Shady Ave Micro Farm
Shady Ave Micro Farm

Shady Ave Micro Farm

Permaculture. Small-space intensive organic gardening. Cooking. BMX Endurance. Cryptocurrency. Straight out of Pittsburgh where I run my website www.shadyavemicrofarm.com


Moving Forward

2 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments clubby

Moving Forward on the Coffee Bar I've really been meaning to post - honest - it's just that I get so caught up in work and life it's hard to come back and get it done sometimes. I've gotten a lot done since the last post. Here's the vintage bar sink...

We Did It, Fam!

20 Oct 2025 1 minute read 2 comments clubby

(SHONEN KNIFE performing live at Preserving Underground in New Kensington, PA.) We Did It, Fam! You aren't going to believe what happened in the past few months. I am so sorry it has been weeks since the ink has dried on the contracts but I have been...

The Dream Is Over

19 Jun 2025 1 minute read 2 comments clubby

"The world is what it is, which is to say, not much." - Albert Camus        Last Friday morning I had a phone meeting with the property manager to go over some details. I did not like the fact that there were no guarantees on a hood that was over th...

The Dream - I need your advice Pub0x fam!

21 Apr 2025 1 minute read 4 comments clubby

So throughout my life I've worked many jobs in the restaurant industry. I got my first job in Armando's Pizza shop the day I turned sixteen years old. By the time I was nineteen I was working as a barback in Poli's restaurant in Pittsburgh. In betwee...

The Wonderful World of Terpenes

24 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments clubby

(Photo above by cgdsro) The Wonderful World of Terpenes   Terpenes are natural compounds found in certain plants, herbs, and trees that give off complex aromas that can have health benefits such as help you relax and sleep at night, support feelings...

Guess Who's Back!

21 Feb 2025 1 minute read 13 comments clubby

Hello Pub0x fam! It's been a long time and I've been down, but I'm not out!   I finally finished up the horrible divorce that stretched on for 3+ years. It felt like the battle that would never end! As someone who likes to turn adversity into advanta...

The Fight of My Life II

15 Nov 2023 2 minute read 1 comment clubby

I am absolutely beside myself right now. My lawyers are in court arguing for me against my ex wife in a custody battle over our son.  I am sick to my stomach over the possibility of losing legal custody status to her and being removed from all health...

The Fight of My Life

10 Nov 2023 1 minute read 2 comments clubby

I haven't been posting much on here lately (or for a long time really.)  The reason is I have been going through a brutal divorce. During the pandemic a lot of us experienced our relationships with friends and family becoming frayed and stressed to...

Stalin's Plan of Forced Collectivization and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33

31 Jan 2023 8 minute read 1 comment clubby

(IMAGE: Oksana Procyk, Leonid Heretz, and James E. Mace, Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933: A Memorial Exhibition, Widener Library Harvard University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1986, p. 71) Stalin's Plan of Forced Colle...

フィアット、ファシズム、自由について4

21 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments clubby

医療ファシズム II: サル痘 Redux「フィアット、ファシズム、自由について」の第 3 号とゲイツ/GAVI ギャングで、あなたの近くのギャングバンにやってくる、モンキーポックスの高度に修正された「機能獲得」武器化バージョンである「シング・デュ・ジュール」について...