http://modernsmile.com/services/ I’m sort of hoping I’ll be up here for the Rondout Valley Common Ground Celebration – which bills itself as a “new kind of country fair.” They have on offer “re-skilling” – reacquiring old live-off-the-land skills. Or new ones. This year they are offering a course on building your own pizza oven, which has a […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Old Growth.
25-Sep-12Dhone Admit it, that’s the biggest yellow birch you’ve ever seen! From a stand of old-growth trees on the Devil’s Path in the Catskills.
Harvesting Coriander.
25-Sep-12Coriander has been one of the unexpected gifts of this year’s garden. It’s also known as cilantro, Coriandrum sativum. The seed is generally known by a derivative of its Latin name while the plant uses an Italian name. Finding the sound of the word pleasing, I’m happy to use the term coriander for both. I […]
Some Wendell Berry.
23-Sep-12The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Manifesto: Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything made. Be afraid to know you neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in […]
Harvest Time!
21-Sep-12Mountain Floods and Mountain Life.
21-Sep-12I spent several days hiking the Devil’s Path this weekend, and when I got back I needed to attend to some internet matters and go to the supermarket. So I spent the greater part of a day in Liberty, where it was raining very impressively. I drove back not terribly worried. I didn’t realize that […]
Another Way of Looking at Flavor.
07-Sep-12Thoreau on eating wild things. True in many ways: To appreciate the wild and sharp flavors of these October fruits, it is necessary that you be breathing the sharp October or November air. The out-door air and exercise which the walker gets give a different tone to his palate, and he craves a fruit which […]
Wildcat Mountain Life.
04-Sep-12A great piece in The Glorified Tomato on a visit to our mountain. Love love love.
Rocky Soil.
03-Sep-12I had some friends up last week, who had to acknowledge that, as awesome as it would be to feed the world, I’m unlikely to turn my humble abode into the next Central Valley of California and an industrial food-production powerhouse. This they realized as we were working on building new garden beds. Not only […]
Lake Awosting.
02-Sep-12I’m always happy to learn something new about the area, and this time my discovery is Lake Awosting. An incredible place for a swim. It’s normally guarded by an entrance fee, but there are ways around the fee if you park in intelligent places. I am told the water this weekend is 76 degrees. You […]