epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ann Vileisis

CHAPTER 8 Kitchen Countertrends In the late 1960s, a new Stop & Shop supermarket was constructed on the site of the “town farm” where my grandfather, as a boy in ...

mobi |eng | 1998-04-15 | Author:Jasper Becker

An eyewitness from another commune in the same region described much the same situation: ‘The famine lasted from 1962 until 1965. My brothers went around picking up whatever food they ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Bair, Julene [Bair, Julene]

7 IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT I FINALLY GOT MY OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE NIGHT TO OUR FARM. An electrician came out to raise the wire between ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:James E. McWilliams

Land In addition to contributing significantly to global warming, livestock are taking a toll on the world’s shrinking supply of arable land. Pasture set aside for livestock composes two thirds ...

mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Yang Jisheng

THE HORROR OF CANNIBALISM Liang Zhiyuan recorded a large number of cases of cannibalism. He found, The extensiveness of the practice, the number of incidents, and the length of time ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Mike Davis

Figure 8.1 Teleconnection as Selective Interaction In these entangled modes, ENSO impulses interact on longer timescales with regional climate periodicities, which, depending on phase, can either amplify or decrease the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Susan McCorkindale

As much as the hens hate me is as much as they love Hemingway. And damn if he isn’t fond of them, too. Right now he and Casey are building ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Falk, Ben [Falk, Ben]

Leach Field Cropping: Making the Most of a Faulty System Leach fields can be some of the most productive spaces on a property—they don’t lack for nutrients! Cycling fertility optimally ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Kilmer-Purcell, Josh [Kilmer-Purcell, Josh]

Book 2 Chapter Seventeen “And welcome back.” As the studio audience applause dies down, Martha continues reading off the cue card. “Up in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York ...

epub |deu | 2011-07-17 | Author:Carlo Petrini [Petrini, Carlo]

Schenken als Vorbeugung gegen Verschwendung Im Jahr 2003 hatte ich die Ehre und das Glück, von den Trappistenmönchen der Abtei Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy in Rochefort in Belgien empfangen zu werden. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Fairlie, Simon [Fairlie, Simon]

13 GLOBAL WARMING: COWS OR CARS? When I began this book, the global warming impact of livestock, mostly related to methane from cows, was considered a side issue. Since 2007, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Joel Salatin

2. Give 100 percent tax credits for rerouting plumbing to take gray water into flush toilets. That would save billions of gallons of water a day. The answer is not ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Susan McCorkindale [McCorkindale, Susan]

Chapter Twenty-eight CHRISTMAS IN COW COUNTRY (OR, SUBURBANITES DECK THE HALLS, FARM FOLK DECK THE HEIFERS) Hard to believe, but this will be our fourth Christmas on the farm. I ...