Honduras Heifer Tour

Santa Rosa, a historic colonial town in Honduras. My partner Cara toured indigenous communities participating in Heifer International projects. This town housed a potter who had become a beekeeper with the support of Heifer.

Basilica in Tegucigalpa

Boy in Trinidad.
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Below, Chorti Maya people and scenes.

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Above, a Heifer-supported orphanage. Below Cara with a Lenca girl, her family, and the cow they received from Heifer.

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Roadside oven.

Above, manure composted to collect methane. Below, the stove it supplies.

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Community corn grinder.

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Banana trees.

Coffee-roasting plant near Tegucigalpa.

Political ad for election year.

Honduras is home to several cloud forests.

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Mayan ruins. In the foreground is the killing stone.

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Wedding in Santa Rosa.

Honduran 5th graders in Trinidad.

The Heifer Foundation

Bain Water Project

The E.B. Bain Water Treatment plant is a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark, though it has ben neglected for many years. Now a new art project is developing dialogues about the structure and its place in Raleigh's culture as a new development of the property is planned. These are pictures from a tour during the early planning stages of the art project.

Porcelain filter rocks from the Bain plant.

Holding tanks

Bain plant valves

Scale for measuring chlorine

Chlorine tank

Pump station by Bain plant

Walnut Creek by pump station

Slider in Walnut Creek just east of Wilmington Street.

The Bain Water Project

Mistletoe Sightings December 08

Oak Mistletoe, a common evergreen hemi-parasite.

A sunny spot on Glenwood Ave at Fletcher Park.

The replanted median where mistletoe once ruled.

Mistletoe at 5 points

Above and below, Harvey Street at Glenwood.

Above and below, Wade Ave at SECU.

Buckeye Greenway mistletoe.

Blount Street Commons

Peace Street across from College.

Above and below, Edenton Street at McDowell.

Above and below, Rucker St. off Wake Forest Road.

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Brinegar Cabin on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Brinegar Cabin represents a very old style of mountain living which was enacted
and thus preserved well into the 20th century.

flax field

stripping the flax

carding

loom in use

cedar shaved wood mop

broom materials

Brinegar Cabin cellar

Just up the road on the Parkway is the overlook where one can peer down at
Caudill Cabin, several hiking miles away in a roadless valley.

Caudill Cabin

Sustainable Agriculture in the Triangle

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

Farm Tour!

native plant area at Piedmont Biofuel's research garden

farm intern explains a Japanese farming technique

intern displays volatile component of biofuel production

biofuel separators

Piedmont Biofuels honor system tank

Dew Dance Farm

Dew Dance garden, with heirloom naturally colored cotton on right.

Below, Laura Young at loom.

Lakeview Daylily Farm

koi pond with turtle and heron protection

Weston Farms koi barn

Double T Farm

Hilltop Farm, Willow Springs, NC

Hilltop Farm horses

Covenant Community Garden, Fuquay-Varina, NC

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September 22, 2008 - September 24, 2008 ELP Food Tour Conference 2008

NCSU campus

The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) invites you to "The Politics of Food," a national conference on how America grows, distributes, buys, and eats its food.

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Sustainable Agriculture Conference

October 31 - November 2, 2008

Anderson, SC

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Tomatillo Roast!

brick barbeque with bike

unlit

papered

lit

burning

trashwood fire

dying

Walmart firelog!

almost ready

roasting

slow roast

smoking

done!

parsley puree

puree plus broth and lime juice

chill

serve

serve with beer

NOW the fire is truly ready!

White Squirrels of Brevard

These squirrels live at Brevard College in North Carolina.

The town of Brevard protects them and has a White Squirrel festival.

The squirrels are not albino. They are just white!

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