Moving Toward Balance : 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee I’m starting to work through this 8 week program. I’ve tried yoga off and on for the last couple years – more off than on. I’m pretty inflexible at this point. My legs are particularly stiff, so much so that I can’t sit straight […]
Category Archives: Books
Carrots Love Tomatoes
Carrots Love Tomatoes : Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening I’ve been meaning to read this book for quite awhile. I’m waiting for theAll New Square Foot Gardening book to arrive from Amazon.com, so thought I’d get this one read in the meantime. I’ve been working on my planting chart but I want to […]
WebLife: Cob Builders Handbook: Contents
WebLife: Cob Builders Handbook: Contents The Cob Builders Handbook is online – a nice resource to have available. It can also be purchased at Amazon: The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home Another good resource: The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (The Real Goods Solar […]
So many tomatoes, so little menu ideas…
We have a pile of tomatoes to use. We have Sungold cherry tomatoes from the CSA, and a similar (if not the same) type from Ryan’s parent’s garden, small red tomatoes from Ryan’s parents, big yellow Orange Blossom tomatoes from the CSA, and our first harvest of Thai Pink Egg tomatoes from our patio garden. […]
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
This is the best book I’ve read about the challenges that face us today and in the years ahead. Covering the impacts of the end of cheap energy (oil), to global warming and new diseases Kunstler writes clearly about what may happen in the future. I’ve read several other books on the topic but they […]
Party’s Over
I just finished reading The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg. It is an excellent introduction to the problem facing us all – the end of cheap oil and energy. Our current lifestyle isn’t sustainable. As oil peaks and the prices go up we’ll all need to adapt […]
