Author Archive
WaPo RSS Feed Truncation and Fix
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The Washington Post has seen fit to truncate its RSS feed to only an excerpt, and that requires you to now open the story in a web browser. It’s a monetization issue; we get that. But it’s quite frustrating for those of us who have developed a reading (and [...]
Fenty Declines GOP Nom
‘DC’s Mayor Adrian Fenty’courtesy of ‘Sprezzatura Images’
On Friday, Mayor Fenty declined the Republican nomination for Mayor stating that “While I am humbled by the nomination, I will not accept it.” He pledged his support to work with Chariman Gray. Fenty won the Republican nomination with 822 write-in votes. It is unknown how many Republicans and [...]
Getting Started with Community Supported Agriculture
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"Bull Run Farm Greenhouse"courtesy of "boboroshi"
Making your own Victory Garden isn’t for everyone. It may be that you live in an apartment or you simply don’t have time to do your own gardening, or perhaps you are a serial killer of plants from the garden center. Regardless, this does not prohibit you from joining [...]
Be Prepared: It’s Not Just for Boy Scouts Anymore
‘The gear’
courtesy of ‘robinvanmourik’
As we’ve come out of the frozen tundra of the Snowfecta, we might think “oh thank goodness winter is over and we won’t have to worry about a blizzard for a while.” While you may be right in that regard, we’d be missing the larger point: A lot of people were not [...]
Class Review: Deer Hunting for Locavores
‘Field Butchering’
courtesy of ‘boboroshi’
I’ve been following Jack Landers’ blog for quite a while now, enjoying his mix of politics, firearms and hunting. Last fall he started offering a class for locals in Charlottesville about locavore hunting: those who want to get their food locally in a sustainable manner. The ultimate in free-range, no hormone or [...]
