Archive: Nov 2012

I confess. I’ve hopped on the bandwagon. I’d like to say I was doing this stuff before it was cool but that’s just not true… The Urban Homesteading thing has hooked me. Fermentation, urban bee keeping, wine making, foraging, and all types of DIY foodie projects…It’s fun stuff, it attracts the right kind of people,…

After much reading and deliberating, and more reading and some pondering, we have picked a winner for our Dinner with the Wild Things story contest.  It was a tough decision–there were a lot of fantastic, funny, quirky stories. But our winner, getting Dinner (for two) with the Wild Things on December 1st is: Louise Salitra, for this bittersweet tear-jerker: “Smoke and Fire; who knew that these two would save my family… Year 2000, July I’m driving down the same street i have driven done so many times before. On my way home after work – 17 years old, the road is blocked off and the street is filled with fire trucks, ambulance and spectators in pajamas. I see my home being swallowed by a blazing beast of flame and smoke. My eyes desperately look for my family members, sister-found, father (in a…