I've been resisting posting the likes of The Arch Druid report as it deals with economics and politics, which is all encompassing but a kind of distraction from what i want this blog to be about. But, the interesting and quite prescient details of his recent blog entry i think should get an airing considering we are looking at ways of mitigating the coming (currently happening) descending use of energy.
"Most people won’t have the option of separating themselves completely from the money economy for many years to come; as long as today’s governments continue to function, they will demand money for taxes, and money will continue to be the gateway resource for many goods and services, including some that will be very difficult to do without. Still, there’s no reason why distancing oneself from the tertiary economy has to be an all-or-nothing thing. Any step toward the direct production of goods and services for one’s own use, with one’s own labor, using resources under one’s own direct control, is a step toward the world that will emerge after money; it’s also a safety cushion against the disintegration of the money economy going on around us."(My Emphasis)
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/05/after-money.html
Thursday 13 May 2010
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Seasonal Foods
"Holy Crap!", I bet you're all saying. Along with, "And where the hell have you been?". Good question! This preparing for the birth of ones first child has become a damn nuisance and a major distraction from a plethora of other things that need to be gotten on with. Pregnant Palmer is now unemployed, extremely large and enjoying the easy life of day-time TV channel-surfing!
We've not been doing nothing though. The back garden is quite the project on it's own... we'll get some photos up for you. It's that awesome time of year when plants just simply want to grow, so we've been spending many an hour seeding, hardening, and planting lots of yummy foodstuffs. We'll get some photos up of that stuff too.
Seasonal foodstuffs for May... and there's a glutt of them this month.
May Vegetables
Asparagus, broad beans, brocolli, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves (you would not believe how quick these grow), onions, peas, radishes, rhubarb, rocket, spinach, spring onion, watercress, wild nettles.
May Seafood
Cockles, cod, coley, conger eel, crab, john dory, lemon sole, mackerel (wholly sustainable and delicious to boot), plaice, pollock, salmon, sea trout, shrimp, whelks and whitebait.
So come on peeps, eat the bounty :~)
We've not been doing nothing though. The back garden is quite the project on it's own... we'll get some photos up for you. It's that awesome time of year when plants just simply want to grow, so we've been spending many an hour seeding, hardening, and planting lots of yummy foodstuffs. We'll get some photos up of that stuff too.
Seasonal foodstuffs for May... and there's a glutt of them this month.
May Vegetables
Asparagus, broad beans, brocolli, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves (you would not believe how quick these grow), onions, peas, radishes, rhubarb, rocket, spinach, spring onion, watercress, wild nettles.
May Seafood
Cockles, cod, coley, conger eel, crab, john dory, lemon sole, mackerel (wholly sustainable and delicious to boot), plaice, pollock, salmon, sea trout, shrimp, whelks and whitebait.
So come on peeps, eat the bounty :~)
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