slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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Last Saturday I went to the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association conference in Durham with Charlie and Walter. The workshops were interesting, for the most part, but I heard that I missed a couple of really great ones that had to do with edible schoolyards and youth projects. I enjoyed the one with Cricket Rakita about…
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I haven’t stopped blogging, but the little energy that I’ve had has been going to other things. Mainly, work, class, and worrying about my little Squirt. A wonderful Slow Food event last night, but I’ll have to write about that later. I’ve known deep down that something was not right with Squirt for a while.…
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NORTH CAROLINA RAW MILK ACTION ALERT From Ruth Ann Foster Greensboro, NC Chapter Leader and Raw Milk Coordinator October 19, 2007 BACKGROUND On September 7, 2007, the NC Board of the Department of Agriculture (NCDA) adopted a rule requiring the addition of a charcoal colored dye be added to all raw milk sold as pet…
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Here is the cover of Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot magazine (the official publication of the Handweavers Guild of America) from Summer 1998, when it published an article about John and his work. At the end of this post, you’ll find links to the article, which I scanned, and other links that I found about John…
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Finally got enough butterbeans at one time to make a little pot of butterbeans and bacon! (You might call them lima beans.) Most of these are Carolina Sieva, and the few gray ones are Red Calico, both varieties originally from Monticello. I save the seed to plant again the following year. Next year I plan…
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Things constantly change in the Back Forty. March 27, 2007 ^ July 8, 2007 ^ May 6, 2007 ^ July 8, 2007 ^ April 25, 2007^ July 8, 2007 ^ April 21, 2006 ^ March 3, 2007 ^ July 8, 2007 ^
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I decided not to try to write a work of literature about the lake trip and just yak about it randomly. It was a quiet vacation, the kind I like, although I’m much better suited to it than my husband. I can be alone for three days with a stack of books or a project…
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Oh, how I love Slow Food. The dinner last night with Carlo Petrini, Erika Lesser, and other North Carolina Slow Food leaders just confirmed my already warm and fuzzy feelings for this organization. I’m not an “organization” person. I’m a loner, and usually I prefer nothing more than a cool afternoon weeding my garden, or…
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Sandino and I have made it to our 20th year of marriage without killing or maiming each other. I think that’s pretty impressive. The sad thing is, during those twenty years there weren’t many photos taken of the two of us together. Even at our wedding. We were broke, so we didn’t hire a professional…
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Jan checks out… the cattails on the Rivercane walk at John C. Campbell Folk School.
slowly she turned 