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 an 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.
Compost Pickup
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…
Springtime
Posted: 5 April 2010 – 3:15 pm
As spring is upon us and so many folks move toward those spring cleaning chores in conjunction with new beginnings with gardens plowed and planted and often time a good deal of livestock is born, I was also moved here on the blog. I have done a refresh a lot of things including a new theme, getting rid of a lot of clutter, and just in general have freshened things up a good bit. I plan to continue with at least an attempt and more regular interval of blog posting.
Dust Bowl Lessons
Posted: 22 November 2009 – 3:18 pm
A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930′s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson an revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices. Further, it is with some irony that one has to consider the big picture here, as the government stepped in with better practices and suggestions about limited scope in the 1930′s – since the 1970′s the say get big or get out.