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A Sawyer’s Thanksgiving: In Gratitude for ERs, Post-hole Diggers and Stupid Luck
Dear Net Zero Enthusiasts: I must be the most unreliable blogger in all of Creation anyway, but today you might as well know why it’s been an unusually long stretch since you’ve heard from me. Let’s just put it this way—there are several immutable commandments woven...
My Grandparents Got Slaves As A Wedding Gift—How Could I Not Have Known?
John Pitney, my grandfather and founder of the Pitney Century Farm, was married to Elizabeth S. Wayland in Licking County, Ohio, Mar. 24, 1834. They were given negro slaves as a wedding gift and I was told a few years ago by Warren Hammonds (relatives in Fayette, Mo.)...
Oh Yum! Oh Yum!—We Know Where Our Food Comes From!
Several years ago, we were living in Eugene, Oregon and I was on the Board of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition. Under the direction of Megan Kemple (A bonafide Local Food Genius!) we started the Farm to School project for the schools and farms of Lane County. ...
Chargers and Hornets, Sweet Joseph, Oh My: Wallowa Or Bust!
(This is the fourth post in a series on our Electric Vehicle. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and...
Range Anxiety: We’ve Got An App for That!
(This is the third post in a series on our Electric Vehicle. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.)...
You’ll Get A Charge Out of This
(This is the second post in a series on our Electric Vehicle. Read Part 1 here.) We bought the...
What Ark Will You Build? Ours Is An Electric Vehicle
Portland (Oregon) writer David Oates thinks Noah had the right idea when he built the Ark. He...
The Water Song
**This is the 4th post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3***...
Building Our Own Private Wetland
**This is the 3rd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1 and Part 2*** Returning to...
How to Save 45,000 Gallons
**This is the 2nd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1*** Do you know how many...
Net-Zero Water: Capturing the Rain
In the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the...
Father of the Groom (and Brides)
This is the year of weddings for our family. Nephew Tim and Amanda got it started May 20 in Boise...
New Song: We Resist, We Build, We Rise
On April 29, with 200,000 others, I marched in the 2nd People’s Climate March in Washington DC to...
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