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Life-change to-do lists
In: 90 percent
29 May 2007I’m a list-making fool tonight. For one thing, I’ve narrowed down the veggies I want to grow on the balcony — the list needs more pruning. [Pruning! Get it? Me so funny.] GROW LIST: beets sweet potatoes potatoes carrots beans tomatoes onions arugula lettuce dandelions sunflowers collard greens chard kale spinach winter squash melons berries [...]
Planning a balcony garden
In: 90 percent|Food|Garden
23 May 2007The nice thing about living in San Diego is that it’s never too late to start a garden. It’s just a matter of what to plant and when to plant it. Oh, and where. Kind of like the five w’s we learned in journalism class [who, what, where, when and um, how -- I know, [...]
Living off the land
23 May 2007Freedom is growing your own food. That’s the philosophy of Jules Dervaes and his three grown children. They are supporting themselves by farming almost every inch of their 1/10th-acre yard in Pasadena, California — complete with chickens, ducks and goats. Their amazing urban farm, which yields three TONS of yummy organic food per year, is [...]
Getting mentally organized
In: 90 percent|Food
23 May 2007I need to get organized, and I’m not talking about sorting papers and decluttering my home, though I need to do that too — oy, do I! No, I’m talking about mental organization. In the past month or so — since Earth Day, really — I’ve been obsessively reading everything I can about how to [...]
What–give up my fridge?! Hmm…
In: 90 percent|Noteworthy
21 May 2007Greenpa lives without a refrigerator and has for 3 decades. He says if you live in a city- you do not need a refrigerator. AT ALL. And there are people who are trying it. Wow. I’ve just experienced a mind shift.
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