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The term sustainable has been bothering me more and more. It started when I saw a talk by Anna Lappe a couple of years ago at the E.F. Schumacher Society. She said she doesn’t like the term because it conveys a sense of maintaining, sustaining what we’re already doing, the non-event of continuing with the …

Raising most livestock means buying alot of feed. Over the year, we spend more on feed than on any other single item, which means that growing and transporting feed for our animals creates most of our ecological footprint. Take pigs, for example. Pigs really like to eat. They eat voraciously, at every opportunity. A pig …

Hi. I reflect about the gardens in winter. Gardening to me is a great spiritual exercise in mindfulness. It is very easy, in the quiet of my work, to let my mind drift off. I often leave the present moment and think about things I did that hurt someone, or things that others did to …

I met another hero of mine this weekend! And he wore a cool wool hat! I was given the privilege and opportunity to pick up Joel Salatin at the airport. He was speaking at the NOFA Mass Winter conference. In plain English, that would be the Northeast Organic Farming Association Massachusetts Chapter 23rd Annual Winter …

Everyone has to come to terms with the issue of eating meat, in their own way. People are born into a family that either eats meat or doesn’t, and tend to stick with that pattern without really thinking it through on their own. We have a very strong psychological tendency to stick with eating things …