There’s a great piece over at Civil Eats this morning, Our Deadly, Daily Chemical Cocktail on the sheer amount of chemicals in the food most people eat. Here’s the quote that got me: Based on the anecdotal information I see in my client’s food journals, people eating processed and packaged foods are taking in exorbitant amounts of artificial ingredients and additives. Typically, a client will say something like, “I eat a bowl of cereal with low-fat milk, have yogurt for a snack, and a Subway sandwich for lunch.” While this sounds relatively harmless, here’s what it might actually look like…
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It’s hard to see but this is Raymond, and the new chickens inside a wire pen. Everyone’s outside today because it’s sunny and warm, and both the dogs and the big chickens need to get used to the babies. I’m hoping to get the babies out of the cold frame soon (in part, because I need it) but for now, everyone’s just kind of hanging out out there, separated by a little wire. Raymond has the most trouble — he really really wants those chickens. For a while this morning he was lying down next to the pen, as if…
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Spring cleaning. I had one of those moments yesterday when I couldn’t stand the office clutter One More Minute. Three hours and three huge green garbage bags later, I’d cleared out, well, three huge green garbage bags worth of junk. I also found three more boxes of books in the closet (what? do they breed in there in the dark?) which will go to my friends the used booksellers, and I got the shelves organized by reference and project. Every time I’ve walked in here today, I’ve thought “ah”—I can see everything, there aren’t shelves stuffed with crappy little junk,…
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Chicken Movie2 from Charlotte Freeman on Vimeo. I’ve been meaning to post a chicken update, but I was a little behind the curve on the whole video thing. So here’s a short clip of the chickens, in their new, expanded nursery which is, as you can see, made from recycled cardboard. Eventually I want to just let them run around inside the cold frame, but they’re still so small, and there are some crannies in which I think a panicky baby chicken could get stuck. The cold frame has worked out splendidly. It’s less drafty than the dog crate/tarp setup…