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We had a windstorm that blew over two of our apple trees. Have 10 left, but will replant those two next spring...

Anyway, I spent the afternoon cutting the trees and made a nice little addition to ...

Yesterday I got to the 3/4 mark on the fence. Another week and I will be finished. I dug new potatoes -mmm, good.

The wife is doing the farmerr's market thing today...selling bread, potatoes, beets ...

Yesterday I weeded the garden. Everything looks great as we have had plenty of rain, but not too much. We are eating potatoes, peas, lettuce, beets out of it right now. Corn is over thigh high. Squash ...

no Joe they turned it all into ethanol, the bastards.
Beat the system!!! Popcorn is easy to grow. Getting the kernels off the cob is a pain tho

Finished repairing the pig pen and am now fencing in the new extension to the garden....Deer are plentiful here.

Have potato's planted...hope to get the rest of the "spring" vegetables planted late ...

My 5 might be a bit different than other folks, or maybe not so much...

1. Invest in my SO and my kids. This is a scary time. The kids feel it too, even tho I might not be talking to them about it ...

That is just a bit disconcerting....

Another nail in the coffin. If the article is correct, it may very well be a harbinger of things to come

Planted 13, 30 foot rows yesterday (April 20). Today I am sore!!!Red Norlands (4 rows), Yukon Golds (9 Rows). Yukons are the best storage potato ever, imo.

I grew beans in this spot last year. I wi ...

I want to apologize for my early comment.

The CPI is completely bogus.

According to the EIA's data, gasoline prices for the average of all grades increased by 3.9% in March.

WTF are they sm ...

I moved to Vermillion SD several years ago to set up a small farm and teach at the local university. Fortunately everything worked out extremely well - we are happy and even adopted a couple of little ...

It's not...

With food and energy factored in we are at 7-9%.

The numbers presented by our gov't financial folks remind me of the guy who used to be the PR minister for Iraq.

The correct answer is in your earlier post...

soil
oil
localization (which is also about oil)

along with, imo, pesticides.

That's the reason to farm organically.

Hell, people buy organic ...

Mike:

I cannot say that I garden 100% organically. I fear, however, in the not to distant future, we will not have a choice.

Look, the blog you cited and I read is written by one of the libertar ...

Killjoy:

I have a biology/ecological studies background and teach classes in sustainability as well as basic 101.

I double majored as an undergrad with political science as my other major. I li ...

I do not post often, but continually lurk and learn. Some of you folks, I believe, may inadvertently be responsible for making my life and my children's lives tolerable in the not so distant future. I ...