Scott Middlekauf
Scott lives in Hawaii
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Fruit eating primate
Sustainability begins with the mouth. If you are not smiling when you are filling your body with nutrition, then you may want to reconsider your priorities.
Continue reading...Scott having a bad day, ranting.
Q: Do you consider your lifestyle truly sustainable? A: In short, no. We are using less resources, but that just slows down the inevitable. If only one quarter of the pit mines were still operating, and only one quarter of the laborers are working in a shoe factory, and only one quarter of the chemicals [...]
Continue reading...Is This a Lawn or a Pasture?
Imagine owning a lawnmower that makes its own blades, moves itself around the lawn, requires no gasoline (it runs on grass), makes very little noise, replaces itself every year or so, and you can eat it as a delicious high protein food. All you need to provide is a fence around the lawn, a small [...]
Continue reading...Links and resources for tropical farmers
For those of you who are beginning a sustainable tropical Permaculture farm, here are some links and books titles which will help you on your project: (BTW: We offer none of this for sale, so you’re on your own finding hard copies) Our website is: http:EveningRainFarm.com/ (see our nursery) Here is the local Hawaii island [...]
Continue reading...What would you plant on a two acre parcel?
Ryan wrote me asking what I would plant right now, if I were settling on a small parcel in Hawaii, and I want to grow most of my food for my family on the land, and live somewhat sustainably. My needs for a good combination of food crops is: 1) an abundance of calories, oils, [...]
Continue reading...How expensive is it to live as you do, once you are set up?
Some folks think that living simply is a moral duty. Some others think that living simply improves their quality of life. Either way, I will discuss our present money situation, and a few of our unusual lifestyle choices. But first, I will tell you about two billboards I saw while driving down highway 580 in [...]
Continue reading...Maintaining Food Security in Hawaii
Scott discusses easy to grow alternatives to some of our more conventional foods. What they are, how they grow and their nutritional value. Just the other day, while I was eating my supper in one of my “doom and gloom” modes, it occurred to me that I have no idea what sort of a safety [...]
Continue reading...Second Update on Our Food Experiment
Well, it’s been three years since we have written about how our food experiment is progressing at Evening Rain Farm. In these years, we have learned a bunch, and planted many more varieties of plants. We have gone way beyond what we need to meet our basic needs into an exploration of nearly every tropical [...]
Continue reading...World View Links
These are the blogs that I frequent. The first three are filled with a blend of opinion, wisdom, proposals, perspectives. The fourth is a daily updated series of news links. http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ http://www.kunstler.com/blog/ http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html – Scott
Continue reading...A few notes on chickens
Q: Will the commercial ‘factory farm’ breed of egg layers fare well in a free range environment? A: The White Leghorns: I did a brief bit of research on them several years ago, and was inspired enough to buy a dozen day-old chicks for our free range flock. They are good layers, industrious, good foragers, [...]
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