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This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. “Ut sementem feceris, ita metes: non semper erit aestas.”

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A city girl who realized upon the birth of her daughter that life is entirely too short to spend on 1/12th of an acre, El now digs up her weeds (usually with a pick) on 5.

That’s the quick story.

The slow story is rather boring copy. Let’s just say I’m a DIY kind of gal. I’m an architect, but I would really rather be a farmer. I guess I take the DIY notion fairly seriously in that I moved our family out to a farm for the love of fresh vegetables:  getting organic ones at the store or through a CSA wasn’t good enough for me!  Our household is a creative one; it’s an old farmhouse that’s full of books, smells of home cooking, sounds like a library, feels a little chilly (that is what sweaters and socks are for), and is in general a comfortable, bright place. I share the farm with my artist husband, our inquisitive six-year-old daughter, a couple pampered housepets, a flock of coddled yard birds, and darling dairy goats.

We’re striving to live lightly on this earth. Our combined interests include permaculture, intensive food gardening, orcharding and viniculture, food preservation, poultry, home dairying, and simple, earnest food. Our methods are slow but our outlook is long.

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    "At the onset of lactation any animal mother's body starts channeling everything she eats into what is not just "nature's perfect food" but nature's ONLY food for a newborn navigating the complex early stages of growth and development. Of course, nature never meant this precious substance to enter the outside world. IT'S WORTH RE-EMPHASIZING THAT MILK AS IT EMERGES FROM THE NIPPLE IS AS MUCH A LIVING FLUID AS BLOOD, DESIGNED TO GO FROM THE MOTHER'S MAMMARY SYSTEM TO THE INFANT'S DIGESTIVE SYSTEM WITH NO DETOURS. Once it is sidelined into a pail or a tank, its major components begin undergoing multiple interactions with the forces of irreversible chemical change." [emphasis mine]

    --Anne Mendelson, MILK: The surprising story of milk through the ages. New York: Knopf, 2008, p. 63.

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