http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/ A sustainable and prudent living newsletter featuring news and web links. Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:08:04 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/146 FALL HAS FALLEN, SQUASH ARE RISING Bob's Note, October 2005 http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ KEEP READING for great ideas for storing and cooking winter Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:18:25 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/145 One of essential aspects of household sustainability is learning to eat with the season. It is also one of the hardest, given the way our just-in-time Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:18:24 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/144 I have just accepted an invitation to speak later this year to a group in north Texas that may be interested in starting a North Texas Food Cooperative "on the Sat, 04 Jun 2005 03:01:53 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/143 BUFFALO GYROS, HOME-MADE FLATBREADS, and LAUNDRY DETERGENT WITH HERBS http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ We had the good eats at our house tonight. Buffalo Wed, 25 May 2005 14:44:49 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/142 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/142 The Permaculture Activist magazine invited me to submit an article on "kitchen permaculture". If accepted, it will be published later this year. Below is my Wed, 25 May 2005 13:39:52 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/141 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/141 On Air Conditioning, Harvesting Garlic, MORE on macaroni and cheese, mulberry jam, and the first Nanking cherry. http://www.oklahomafood.coop This week's heat Wed, 25 May 2005 03:01:13 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/140 I have revised my Summer 2003 essay on coping with summer heat without air conditioning at http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/noacok.htm . Yes, we are Tue, 10 May 2005 20:33:12 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/139 FOREST GARDEN BLOG http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/2005garden.htm May 10, 2005 I plucked the first ripe mulberry today, well, it was purple but it wasn't Fri, 06 May 2005 04:56:08 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/138 GETTIN' THE RIGHT EATS:: Bob Waldrop's Oklahoma Food Blog From http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ GARDEN UPDATE This is sure a weird spring, lots of cool Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:21:17 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/137 ON GROUND MEAT PATTIES AND THE CONVENIENCE OF SLOW FLOOD http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ We had a simple, but very tasty, Sunday dinner. Ground buffalo Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:10:06 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/136 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/136 Riding the wild Dala Horse: community food security and the renewal of rural life By Robert Waldrop http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ Lindsborg, Kansas is Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:43:23 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/135 On Boxed Macaroni and Cheese, Cream of Mushroom Soup and a Secret Meeting at the Department of Agriculture http://www.oklahomafood.coop/bobsblog/ Today was a Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:47:35 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/134 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/134 This essay reports some interesting research on the value of buying local food to local economies. Robert Waldrop VOTE WITH YOUR FORK! Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:47:33 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/133 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/133 Big Garden Day! We spent all day today working on the garden. Hired 3 folks to help, plus two of us. We did a lot of clean up, and made two new beds out of Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:45:00 GMT Robert Waldrop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/132 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bettertimes/message/132 THERE AND BACK AGAIN: A local food visit to Grand Island, Nebraska, Being an account of my travels to the Rural Advantage Conference, with some thoughts on the