by convergency | Apr 22, 2009 | environment, farming, gardening, self-sufficiency
Bees pollinate a third of the food we eat. They are essential for farming and if we wanted to do the pollinating work ourselves – it would take a workforce of 30 million. And that’s just for food – bees also pollinate most wildflowers. In the United...
by convergency | Nov 16, 2008 | anthropology, blogging, computers, environment, gardening, housing, open source, philanthropy, self-sufficiency, web stuff
I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection’ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect of my own blog actually...
by convergency | Nov 8, 2008 | gardening, self-sufficiency, web stuff
I am not the only one fretting about over-specialisation it seems. I was pointed to Sharon Astyk’s ‘Casaubon’s Book’ blog by this Eating the Seasons post, which mentioned the book Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. The post...
by convergency | May 2, 2008 | gardening
Last year I grew some carrots from seed – and chucked some spuds in the ground – the carrots worked but the spuds got blight – still got some nice little earlies though. We also grew some tomato plants in a grow-bag outside and got a few tasty...
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