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Dear Folks: August 25, 1996
Dear Folks, August is one of the best months around here. The nights are cool, the days are warm and sunny. (Since I bragged to you last month about all the rain we were getting, we’ve hardly had a drop.) Morning fogs signal that the nights are lengthening and the soil cooling — by October it can take till 11 in [...]
Dear Folks: July 28, 1996
Dear Folks, Well, if we could just average together last year and this year, we’d end up with two terrific growing seasons.
Every Saturday morning I empty the rain gauge on our garden gate and write the week’s accumulation on the calendar in the kitchen. Last summer the readings went like this — 0” – 0” – 1/2” – 0” – 0” [...]
Competition Comes to Your Electric Company
By Donella Meadows
–June 27, 1996–
The airlines were deregulated, and we got lower prices on popular routes, higher prices on all other routes, a weakened government oversight system and a Valujet crash.
The phone companies were allowed to compete, and the result was lower prices for long distance calls, higher prices for local ones and a constant onslaught of noisy ads and [...]
Dear Folks: June 23, 1996
Dear Folks, I’m supposed to be in Africa, but because of various breakdowns, I’m not, and I can’t say I’m sorry. I hate to miss a single day of the farm in June.
The first-ever regional meeting of the Balaton Group in Africa was scheduled to start tomorrow in Naivasha, Kenya. Our African members picked as their topic “community resource management,” a [...]
Dear Folks: May 26, 1996
Dear Folks, It’s lilac time on Foundation Farm! The air smells of lilac — inside because of the bouquets, outside because they’re blooming everywhere. We have a big old-fashioned light purple one by the back door, and some white ones by the barn, and some new-fangled double ones and red-purple ones in the perennial garden out front. Put them together in [...]
