Like many folks, I took health and well-being for granted in my younger years, and being raised in the middle-class American Midwest, I took many “modern necessities” for granted, as well; frozen dinners, soda pop, all manner of automated gadgetry to make life ostensibly either easier or more convenient.
As it turns out, a lot of [...]
These are the questions that first came to mind when wondering about MCS and how it affected Peter’s life. If you have additional questions you’d like me to ask him, I bet he’d be happy to expand on the information here. He relays many personal experiences here, and and gives good advice.
In an upcoming post, [...]
Good morning, everyone. It seems many of my readers (and many of the bloggers I follow) are increasingly concerned with reducing the amount of chemicals in their lives.
This gave me the idea of interviewing my friend, Peter Haynes, who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS,) a severe reaction to chemicals in his environment that may somewhat [...]
Today was the day for the much-anticipated cow share farm visit at Our Farm & Dairy. It’s gorgeous and sunny out, completely, spectacularly beautiful at a balmy 18 degrees F. Fortunately, Mike’s mom got me some CuddleDuds for Christmas, and wowsers – these things are warm. I could probably turn the heat in the house [...]
“When farmers are going broke, it’s wrong to expect them to reform the system,” asserts Wendell Berry in an interview with The Sun, “In fact, there are too few actual farmers left to reform anything… Reform is going to have to come from consumers. Industrial agriculture is an urban invention, and if agriculture is going [...]