pickEvery year I try to read a book set in each US state and sometimes I end up with some strange reading material. Some of this book about regenerative farming in North Dakota went over my head, but some parts were actually very interesting. I don‘t think I‘ll ever own a farm but if I do this is definitely the way I would go.
pickI loved this memoire of growing and raising your own food. I never had any delusions of it being easy (enforced child labor in my mother‘s garden) and I‘m happy for someone to slaughter and butcher the meat I eat, I want to know where my food comes from. I love how generous she was with her food, even after someone stole her one and only watermelon. And the way the neighbors came together, all different cultures and backgrounds bonding over food.
pickThis is such an important read! For someone who doesn't know enough about conservation, it is a tough read, in that I had to keep going back over parts to understand what I was reading . .. but it is worth it. The illustrated edition is so beautiful and Angela Harding's prints are gorgeous 🥰 it is really good to share with children.
#FallJamboreeDoodles Corn maze
This was HARD and doesn't look like a maze 😕 Oh well, I tried.
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Finished this one today!! #punnytitle for #ispy #hotdrink for the #scavengerhunt part of a #series for #bookrecommendation #family for #gottacatchemall and #mistakenidentity for #itsatrope #hauntedshelf #flerken @PuddleJumper
pickThe title of lunatic farmer is one Mr. Salatin wears proudly. This book lays out his philosophy of farming. In hip language, he is old-school. His ways, though modernized, hearken to the days before modern fees lots and industrial farms. It's following nature's patterns. I enjoyed this book immensely. The only nit-pick is that it could use some pro editing. That is easily ignored. Excellent and fun read.
Been on my radar a while. I think sometimes I might be a lunatic for doing what I do on my little urban homestead.
Those is my happy palce this week. This is the book I read before I go to sleep at night. I‘m also reading “Outside Looking In” by T.C. Boyle and “The Dissident” - a book about Alexey Navalny. Neither one of them makes me smile, but I keep sighing and thinking what a broken world we live in. 😳😢But before lights out I learn about sheep with underbotes, and unruly Shetland ponies….
Finally the last book bought today. This one is for the son who loves Clarkson.
pickAn excellent resource on pursuing true organic ways. There is information that goes beyond the needs of a home gardener but sparks ideas on how to do it better. The soil blocking and transplanting chapters are worth the book price. If you garden, put this on your shelf.
