Heidi Douglas & the Kentucky Mountain Trio

January 1, 2010

In November Joan and I drove her father, Denver, down to McCreary County in southern Kentucky, not far from Bimble, the closest town to the little hill country farm where Denver was born and raised. We spent a few days in the Eagle Falls Resort and RV Park, just a quarter mile from Cumberland Falls, [...]

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Time’s Up for another 100 Acre Family Farm

December 12, 2009

On November 30 the little Super 8 Motel in Brookfield Pennsylvania was nearly full. Most of the guests were deer hunters out of the woods from their first day of the season. Men in orange camoflauge stalked the halls, and gathered in the motel parking lot around SUVs with deer strapped to their roofs and [...]

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Dreaming Ohio: Photos from Rte. 224

December 3, 2009

I know, I know. People are asking me, “So where’s Week #4 and Week #5 of the garden blog? Where are the CuriouslyLocal online stores? Where’s George?”
OK, so we’re in Indiana, having roadtripped through Pennsylvania and Ohio. And on the plane tomorrow for Calif. It’s been a week of webcode geeking. Do the letters [...]

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Time Banking in Warner: Give some, take some

November 28, 2009

As an old dog I don’t learn new tricks easily or without growsing. And so it was with the Time Bank trick. If I give you an hour of my video production time in exchange for an hour of your window washing time, since when is THAT an equal exchange? It took me a while [...]

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Oops! Timelapse at curiouslylocal

November 27, 2009

It happens sometimes. You think it’s Friday, and then things go awry, and you are set back a week. Curiouslylocal stuttered a little bit today, so I had to go back to backups from Sunday. I’ll get the posts from this week back up tomorrow, including one on the Warner Time Bank project. In the [...]

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Week #3: The Compost is Cooking

November 22, 2009

It’s the end of Week #3 in the life my brand new food garden. November 21 by the calendar. The compost pile I built two weeks ago on one end of this 5′x20′ garden patch is looking…well…settled. To the casual observer, it is a pile of old leaves and garden trash. To me, its builder, [...]

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Week #2: The Last Straw–Mulching with the Financial Times

November 15, 2009

The end of the second week of the brand new food garden. I showed you how to put a simple compost pile on one end of the new garden a couple of days ago. Today is simple and quick; covering the rest of the garden with some newspapers, chopped up leaves, dirt, straw, whatever you [...]

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Week #2: Building the Compost Pile in the New Garden

November 12, 2009

So here we are in the second week of November with the sod stripped off a 5 foot by 20 foot patch of lawn for my new garden. And winter is coming on. I need to cover up this dirt so that it will stay warmer as long as possible into the winter, [...]

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Week #1: The Soil Test for our New Garden

November 6, 2009

It’s still the first week of starting a brand new food garden from scratch. And as long as your dirt isn’t frozen solid, November is the time to do it here in upper New England. A few days ago I dug a new 5 foot by 20 foot garden space in my lawn by carefully [...]

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Ian’s Local Veggie Market in Kofu, Japan

November 5, 2009

Our friend Ian Rogers (click for his blog) writes from Japan:
Though my friend George is a connoisseur of the gardening arts, I was raised on frozen peas and carrots (with the occasional serving of corn on the cob) and have little to no knowledge of where my food comes from. At least, that’s the [...]

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