Two months ago, Bob started a container garden at work. We started harvesting basil and cilantro right away. Today we brought home a grocery bag full of chard and arugula. Tuesday, we’re going to fill another bag with lettuce and arugula. Soon, we’ll be eating beets and tomatoes. After that it will be eggplant and […]
Author: Camille Armantrout
Camille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
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CLOWN CARS
A local newspaper poll asked: “With temperatures nearing triple digits, do you think there might be some truth in Global Warming?” 76% of the people who participated in the poll answered, “No.” This is the mentality of my fellow small town Americans. Just ran into one such chap in the pizza shop. We were both […]
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FREEGANS ROCK!
Freegan is a new word being used to describe dumpster diving environmentalists who have found a way to live in a wasteful society without compromising their values. According a recent Denver news story: “Those subscribing to freeganism range from people who don’t believe in buying food at all to people like Meuser, who say they’re […]
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TOOTING THEIR OWN HORN
I bought some potatoes the other day and was surprised to see them packaged in a bag labeled “NASCAR.” Yes, NASCAR, the nation’s number-one spectator sport. “Isn’t that all about CAR Racing?” I asked myself. “What does car racing have to do with potatoes?” So I went to Nascar.com and found this: NASCAR branded produce […]
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A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES
Best story in the news so far today comes from the New York Times ‘Health of Nations’ section, which suggests The United States is a nation of hypochondriacs. The American-English comparison, published this month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from people’s own reports of their health and also used some […]