Category Archives: scavenging

The economics of scavenging – greenhouse edition

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

We at Circle Acres are committed scavengers. Group dumpster runs are part of the fabric of our collective. These runs provide needed goods for the farm as well as plenty of food for shared meals. Scavenging also includes gleaning scrap … Continue reading →

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Total lawn elimination using no-till beds

Posted on December 28, 2009 by

I don’t like mowing a yard, especially when the yard is on a farm.  It irritates me to push a noisy piece of machinery over a piece of land that yields no food for me or the others living here.  … Continue reading →

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One foot in and one foot out

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

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 →

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On a snow day or any day, please eat what you kill

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

Where I grew up, it was hard to go nine days in Winter without some sort of snow fall event.  Here in North Carolina, nine years is about the average wait for an significant snow.  In New York, days off … Continue reading →

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Mulberries, creatures and trash

Posted on May 12, 2008 by

Yesterday we got the bug to clean up our room and get rid of some of the piles of papers and such that had collected over the last few months. I am pretty big on creating piles of crap – … Continue reading →

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Dumpster (love) bite

Posted on February 22, 2008 by

Most food that is found in the trash needs to be dug out from underneath the “real” trash. Things like wax boxes, plastic pallet wrapping, random papers and empty grocery bags; wire, coffee filters, soda cans. The good stuff is … Continue reading →

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Throwing away food is really stupid

Posted on February 15, 2008 by

Sometimes when I find food in the dumpster I get really irritated. That usually happens after I get really excited.   Tonight I came upon an entire case of unblemished cauliflower – eleven heads of gleaming white goodness still in … Continue reading →

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Food Not Bombs

Posted on February 1, 2008 by

As part of the Really Really Free Market last Sunday, there was a return of the Wilmington version of Food Not Bombs.     The purpose of FNB is to divert food that would otherwise go to waste into the … Continue reading →

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Slippage confession

Posted on November 25, 2007 by

Confessionals are somewhat easy for me to write; they make up a lot of what I write in my zine Quitter. I take the concept of Cricket Bread very seriously, but I have found that there are certain food items … Continue reading →

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Apple pie from bruised apples

Posted on November 24, 2007 by

I have made enough chunky apple sauce from bruised and scavenged apples to last until spring. This Thanksgiving I used the apple sauce as the filling for a quick pie.   Last week my friend Mike gave me the recipe … Continue reading →

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