Here's an experiment that I'm toying with after finding years and years of old phone books lying around our office space.  True, there are phone book recycling services, but I figured I'd try to turn these phone books into a tool for producing food.  Lord knows people have plenty of old phone books lying [...]

Almost two years ago, I wrote about an attempt to pickle radishes just by slicing them and putting them, mixed with the brine, in a Clausen pickle jar.  Recently, on the comment thread for that post, Rob asks "So how'd it go?".  Good question, Rob.   I admit, I've been negligent in my duty to report [...]

As I mentioned several weeks ago, we are in the process of rebuilding our soil fertility in our garden. One great service that I will personally attest to is that provided by a local company called Organic Technology International. For $65, I brought them a soil sample and had it analyzed. [...]

I am back in the United States, having left Bolivia almost a week and half ago. There are many things in the Bolivian sphere I could comment on, but I am reluctant to do so. In short, I will comment on a few observations. Any hope that people might have had of [...]

 It's a modest harvest, to be sure, but the significance for us as a family is still profound.  And this is for a few reasons.  First, this is a variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) native to the State of New Mexico, known as New Mexico bolitas in the northern part of the [...]