We are home again after a charmed vacation. It was everything we could have hoped for and more. I love my quiet home in small town in the middle of nowhere but I do love getting out to the excitement of the city, too. At first the girls were afraid of the city and had to be coaxed out of the room (their first trip to a BIG city) but by the end of the week were right there figuring out the best routes on public transit and moving with the flow on the city streets.
Now it's catch-up time as the busy time of year is here.
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reaches behind itself to reclaim the past for the sake of the future
'There is a desperate need to recast energy descent as a positive process that can free people from the strictures and dysfunctions of growth economics and consumer culture.'
From David Holmgren's Future Scenarios.
An idea whose time has come...again
(pronounced G force) Urban Homesteading in an uncertain world. Raising chickens, rabbits and a garden..... near city center.
The Sankofa Bird
reaches behind itself to reclaim the past for the sake of the future
'There is a desperate need to recast energy descent as a positive process that can free people from the strictures and dysfunctions of growth economics and consumer culture.'
From David Holmgren's Future Scenarios.
G4s Goals
- More rain collection and watering options
- Add Honeybees
- Save up for new computer
- Finish Flannel quilt
- Finish hand quilt
- Sell Motorcycle
- Pay off car
- Done! Pay off Chibi's Viola
- Clean out storage in Garage
- Dig worm pits
- Refinance Balloon Payment on the house
- Add solar items
- Finish Adobe Oven
- Purchase Berkley water filter
- Add chain link fencing
- Save 6 months living expenses
- Pay off credit card debt - done but with new charge of xtracycle
- Turn front yard into edible landscaping:
Blogs of those on a similar path
- A possee ad esse
- An Adventure Called Bicycling
- Backwards Beekeepers
- Chile Chews
- Crunchy Chicken
- Down to Earth
- Farm Natters
- Fast Grow the Weeds
- From my Homestead
- Granny Miller
- Green Pa's place
- Home Grown Evolution
- Homesteading in a Condo
- House Full of Rabbits
- Jewish Simplicity
- little house in the suburbs
- Living Deliberately
- Maalu Cheese
- Meadowlark - Just Wandering Through
- Organic Needle
- Peak Oil Housfrau
- Powering Down
- Preserving Traditions
- Robs World
- Simple Green Frugal coop
- stony run farm
- Stop the Ride!
- Take Joy!
- The Back Forty
- The Great Change
- The Potager Garden
- The Qi papers
- The Slow Cook
- Wisdom of the Trowel
Reference Websites
- Backwoods Home
- Cheese Making How-tos
- Community Solutions
- Countrylife Articles from Leamans
- Crimson Sage - Medicinal Plants Nursery
- Eat local challenge
- Eat Well Guide
- Food Democracy
- Food shed Planet
- Future Scenarios
- Garden Girl TV
- Global Public Media
- Grist
- Hen and Harvest
- Kitchen Gardeners
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- Ktichen Garden forumns
- Lehman's Country store
- Mother Earth News
- Mountain Rose Herbs
- Mr. Wendall Berry of Kentucky
- My Wooden Spoon
- Path to Freedom e-neighborhood
- Portland Preserves
- Revive the Victory Garden
- Richard Heinberg's site
- Seafood Watch by geographic region
- Seed Trust
- The Kitchen Garden Network
- Transition Culture
- Transition Culture
- Transition Towns
Backyard homesteading
Grinding Grain for Bread
Homemade bread every week
Homemade laundry soap
Hang laundry to dry
Composting
Raising chickens
2 rain barrels set up
1/2 acre Vegie garden
Walking and bicycling more
Preserving fresh produce
Working on 3 month food stores
Use Diva Cup
Use Cloth Shopping bags
Buy raw milk direct from cow owner
Self-sufficient wood heating
Homemade bread every week
Homemade laundry soap
Hang laundry to dry
Composting
Raising chickens
2 rain barrels set up
1/2 acre Vegie garden
Walking and bicycling more
Preserving fresh produce
Working on 3 month food stores
Use Diva Cup
Use Cloth Shopping bags
Buy raw milk direct from cow owner
Self-sufficient wood heating
Victory Garden
An idea whose time has come...again
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5 comments:
Welcome home - i am still trying to figure out the public transport in the Bog City here!
And at the end of a great trip, and home to your lovely house to discover, once you start wading through your blogroll, that you've WON!
Could life be any better ;)?
Welcome back!
Welcome home! Most of my life I lived in large metropolitan areas before moving to Kansas. It took awhile to acclimate, but now I feel like a fish out of water when I visit the city.
I am so glad you had a good time! When you figure out that big city transportaion system let me know would ya?
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