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Reskilling - How to milk a goat!

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Added by nika on May 7, 2009 at 8:53am — No Comments

LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN MUSHROOMS!

In this workshop you will learn by hands on experience how to grow mushrooms in your own backyard on logs that you might otherwise think of as waste wood! We will gain a working knowledge of mushrooms, their life cycle, and some of their uses.… Continue

Added by nika on May 5, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Video of our goats and kids!

Took this video out in our goat shed in our backyard the other day. Enjoy! Continue

Added by nika on April 18, 2009 at 2:10pm — 2 Comments

Ambivalence

Its funny how a massive and scary idea like Peak Oil can wrap it's tentacles around the mind and nudge thoughts in particular directions. There is certainly the whole grief dynamic that one must cycle through, of necessity it is a loop an… Continue

Added by nika on April 2, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

Asimov, Peak Oil, if only 20 years ago ...

(Crossposted at Peaknix) Hubbert saw it all so black and white back in the 1950s. His bell curve was a simple affair, nothing revolutionary, simply a unimodal use diagram of a limited resource.… Continue

Added by nika on January 13, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Replete with a bare minimum

(Cross posted to Peaknix)

I realized when I was planning last year’s garden just how fantastically hard it is to grow enough in the summer to replace an entire year’… Continue

Added by nika on January 8, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Bardo and Transition

(Cross-posted at Peaknix)

Craving stability in our living arrangements, our food sources, our political and governing state as well as our personal security is a natural enough thing, truly. As babies, this is… Continue

Added by nika on December 30, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Deepest Winter - Snowmageddon

(cross posted to Humble Garden)

When we first moved here 13 years ago the first couple of winters were impressive. We had three or four 3-foot storms that first winter. I just… Continue

Added by nika on December 27, 2008 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Was laid off today

That old demand destruction has hit our house now. Both of us are now unemployed. Continue

Added by nika on December 3, 2008 at 3:11pm — 7 Comments

Hopi Prophecy and Transition Towns

(Young Hopi girl SOURCE) Even though it has been a week since the Transition Town conference I went to in Cambridge, MA I am still integrating its… Continue

Added by nika on December 1, 2008 at 12:52pm — No Comments

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