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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8373)	8/6/2008 1:33:24 AM
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New online magazine "Hen and Harvest" - serious and sexy food production by Staff About Hen and Harvest henandharvest.com What the heck is a kohlrabi? Can you plant tomatoes in containers? How do you harvest grain with a scythe? Can I irrigate with greywater? Can you keep chickens in a city backyard? What about really cute little sheep? How do you cook leeks? Will sweet potatoes grown in Ontario? Do I need a pressure canner? What’s that weird bug on your cucumbers? Can I sequester carbon in my garden soil? What do angora bunnies eat, anyway? What’s the best brand of push mower? How do I start a farmer’s market? What’s the best lettuce variety for the desert southwest? What’s a root cellar and how do I get one? Does anyone else keep bees? How do I use water wisely? Grow heirloom beans? Make tofu? Salsa? Want to preserve food with minimal energy use? Eat local? Practice permaculture? Grow hops and make your own beer? Grow a front yard victory garden? Save the planet? Where, O where can we find help?!? Fear not! At the Hen and Harvest Pub, we will help you relax with some home brewed reassurance. We will help you find your way out of the quagmire of lousy industrial food, greenwashing and polite lies that we can leave it all to ConAg and Congress. We all know that rising energy prices, a warming climate and a host of environmental and political problems mean we have to live differently and grow food and eat differently. The answer to our problems is a sustainable, local, lower energy life and local food sovereignty. The problem is that knowing the answer doesn’t make the rest of the questions go away – low energy living means that questions proliferate and you come up against new challenges every day. Hen and Harvest has answers. Our editors are right there with you, trying new things, experimenting, finding solutions, reviewing tools and giving you the straight truth about energy, environment and sustainable living. We are passionate and hopeful that we can make a real transition to a lower energy world – and we’re not so sincere we make you want to throw up, either. We think getting the most out of our resources is fun – and can be funny. So come on in, sit down, and have a metaphorical beer with us. The Hen and Harvest Pub is open for business! Message from Sharon Astyk, Submissions Goddess So I while back I mentioned that I was working on a new project - meet our new online Magazine, ”Hen and Harvest.” Wanna take a look? We’ve got Marie Antoinette’s cleavage, Gene Logsdon’s amazing voice, rich, lush, sexy pictures of food, container gardening, a never-before published excerpt from my book, backyard chickens and all sorts of cool stuff. It is all at www.henandharvest.com We’re all about serious food production and food security on every scale from container to acreage, from personal to community. And we’ve got food covered at every step of the process, from seed to table. Oh, and we’ll have some sexy stuff (I mean, how could gardening and eating not be sexy?), reviews of useful human and animal powered technologies, great book reviews, recipes, livestock information and anything we deem of interest. We’re still getting going, and I know some of you volunteered to write and I haven’t done much about it - but I am now submissions goddess for the site, so if you have an article you’d like to see reach millions (let’s shoot for the moon, shall we), send it along to my email address jewishfarmer AT gmail DOT com. We’d love articles about techniques you’ve used, new projects, gardening in special conditions. We’d also love videos and garden porn - pictures of you and your veggies looking delectable, or just vegetables that make you feel all warm and sundrenched and edible. Meanwhile don’t forget to check us out - and new stuff will be coming up all the time. Already we’ve got tons of great stuff forthcoming. Sharon August 3rd, 2008 Among the many articles online: An Afternoon with Gene Logsdon The Crazy Lady and the Garden by Sharon Astyk The Humanure Handbook-A Book Review