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Biodiesel

BIODIESEL SHOOTERS

Here’s what kind of fun we were up to this weekend: watching Frankie Abralind making Biodiesel Shooters at the Atomic Ranch House in Olympia Washington. Who but a Mad Genius, indeed!

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Our Life

BOB’S BADGE OF COURAGE

Less than a week after we drove into Pittsboro with a U-Haul full of furniture, we found ourselves officially “On Project.” We’ve joined the Westward Expansion. Our task is to help clear a fenced-in area of weeds so that some sort of crop can be grown there, unmolested by the deer and other crop loving […]

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Oilseed

MISSING LINK

Our new best friend Link was not around yesterday and we missed him. We spent a good deal of time with him Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but not Monday. Funny how you don’t miss someone until they are – well, missing. Ten years ago, we knew something was missing in our lives and set […]

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Oilseed

A VERY WARM WELCOME

We arrived in Pittsboro, North Carolina six days ago and moved into one of a few houses at Oilseed Community in nearby Moncure with a nice group of people and an energetic dog. Pittsboro is a small town with a population of less than 3,000 and a well developed network of farmers, engineers, teachers, students, […]

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The USA

GREAT WHITE UTOPIA

One of the highlights of our road trip through the south was to be a visit to Seaside, Florida, one of the first examples of New Urbanism. Planned by Miami architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Seaside was to be a recreation of the traditional main street town. After reading several of James Howard Kunstler’s […]