Monthly Archives: May, 2010
Why I Don’t Fly
By Cam Mather After I had finished taping my latest podcast on “Two Beers With Steve” he was talking about being in Atlanta, and asked if I’d ever been there. I said, “No, I don’t travel.” There was a long pause as Steve tried to process the information. “You don’t travel. Oh.” Lots of people …
Winning the “Neighbour Lottery”
By Cam Mather When Michelle and I bought our place in the woods 12 years ago we won the neighbor lottery. We really lucked out. Anyone who reads my stuff knows how often Ken and Alyce Gorter are mentioned. That’s because they are a big part of our lives. They are our nearest neighbors even …
Breaking Records Isn’t Always a Good Thing
By Cam Mather I’m in “August Heatwave Mode” in the garden right now. I get up at 5:30 am and work in the garden until about 10 am, at which time it is too hot to work out there. The normal average temperature in Ontario where I live in May is about 19°C (66°F). On …
“A” Plan First, “Plan B” Second
By Cam Mather It’s a bad thing when the events of the day leave you feeling demoralized. I feel pretty helpless as I watch the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s heartbreaking to watch the reactions of the people who make their living in that environment. The engineers who built this technological wonder …
A Podcast on “Two Beers With Steve”
By Cam Mather I did a podcast last week on “Two Beers With Steve”. This is a very cool website where Steve chats with people who have an alternative view on reality, or at least provide information that’s not always readily available from the mainstream media. He and his guests discuss topics such as peak …
Fear of Snakes is in Our DNA
By Cam Mather You’re probably thinking that this post has nothing to do with renewable energy or independence, at least not in the usual sort of way. Bear with me and you’ll realize that it does relate…. after all, those topics are what I write about. On the weekend I was moving around some old …
Welcome to Our Nursery (Plant Nursery, that is)
By Michelle Mather I think one of the reasons that people are enjoying Cam’s new book “The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook” is because Cam doesn’t pretend to be some sort of expert when it comes to organic vegetable gardening. He doesn’t have a Ph.D. in plant biology…. he’s just a guy who has …
A “Glitch in the Matrix”
By Cam Mather Last week I think we saw a chink in the armor of the mainstream media and their portrayal of the true state of the world economy. The one hour 1,000 point plunge in the DOW was a pretty significant event and it seemed to rattle my close personal friend Brian Williams of …
Mother Nature Fights Back
By Cam Mather “You want oil, I’ll give you oil!” I read this quote on a blog last week and can’t remember where, but I think it’s a pretty good description of the catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s like Mother Nature has said “I’ve had enough of your insistent drilling and …
Growing Your Own and A Special Offer
By Cam Mather We posted the following article last year on April 18, but now that we have so many more readers and subscribers, I thought it was timely to take another look at it. Of course, we’ve since published a whole book on growing vegetables organically which is available here; http://aztext.com/howtoorder.cfm We also have …
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