Considering Butter: A Philosophy of Homesteading
An entry in The Household Economy A few months back, I read a Sharon Astyk post in which she wrote about a new cookbook of sorts, Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese. In the book, Reese...
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An entry in The Household Economy I love butter. I grew up eating margarine, but those were dark days indeed and I try not to think about them now. Instead, I think about butter, and I eat it. I...
View ArticleWhy I’ll Pay $10 for a Gallon of Milk
When I lived in Portland, I paid $10 for a gallon of milk. This wasn’t store bought milk, of course, but raw milk. It came from a farm south of the city—a piece of land leased by two wonderful women,...
View ArticleThe Reductionist Trap
An entry in How To Be Poor One of the primary troubles with living well in a time of peak oil and deindustrialization is the tendency in our society to think in reductionist patterns rather than within...
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