At last September’s Mother Earth News Fair I had the good fortune of meeting and sharing a condo with author, Deborah Niemann, and her husband.  They drove to Pennsylvania from Illinios, and brought with them homemade goat cheese and stories of life on their thriving homestead.  I asked Deborah if she would write a post for [...]

A few weeks ago I was on Skype with Meg Stout going through some changes to the Aquaponics Association website.  Meg asked me if I had ever heard of the United Nation’s World Water Day.  No, I hadn’t.  She said that it was a day set aside every year by the Food and Agriculture Organization [...]

This was a noteworthy week in our household – we officially turned off our TV.  I can’t claim that it was a noble political statement, nor can I claim that it was an effort to spend more time together as a family playing games and reading.  The real reason why we shut it off is [...]

I’ve been doing several radio interviews a week for the past few weeks to promote my new book, Aquaponic Gardening.  Radio interviews are usually fun because they are essentially conversations with very personable people about my favorite subject!  Most of the hosts have read the book and they generally ask thought-provoking questions, especially around the [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of radio interviews lately to promote my new book, Aquaponic Gardening.  While they’ve mostly been local public radio stations, and aquaponics has been the star of the show, last week’s interview was different.  It was my first shot at National Public Radio.  My excitement at this quickly turned to nervousness [...]