A parishioner friend introduced me to biodynamic vintning the other week. As I wasn’t copacetic on the matter, he spared my ignorance by immediately telling me what that means for wine drinkers. By way of definition from The Biodynamic Association, …

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Wow! Pope Francis is planning to release sometime this summer an encyclical on the environment. What an important voice to be heard… According to a tagline about it in today’s edition of the Baltimore Sun: “U. S. conservatives are attacking …

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On an city hike earlier today, we came upon this Station North urban farm where we spotted a bunch of hens (roosters are illegal), a coop, active bee hives and tilled land that surely had produced some agricultural products last growing season. …

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Folks- Seems like someone has thought of most anything to make and sell to someone else. This Solar Stained Glass Church Stake, which a dear friend gave me for Christmas for advising her some on the installation of solar panels …

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Today I’m posting about what to me is some recent environmental research of the unnerving sort. Ocean Acidification – global  warming’s “equally evil twin.” I’ve lately been reading New Yorker Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction,” published last year by …

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<< Here’s the cover photo from a website related to First Day Hikes. Pretty inviting, eh? Well, it’s not something those living in the Middle Atlantic region are going to see. But, here’s a possibility >> . Did I miss …

First Day Hikes. Did You Miss It? It Was Yesterday. Read more »