Mashable has a great post on some job tips for looking for work in a recession. I especially like the last bit for inspiration. It shows 14 famous companies that started in a recession. good stuff.

Check out Adam, who is blogging about trying to stay in a $50 a week food budget. Interesting stuff.

Common misconceptions surround the slow food and sustainable movement. Many people claim that they would like to eat better, more ethically, more sustainably but can't afford it.

News that organic food prices were falling a bit inspired Siobhan Phillips to try an experiment. Her story is detailed in Salon. Though it was not without effort and it took new thinking- The experiment was quite successful. She shopped only at places that would take food stamps, and she set her monthly budget for the food stamp allocation set for her community.

                                    I think I'm going back to Gramma's method of drying clothes, but even she loved the invention of the dryer.

The “Square Foot” Container Garden

OK. What I am going to introduce to you is some square foot gardening things that I have been doing. My wife and I homeschool and one of the things we started was to begin a “square foot garden” as promoted by Mel Bartholomew. I originally built a two-foot by two-foot container garden so it was easy to demonstrate square foot methods at homeschool presentations. However during practical use in the back yard it would dry out quickly.