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From a page on the website of photographer Jason Fulford and a book called Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin.
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Digestive Versatility
Brent the Mushroom Hunter picked me up at the airport today.
We talked about long distance driving, biochar, carrots, radishes, oak logs, and shiitakes.
And we noticed little gang of robins hopping around in the snow...
Brent: I wonder what they're eating these days. Robins eat bugs.
Jake: Good question. I guess they must eat grass and seeds and stuff like that too.
Brent: Yeah. Pretty amazing, though. That'd be like us eating wood chips.
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Little Dried Leaves
I talked to my dad about food tonight. Nutrition and sustainability and health policy and urban farms and getting fresh produce to people in poor neighborhoods.
Pops grew up in big cities. Chicago. Florence, Italy. Washington DC.
It wasn't until he was in middle school that he realized that Corn Flakes and Wheaties didn't grow on trees. He thought they looked like leaves.
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Another Reason to Love China
Please click this link.
It's an article about two pounds of very old marijuana. Two pounds of very old marijuana found in a tomb in the desert in China. My favorite quote is from the caption next to a picture of a rubber-gloved scientist tweezing a bit of the weed into a container for him to bring home and "test" over the weekend:Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the man was buried with a lot of it.I only smoked the greens in China a couple of times. It was not locally sourced. It was American. A friend smuggled it back from a medical marijuana farm in Mendocino County, CA. And there is a very serious story behind it. One that involves a lawyer, outsourcing the manufacture of clipping and gardening tools to a factory in Shenzhen, political dilemmas, cash in buried mason jars, socially responsible investors, and a SWAT team.It's probably best told when everyone listening is stoned.
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The Low Technologies
My colleague Brent is so excited about baking his own charcoal and using it to fertilize the fields that he's sent me a video about El Dorado and the black soils the goldsmiths left behind.
HG, the farmer on whose fields Brent wants to run his experiment, was raving again the other day about Norman Uphoff's rice revolution.
And there's something about solar thermal technology and the American Southwest that just seems inevitable.
Just throwing it out there.
Low tech has potential. I don't mean to say there's anything wrong with high tech. I love high tech. But I also like simplicity. I like biomimickry. I like energy efficiency. I like elegance. I like avoiding brute force.
HG, the farmer on whose fields Brent wants to run his experiment, was raving again the other day about Norman Uphoff's rice revolution.
And there's something about solar thermal technology and the American Southwest that just seems inevitable.
Just throwing it out there.
Low tech has potential. I don't mean to say there's anything wrong with high tech. I love high tech. But I also like simplicity. I like biomimickry. I like energy efficiency. I like elegance. I like avoiding brute force.
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