Sunday May 1: Talking and signing at Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle. 1 PM
Sunday May 1: Talking and signing at the Vashon Island Land Trust Building, 10014 SW Bank Rd, Vashon, WA 98070. 7 PM.
Monday, May 2: Talking and signing at The University Place-Pierce County Library, 7 PM
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| US Department of Energy |
Our highly unscientific till vs. no-till poll results are in:
17% of you said you till
43% of you don’t till
23% of you double-dig
15% are undecided
Looks like most of you fall into the permacultural no-till camp.
For more information on no-till ag see the no-till section of our publisher Rodale’s website.
Meanwhile, we’re on our book tour of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Check out our schedule here and we hope to meet all you all!
This Friday, April 29, we’ll be talking and signing at Book Passage in Corte Madera: 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 30th, we’re gathering for a forage at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco. It’s supposed to be a pretty day. Bring drinks, and we’ll gather a salad to share. Feel free to bring more food, your guide books, gathering implements, things to sit upon, and most especially, any local knowledge you have. Very casual. Meet up at the lookout point. 12 noon.
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| Amtrak ain’t this grand, but it’s a lot better than flying! Photo via the Library of Congress. |
We’re headed up to Northern California, Oregon and Washington to promote our new book Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
One word: dignity. With train travel:
I could rant about the superiority of rail travel at length but Archdruid John Michal Greer sums it up better than I can in a blog post, “Too Much Energy?” No more flightmares for the Root Simple team!
See a list of our appearances here.
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| An excuse for another kitten photograph |
It’s the release day for Making It
First, we want to say again how much we enjoyed reading all of your tips. They are excellent, without exception, and should be compiled into a book or something. We’re pondering on some way to highlight that post so that future readers can find the tips.
Second, we’re glad we don’t have to choose among them–because that would be impossible.
So we went to an online random generator and asked it to generate 2 numbers between 1 and 203.
It came up with 42 and 119.
(Yes, 42! This delights Kelly’s inner geek. Erik doesn’t know why it delights her.)
Then we counted the comments, grumbling over the fact they are not numbered. Twice.
And the winners are:
42:
Rachel said…
Birds will not peck at the same fruit/vegetable they pecked yesterday. They’ll go for a new piece every time!
119:
Tina said…
I like making stock out of veges that are not going to get eaten and then freezing them. I make it concentrated so that the stock doesnt take up much room in freezer.
So Tina and Rachel, congrats! If you’ll both email [email protected] with your shipping addresses, we’ll send you a book. Please write soon, or you’ll have to wait for your books until we get back from our tour.
And for the rest of you, thanks for entering, and don’t worry! We’ll be doing more giveaways in the months to come.
