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Cricket Bread – Trace Ramsey
What is Cricket Bread?
Bread made from crickets is a survival food in many places, a staple in others and a disgusting concoction in the "civilized" world. The discussion presented here details how I jump in between each of those cultures, destroying certain pieces as needed.
This is also a discussion about starting a farm, the do-it-yourself lifestyle, being an anarchist and how the interactions I engage in promote community, friendship and mutual aid.
I am a small drip of New Blood in the Old Body...
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Category Archives: biographical
Random Signs of Life: 2009 in Photographs, Part Two
I applied for a photography fellowship over the Summer. I don’t know what to expect from it; it was a big deal at the time, but it takes forever to hear anything back. Basically, my excitement has died down. I … Continue reading
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Random Signs of Life: 2009 in Photographs, Part One
Many of my photographs go into a folder called “Random Signs of Life”. Sometimes there isn’t any actual life within the frame, but there is life in the in between. As I have progressed in my photography, I have tried … Continue reading
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The eyes of food
I grew up knowing that November meant there would be a deer hanging somewhere in the front yard, probably by the antlers or the neck and probably from the branch of a tree. Or maybe hanging out of the bed … Continue reading
Posted in animalia, biographical, food sources
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It takes a village – part one
Last week I traveled to Tivoli, New York to photograph and participate in a hog butchering workshop presented by The Greenhorns. The workshop was presided over by Bryan Mayer, a butcher with The Greene Grape in Brooklyn New York. Day … Continue reading
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This is the point, this is the manifest
Hardly recognize simple things anymore I don’t want to be defeated What else is there to do But go outside and look around* *Lyrics taken from Bed for the Scraping – Fugazi
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Standing in the shadows of heroes
One of the great things about the crop mob is the ability to go and do a few hours of work on an experienced farm. It doesn’t happen all the time, and it isn’t something that is in the whole … Continue reading
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Rolling away from the tree
I fell close to the tree, a chip off the old granite pile. I fell close to the tree, but everything I want is downhill from it. I’m not a fan of the metaphorical old orchard. I have been rolling … Continue reading
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It is the in between
I spend some days alone at our place, twelve acres of heat and humidity and chiggers and ticks and a rooster that won’t shut up. The animals don’t talk so much as scream at a person – feed me, get … Continue reading
Posted in animalia, biographical
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What happens when your friends become your food
I spend quite a bit of time with our pigs. Although they are doing work for circleAcres, they could be considered my project. I move their fence and dumpster their food and make sure their house is in order. This … Continue reading
Posted in activism, biographical, circle acres, food sources
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Down in Denver
Kristin and I recently returned from a trip to Denver. I had never been there, so I wasn’t sure what I was looking for in the actual existence of Denver. I was somewhat disoriented by the city itself; I couldn’t … Continue reading
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