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Almost Christmas!

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Update: After 3 months, I have finally received my refund from JetStar. I still can’t recommend that anyone ever give them any of his/her hard-earned money, though. #worstcompanyever

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here.

Our last post left off with us in Chiang Mai, Thailand, about to complete our one-month stay in our apartment. Since then, Brittany and went all the way through Malaysia to Singapore via train from Chiang Mai. It was a long, multi-stop journey. We first went from CM to Bangkok, which took about a day (24 hours. We took a sleeper). Trains in Thailand aren’t that great, and stop a lot. For apparently no reason. For hours at a time. After a night’s rest in Bangkok, we took another train to Penang, Malaysia, also on a sleeper.

Black Carrots

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Since learning about the black carrot about a month or so ago, I have been fascinated with the idea of growing and eating them myself. The world carrot museum probably has the most information about them. They are grown in Turkey, the middle east and the far east.

Black carrots are not the same as purple carrots, although they are in the same carrot family (eastern carrots). They contain anthocyanins, which gives them their dark color.

Saga of the Date Palms… Parte 1

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

So my wife & I have been on a date kick lately. Not the kind of dates you go on, but the kind you eat.

Since we’ve been going really green the past 3 months and now have a strong interest in self-sustainability, we’ve been trying to sprout and grow just about every seed we can get our hands on. We have a particular interest in growing seeds that came from food that we’ve eaten. There’s just something about growing & eating your own food which came from food that you ate… something about taking it full-circle that really feels empowering & let’s us know we can grow our own food without depending on others.