The Future of Feeding Ourselves
The future of food will be different after COVID19. We should be planting our Victory Gardens NOW!
From the Soil
Field To Fork: Food Choices and the Future
Near Coles Knob in eastern Floyd County, many acres of former mature forest are being cut (down to what’s left of the topsoil) to create pasture to grow beef cattle. (Wood chips likely now on a freighter ship to Europe.) The carbon footprint of those cattle that will graze on land where carbon-storing oaks and … Read more
Seeing the Forests
Found in my collections of snippets, a quote from Wendell Berry, one of the few wise men of our era, in my opinion: To destroy a forest or an ecology or a species is an act of greater seriousness than we have yet grasped, and it is perhaps of graver consequence. But these destructions will … Read more
When Our Forests Disappear
This is the first part of a four part series in the Floyd Press, first installment in this week’s edition. — FBF When the oak leaves fell from November trees along the crest above the house, we were shocked to discover that the rounded ridge beyond and above us was now as smooth as a … Read more
PeeCycling
It is true that the tomatoes are leggy and the peppers not a deep dark green as they should be. They seem to be telling me that they are in short supply of something–and probably on or all of N, P and K. I have a long list of excuses–and some reasons–why our garden is … Read more