by emily on December 10, 2011
Welcome back to another episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast! Today I won’t be focusing on one particular topic. I will camp around our homestead update for a few minutes, but the bulk of this show is going to be “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” What will I be telling about? The joy of [...]
by emily on October 29, 2011
Do you live in a green house? Wish that you did? Me, too! And Jerry, Benjamin and I will eventually. So to find out what truly constitutes “green”, I’ve done a lot of digging in the area of alternative building during the past year or so. This Weird Is Great episode is a culmination of [...]
by emily on October 8, 2011
What questions should you ask when buying land? Particularly, raw land? If you listened to the last episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast, you heard about how our dream is beginning to come alive: we are about to purchase five acres of raw land in the beautiful mountains of Southeast Oklahoma. Talk about healthy [...]
by emily on October 5, 2011
The title says it all. To get all the details, tune in to this week’s “Weird Is Great” episode!
by emily on August 1, 2011
In the overall scheme of things, a plan for healthy living must include not only good care of yourself, but of the environment as well. Creating a backyard wildlife habitat can actually help enrich your life, as well as that of various other animals. Humans don’t live in a vacuum, but in conjunction with many [...]
by emily on July 21, 2011
The problem with learning how to start a vegetable garden is that most of the books make it sound worse than getting a root canal. So you begin the process – if you begin at all – with fear and trepidation, just knowing that if you make one slip all your hard work will go [...]
by emily on April 4, 2011
The word “survivalist” often conjures up pictures of a man with a long beard living in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere living on weeds and bear meat, and who has little trust for anyone, especially anyone who belongs to the mainstream culture. Being rather counter-cultural myself, I can understand this. My main [...]
by emily on March 29, 2011
Healthy living is essential to living a full, happy life. But what exactly does it mean? Many people think of it in terms of right diet and enough exercise. But even that is vague and a source of great controversy. Is eating meat essential to health, or is it a sure path to cancer and [...]