Hello to July

I’ve been working on other, related blogs since late last summer, but now I think I’d like to bring this one back again. You may have been referred here by one of my other writing sites, either Peasant Fare or Urbiculture. Peasant Fare is the blog for business ventures that have to do with cooking and gardening. I think about broader issues to do with living online and off-grid in Urbiculture. And Greens and Beans is driven by ideas about food these days, though it had a somewhat broader focus when I started it. The inspiration for all of this was the decision to let my academic life lapse and indulge my love of cooking, gardening, and proselytizing.

I’m in Richmond, Virginia, these days. I’m gardening and worm farming, occasionally selling at farmer’s markets. I have a part-time job in an independent neighborhood cafe, baking scones and cookies, pouring coffee, washing dishes. I’ve been pretty broke since last December, when I moved here. The bottom fell out of the economy at a bad time for me, and for the first time in my life I’ve been unable to support myself with temp work. But with a few pickup jobs and the support of friends and family I’ve made it through the roughest patch, I hope.