July 2011 Blog Posts (10)

 

After living in Seattle for the past three years, I moved back to Gainesville a month ago. My first impression, a feeling really, was that Gainesville felt as close to me as my skin. Lying in bed on one of those first nights I easily thought of all the things I love about this city. The first week I walked out on Bolens Bluff to the lookout platform on Paynes Prairie. I find that place as sacred and peaceful as any place I’ve meditated. A few days later I was on the wooded paths of…

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Coyote tells us about the Firefly Primitive Skills Gathering:

 

 

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Burning Man is an art festival that occurs annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Emergent community, radical self reliance and a gift giving environment are some of the attributes of this unique happening in… Continue

Carraig Dúlra is an organic small-holding, run by Mike and Suzie Cahn, that features a variety of educational and community initiatives. They teach organic growing, permaculture, gardening for bio-diversity, sustainable and traditional skills, and a host of other primitive living and nature courses for groups of all ages. Along with all of these wonderful courses, they also run an OOOOBY store in order to promote healthy organic food at affordable costs.…

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I dedicate this to my dog. You can dedicate this to your present family. I dedicate this to my mom. We can all dedicate this to the future families.

 

Read the rest here, at Elephant…

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The last shuttle launch got me thinking about how important the space program has been in my life...

My father worked for General Electric in New York state (Schenectady?  Syracuse? one of the two) but he transferred to Daytona Beach when I was three.  Daytona Beach was selected because of its relative proximity…

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Photo by Michael Levin

 

There's an eye catcher on Elephant Journal entitled "Why I Don't Eat Organic". The answer, of course, is because it's so expensive. The recent freeze has thrown tomato prices skyward.…

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Organic food. For many it is a way of life that promotes an active lifestyle and good health. Chemical free, most organic foods can improve the quality of life for many individuals. Supposedly grown with a low amount of contaminants, organic food is a great way to eat the foods you love without ingesting the harmful materials found in non-organic pesticides and fertilizers. Large corporations of organic foods grow their produce using fish emulsion, a fertilizer produced from the fluid…

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Would like to see these on a few buildings around Gainesville...

 

Read the blog at INDIGOGreen…

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I have the recipe here!

 

Peace :)