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For health, smarts and resilience, drink your beer

By Staff Reports | April 8, 2013

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Anybody interested in buying more food from local farmers and learning how to cook and preserve it at home knows that taking control of what goes in your mouth is a powerful way to get healthier. But if you're trying to eat more organic kale, more free-range eggs and more pastured beef, you may also be trying to cut back on booze to stiffen up that beer belly or shrink those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: beer, local food, resilience

The daily grind, Amish style

By Erik Curren | April 3, 2012

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For people who are into re-skilling and building household resilience, an essential source of non-electric and hand-cranked gadgets is Lehman's. With a store in Ohio's Amish country, Lehman's sells thousands of old-timey implements online for use in the kitchen, around the house and out in the garden. Lehman's is the place to go for canning jars and supplies as well as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Products Tagged With: baking, beer, bread, grain, Lehman's

If you don’t like civilization, please don’t blame it on beer

By Erik Curren | January 30, 2012

barley for beer

I like beer. But I'm not so sure how I feel about civilization these days. When I think that humans taking control of the Earth has killed whole seas, is melting permafrost and may just end the whole thing in a mushroom cloud of thermonuclear Armageddon, it doesn't make me want to enjoy a cold tumbler of a hoppy IPA. It makes me want to swig Gordon's Gin straight from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: beer, civilization, farming, Fertile Crescent

The Growler: Holiday drinkin’ guide

By Staff Reports | December 23, 2010

Arrogant Bastard Oaked

Hey, craft beer lovers! I don’t know about you but I can hardly believe 2010 is coming to an end. I find myself reflecting on what's been a rewarding but demanding year for me professionally and a bittersweet year personally. I look back at things lost and things gained, good-byes and hellos, and I realize I'm always a bit reflective at this time of year. This is of course … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Growler Tagged With: beer, Dec 2010, DIY, food, gifts, local economy, local food

The Growler: Getting crafty

By Staff Reports | December 1, 2010

Growler

Season’s greetings beer enthusiasts!  This inaugural edition of The Growler comes at an auspicious time. The increasing popularity of seasonal beers within the American craft beer industry offers a new range of taste choices. I'm excited to tell you more about them at the bottom of the column. Craft beer is the primary focus of The Growler, so you may be wondering – what is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Growler Tagged With: beer, cooking, craft beer, Dec 2010, DIY, food, local economy, local food, relocalization, the growler

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