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	<title>The New Agrarian</title>
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		<title>Old news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I sheet-composted a rocky and shallow part of the garden, laid down newspapers to kill the weeds and spread old bedding from the duck pen on top. There is something deeply satisfying about heaping shit onto last week&#8217;s (now last year&#8217;s) news. A new dictator in North Korea? Shit on him. Elizabeth Dole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newagrarian.com/2012/01/04/old-news/</link>
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		<title>Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laugh at the vultures, who think you would steal Their refuse. Love them anyway, and be grateful For their meal. Say their grace. Trade your house for a turtle, then set it free In the woods, to find its way to water. Rejoice in your hope. Fall on your knees to see the wild flower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newagrarian.com/2012/01/01/resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Have yourself a medieval Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted this last week on my eponymous site, but it probably works better here. Enjoy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newagrarian.com/2011/12/24/have-yourself-a-medieval-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Ignorance is fear: or, &#8220;it&#8217;s gross&#8221; is not an argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Cross-posted from Walbert&#8217;s Compendium.) A former “food industry insider” named Bruce Bradley has started a blog to tell the world about all the terrible things the food industry does. In his most recent post, he lists some of the disgusting things that industry passes off as natural products. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;big food companies have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newagrarian.com/2011/11/02/ignorance-is-fear-or-its-gross-is-not-an-argument/</link>
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		<title>Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I typically don&#8217;t blog in photographs because I am not really much of a photographer, but the Eno River made it easy today. The air and the water were absolutely still, the sky deep cloudless blue, and the low angle of the afternoon sun coaxed a glow from the trees and the river that I [...]]]></description>
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