Bunch o’ links, mostly food and future: ・Trojan Heavy Horse. This Irish fellow has been Horse logging for 25 years. ・Mountain forest farm. Over 4o years ago this guy in the highlands of Austria’s “fir desert” started terracing the hillside and planting fruit trees. The results are remarkable ! ・3oo year old food forest. Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton finds this wicked food fores..

Bunch o’ links, mostly food and future: ・Mountain forest farm. Over 4o years ago this guy in the highlands of Austria’s “fir desert” started terracing the hillside and planting fruit trees. The results are remarkable ! ・3oo year old food forest. Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton finds this wicked food forest in Vietnam, and he gets it all on videotape. ・/r/permaculture. In this ne..

I cut timber with only my hands looking for warmth and aliveness – I do it to learn, to be aware that my link to the ecosystem goes both ways, to test my abilities, to stretch my limits, to explore the depths of pain and see what I can find there. I do it to make firewood. I do it to cross paths with the tree I am cutting; to feel-out history. I do it so I will ever after have the confidence o..

Erika & Yohei Today I watched Paradise, a soft porno flick filmed in the countryside. They’ve got a cool movie trailer at the homepage. I enjoy a good b-grade country movie, and this one turned out to be a good one, but mainly I wanted to analyze its contents. Of course, on the surface the movie makers are selling sex, and on a slightly deeper level they’re selling sex in an exotic locat..

Bunch o’ links, mostly food and forestry: ・ta-nm farm. They took over a few acres of abandoned farmland back in 2oo2, spent a few years perfecting their hot pepper growing, and now make a small fortune selling their rare and unusual habanero hot sauce on the internets, which is more than enough to support their simple life living in a jungle house at the edge of their fields. ・Kitchengarde..

Western civilization, now including Japan, has a long tradition of respecting people who work with their hands, because of our deep biological drive to respect people who do useful things. But in the 20th century that tradition was hijacked, and we were told that mechanics and plumbers and orcharders and carpenters are losers, and the only people who deserve our respect are “professionals”, ..