Comments on: About http://starvingofftheland.com Figuring out first-hand food Thu, 17 May 2012 00:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tamar http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9621 Tamar Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:18:54 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-9621 Good luck, Cris! I hope you leave the housing association behind and come back here to get dirty. (And I, too, love Mother Earth News.) Good luck, Cris! I hope you leave the housing association behind and come back here to get dirty. (And I, too, love Mother Earth News.)

]]> By: Cris http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9607 Cris Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:27:34 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-9607 <i>I understand where you’re coming from. Having watched one too many documentaries on the food industry and having grown up on a farm in upstate NY, I so want to get back to living off the land. Knowing where your food comes from, I think, gives you a greater respect and understanding of the big picture. Sadly, my husband and I are trapped in a housing association in Arizona that poo poos some of these ideas. We are planning to move back east, purchase a plot of land and farm the heck out of it. On a side note, Mother Earth News is a great magazine filled with DIY projects and living a green existence.</i> +1 I understand where you’re coming from. Having watched one too many documentaries on the food industry and having grown up on a farm in upstate NY, I so want to get back to living off the land. Knowing where your food comes from, I think, gives you a greater respect and understanding of the big picture. Sadly, my husband and I are trapped in a housing association in Arizona that poo poos some of these ideas. We are planning to move back east, purchase a plot of land and farm the heck out of it.
On a side note, Mother Earth News is a great magazine filled with DIY projects and living a green existence.
+1

]]> By: Maria http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9377 Maria Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:20:44 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-9377 Tamar, Your blog and its message simply great, would be so phenomenal if you would share it with the foodie community at Picdish. http://picdish.com Best of luck, Maria. Tamar,

Your blog and its message simply great, would be so phenomenal if you would share it with the foodie community at Picdish. http://picdish.com

Best of luck,
Maria.

]]> By: Kate@LivingTheFrugalLife http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9052 Kate@LivingTheFrugalLife Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:40:26 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-9052 Tamar, thought of you and your sandy soil when I came across this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4putIxHsNCk&feature=player_embedded Mullein - grows in gravel piles. Maybe if you seeded your sand with this stuff and chopped and dropped some of it for a few years? According to the video, it does its necessary work, and once the soil is improved, it politely leaves. Tamar, thought of you and your sandy soil when I came across this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4putIxHsNCk&feature=player_embedded

Mullein – grows in gravel piles. Maybe if you seeded your sand with this stuff and chopped and dropped some of it for a few years? According to the video, it does its necessary work, and once the soil is improved, it politely leaves.

]]> By: John F, Carafoli http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8924 John F, Carafoli Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:17:12 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-8924 Hey There, LOVE your blog! Lets get together for a drink, dinner at our house on Maple Street. Peace John Hey There, LOVE your blog! Lets get together for a drink, dinner at our house on Maple Street.
Peace
John

]]> By: carol lummus http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8923 carol lummus Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:42:22 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-8923 We so enjoyed the Audubon Oyster venture with you and Kevin, and later learning more about you both in Edible Cape Cod. Looking forward to updates, cannot imagine what you will be up to next after oysters, ducklings, lobster traps and pole beans en haut? 'Green side up' !! Carol We so enjoyed the Audubon Oyster venture with you and Kevin, and later learning more about you both in Edible Cape Cod.

Looking forward to updates, cannot imagine what you will be up to next after oysters, ducklings, lobster traps and pole beans en haut?

‘Green side up’ !!

Carol

]]> By: ethan http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8163 ethan Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:52:33 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-8163 commented on wintergreen... just wanted to drop by again and say i love the concept of this blog, and the playfully sarcastic, cynical tone :P i think it makes this necessary shift in food sourcing more accessible to a range of people who would otherwise not take seriously the necessity for such a transition in our lives and livelihoods. what you are doing is the future for all of us, more or less, and i thank you for living it openly, both in structure (the blog) and tone (the voice). commented on wintergreen…

just wanted to drop by again and say i love the concept of this blog, and the playfully sarcastic, cynical tone :P i think it makes this necessary shift in food sourcing more accessible to a range of people who would otherwise not take seriously the necessity for such a transition in our lives and livelihoods. what you are doing is the future for all of us, more or less, and i thank you for living it openly, both in structure (the blog) and tone (the voice).

]]> By: Sullying, Growth, and Knowledge « Simple Savvy http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7497 Sullying, Growth, and Knowledge « Simple Savvy Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:02:48 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-7497 [...] seem grandiose to outsiders: in our efforts to continually learn, we grow to the point where we can take up urban homesteading, get rid of our cars and live in tiny houses, or decide to move to Italy for a year.  We just keep [...] [...] seem grandiose to outsiders: in our efforts to continually learn, we grow to the point where we can take up urban homesteading, get rid of our cars and live in tiny houses, or decide to move to Italy for a year.  We just keep [...]

]]> By: Chez Us » Pumpkin Pecan Scones with Maple Glaze http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6066 Chez Us » Pumpkin Pecan Scones with Maple Glaze Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:42:14 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-6066 [...] few months ago, I was having a twitter session with John, Jennifer and Tamar about scones.  Everyone was eager to make scones together, sort of a virtual bake-off. [...] [...] few months ago, I was having a twitter session with John, Jennifer and Tamar about scones.  Everyone was eager to make scones together, sort of a virtual bake-off. [...]

]]> By: Tamar http://starvingofftheland.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3143 Tamar Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:57:42 +0000 http://www.starvingofftheland.com//?page_id=2#comment-3143 Kate -- You're right about the chickens. A steady supply of eggs makes the Challenge almost unsporting. I hope to some day to be in your shoes -- procuring enough of our own food to eat it every day in the ordinary course of things. I'll be following your progress at Living the Frugal Life. Nice to know you. Kate — You’re right about the chickens. A steady supply of eggs makes the Challenge almost unsporting.

I hope to some day to be in your shoes — procuring enough of our own food to eat it every day in the ordinary course of things. I’ll be following your progress at Living the Frugal Life.

Nice to know you.

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