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I have the most wonderful mango tree -- it grows huge mangoes, dripping with juice. I grow my own herbs and what vegetables I can, grapefruit, mango, key lime. I sometimes by organic produce, but it is more expensive, so I don't always. I do grind my own wheat in a home grinder for the best-tasting whole grain flour. (I'm not a Y2K survivalist -- it's just good stuff!)

Some quotes from article mentioned in my last post.

The crunchy-con bookshelf — and because they eschew television, they have lots of bookshelves — sags with works by conservatives like G. K. Chesterton, Richard Weaver, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, the Southern Agrarians, and Michael Oakeshott. ... They favor books on the environment that reflect a manlier, Rooseveltian (Teddy, the good one) stance toward the natural world, which respects nature without worshiping it.

"I have no love for the environmental movement as it stands today," says Alabama Republican Paula Graves, 39. "But I think that the average conservative response to environmental concerns is a total condemnation of all things 'green,' whether it be personal recycling, organic food, or energy conservation, and that's an equally illogical response. We've ceded the issue to the Greens and let them set the definitions, and therefore the agenda."

"Of course conservatives and Republicans 'lost' California years ago, because they did not try to understand it," says Carl Weidner of San Diego. "Some Republicans have this adolescent-boy sense of humor that must make fun of everything."

No one around here, of course! :-P