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Strawberry Picking!

June 16, 2009

Today the girls and I went to Red Fire Farm, the organic farm that provides our vegetable CSA. The bulk of the CSA comes to us in the form of a weekly drop-off at the Growing Center, but we also have an open invitation to go pick some crops at the farm. It’s a long [...]

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The Compact

June 15, 2009

I started doing The Compact about a month ago. The Compact is simple: for one year, buy nothing new. There are exceptions of course. These things were written into the Compact as exceptions: perishable goods (food, cleaning products, personal care, medicine) underwear and socks I’m a generous sort, and I think five is a nice [...]

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Frantic food preservation

June 1, 2009

In the run-up to Rio’s birthday party, we bought Too Much Food. Like you do when you aren’t sure how many people will be coming to your party, or what they’ll bring to contribute, and your friends are foodies who you don’t dare serve bad pizza to even for a kids’ birthday party. We also [...]

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Fermentation Workshop, and other May activities

April 28, 2009

The prize of my May schedule is a fermentation workshop with Sandor Katz. It’s next Friday at 2:30 at BU. His book, Wild Fermentation, changed my life. You need to pre-register for this event. If the admission fee is a too high and you’re a homeschooling family, let me know. The workshop was organized by [...]

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Please do not shout at my bicycle

April 27, 2009

Dear Concerned Citizens, Please do not shout insults or parenting advice at me as I am biking past your car on a city street with my kids in tow. Your fear for my children’s safety is truly touching. However, if you pause for a moment, you may realize that taking your own attention away from [...]

Tagged as: bike, green, parenting

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The Tightwad Gazette: Price Book, buying rules

April 9, 2009

I’m reading the Tightwad Gazette, famed classic of thrift. Yes, I thriftily got my copy out of the public library. I had been resoundingly unimpressed for the first 30 pages, which were essentially all suggestions on how to “save” on things I don’t spend on: cigarettes, soda, new clothes, dryer sheets. But then on page [...]

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SwapLuck!

April 6, 2009

I just ganked this idea from Get Rich Slowly, who in turn grabbed it from someone else who grabbed it from Sandor Katz. The idea: hold a swap night where people exchange hand-made items, ranging from handknits to homebaked bread. Like a Soup Swap you present your goodies to a rapt audience, there’s some method [...]

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Credo Mobile

March 31, 2009

Credo Mobile has a great offer which ends at midnight March 31. They will a) buy out your current contract and b) give you 10% off your cell phone service for the next two years. What makes Credo Mobile unique is that they exist to use corporate power to promote social justice. According to their [...]

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Eating well without eating animals

April 25, 2008

This was going to be a response to ‘s thoughtful post about feeding her family less meat, but enough people have asked me about this sort of thing that I thought I’d post it to my own journal.