This Saturday I gave a presentation on household food security at a Peak Prosperity event held this year in Sonoma County, California. This isn’t the first time I was asked to give this spiel for them and I was happy to return. There’s a general societal preoccupation with the Hollywood disaster movie version of disruption. … Continue reading Peak Prosperity
I’m going to make an analogy here so give me a few paragraphs to piece it together. I’ve been an amateur bee keeper for the last eight or nine years. The garden and orchard do better when the bees are around to pollinate things and the hives produce high quality honey. Last year was especially … Continue reading The Atlanta Bee Hive Apartment Renovation
Once a year I do a full audit of my one year food supply and do a deep clean of the pantry. I usually have a little too much of some items I’m not going to be able to use before they expire. So after a complete inventory I donate the surplus to a local … Continue reading Army Surplus
Last night I had dinner at a friend’s house. The group was composed of the usual San Francisco mix: a college professor, an architect, and a collection of software engineers of various stripes. They were single-ish. Childless. Forty-ish. Well traveled. Charming. Between them they could speak eight languages. They were old enough to be semi-established … Continue reading It’s Complicated
I helped a friend last week as he was organizing his move from a one bedroom garden level apartment to a larger home. For the last decade he’s been gradually moving up the ladder from fresh-out-of-university to serious adult. Over lunch he introduced me to a new term as it related to my recent experience … Continue reading Yak Shaving in the Craft Room
Granola Shotgun 