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A Manual for Farm Life

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 10, 2009
Rainy winter days like today are fine ones for curling up on the couch with a book, as my daughter and I did this afternoon (or, if you’re four and live where it’s 70° in January, they are fine days for putting on your rain jacket and boots and splashing around in puddles, as my [...]
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Eat Local Challenge, Day 5

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 5, 2008
Breakfast was all-local (except for a small amount of butter): fried egg on toast and an apple. Dinner included more butternut squash and a local tomato. Chris reported back to me on the produce at Saturday’s market: red and yellow tomatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, wax beans, peppers, eggplant, pumpkin, greens (likely collards), and seafood. Browsing [...]
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Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 11, 2008
The Local Food Production Initiative in Fairhope recommends “Square Foot Gardening”:http://www.amazon.com/Square-Foot-Gardening-Garden-Space/dp/1579548563/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221108310&sr=8-2 by Mel Bartholomew as a good book newcomers might want to look at. Although I wouldn’t call it a “new” way to garden, since it’s basically an adaptation of intensive gardening techniques that have been around for ages, it does simplify the planning. Here’s [...]
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The Earth Knows My Name

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 12, 2008
Kitchen Gardens International made “The Earth Knows My Name”:http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Knows-My-Name-Sustainability/dp/0807085715?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212406173&sr=8-1&tag=kitchen-gardeners-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 by Patricia Klindienst one of its books of the month. In it she writes about “urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in American gardening books: Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants from across Asia and Europe, and ethnic peoples who were here long [...]
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50 Simple Things

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
Earth Day is coming up in a week (Tuesday the 22nd), so in addition to updating the blog with recent articles, I’ll be highlighting environmental issues related to local foods. With that in mind, I’d like to point out the newly reissued “50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth”:http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Things-You-Save-Earth/dp/1401322999/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208235905&sr=8-1. Environmentalists may remember [...]
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Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 21, 2008
Michael Pollan’s latest book, ??In Defense of Food??, and it’s accompanying mantra “Eat Food. Not too Much. Mostly Plants” is all over the media these days, thanks to the success of his previous book ??The Omnivore’s Dilemma??. NPR has a “succinct overview of the book’s principles”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17725932, along with an excerpt from the book and an [...]
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