Seeding Spartanburg

We’ve been talking a lot on the ole’ blog about buying organic to avoid pesticides and the costs associated with buying organic. Buying organic does cost more but I’ve found that because I’m cutting out more and more processed foods (the ‘stuff’ in the middle of the grocery store) my grocery bill has remained pretty [...]

Is This Crisis Good for America? Really enjoyed this piece from Time magazine by Kurt Andersen. Give it a read when you get a chance. t

Someone called me a 'fringe' liberal the other day because I speak out about hormones in our meat supply and my support of local agriculture "communes" which I can only assume is FARMS. I advocate for returning to and respecting the way our grandparents lived. Because our grandparents were crazy fringe liberals. Growing all those [...]

What a weekend this has been. On Friday, as I sat at work finishing up my sandwich, my cell phone buzzed. It was my Mom. I answered and she said, "I've fallen. I need you to come. I've called 911." "I'm on my way," I responded. Fortunately, my Mom lives just a few doors down [...]

Woooooooohooooooo. The Obamas are going to plant a veggie garden at the White House. The first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden. What a great message to send to America. I'm very excited about this…in case you didn't notice. You can read the article from the NY Times here. Y'all plan to [...]

I heard that our city manager, Mark Scott, quit today. He's going back to Cali. (make sure you click on that and play it as background music as you read my post). What? It's hard to believe that anyone would leave Spartanburg for Cali. Maybe he's as upset as I am that the downtown master plan [...]

Waste Awareness. (That's my new phrase.)  Interesting article on CNN today about how the recession has wrecked the recycling industry and how it is affecting municipalities. I've always been aware that our City loses it's tail on recycling but they still do it because I've heard Council say 'it is the right thing to do [...]

While most people know 4 of 13 doesn't constitute a quorum that's not the case here in Spartanburg. We needed Henry McMaster to tell us that. So yesterday, he did. Nope…4 of 13 isn’t a quorum. Thanks, man. The opening of Bob Dalton’s article in the SHJ today made me just about blow coffee through my nose. “Brown [...]

Great piece on 60 minutes tonight. SO awesome. Things are going to change y'all! People are realizing our food is hurting us! Alice Waters: Crusade for Better Food Love when Leslie Stahl asks her about people calling her an elitist and she says that she believes safe food is not a privilege but a right. [...]

Since my obsession with food safety and the dangers facing the public in regard to food began, our lives–in this house–have changed drastically. When I first wrote my piece "Deregulating ourselves to Death" last summer little did I know that our economy would fall because of deregulation of the banking industry and, although I used [...]