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...Wendell Berry – Local Economy
The Idea of a Local Economy by Wendell Berry LET US BEGIN BY ASSUMING what appears to be true: that the so-called “environmental crisis” is now pretty well established as a fact of our age. The problems of pollution, species extinction, loss of wilderness, loss of farmland, loss of topsoil may still be ignored or [...]
Continue reading...Photo album of Ferro-cement building process
This is a photo album showing the start to (almost) finished process of building a ferro-cement structure by hand with a solar powered cement mixer and lots of help from the farm interns. Thanks to all of you! Karin http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22152&id=100000127256613&l=202832ca51
Continue reading...The trappings of convenience
This morning as I was washing dishes I dismantled the little aero press coffee making device that looks like a giant syringe. Once again I rewashed the little ‘disposible’ paper coffee filter thinking “This little puppy is looking ratty.” Then I thought “Aren’t you taking this sustainable thing to the level of absurdity?” I cringed [...]
Continue reading...Food from the ‘Aina (land)
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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 [...]
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