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Purslane – Let your weeds grow and your soul glow.

August 11, 2011

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I love eating weeds. It is free, super healthy and effortless to grow them.  Buying them from a fancy schmancy specialty market is usually very pricey. Early this year, I pulled out an evergreen shrub that was lining my driveway, leaving behind a brown dirt strip of decomposing mulch. I’m sure the neighbors were expecting […]

Howling Wolf Farm Open House and Potluck – Saturday, July 9th

June 28, 2011

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You are invited to Howling Wolf Farm for a farm open house: with a farm tour, pastured poultry tour, wild plant walk, and lacto-fermentation demonstration. Please be ready to hike through the pastures. Hope you can stay for the potluck — please bring a dish to share, plus a picnic blanket or camp chair. Saturday, […]

Howling Wolf Farm Work Crew – May 21st, 2011

May 31, 2011

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A couple of Saturday’s ago I joined the work crew at Howling Wolf Farm. I imagined I’d spend the day doing back-breaking labor, bent over the fields, the sun cruelly beating the sweat out of me while I planted seedlings in freshly plowed earth. This image was quickly shattered. Having rained steadily the entire week, […]