March 2011 Blog Posts (26)

With the price of oil soaring in recent weeks, politicians around the world are scrambling to react. The price of the benchmark 'Brent' crude oil has increased by almost 90% in just 12 months, to around $115 a barrel. Now some speculators are betting that the price is headed towards…

Wow, it feels early to be doing seed starts and apparently it isn't, so Peter and I have planted our first batch of 24 pots, 4 seeds in each.  Some will go toward the Cedar Cottage spring fling event, some for our gardens.

My method:  clean/wash the reusable plastic pots (the square kind work best), use purchased seed starter mix (took out the big lumps of wood chips), fill the pots with soil up to 1/4 inch from top, compress gently so particles meet, spray the top with…

I'm stoked to be instructing at two Permaculture Design Courses this summer, one in Richmond at Terra Nova in association with the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project, and one in the Downtown East Side in association with SOLEFood Farm.

Info on both courses is on my blog at passionatepermaculture.wordpress.com or you can email me for info.  Here comes the Permaculture (r)Evolution!

“Oh break my heart, oh, break my heart again…

Oh break my heart, oh, break my heart again…

Oh break my heart, oh, break my heart again…

So I can love even more. “

Adapted from Rumi…

Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st…

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