I ran across the word “hefted” this week. Maybe you know it. “Hefted” refers to sheep that don’t need a fence because they don’t wander far from home. Since I decided it was a term I could use, as in, “I have invitations from friends to visit wonderful places but I stay at home like a hefted…
The Supreme Court’s Decision this week to remove campaign finance restrictions for corporations means the end of participatory democracy. The court’s ruling gives corporations the same free speech rights as people. As Stephen Colbert said in a sketch last October, “corporations do everything people do – except breathe, die, and go to jail for dumping…
The comments to this blog are so hard to find I decided to publish this one as a post. Thanks for reading our book and for finding it valuable! Thank you for your work, which has inspired us. I appreciate what you wrote about the third and a half world. I grew up with a…
Artificial Insemination in the Dairy Industry By edith elaine cummings dead? Every minute piece of life which itself must call a state submicroscopic is – compared with warm seen fluids a question unto itself a test of faith to take a frozen stick from boiling metal vessel cold cloudy climate creates fulsomeness and profession of…
Equity for women farmers and information about woman-owned farms from Farm World
Women farmers in Ohio share stories of facing discrimination near the farm OXFORD, Ohio — Stories of women farmers facing discrimination are many. Debra Bowles raises goats; years ago, she visited a feed store to ask for information about feed and nutrition. The men there, sitting on stools and eating peanuts, nearly laughed her out…
By Jane Lane This Sustainable Rural Living section of the Rural Womyn Zone website is in the process of being updated after a couple of years of neglect during what I call “my cancer year” and the year after it, while I regained my energy, my focus, and ability to do more than one thing…
“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.” – Mary Daly Mary Daly died January 3, 2010, at the age of 81. Full obituary in the National Catholic Reporter.
In order to cross the Plains, you have to take plenty of water and your own chemical toilet. The old folks regale youngsters with tales of peaceful towns and Main Street businesses and interstate cafes and truck stops.
According to a Washington Post article, the only doctor in a small West Texas town of 3,500 tells a stressed out mother “you’re doing the Lord’s work,” gives her a hug, and moves on to his next patient. We had a young lawyer like that one time. We couldn’t send victims of domestic violence to…
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