Farming

50 Item Checklist (final update)

July 6, 2010

Final Update!  Thanks for all the contributions.  It was fun.  Now, if you’re stuck and want to simplify or simply don’t know where to go next, you can use this as a guide to reignite some action. I compiled this list on my last nine mile run but only got through the first 14, so [...]

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Soul Proprietors

May 15, 2010

written by Dan, aka “Auntiegrav” I have some old Kung Fu episodes on DVD that were amazingly before their time for television. In “The Soul is the Warrior”, An old ranch owner says, “When a man loses his property, he loses part of his soul.” (In this case, referring to a woman.) What brings us [...]

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Desperately Seeking Passionate People

May 4, 2010

I am a bit discouraged today after my first peer-reviewed pitch of an Urban Agriculture project in NYC. My team members lost steam, my audience just didn’t get it, and we got wrapped up in a 20-minute discussion about legal liability. Ugh. I even fielded the question, “where are you going to find farmers in [...]

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My Farming Life

April 28, 2010

[Today's guest post is by long time subscriber and frequent confidant, Robert Jackson.  --Tommy] I actually lived in a world made by hand (see attachment photo of farm). When I was a rather young boy, we had a small farm and no wealth. The nearest town was so small we had only four digits in [...]

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Could Use Your Help

April 27, 2010

I’m trying to change the world, and could use a little help. I’m ass deep in a project right now that is a bit ambitious and over my head involving urban agriculture in New York City. I am on a team that is writing a comprehensive proposal to birth such a thing, and we are [...]

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