The Limit of Limits
I recently attended the conference of Front Porch Republic, a website I sometimes write for. FPR’s motto is “Place, Limits, Liberty,” all of which I’m quite fond of, and I...
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The Limit of Limits
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What I'm Eating 1/31/15
Well, the real answer to the post title today, is "not a whole lot," though not for a lack of food. My boy brought a GI bug back from school,...
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A Lack of Surplus
For breakfast I ate (what else?) rutabagas with ground beef and sage. I find it interesting that I am still able to enjoy these simple ingredients so much even entering...
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Rough-Legged Hawks and the Blizzard that Wasn't
Before Christmas - before I began this whole experiment - I went shopping prior to a snow storm. Less than a foot was called for, but the roads would be...
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Rabbit
Don't worry, I'm not resorting to small game as a major source of sustenance. If I were, I'd be gearing up to quit in a few days when I hit...
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A Gray Area
I have stumbled upon a gray area in our rules that I did not account for at the outset. Last night I received a gift of a big tub of...
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Firewood
Despite the title of this post, no, I didn't go so far as to require all my food be cooked by wood. Modern stoves are convenient and time-saving and believe...
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The Cows of Winter
In a previous post I mentioned that I don’t think I’m particularly prone to anthropomorphizing the livestock. While I do think they have states that vary, I doubt very much...
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Food Item: Carrots
The background carrots are straight out the root cellar, the foreground guy has been washed. Washing before storing tends to shorten the shelf life of roots. Carrots are a staple...
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All Carrot, No Cake
Before beginning this blog post, I recommend you sit down. You might think that what we’re doing - growing all our own food for a year - is kind of...
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Root Cellar
This may just be the keystone to the home-grown food arch I'm living right now. I've grown a lot of produce in other years, but storage has always been less...
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What I'm Eating 1/11/15
The picture above is bibimbap, or the closest I could come with the limited ingredients available to me. Real bibimbap would have rice as a base instead of rutabagas, and...
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What do Turkeys do in Winter?
When I was in college I had a room to myself in a suite of sorts. Feeling kind of lonely I decided to get a pet, so stupidly I went...
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An Appeal to Nature
Our pigs live in a hoop made of bent chain link fence pipe and billboard tarps, sleeping beneath advertisements for bourbon and health care providers on a bed of wood...
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