So I read in the BBC that they are making genetically modified chickens that lay eggs with cancer fighting proteins.

Welcome little chick to earth. This is where your food is, this is where your water is. You were born as a science experiment. Its not that you weren't good enough, its just that we could use a function of your life to exploit ( Read more... )

I really really want to be a farmer. Recently I've been feeling really strongly about it and I have no doubt in my mind that my future is in sustainable agriculture ( Read more... )

I found this on the Wegmans website, they really should just not have said anything, they just sound like cold money hungry fatcats ( Read more... )

So after a two month lull waiting (and hoping) on a junky pump to get my waste Veg Oil, I decided to go low-tech, which proved to be the easiest (and cheapest ( Read more... )

Dear Cats ( Read more... )

Whilst crossing E. Houston st in NYC today at 1st, I was all of the sudden hit by a lincoln towncar taxi-limousine crazy car ( Read more... )

I just got a job at the new Whole Foods in west orange! The opening day was my first and it was crazy but I learned a lot really fast and felt comfortable by the end of the day. Everyone I work with is really awesome. There isn't a big vibe of higher-upness in the store team leadership (aka management ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day working on the farm. It was very CSA intense; being the last distribution for the year meant going out with a bang. We brought (and loaded unloaded) 300 pumpkins, 20 bales of hay, two heavy wooden shade canopys, one pop up canopy, two tables and vegatables for 50 people into New York City to the hells kitchen area. I ( Read more... )

When you look at some farmland areas in google earth, it looks like big squares of desert. The pictures were taken after the fields were mechanically harvested and look like wierd patches of diseased earth. Its sort of wierd that nothing else grows in the soil our food supply does ( Read more... )

It seems that I am very intrigued with yeast. I really appreciate bread and love to bake it. Even more yeasty is sourdough breads, in which case I harvest wild yeast from the air to make bread rise, the only ingredients I put in are water, salt and flour ( Read more... )