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Meece Beans

November 19, 2020 by Kate Walter

We are moving into winter gardening now, our first killing frost last night, a little over a week before Thanksgiving this year in north central Virginia.  November rains settling the dead vegetation had seemed only to encourage the flowers and hardy vegetables that continued to greet us with color and friendly bites to eat; it…READ MORE >

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When the Earth is Sick

August 27, 2020 by Kate Walter

Corn fields in the heartland, toxic to wildlife

Since the spring flooding in the Missouri/Mississippi watershed, I have been haunted by an image I saw as a televised news flash: a farmer, a clean-cut white man in work clothes, standing on sorely cracked red clay ground. The news story was about flooding, from the picture we were to see that the farmer lost…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, Sustainability Tagged With: coronavirus, health, illness, organic, pandemic

My Virtual Coffee House Show

August 9, 2020 by Kate Walter

Back in the day, when my friends and I were young and eager to be out sharing poetry and music, the coffeehouse beckoned. Public, legitimate, no age limits, no alcohol licensing requirement, coffee houses in the Chicago area often had a stage as well, many with hours scheduled for drop in performers on the “Open…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Art, Articles, Education, Food, History, Painting, Small Business

In These Times – A Window for Healthy Changes

April 26, 2020 by Kate Walter

I remember one day in a Waldorf school in a big city where I worked as a class teacher, finding my way down long hallways and flights of stairs to a basement room, with a door, that held a couch, a bookshelf, and a small table with coffee supplies. A colleague was sitting on the…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, Education, Farming, History

SPRING while homebound

March 23, 2020 by Kate Walter

  The daffodils are in full bloom, and that means it is time to get the garden ready to plant. Some weeks ago Michael tilled leaves into the beds of rich red clay that we are enticing along on the journey to rich brown humus.  Then he hauled wheelbarrow load upon wheelbarrow load of compost…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty, Conservation, Education, Farming, Food, Gardens, Horse

Innovative Saddler in Virginia – Tad Coffin Performance Saddles

March 6, 2020 by Kate Walter

A help wanted post on Craigslist piqued my interest. I hadn’t thought of saddle making, but then I didn’t know that not many miles from our place, just west of Ruckersville, Virginia,  there was a saddle manufacturing shop. I pictured sewing machines like the oily industrial stitcher in the neighborhood shoe repair shop when I…READ MORE >

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by Michael Wright

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

Beechnuts

Each morning on the way to the barn we walk under the hanging limbs of the great beech tree that stands by the corner of our house. Names and dates carved long ago on the smooth, gray trunk are dark and distorted, barely legible. The tremendous number of beechnuts that grow on a tree this…READ MORE >

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