Jesse & friends: Warner, NH Fall Foliage Fesitval, 2010

October 25, 2010

There’s a strange diaspora of people with ties to Warner, NH and the Warner Fall Foliage Festival parade and Jesse McNeil and his mother’s big farmhouse in lower Warner and the huge attached barn that is crammed with the artifacts and detritus from theatre productions and float-making that have settled into its haylofts and horse [...]

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Chicken Killing: May what I eat haunt me

October 7, 2010

A week or so ago, when our neighbor Nina decided that three young roosters among her new hens were two too many, she put a little sign up on her mailbox: FREE ROOSTER. I stopped to inquire. Nina said I was the first and only neighbor to express an interest. And by the way, did [...]

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Fallen Fruit: A little story about gleaning

September 27, 2010

(Joan shares this story about gleaning.)
We spent a night last week in the Majestic Regency Motel in Ogunquit, Maine. Don’t let the name of the place inflate the reality. It cost $39 and still has that plastic tag on the key which guarantees postage should you have inadvertently leave with it in your pocket.
It’s the [...]

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Curiously Local Differences: Ian Writes from Japan

September 21, 2010

–A letter from our friend Ian Rogers who has been teaching English in Japan this year. He’s been living in Kofu, in Yamanashi prefecture, and may be coming back to Warner, in New Hampshire, with a novel cooking up in his head about his experience.   –George
Who Comes to Eikaiwas (English conversation schools)?
“Japanese people who [...]

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The Warner Town Pump(kins)

September 14, 2010

It must mean something, and, I dunno, maybe it has something to do with Eat Local Week, but somebody dumped a pile o’ pumpkins in the Warner horse watering fountain, which makes it hard for the horses to get a drink, but gives everybody else another town mystery to solve in addition to sussing out [...]

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Let it Rain! The Jim Mitchell Community Park Grabs RainWater

September 7, 2010

As part of the construction for the Jim Mitchell Community Park in Warner, NH, MainStreet Warner, Inc. has buried 3,400 gallon rainwater harvesting system. I caught up with Steve Bridgewater (Greenleaf Irrigation, Warner, NH) last Friday as his crew was hooking up the water feed line from the roof gutters.
It’s been a dry summer, and [...]

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CuriouslyLocal Product Test: Lane River Organics “Garden Guardian”

August 26, 2010

Our friends Martha and Hank of Lane River Organics gave us a case of their new product to test on our garden. It’s made with an organic substance produced by their dog, Bailey, which is purported to discourage deer and groundhogs from taking more than their fair share of garden produce. And all you have [...]

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The Web in our Garden

August 25, 2010

She’s about an inch and a half long, and I haven’t seen her or her kind in the garden for several years. If truth be told, she saw me first. I was deep between two rows of tomatoes, bent over to cut the stem on an heirloom tomato about the size of a loaf of [...]

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Solar Potatoes (and more) with Joan

August 2, 2010

[Joan wrote this post several weeks ago,
so she's cooked lots of meals since!  --George]
July 10, 2010
I started cooking with my solar Cookit around the end of June, here in New Hampshire. After a year or so of trying to tap into all that free heat by doing things like putting black pots full of water [...]

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Taxes and the wild beat of April

April 14, 2010

I filed our taxes electronically yesterday, and in about a week the internal revenue service will return the favor and make an electronic deposit of $172 in our bank account. And that’s all I’ll say about taxes, other than to recall that when I was in my early 20s, living, it seemed, on many edges [...]

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