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Environment

Stop the Trucks: It Can’t Happen Here – Or Can It?

by Howard Smith August 28, 2010

The recent tragic accident in Santa Barbara in which a Gravel Truck similar to the ones that traverse Route 33 – Maricopa Highway – up to fifty times a day, six days a week, has everyone wondering if the same type of accident can happen here.

The answer is, “It can.”…

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Open Thread

by Open Thread August 23, 2010

Have at it, Ojai…

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Open Thread: Cleaver Edition

by Open Thread August 18, 2010

Hand me those asbestos gloves…
(h/t Cesca)

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Mano Farm Kickstarter Fundraising Drive

by quin August 4, 2010

mano farm sunset

Mano Farm, the organic farm I’ve been involved in creating over the past year is undertaking a $10,000, 60-day fundraising drive in support of our Community Supported Agriculture program and food justice. We’re doing this through Kickstarter — a relatively new web site that facilitates grassroots fundraising for arts and…

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Open Thread: Sunny Monday Edition

by Open Thread August 2, 2010

Got any big plans this week, Ojai?

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From The Mailbag: Spikes on Trees

by Tyler Suchman July 29, 2010

From reader Annika…

So Cal Edison’s ‘tree service’ contractor, Mowbray’s, knocked on my door just a minute ago asking if they could have access to prune some limbs around the electric lines at the back of my property. I obliged, without giving it a second thought.

A few minutes later I…

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News Tip: Accident on 33 below Creek Rd Today

by Tyler Suchman July 26, 2010

from reader Carolyn:

I was driving on 33 to Ojai from Ventura this afternoon, and just below Creek Rd. at about 3 p.m. there was an HORRIFIC accident, with CPR being administered to a man in the westbound lane. I was looking on the Post to see if there was…

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Open Thread: Weird Weather Edition

by Open Thread July 16, 2010

Have at it…

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Everything is (still) new: reflections on one year of organic farming

by quin July 14, 2010

(Mano Farm is a hand-cultivated, experimental farm on one acre of land in Ojai . We specialize in heirloom vegetables, medicinal herbs, and offer our produce through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.)

Breaking ground at Mano Farm: August 6th, 2009

Breaking ground at Mano Farm: August 6th, 2009

Humans are intrinsically embedded in an environment of cycles: the waxing and waning…

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the Tail of ‘Blur’ Rabbit …

by Millennium Twain July 7, 2010

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been chasin’ this ‘Blur’, and her brother, for about a month now.

before that it was their parents (I presume), who seem to have grown wiser (and thus, more distant!)

finally got her, ‘Blur’, in a big big net that we had laid out for her, along her favorite escape route out of…

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