Comments on Cafe Irani: Farming Worthless Crops, Sitting Down

in defense of urban tractors?my grandad had a litt...

2008-07-30T00:11:00.000-04:00

in defense of urban tractors?

my grandad had a little kubota that was a bit more tractor than mower that we always rode and drove on his town property in monmouth.

after the family moved off the farm and became townfolk, they continued to grow corn, beans, tatoes, peppers, squash, pumpkins, grapes, apples and always flowers on their largish plot.

every fall we'd have a

Interestingly, those tractors used to have a lot o...

2008-07-23T15:05:00.000-04:00

Interestingly, those tractors used to have a lot of attachments that allowed one to do everything from rototilling to snowplowing--so they used to be a little more "agrarian" than the entry level ones are now. (I used to own one made in the 1950s or so....)

Have you ever read this piece by Michael Pollan on...

2008-07-22T07:56:00.000-04:00

Have you ever read this piece by Michael Pollan on lawns? Very entertaining.

Hillarious and poignant at the same time. I alway...

2008-07-20T19:01:00.000-04:00

Hillarious and poignant at the same time. I always wondered why those mowers looked like little tractors and now I understand. :)

I'm farming my dirt scab baby!

Oh yes, I shouted "Praise the Lord!" when I read t...

2008-07-20T13:05:00.000-04:00

Oh yes, I shouted "Praise the Lord!" when I read this! (yeah, deep in all my hippie animism, there's a little bit of charismatic hahha).

Well, yeah, that lawnmower warrior, eh? Acres and acres of lawn! Yeehaw! Please, I long for the day when people plant their own food on all that wasted land... or at least let it go to wildflowers. Or heck, let other neighbors less fortunate use the