Monthly Archives: December 2007

Year in review – 2007

2007 in words and pictures…   In January I started four shelves full of flower seeds for a May reception.     I usually use my light racks for veggies, but this year was different. I don’t have much experience … Continue reading

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Upside down turkey

This past week the store started carrying meat from Rainbow Meadow Farms, a family farm right at the 100 mile mark in Snow Hill, NC. The first delivery consisted of a dozen pastured turkeys. I brought home a fourteen pounder … Continue reading

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Past Garden Projects Number Three: Fowler

Sometimes you just have to push the boulder uphill and like it. The Fowler Street garden had several strikes against it even before Noel and I got started on it. First, there was no water source. Second, I was going … Continue reading

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Quitter – The Book

The subtitle of this blog is “Thoughts on a local diet and other things in Wilmington, NC…” I have the local diet thing down, but in the past week or so I have become engaged in some “other things”. This … Continue reading

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Bread success – no knead sourdough

After discussing my bread problems on a previous post, I received quite a few helpful tips from readers and friends. El at Fast Grow the Weeds sent me a link to a no-knead bread recipe from the New York Times. … Continue reading

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Visit to Oakley Laurel farm – CSA

During the summer I signed up for a fall/winter Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription run by Robb Prichard. The CSA is small with four members this season. Robb is just getting started with the project and wants to keep things … Continue reading

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Past Garden Projects Number Two: Local Revolt

Originally named “End of the Line”, Local Revolt (the linked interview and its out-of-context editing and framing used to make me really angry, now it is just funny and reads like bad satire) was a short lived anarchist house. After … Continue reading

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Co-op month contest

I have been moving to a new home over the last few days and am pretty run down with all the carrying and dragging and boxing and unboxing. I hate moving; there are few highlights. My high points of the … Continue reading

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