September 17th, 2011 | Blog, Stories & News, Catskills, craniosacral, garden, personal
It’s been a while since I did a general update — things have been pretty crazy so there is a lot to tell. We just got back from a trip to the Catskills where Hella Delicious was born four years ago and most of my cooking videos were shot. It’s always great to go back–so nice to only have the sounds of nature buzzing in your ears. It was shocking to see the devastation caused by the flooding going on all over the East Coast, and gave me a different way to think about water, as well as a reminder of the terrible effect on our health caused by moldy conditions. Since it was so wet all kinds of mushrooms had popped up all over the place. We weren’t there for long, but had a chance to get some nice photos and take a midnight hike in the full moon up to the burial grounds of our old trailer home, which was squashed in the snowmageddon NY had a couple years ago. We still have 15+ more recipes filmed from our time there — just haven’t had the time to edit them! Embarrassingly enough we also have 5 more episodes of Mouth of Babes to edit as well.
May 19th, 2011
St. John's Wort, Yarrow, Vetch, Ox-eye Daisy, Plantain, Milkweed, Thistle, Joe Pie Weed, Bluet, Rose and many more potent and helpful herbs abound in the alpine meadows of the famous pristine Catskills of New York.
Having the opportunity to get to know these friendly herbs in this wild environmen ...
December 1st, 2009
BUY THIS: USA/Canada :: Europe
Yarrow was traditionally used for casting oracles with the help of the I Ching, otherwise known as the Book of Changes. 50 stalks are used, one is put aside and the rest are counted and sorted six times, building up the hexagram. Yarrow has been connected with s ...
November 5th, 2009
I recently read a book I have been waiting a while to get my hands on. Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen. I first read Derrick Jensen's work in 2006 when we moved to Neversink in the Catskills, among the reservoirs that supply New York City with its world renowned water. ...
August 12th, 2009
This hardworking beaver didn't notice us quietly fishing as he worked furiously on his dam. According to wikipedia:
The North American beaver population was once more than 60 million, but as of 1988 was 6–12 million. This population decline is due to extensive hunting for fur, for glands used a ...
August 5th, 2009
This slideshow takes us through the whole cycle of life including the birth in spring of twin bambis. We even get a look at deer droppings as well as deer eating. These cycles of life are unavoidable, death is as inevitable as birth, it is ultimately counter-productive to try to sterilize this reali ...
June 4th, 2009
Yarrow, Vetch, Ox-eye Daisy, Plantain, Milkweed, Thistle, Joe Pie Weed, Indian Pipe, Bluet, Rose and many more potent and helpful herbs abound in the alpine meadows of the famous pristine Catskills of New York.
Having the opportunity to get to know these friendly herbs in this wild environment ha ...
August 11th, 2008
It was our friend's birthday, he was just getting into fly-fishing and arranged for us to do a day float down the East Branch of the Delaware river, which is a great place to fly fish for brown trout.
We rented canoes from Al's Sport Store, made sure we got some sandwiches and beers from a lo ...
April 4th, 2008
Recipe here Potato salad is extra tasty when the potatoes are homegrown. In fact, commercially grown potatoes are full of chemicals and best to avoid. It also feels wonderful to dig your fingers into the earth and pull out a potato. This is a malleable, open-source recipe, do as you will.
Mus ...
November 12th, 2007
Continued from here.
We went on a trip to Cleveland in September, just when the first cold and misty weather-change hit the Catskills. The deer, worried winter was coming early, and glad to find my garden unattended with the open invitation of a fence that only went half way 'round, quickly gorge ...
