly mobile. Subsistence is hard to get above. Both…
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Waiting for the little Mites
I woke up this morning to find that my internet connection was down. I was practically hyerventilating within seconds. Am I one of the addicted ones? Grimly I turned everything off. I reluctantly backed away from the keyboard and went for a longer walk than usual. Something is happening to the air out there.. clouds…
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You say Tomayto and I say Tomarto – Summer Sauce
Where I was born and where I learnt to cook, in New Zealand, when we preserve our produce we call it Bottling and we “Put them Down.’ Here (US) we say “Put them up’ and call it Canning but both are in a glass jar with a sealed lid. Does this have something to do…
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Morning Walk through the weeds down the back.
Early this morning I took you all to walk the fences with me. I do this walk every morning and evening for the dogs toilet time. This is the wild area, where the weeds and all that wild grass is allowed to grow. I even throw seed gathered from the garden down there to encourage…
The Kitchen's Garden 