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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: food sources
Life in Reverse
We raised turkeys this year. What started in April ended a few weeks ago. We started with 26 birds and ended with 15, the biggest loss of animals we have experienced. The process was long, the costs were high and … Continue reading
Posted in animalia, food sources, foodshed
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Apple squeezing
Gray has Full Tilt tattooed on his knuckles. It is appropriate for some of the activities we partake in including a recent round of apple cider pressing. Gray, Noel, and the current WWOOFers Liz and Tanya gathered apples from our … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, food sources, foodshed
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The missing blueberries
The secret, abandoned, out-of-the-way blueberry patch that I wrote about three years ago? Yeah, forget about scoring any berries there anymore. The patch has blown up, the word leaked out and spread out like the tarps and sheets we used … Continue reading
Posted in exploring, food sources, foraging
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Bringing in the garlic
Gray and the WWOOFers (Ricardo and Cecelia) harvested several rows of garlic from the back field. The garlic was bunched, labeled and loaded into our neighbors barn for drying. From there, the bulbs will be combed through for next year’s … Continue reading
Posted in circle acres, food sources, foodshed, volunteers
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It is just one strawberry
My weekends have evaporated into something that I have yet to name. They have become something that I enjoy – warm, heavy with work and chores, meaningful in the way that objectives are completed. But at the same time, there … Continue reading
Posted in circle acres, food sources
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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 three
A few weeks ago 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 … Continue reading
Posted in animalia, food sources, photo essays, workshops, young farmers
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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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Milking Floretta
So we have the eggs part covered. We are consistently finding five to seven eggs per day from our seven laying hens. This is plenty for now; one per person per day. On to the next piece – goat milk. … Continue reading
Posted in animalia, circle acres, food sources, foodshed
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One foot in and one foot out
In my line of life you have to embrace some level of hypocrisy. Anarchism is an imperfect ideology, especially in day to day application. In regards to food, we build momentum against industrial agriculture, monoculture, neocolonialism, global food distribution systems … Continue reading
Posted in food sources, foraging, scavenging
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