http://www.geofflawton.com/sp/13753-sales-page I’ve been wanting to take one of the permaculture design courses for certification for a while, but it’s never worked out for my schedule.    Usually at best they take a week so in addition to the sizable fee, there’s … Continue reading →

  When people start to look into precious metals, I understand how gold can feel kind of prohibitive with its high price (compared to silver) and the fact that sometimes it’s hard to get it in small increments.  If you … Continue reading →

Recently I received a box of samples of various products from the new affiliate Mother Earth Products and over the past couple of weeks I’ve tried a couple of the different soups. So I’m married to a vegan.  Sometimes we … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading up and thinking about adding a podcast to this blog.    I’m not very tech-savvy, but it looks pretty straight forward.     Hopefully I’ll have something up soon. I think it’s a good idea because it gives me more … Continue reading →

Purina Hen House and Hutch Design I just broke ground on building this chicken coop.   So far I’ve picked up all of the plywood and made all the cuts.   Probably next week I’ll pick up the 2×4′s, cut them and … Continue reading →

As everyone knows, there was a bomb at the Boston Marathon last week that killed three people and wounded over a hundred.   The suspects turned out to be Chechens and when they grilled the surviving brother he said part of … Continue reading →

Last month I reviewed Getting Home by Alex Smith, this is the next installment in I assume a series of three books (I think he hinted that the next one will be “leaving home”). Just like Getting Home, Staying Home … Continue reading →

The Vermont Sail Freight Project     I recently heard an interview with Erik Andrus, a farmer from Vermont where he talked about this project he’s working on.   Basically they’re building a barge in order to transport organic/sustainable produce from … Continue reading →

Modern Farmer   My mom works for a company that does fulfillment for a ton of magazine publishers and Modern Farmer was recently added as a client.   One of her coworkers thought that I would be interested in it so … Continue reading →

When I woke up Monday afternoon (I work nights) I made my usual rounds on the internet, which includes Yahoo finance.  I saw an article about gold taking a beating and clicked on it and couldn’t believe what I what … Continue reading →