Monthly Archives: March 2010

Marmalade? O rly? No Whey!

Whey, whey, whey coming out of my ears.  The second thought I had after making cheese was, “Wow… this is a lot of whey.  Wonder what I do with it.”  (The first was something along the lines of, “Omg… OMG!  I MADE CHEESE!”) I stuck the whey in my fridge, then I moved the whey…

Science, Intuition, and the Naturalistic Fallacy

Last week, I posted about the naturalistic fallacy, and why it’s important to avoid falling back on this kind of reasoning.  But then I started thinking about intuition, and how much I actually value what my intuition has to say. Where Science Fails… As important as it is to give science the consideration it deserves,…

The Sustainability of Radical Optimism

This post is my contribution to Sustainablog’s Pedal-a-Watt Powered Blogathon this weekend. The long-running green blog (and new green shopping site) is publishing for 24 hours straight to raise funds for the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri. Go join the fun: read post contributions from around the green blogosphere, leave a comment to be…

Kombucha What?

Last night was a fun development in my real food journey!

While I was participating in the Real Food Challenge last month, Annette of Sustainable Eats (hello, lacto-fermentation blog carnival, how strange and cool is that!) hooked me up with the Seattle area chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation so that I could try to find someone near me who had kefir grains and a kombucha SCOBY to share.