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Our collective gas cap is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. In the business section of the AZ Repub this morning is a map depicting current permit requests for solar and wind generating stations here in Arizona. There are large color splotches all over our map where international companies wish to install massive solar and wind generating fields. Is that really the world we wish to build? Do we really want to live in a world with windmills and solar panels covering every inch of open space? Would… Continue

Does anyone know anybody who has found a decent paying job? There are nine adults in our immediate family here in the Valley of the Sun. Of those nine only two are working. One of the workers must work two partime jobs to make it, and the other makes about two thirds of what they used to, and what they used to make wasn’t enough. That is the crux my friends, wages were too low before the crash and now they are half of that. What are you going to do about it?

Does anybody know anybody who has re… Continue

Something is happening at the farmship. Last year we had bugs. Lots of some, a few of others. We had a fairly significant aphid problem, minor squash and cucumber beetles, some caterpillars, some flies, a few white flies, flea beetles, and minor cut worms. The ladybug larvae and adults eventually came and the aphids became manageable. We only loss one small crop, spaghetti squash, and that was the treatment not the bugs.

We have been attempting to practice “No Squish”. After the squash bugs kil… Continue

Two years ago on the same Monday after the Bear Stearns collapse, my son arrived at his work place to find the doors shut. I was working on an elementry school in Maricopa and I remember sitting around the job trailor (do they still do that?) with the other foremen and discussing a thirties style run on the banks. Well, the feds more than doubled their garuntee on our deposits to 250,000 and garunteed another thirteen trillion in toxic assets that the "to big to fails" had dined on and everythin… Continue

The Hadley Farmship is fifteen months old. The Hadley Farmship is on course. The Hadley Farmship just well may succeed. Followers of the farmship know that we are an experiment in relocalizing the food chain. The defination of what is success has been evolving through the months. The good news is that my expectations for the production ability of our little half acre permie site is increasing. The on the ground realities we have experienced over the last fifteen months have been encouraging.

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