Comments on: JUNE GARDEN & HOMESTEAD

By: Karen Joyce

Karen Joyce — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:40:52 +0000

Such prety pics! My garden is just starting to show hope... a little light at the end of the tunnel... LOL! I love to read your blog (except this one was too dark to read) because it gives me hope for mine.
Karen

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:03:42 +0000

I have had many discussions with my husband about his reluctance to raise meat animals, and his non-discerning attitude regarding factory farmed meats (which he buys and I refuse to eat). I grew up on a farm for part of my youth; my dad hunted in every season and we ate what he brought home as well as the occasional chicken and side of beef. We got milk from my uncle's cows, at eggs we found in the barn, veggies from the garden.

I see animals as essential to a sustainable farming system. I don't enjoy killing and dressing animals but I have done it and I view it as necessary to a sustainable way of life. DH and I have had many arguments regarding this -- he agrees in principle but he won't watch an animal being butchered (even our friends' on their farm) and refuses to participate himself. To which I tell him then he needs to be a vegetarian. I have earned the right to eat meat, I've done the killing myself on more than one occasion, and I will again at some point. In the mean time, I only buy organic, pasture raised, and as local as possible (our beef presently comes from 15 miles up the road).

I would like to raise meat animals, but until I can overcome his resistance to this we are limited to purchasing the most sustainably produced meat I can find. (although hopefully after I get him to watch this movie he will quit buying meat that isn't pastured)

By: Glynis

Glynis — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:02:15 +0000

Although I was not there to see Food, Inc. I can really appreciate the review you linked to. It really stresses the importance, in more graphic detail than many books go into, about why we need to make conscious decisions about our lives, how we live and what we stand for. It is long, long overdue for people to stop being led around by a carrot on a string and start thinking for themselves again.
Thank-you for this link and all that you do at the Path To Freedom to help people engage in acts of thoughtful living every day.

By: Matthew09

Matthew09 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:19:06 +0000

Does the earth oven hold up pretty well to rain? How long have you had it and what plans did you use to build it?

It looks beautiful.

Matthew09

By: Blythe

Blythe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:09:11 +0000

I recenty gave up eating animal based food after reading a book called " The China Study ". It concludes that a western, meat based diet is the cause of most western diseases like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, many cancers. In societies where there is much lower or no meat comsuption, these diseases are much rarer. The book is by Dr. T. Colin Campbell PhD. He advocates whole plant based food for optimal health and reversing disease. The environmental and social aspects of meat eating also convinced me this was the best thing to do.