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The Farmer Within   17 comments

Tomorrow morning, I’m taking a road trip up to Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound to visit the first farm I worked on. I started working there back in the summer of 2009 and have been farming in some capacity or another ever since, though with a couple winter breaks. It’s a bit amazing to [...]

Posted May 22, 2012 by Joel Caris in Farming, Meta, Gardening

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Failing Others   8 comments

I suppose it’s inevitable, but there are times when you hurt people you care about. I did that recently with a post that was on this blog for a few days before being taken down. I didn’t mean to hurt those whom I did with that post. But I should have had a better sense [...]

Posted April 5, 2012 by Joel Caris in Meta

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A New Year’s Plan: Death, Poverty and the Household Economy   14 comments

Predicting the Future As we move into 2012, my plans both for my life and this blog are beginning to take better form. As I wrote in my post on returning home, I am settling into this area—Nehalem, on the northern Oregon coast—and, for the first time since 2009, staying in a particular place for [...]

Posted January 8, 2012 by Joel Caris in Considerations of Death, Encounters, How To Be Poor, Meta, The Household Economy

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A Hiatus   Leave a comment

I made a mistake. I started a blog in the midst of summer, while farming, and while perilously close to–at least temporarily–hitting a physical and emotional wall. Surveying my life, I’m now realizing that I can’t keep updating this blog for the moment. Life is a bit busy and stressful at the moment, both with [...]

Posted August 22, 2011 by Joel Caris in Meta

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