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Overdue Peru/Bolivia musings, and pictures!

First, to get the full experience of this post, please open this link in another window: http://www.huaynoperuano.com/huayno/. Leave open until you are done reading. I know, it’s a little late to be posting about the Peru/Bolivia trip I returned from several months ago. You see, when I first got back I wasn’t sure […]

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 at 7:56 pm. There is 1 comment so far.

The Joy of Accumulating Animals…

I’ve been accumulating animals over the past week. Just 8 days ago I got my first shipment of chicks, followed by a foster dog, a load of turkeys, and two barn cats. The chicks are already getting so big!

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 9:37 pm. There is 1 comment so far.

Playing Farmer

Summer 2012 I find myself living and farming just outside of Ann Arbor, MI. I’ve been working here at Brines Farm, Dexter since I returned from Enlgand last fall; my boss Shannon Brines runs a winter CSA. What does that mean? Well, CSA stands for “community supported agriculture”. It basically means that the […]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 3:28 am. There are 3 comments so far.

Southwest England part III

Part 3: Odds and ends in the last week In the last section we had just left Cornwall, but that doesn’t mean our coastal journey was finished! We continued along the coastline through southern Devon and into Dorset, which I think of as more or less equivalent to New Hampshire. The main similarity is entirely […]

Monday, December 5th, 2011 at 11:22 pm. There is 1 comment so far.

SouthWest England part II

Part 2: Cornwall ice cream home-stay and Cornish coastal driving We continued our trip into Cornwall, the farthest south west corner of England. You can probably figure out for yourself that according my my New England analogy, Cornwall is Maine–coastal villages, funny accents, pasties instead of lobsters, and a lot of nothing inland. We began […]

Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at 11:13 pm. There are no comments yet.

Overdue England Sept. 2011

Most of you probably were following my summer biostation blog: umbsgarden.wordpress.com, so you probably know I spent the summer working up at the U of M biostation in Pellston Michigan, growing food and inspiring people to eat kohlrabi, enjoy weeding, and the like. But that’s another story from another website. Following the summer session up […]

Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at 9:25 pm. There is 1 comment so far.