Here is an interview posted at henandharvest.com on Jan 14th, 2009, conducted as part of the process of writing A Nation of Farmers, by Sharon Astyk and Aaron Newton, which is available for pre-order now and will be published in March of 2009 by New Society Publishers. An edited version of this interview appears in [...]

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In the early 70’s, hippie cultural revolutionaries were becoming discouraged by the deaths of leaders like Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the defeat of anti-war candidate George Mc Govern by Nixon and the use of violence by groups like the radical left’s Weather Underground. No longer believing that change could be brought to the [...]

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The Sustainable Life Retreats are designed to educate your mind and rejuvenate your soul. Sustainability is about setting up systems that can continue indefinitely, that endure. While the term is typically applied to electrical power or building techniques, it really begins with how we take of ourselves and each other. The Sustainable Life is [...]

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Recipe of the Month: Winter Harvest Vegetable Gumbo
I make a lot of vegetable soup in the winter months. It’s the perfect food to warm you from the inside out, plus it allows me to use many of the foods from the garden I have preserved for winter. It’s the okra that makes it a gumbo, [...]

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