This might be a good way to get rid of extra veg either for trade or sale…

http://www.veggietrader.com/index.php

I often get asked what type of things do I read. What do I read as far as articles for work, articles for our property, ideas for the home and land, gardening, cooking and etc.

It dawned on me that since I use Google Reader I can actually share them with anyone who’s interested.

So now you can click here: Articles Rick Shared and see what I’ve tagged for future reading or to save.

Quite a few thought provoking talks on TED…

Grassroots Ozark has an article on a One Hundred Mile Diet. There’s plenty of info on the web about shopping local.

Urban Homestead counters with a One Hundred Foot Diet. In other words – grow it yourself!

Jules Dervaes gives a lecture at UCLA earlier this year on Sustainable Food.

One quote of his that I find totally intriguing:

In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can – and will – overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world – we change ourselves. ~ Jules Dervaes ~

The rest of the lecture is in the extended entry.

Great quote at the end of the video from Gandhi:

Its a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery methods continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

Of course you can substitute God for Nature based on your beliefs but the quote is very true. But just try to pry the average American from in front of the idiot box (TV)!

This quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower applies to our legislators, media and city folks in general:

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.