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How Guerilla Gardening Can Save America’s Food Deserts
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/How-Guerilla-Gardening-Can-Save-Americas-Food-Deserts-212355181.html#.Uch1gye00sw.tumblrHow Guerilla Gardening Can Save America's Food Deserts We need to see ourselves as part of nature, not removed from it. In order to survive sustainably as a species, the only way is to recognize that we are actually one with nature and the natural ecology of the...
The Mighty Rio San Juan
Hereโs a little video that Trent took on our first day navigating down the Rio San Juan. It was a sobering reality check of the heralding endeavor that we had committed to. I spent this past weekend in Michigan at a remote...
A teaspoon of good pasture soil may contain a billion bacteria, a million fungi and ten thousand amoebae. Imagine what’s in this spoon.. (at Darien, IL)
Photos
Learning
Sunday funday
Sunday is the day of rest, not on the farm though and certainly not in the tourism world. It was, however, a more relaxed day of work today and everything was moving a little bit slower today. In the morning, I was supposed to go and clean up the cerdero (pig pen) but...
Weeds compete with plants
I was relieved of lecheria and have not been shoveling poop orย compost the past two days. I’ve spending my days working in la huerta (vegetable garden) and in el jardin (garden). In the huerta, Abilio taught me how to prepare a bed of land so it’s ready...
You must clear away the dead to make way for the new
Today started out with more shoveling and cleaning of the cow poop. Beto wasnโt here today though so I shoveled and hosed down everything. I finished shoveling everything out and heard the goatโs calling so I figured they were hungry. I went and emptied the old grass...
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You’re Invited! The World’s Largest Global Dinner Party To Change The World smarterplanet: by Jerri Chou A giant, roaming, global dinner party capped off with a celebration in NYC, all to change the world. (Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/)