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Are Farmer's Markets Frugal or a Luxury?

Posted 6 weeks 1 day ago by Carrie Kirby

Food and Drink

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Are farmer's markets a luxury or a cost-saving measure? Read how foodies from all over the country compared the costs, and how my visit to the early-season Chicago-area market shaped up.

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Low-Carb: Less Carbon in Your Meals?

Posted 6 weeks 5 days ago by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

These days, it’s pretty much accepted practice to have a high carbon diet — the tomatoes in your salad may have ridden on a truck for days to get to you and the fish you’re grilling tonight may have caught a trans-Pacific flight to get to your table. We’re talking some pretty high carbon emissions just to make a meal.

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Poem on opting out

Posted 39 weeks 1 day ago by Philip Brewer

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Sunflowers

A while back I wrote a piece on Opting out of the money economy, a topic I've long been interested in. Because of that long interest, the poem "Getting By" by Gary L. Lark caught my ear when it was on the most recent Writer's Almanac.

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Opting out of the money economy

Posted 48 weeks ago by Philip Brewer

Filed Under: Personal Finance, Lifestyle

Boat on pond

It's a quirk of mine that I've always found the idea of opting out of the money economy to be interesting.

I've got a bunch of books on the topic. Books like Possum living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money and How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle.

It's mostly the idea that I find appealing. When I look at the details--the hard trade-offs involved--I find that I come up short of wanting to live that way. But there's a lot to learn from these people, their books, and their lifestyle.

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