It’s always tricky to find the right situations in which you get to play with rocket stoves. Symbiosis Ranch, in Mt Pleasant, MI, is going to be that right such situation. This June we’ll be installing a batch box design in their Aircrete Dome. I’ll be teaching a 2-day workshop , June 27 & 28, …
Author Archives: Milton
Experimental
This site is experimental. I don’t always, or perhaps ever, know or do the right thing. What I do know is that I am committed to being a part of the place where I live. I am committed to this project called life. We are all ever increasing our awareness. As we grow and change …
GLPDC Podcast #5
A new podcast is out. This time we’re talking about plant families. Rhonda was away at the Tracker School (I think), so we kept on going without her. It was shorter than we were shooting for but that’s OK, I think I’m very interested to see where we’ll be as the podcast matures. We’re getting …
Bird Language
Watch this excellent description of bird language. Expand your awareness.
Connect to the Ground
I see the need in my personal development to research different ways of walking and connecting to the ground. Here are some of the avenues I’m looking into right now. Fox-walking Tai Chi Yoga Barefoot Running Changing the way I walk after ~40 years of practice is not going to be easy. We’ll see where …
Only In Your Mind
GLPDC Podcast
A podcast, you say! Yes, with William Faith and Rhonda Baird. Much potential there. I sense that we have the ability to take permaculture somewhere with this. Certainly this is a new environment for us, as permaculturists we’re going to start with a little observation and interaction. The potential I see is that it is …
Nice Knowing You
Monster truck pirates = end times.
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Another book, this time from my childhood. How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen, by Russel Hoban and Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Very British, a boy who likes to fool around tries to avoid mutton and cabbage sog and reading off pages of the nautical almanac. I read it to my kids, you …
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When I Was Eight
Having young children I get the opportunity to read many different picture books. It’s a different experience then a book of only words, there’s a simplicity of story that I find I like. It’s like a storyteller sitting round the fire. When I Was Eight, by Christy Jordan-Fenton (Author), Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (Author), Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator) is …