1001 rules for my unborn son

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June 2013

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HAVE YOU TRIED THE SHUFFLE BUTTON?

rulesformyunbornson:

(it’s up in the top left corner)

Jun 18, 2013119 notes
“So many of the good ones are gone. Be the new good ones.” —Danny Frank Ocean
Jun 16, 2013530 notes

May 2013

15 posts

570. Never buy a car at night.

(via Mr. Rick Tucker)

May 21, 2013104 notes
May 20, 201387 notes
GAINING GROUND

Thanks for all the great responses to our GAINING GROUND GIVEAWAY! We’ll be sending out a few signed copies of Forrest’s great book to some very lucky winners.  Rakdad provided the best, albeit unprintable, caption. Suffice to say it had something to do with cigs not stunting the growth of a part of the anatomy, represented by a certain domesticated fowl. 

And if you are interested in a great summer read, consider heading over to  that big bookstore in the sky and purchase your own copy of Forrest Pritchard’s memoir Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm.  You can also follow Forrest on Twitter or on his blog at Smithmeadows.com. 

May 20, 201321 notes
569. If you find yourself just scratching out a living, at least be the best hen in the pen.
May 17, 2013124 notes
May 16, 2013346 notes
568. You can spare us the photograph of your meal.
May 16, 2013249 notes
567. Eat fewer ingredients.
May 16, 2013120 notes
566. It's not a yard sale. You don't bargain at the farmer's market.
May 15, 2013142 notes
May 15, 2013202 notes
FARMERS WANTED!

When I was growing up in the burbs, my family grew exactly two things. Onion grass, which I was instructed to pull by hand on sweltering Saturday mornings and pile high into a rusty wheelbarrow, and mint, which grew in a huge bush beside the garage. And on warm summer nights, my dad would send me out to pick a few fresh mint leaves that he would promptly dunk into his gin and tonic(s).

My gardening skills never progressed beyond a patio tomato plant on a New York rooftop. But I think famers are swell, and no food taste quite as good as food you grow yourself. 

Does anyone have any good rules, tips, or advice about farming, gardening, or growing food? Send them my way, I’d love to share. We could all use a green thumb.

May 15, 201360 notes
May 15, 201377 notes
“Don’t treat your soil like dirt. A field is like a reputation…it takes a lifetime to build a good one, and an instant to ruin it.” —Forrest Pritchard, farmer. (and author of GAINING GROUND: A Story of Farmers Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm)
May 15, 2013117 notes
May 13, 2013291 notes
565. Real men have green thumbs.
May 13, 2013135 notes
“If I’ve learned anything from television, it’s that you can’t trust a genie.” —Simon Rich, Elliot Allagash
May 7, 2013118 notes

April 2013

3 posts

564. Keep smiling, and they'll never see you coming.
Apr 29, 2013375 notes
Apr 29, 2013118 notes
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” —Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
Apr 8, 20133,188 notes
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