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Upcoming homesteading events in Southcentral Alaska (2011)
I’m planning on attending several events this spring to further my knowledge of sustainablie living in the far north. For readers in the Anchorage area, here’s a quick run-down of what’s coming up:
March 26th or April 9th
10am-4pm
Anchorage 1st Presbyterian Church
$35
Pioneers Fruit Growers Association
April 9th
1pm
Anchorage Korean Assembly of God Church
Cost: not known
Alaska Society of American Foresters Arbor Day Tree Sale
May 14th and 21st
(The 14th is the last day orders will be accepted. Tree pick-up in on the 21st)
Cost: $20 for a bundle of 20 trees.
How to Make Your Own Bacon
The bacon after it has come out of the smoker. Beautiful.
After a very successful experiment in bacon making, I’ve posted a tutorial on the site. A few buddies and I made 5 different types of bacon, and they all turned out fantastic. Check it out!
Another lovely quote…
“Good human work honors God’s work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affections, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.”
-Wendell Berry from “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”
Happy New Year!
The view from our living room at midnight
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It’s been a while
I’m finally on winter break, and I’m looking forward to getting back to posting. But not just yet.
In the meantime, check out a blog I’ve been following for the past few months. It’s called “Pursuing Nothing” and it’s the journals of a vagabond couple as they explore life on the fringes. What’s really cool is that both people blog about the same adventures, so you get the chance to hear the same story from both the male and female perspective. (Click on either Garth Kiser or Sarah Handysides, click on “words” and then click on “journal.”)
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