Preserving Food with Fermentation
Thanks to my facebook friend Tim Hamilton for the link to this site http://www.foodrenegade.com/the-basics/fermented-raw/ Tim, this is such an amazingly data rich site. It’s native living at its best. Fermentation of food is something to try to add more valuable nutrition back into our eating habits. I’m 57 so I caught the tale end of home cooked meals as Great Grandma Irene and Grandma Hazel used to spend their days cooking brea

Kunstfest –...
Kunstfest – Traditional German Festival honoring the founding fathers of New Harmony with music, food, arts & crafts and family fun. Come enjoy New Harmony’s annual celebration of German Heritage with hand made arts & crafts, live musi…c and food. Located throughout the town of New Harmony, ride a horse drawn wagon through New Harmony’s historic streets. Enjoy live music and you enjoy traditional German food and desserts. If you have never experienced Kunstfest, you will want to make sure this year you do. Photos of Kunstfest in New Harmony Indiana. I’m also going back to take more photos and p

John Pilger – Obama and Empire
John Pilger – Obama and Empire Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.

Farm Aid 2009
This is one of the reasons Farm Aid puts on a concert every year to help small farmers stay in business and be able to compete with the Factory farms by offering cleaner, healthier food. Factory farms are why we have so much salmonella — at one time you could actually use raw

Obama’s Slide
You can read insightful posts like this one @ http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/ Lots of critics, like David Brooks, reflexively attribute Obama’s rapid slide to a push for more government.  Not even close.  In fact, that’s lazy thinking. The rapidity of the slide is due to the Wall Street bailout.  Instead of punishment of the perps, we are getting bonuses.  Instead of reform to prevent gambling, we get more of the same (even worse, it is being done with an explicit government backstop).  Instead of relief for the middle class we get profiteering