Egg Recall
Posted: 25 August 2010 – 6:28 pm
Anyone heard about this half billion or so eggs being recalled across the country all because one or possibly two egg farms have allowed some contaminated eggs into the production stream? If this is not yet another reason for locally produced ‘slow’ food I can not imagine what would be. In the words of Earl Pitts, “Wake up America!”
KY State Fair
Posted: 22 August 2010 – 8:51 pm
Yesterday I went down to Louisville to the Kentucky State Fair. It was a very different kind of experience for me in regards to the state fair. I was there representing our new publication, the Kentucky Farm Forum. Okay, so why I am blogging about that here? Good question, so let me get to an answer for you.
Mater Hangers
Posted: 10 August 2010 – 6:05 pm
Should have posted this sometime back, as the summer is now mid way and then some through the summer and I should be posting a follow-up about my results instead of the beginning of the project. Well, I am little behind. After some discussion at the office with a few folks who were going to try the commercial product (that I will not name, but we have all seen the television commercials) and my more than several claims of being able to do it in a two liter soda pop bottle I decided to delve in. A little bit of quick looking on the internet told me exactly what I needed to know and so I set off on the experiment – which I am calling ‘mater hangers!
Wendell Berry
Posted: 23 June 2010 – 12:23 pm
Noted Kentucky author and agrarian Wendell Berry decides enough is a enough and pulls his loaned papers from the University of Kentucky after they rename Wildcat Lodge to Wildcat Coal Lodge. He felt it was just the last straw of movement in a direction that was counter to his beliefs and the way he has lived his life. Berry is someone I have meant to mention here on the blog before now, but this gives a good reason to label him as a hero here on the blog and say a bit about him. To begin, he is a 75-year-old poet writer who is also regularly labelled as a ‘mad farmer’…
Planter Box – Palette
Posted: 11 June 2010 – 2:30 am
Finding contentment without the farm, I embarked on a project to build a planter box last weekend for some tomato plants. I was looking to build it on the cheap and have something that I could easily repeat, at least somewhat in the future. To that end I used a wood palette (that was up for recycle purposes) as a source for the wood. Aside from the minor electricity I used, I was out .99 cents for the small brad nails and have enough left for a second box to be constructed.