Comments on: What Not to Eat

By: Sheila Mayberry

Sheila Mayberry — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:17:39 +0000

Awsome article. I have been converting myself. I have raised chickens for the last 2 years. Living in the city and working full time gets into the ways of my plans but I am getting there. Faster now that my daughter is pregnant. She plans on raising a totally organic baby. She is going to breastfeed then switch the baby to raw goats milk and make her own baby food. I get upset that people are so misinformed about food. You say raw milk and everyone thinks OMG you are killing yourself. REALLY??? What do they think people did hundreds of years ago. I had one girl tell me she wouldnt eat my eggs cause they came out of a chickens butt. People are so removed from food that its insane. So keep you blog going, keep telling it like it is and maybe people will start to listen to we the people instead of we the government.

By: Gail

Gail — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:43:17 +0000

Do you know much about foraging?—-gathering herbs, etc. for teas and health reasons? Or anywhere to get that info? Would love to take a course on that, or recieve some mentoring.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:22:32 +0000

Love this post. So true. Just moved to the country and now gotta start getting more self sufficient from our land and away from the one stop shop.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:06:57 +0000

Just came back to your site after a few years. And I just read Micheal Pollan’s Food Rules and went to a local Farm and Food Confrence. I love your D.E.S. diet and am moving towards that as fast as I can. All in all I think you’re pretty awesome and a true role model!

By: Athena

Athena — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:15:02 +0000

Awesome blog. So refreshing to read a blog from someone who is so similar to how I am as well. Glad to have come across your world.

By: geo35

geo35 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:37:25 +0000

I have a favorite scene from a movie where Meg Ryan says to Tom Hanks, “My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, EVERYBODY you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake… and they live in a state of constant, total amazement.”

It’s always nice to be reading things from people who are wide awake.

By: starbadger

starbadger — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:53:49 +0000

I am in general so in agreement but reading about your current approach to chickens not 100% – instead of buying the dual purpose breed if you want an even better fryer – buy the males of an egg layer – leghorn or in ontario – shaver whites – these birds can fly – ieit nstead of those movable cages – built a roast or some trees they can nest in -

They can fly and that alone makes them taste more like pheasant – ask Shannon about this – you can let the Animals be wild – esp pigs – but let them grow to 300-pounds or more of hard body pig

You’re doing just fine already -

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:00:20 +0000

DES – so wise – so well spoken.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:20:05 +0000

I’m all about the slow food. Ive been working towards your diet for a while now but it’s taking longer to convert the hubby. I am a CSA share-holder, frequent the local Farmers’ Markets and try to buy meat from local farms either at the Co-op, Market or straight from the farmer. We just got four chickens of our own for eggs and next year I plan to till up the front yard and plant a garden in the whole thing. Anyway, I really enjoy your site and plan to be back soon!

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:06 +0000

amen, sister!! i drank unpasteurized whole milk from the time i got off the teat until i left the farm at age 18. we raised or hunted our meat (i am a psuedo-veg now probably because of it… i feel if a person eats meat he/she should be prepard to kill it themselves ~ i lost the nerve a long time ago). anyways, thanks for that. it helped to reinforce my food goals for myself and my family.