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’…
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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.
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Posted: 3 June 2010 – 12:15 pm
One of my usual sources for inspiration is things I hear on the radio, especially NPR. Recently heard was a bit about compost pickup service. I was impressed. Not only am I inspired to write about it, but I am going to have to see about what is involved in trying to get such a service started here in Central Kentucky. Here is what I know about it so far…
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