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All Blog Posts Tagged 'love' (4)

Compost: Where it all begins.

I have a a deep and abiding love for my compost bin. It's quirky and hobbled together and perfectly suited to it's designated purpose of composition. My husband and I built this together with found objects: a bit of cement slab that we dug up out of our yard, pavers that we… Continue

Added by Aleah Weltha on June 10, 2011 at 3:47pm — 4 Comments

Lettuce put our Heads Together

During my ever vigilant countdown to spring (March 20th, respectively), I'm filled with thoughts of the first crop of veggies to sprout on our farm. Lettuce, of course, is always in abundance during those first precious weeks of the season. In honor of one of the most overlooked and undervalued vegetables, I've written the following…

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Added by Jen Shaffer on February 25, 2010 at 12:39pm — 4 Comments

Food with a Farmer's Face on it

The concept of Community

Supported Agriculture was born from many hungers – hungers for safe,

nourishing food, hungers for healthy rural landscapes and communities,

hungers for connection in an increasingly far-flung and disconnected

world. Specifically, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) began in

1971 when a group of women in Japan recognized

their hungers for a healthy environment, economy and family and sought to satisfy these

hungers by forming a… Continue

Added by Jen Shaffer on February 4, 2010 at 10:41pm — No Comments

Here I go... Blogging about stuff... oh what to write?

well.. kinda! it all went down like this...

Friday: I got into work early and scooted out early for waves down in RI. I forgot my camera but I got good waves at a choice spot with just a handful folks out. Hinty was down there for a day trip so we got to surf together in Rhody!

Saturday afternoon: I headed up to NH for an overnite at the Plourdes place. I had heard that the waves were chest high and clean but when I got there it was… Continue

Added by johna on August 20, 2008 at 3:31pm — No Comments