Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

$9 blew my mind. Thank you, dead chicken, for feeding me so deliciously.

In Virginia, I meet Joel Salatin for a rare personal sermon/tour of Polyface, the farm that’s changing agriculture in the 21st century.

Travel doesn’t have to be expensive–or even scary. Here’s how I saw Manhattan for the grand sum of ten dollars. (Featuring The Navigator!)

How a group of artists created a sustainable life on the waterways of New York–and what we can learn from their shortcomings.

Yesterday I told you all about Farmer John’s struggle to save his family’s farm and preserve his unique identity (The Real Dirt on American Counterculture: How Farmer John made ideals come true).
From a family farm, the place has grown a lot. These days, Angelic Organics does a lot of education, from on-farm training to urban [...]

I left something out of my previous post: two photos, featuring the young man who won the Chicken Shit Bingo game. Thought you’d enjoy them.
Happy 4th of July! It doesn’t get more American than this:

Chicken Shit Bingo is pretty straightforward. As a matter of fact, once your eyes adjust to the dimness of Ginny’s Little Longhorn Saloon, you pretty much can’t miss the game.
The bar is small, hot, and packed with Lone-Star-sippin’ Texans. Directly inside the entrance is a pool table with a bitchin’ NASCAR lamp hanging above it, [...]

Catherine Gockley, owner of Fire Mountain Farm and Apiary, didn’t start out as a farmer. She didn’t even start out wanting to be a farmer. But once she sets her mind to things, they get done: having decided to become a grower later in life, she spent ten years learning and working to reach her [...]