Today’s Sketch: Rewilding
A movement in Europe to let abandoned farmland go wild.
Today’s Sketch – Ugly Fruit
Read about FRUTA FEIA. The Ugly Fruit movement. It’s about not wasting perfectly good fruit and vegetables just because they “look bad”. This is something I can get behind!
Today’s sketch: Farm to Table
“Tomatoes are the all star of the farm-to-table world. But in fact, they’re like the Hummers of the vegetable world. That’s because they require more water and nutrients from the soil than a lot of other vegetables. At the end of the day what we need to support is all of the farming decisions that …
Surveillance and the Cloud
Russian Oligarchs cooling on hot NYC real estate
Technology for the Birds
I am not a birder (though it seems like a great hobby) but I was interested in the article about the Birding World Series in the NYT this weekend. Old school birding is bumping up against new technologies like bird watching apps. It strikes me as a tension between two styles of learning. The “old school” style …
Story of my Life
Huck and have been dealing with that perennial scourge of school children. And I was thinking…
An uncommon sight
On Sunday Huck came running into the room saying “I have something very important to show you”. We followed him to the window. And indeed, something very important was there for us to see. A huge woodpecker was outside going to town on chunk of wood. He cut into it as if it were butter. …