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Dear Reader: In the previous blog, I offered projections about the Net Cash Farm Income that Permaculture Incubator Program trainees could hope to earn from their plots. However, there may be other interesting ways that they can supplement their income. Let me share an idea with you. Last fall, we took a week-long bicycle tour […]

Dear Reader: To paraphrase a song, the Permaculture Incubator Program (PIP) isn’t about the money. It’s like this, man, you can’t put a price on the life. We do it for the love, so we fight and sacrifice. But, having said that the trainees still must make a living. Not just that; after two years,

Dear Reader I am soooooooo excited. There is a big change to the landing page of CCPP’s website. Formerly, when a visitor clicked on the “Join the Fight” button, CCPP just asked for contact details. NOW, when a visitor clicks on the “Join the Fight” a PayPal form will appear that the visitor can use

Dear Reader: If you have been reading this blog, you know that recently we published an open letter to Peter Coy in response to the opinion piece that he published in the Dec. 26, 2022, edition of the NYT entitled, The Thorny Questions Raised by Charitable Giving. In our letter we expressed our view that

Dear Reader: In the previous blog, you read about how Russon Family Farms bought a four-bedroom house, sitting on two and a half acres of prime farmland, where CCPP can implement its Permaculture Incubator Program. The acquisition of the property means that CCPP is on target to launch the incubator program in 2024, as was

Dear Reader: There is lots of bad climate news in the newspaper these days. However, I am not going to write about it because it just makes my climate anxiety worse. Therefore, I am going to try and stay positive and give you an update on renovations. If you have read previous blogs, you know

Dear Readers: Norman Vincent Peale, the author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinkingthrough his book The Power of Positive Thinking, is famously quoted as saying “Shoot for the moon.Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” I am pleased to say that this is exactly what CCPP hasrecently done. Please let

Dear Readers, I guess that by now, you have heard that Queen Elizabeth II has passed. Prince Charles has ascended to the throne. King Charles III is kind of like the Al Gore of the United Kingdom. He has been an advocate of organic farming since he transformed his Home Farm to become completely organic

Dear Reader: You may recall that I wrote a blog entitled, “There is always a big but” in which I gave an overview ofthe future technologies that are being considered for extracting Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) from theatmosphere. One of the technologies about which I wrote was carbon capture and storage. Just to remind you:that is