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Pets vs. livestock: Cracking open the myths about backyard chickens

By • on November 12, 2009

Last spring I decided that this was the year I was going to finally get some chickens. On a snowy Saturday in March I brought home six tiny cheepers that I bought at my local ranch store in Livingston, Montana. Two of them died right off, which didn’t entirely surprise

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RIP crap beef

By • on February 27, 2008

"No grilling, no barbecue: Recalled beef buried in landfill" was the lede story of my local paper in Livingston, Montana, this evening. The Livingston Enterprise led with a large photo of a front-end loader burying recalled

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Two new Ethicureans

By • on January 17, 2008

I'm still crippled — reduced to mousing and typing with left hand while standing with an ice pack strapped to my back (yeah, I know how sexy I look — you should see me in my cervical collar!). Sorry, but that means no Digest, and believe me, those 7,142-and-counting unread headlines are

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WSJ issues correction on Alice Waters and Ameya Preserve

By • on November 29, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has this correction today to its Nov. 16 article on "Politically Correct Developments," which had

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Alice Waters and Montana’s Ameya Preserve: Slow Food uber alles?

By • on November 18, 2007

The following is by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who writes the LivingSmall blog from Livingston, Montana; she is the author of the novel Place Last Seen (read the first

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Strange bedfellows: Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve in Montana?

By • on October 23, 2007

The following is by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who has contributed previously and we hope will soon join the Ethicurean kitchen formally. Charlotte writes the LivingSmall blog from Livingston, Montana;

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LivingSmall in Montana: What’s in your freezer?

By • on September 7, 2007

Please welcome a new contributor from the real West, Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who writes the LivingSmall blog, grows a garden, and is restoring a 1903 bungalow in Livingston, Montana. She's too modest to say so herself, but she's also the author of the novel

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