From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Robotic Mule Future Organic Farm Helper?

October 30, 2009

In the spirit of Hal­loween, here’s a kinda creepy video of a robotic mule– very life­like move­ments, flash legs. I want one for my future farm. The part in the mid­dle where some guy kicks it and it strug­gles, but keeps going almost made me feel bad for the robot.
I also won­der how the carbon […]

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Michelle Obama Reaps Bonanza From White House Garden

October 30, 2009

via politicsdaily.com
From anthro­pol­ogy we learn that evo­lu­tion in genes and in cul­ture (memes) occurs both grad­u­ally and very quickly, in leaps. I think First Lady Obama has achieved both with her organic gar­den. It has spurred an imme­di­ate inter­est and cul­ture shift towards organic and sus­tain­able food– while plant­ing the seeds for future gen­er­a­tions to […]

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First Worm?

October 29, 2009
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New Documentary: A Family Farm in Urban Pasadena

October 29, 2009

A new doc­u­men­tary, Home­grown, tells the story of a fam­ily liv­ing off the grid and farm­ing in their urban lot.

Just a mile from the sky­scrap­ers of down­town Pasadena lies a tiny plot of land that has become the heart of an urban home­steading move­ment. The raised beds of the Der­vaes fam­ily farm cover 1/10 of […]

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The Modern Agrarian

October 29, 2009

This arti­cle about the Face­book app Far­mville really had me crack­ing up.
A cou­ple of awe­some quotes:
“I can’t hang out with any of my friends with­out talk of apple fields and rice pad­dies,” said Tay­lor Lee Sivils, a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side, in an e-mail mes­sage. “I have to wait for my friends’ soybeans […]

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Desire to Farm Just a Dream?

October 28, 2009

Today I have been ask­ing myself the ques­tion, can I respon­si­bly ask my mother and father, my brother and sis­ter, to give up some of their com­fort­able sub­ur­ban lifestyles to help me pur­sue farm­ing. And also will I hate it once it’s not just a fan­tasy, but a daily real­ity that’s hard, tir­ing, and less […]

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Best Ever Banana Bread

October 26, 2009

Pas­try Chef Bo Friberg devel­oped this recipe, and it is AMAZING. I’ve made it numer­ous times at the restau­rant to rave reviews– we still use it in one of our tapas-styled desserts paired with vanilla ice cream and a caramelized banana slice.
It’s very impor­tant to use bananas that are VERY ripe– I will peel and […]

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New IBM Food Tracing iPhone App

October 26, 2009

This looks promis­ing. I really think that once con­sumers are fully informed about what they’re eat­ing they will begin mak­ing bet­ter choices.
The as yet unre­leased iPhone app is called Bread­crumbs and it will give con­sumers access to infor­ma­tion about gro­cery food items. The app will be able to scan bar­codes and deliver a sum­mary of […]

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Dream Song

October 25, 2009

Hasir by Mod­e­se­lek­tor  Down­load now or lis­ten on pos­ter­ous
11_Modeselektor — Hasir.mp3 (6798 KB)
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Words, Thoughts

October 25, 2009

Out­putmes­sage, crime­wave, gestalt, dri­ven, only­choice, oppres­sion, ter­ror­ism, posi­tion­al­ity, dream, com­mu­nion. I am dri­ven by love, because in dreams it makes sense. Con­sumes our bod­ies and minds, and leads to demon­stra­tion. Fol­low the thought, the notion that our food sup­ply is patentable– soon my semen, frozen on ice, will belong to sci­ence. Soon your eyes, your […]

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