We're not from around here. I know you see us all the time, but trust me, we're from someplace else. We may have lived our whole lives right next door to you, but we left quite some time ago. We found another place and it suits us just fine.

Last night I left the farm and drove into Manchester to see Food Inc. (which was wonderful) and engage in a group discussion about industrial food. Now, I knew I was going to the movies, but I had no idea when the film was over there would be a...

The Times recently ran an article about the haycation: a working weekend at a small farm you pay to attend. Turns out that a certain strain of urban locavores are flocking from the cities to visit farms that double as Bed & Breakfasts. They go to get their hands...

The market season is in full swing, and if you were to drop in on your local farmer's stands this weekend (depending on your location) you may come across barrels of tomatoes, beans, sweet corn, and other fresh produce primed for your dinner table that very night. You probably already...

The days are getting warmer and all of us are spending a lot more time outside. Regardless if you're enjoying an outdoor concert or toiling in the vegetable garden -- it's high time for some good old fashioned refreshments.

I'm a big fan...

So my goose Saro is all grown up. This week she started laying her first eggs, which are HUGE compared to the chickens' usual deposits. They're fun to find, she lays them all around the coop in little hidden places. It's like a game trying to find the goose egg...

There are a lot of people living in urban environments who would love to bring a little more homegrown goodness into their lives, but honestly don't buy that it's possible. Let's be honest, when you wake up to car alarms and reside several stories above the soil--how realistic is it...

Some of the greenest tools you can add to your kitchen are also the oldest. The following list comes from the Lehman's catalog, an Ohio-based mail order company that caters to Amish families around the country. It's one of the few places you can get everything you could ever...

Tired of paying five bucks for cage-free eggs? Getting uncomfortable about all the reports on factory farming? Want an organic source of protein right in your own backyard? Well, a lot of folks feel the same way and their answer's unanimous - a backyard flock of chickens. From Portland patios...

In Catherine Friend's book, The Compassionate Carnivore, the argument is made for meat. While it seems kinder on the surface, vegetarianism isn't necessarily the most compassionate choice in the broader spectrum of animal welfare. Which may sound like sheer lunacy to some of my fellow vegetarians, but hear me...

There's a lot to clean up in this country. But let's start with the important stuff. I want an America liberated from crappy pie.

I am not good at many things, but I think I have nailed the perfect organic apple pie recipe...

So I want to be a farmer. Nothing fancy. A flock of sheep, some fields of hay, a few humble acres. I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a personal goal for my future workplace to be littered with feces. But what can I say? I'd rather be outside knee-deep...

Walk into any elementary school in America and ask the kids what they want to be when they grow up. You'll hear the usual rattling off of conventional careers. Those kids will tell you all sorts of jobs they romanticize in their own ways. But I'm willing to bet none...

Every time I visit any green living site I'm reminded of all the fancy advancements in technology that are constantly reflecting a more environmentally aware consumer. Heck, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to see coffee mugs made out of recycled bottles, backpacks with built-in solar panels, and...

Urban homesteading is on the rise and rightly so. With soaring food and fuel prices and the constant growing interest in eating local food -- there are few excuses not to look into easy ways to eat smarter. So why not grow a windowsill full of salmonella-free peppers or a...

A few years ago I set aside my consumer-driven life and headed for the hills. Literally.

I changed jobs, packed up shop, and moved cross country with my two kind dogs in a beat up station wagon. I left behind the laid back city of Knoxville...

Yes. I am a vegetarian and I am raising my family's Thanksgiving turkey. He's cute, quirky, creepishly smart, and in a few months he'll be a side dish. And you know what the really surprising part of all this is? I am perfectly okay with it.

I can already sense...

I recently discovered this little eco-gadget that let's you listen to all you're favorite music whenever you want (for as long as you want) on 100% renewable energy. It's this amazing nature-based technology that requires no offshore drilling, leaves no trace of Co2, and even polar bears occasionally enjoy them....