We love bread. Hot, gooey and fresh from our oven, it’s just about the best taste imaginable.

Do you think it may be time for you to plant your first food garden? Good! It probably is. Here’s some advice from a pair of organic gardeners just a little farther along on the learning curve about what’s key, what’s not, and how to get started.

It’s that time of year when gardens are at their most beautiful, because they’re the way we imagine them to be when we pore over the pages of seed catalogs and dream about the luscious vegetables we’ll be harvesting from them.

20 miles away and at the same latitude as ours, the brassicas suffered considerable damage when the temperature reached the mid-20s Thanksgiving morning. That same morning, ours sailed through 22 degrees with no discernible damage. Why the difference?

It’s that time of year when all of us take time to be thankful, and we look forward to the opportunity each year. We are so blessed.

We talk a lot about what we can do to become more resilient, to be able to be able to withstand unexpected setbacks and continue living in relative safety and comfort. We’re taking another step now, as I learn to use Morse Code on my ham radio.

The hot weather may finally be gone for this year. We had two nights of freezing weather this week, which is our traditional indication that the summer growing season has ended.

It started the other day when a dear friend asked Amanda, “Can you really keep your garden growing all year long?” And today’s podcast was born.

We added this page not because an organization called “Transition Town Tallassee” exists (it doesn’t) but because it should. With proper preparation, the town of Tallassee, Alabama, situated as it is on the border between Elmore County and Tallapoosa County, is ideally suited to survive and thrive in a post-petroleum […]

Today we celebrate Halloween, that holiday dedicated to all the things that scare us. We have things that scare us too.