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· December 21, 2015 8:00 AM
Getting back to "real farming"
By Scott Brix, via Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
Last July we visited our son Scott and his wife Kim. They live on five acres in northern Illinois.
After moving there many years ago, they learned about tall grass prairies. Soon after, the preponderance of their five acres became a riotous olio of tall grasses and wildflowers, dozens of species of them, corniced on two sides by timber.
In a converted barn, Kim teaches a growing stream of students the art of fusion glass. Scott, seeking every opportunity to escape the tether of his day job, picks a banjo, hangs out at Bluegrass camps, and hosts a Bluegrass music show each week on community radio.
A couple of weeks or so ago I, and I’d guess lots of other people he knows, received this email. Here’s what he had to say:
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· November 09, 2015 8:45 AM
Moderation In All Things (Really?)
By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
Heard it from my Dad many times over many years, ‘cept he didn’t add the “really.” Much later, I heard it from a physician when I mentioned that I was eating an exclusively plant-based diet. And just a week or so ago from an old friend responding to the last issue of this ever growing collection of unsolicited exhortation and dubious entertainment. He was describing his generally quite healthful sounding diet, but invoked the 2000 year old aphorism (or is it an adage?) to explain his rationale for eating perhaps four or five steaks -- not at one sitting of course, but spaced over a year. Moderation in all things.
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· April 20, 2015 11:10 PM
Waste not want not: a small contribution to sustainability
By Leslie Cook, vegetatingwithleslie.org
Today I was working on a post about sustainability. I got a little overwhelmed with the enormity of our problem even as I recognized how many smart, capable people are coming up with potential solutions in this area every day.
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· February 09, 2015 4:25 PM
Food Shed Crumbs (for thought)
By Don Wilkin, Ph.D.
If I get my way, the Foodshed Co-op will offer the healthiest diet in the world, the LOVE* Diet. The LOVE* Diet is . . .
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· January 26, 2015 4:25 PM
Another Side to the Meat / Climate Change Issue
By Don Wilkin, Ph.D.
I try to eat strictly vegan, less out of moral or climate-change considerations than to reverse the ravages of more than 70 years of the standard American diet (S.A.D.) on my arteries.
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· November 18, 2014 11:32 PM
The distance your food travels to get to your table
By Donovan Wilkin, Ph.D.
My breakfast today consisted of a bowl of raisin bran with rice milk, a serving of blueberries, and a banana. In terms of promoting my long-term health, this meal does a good job. In terms of promoting the long-term health of the planet, it sucks.
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