Posted on September 14, 2008 by onestraw
This past week I was asked to participate in Town and Country R.C. & D ’s Go Green Convention as a break out speaker in one of their after lunch sessions. I gave a 30 minute talk on our Earth Victory Garden project that was essentially a shortened version of the one I gave to several hundred [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2008 by onestraw
I love Slow Food. Yes, of course I love slow food -the kind it takes all night to make -like a good curry, or all week like a good sourdough, or all year like a good onion. But what I am talking about today is Slow Food -the group of individuals reconnecting Americans [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2006 by onestraw
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mia and I are making a concerted effort to reduce our ecological footprint. Going back to when we lived in Iowa City in ‘97 we started shopping at The Co-op and started to eat more natural foods. This is also when I first started toying with seasonal vegetarianism (Ever the [...]
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