Dusty Dirt "Off The Grid"

The lights are out but everyone's home

It kinda sucks but it beats being alone 

In the dark, in the dark, in the dark.

Some one forgot to pay the bill but

That's okay we can still sing and play 

Our guitars, our guitars, sing and play 

Our guitars, our guitars.

The power's out we're living Off The Grid

Southern California Edison doesn't care if you have kids

Go get the batteries and candles we're Off The Grid

Let's steal some turbines and solar panels

Harvest the sun and wind

We aint got no electricity but that's okay cuz you me

got everything we need in our hearts, in our hearts

Life without modern technology

The only light that that we can see is the moon and the stars,

The moon and the stars, the moon and the stars

The power's out we're living Off The Grid

Southern California Edison doesn't care if you have kids

Go get the batteries and candles we're Off The Grid

Let's steal some turbines and solar panels

Harvest the sun and wind

Dirt! The Movie Trailer

This is a documentary film coming out soon called "Dirt!The Movie". It is based on a book by William Bryant Logan called "Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth". I haven't read it and probably won't because I don't have that kind of attention span but this movie looks pretty cool so I'll probably watch it a few times.

First Pick: Radishes, Atmospheric Nitrogen Chart, Sharedearth.com

We just picked these Radishes yesterday. It's the first to finish growing in the garden. 

That shit grew fast only took about a month. I hadn't made anything with radishes, 

ever so we found a simple recipe where you just fry them for a minute in butter and 

put it on bread, I didn't know radishes could taste so good.

A lot more stuff is growing and almost ready to pick. Today and this weekend
we'll be working on our mulch pit system and planting mostly Legumes so we
can get some nitrogen flowing through the soil.

I found this cool little thing about Nitrogen...

This is a new social networking site for gardeners offering to share land for people
to grow food or people looking for a place to grow. I haven't signed up yet
but probably will.

http://sharedearth.com

It's actually kind of sad. there is a lot of people on this site but when you look
at Socal there's only a few spots in LA. Kinda shows how many people don't
give a fuck about growing food.

“Establishing a Food Forest (the Permaculture Way series)"

A few months back I was researching about gardening and I stumbled on a blog somewhere that had a link to this documentary  film by Permaculturist Geoff Lawton. I had never heard of Permaculture before but the other part of the title was "Establishing a Food Forrest" and that sounded interesting. So I watched it and at first it was a little boring because it was about 20 minutes of lecturing. In the last 10 minutes or so of the lecture it starts to pick up when he talks about layering systems in a food forest.

Then it get's really cool when he takes you out into his food forest and explains what it's really all about. I was glued to the screen the whole time. It actually made the idea of having a garden way more exciting to me. So I give this film a 10 out of 10. It is very informative and I think anyone who likes gardening should see it.

Acoustic Gypsy/Blues Jam Session 4-8-2010

This is Me, Brent, Brandon, Brian and Alex jamin' out on the porch.