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I spent the summer farming as much as possible, playing hooky from my consulting practice, limiting my volunteer work, squeezing out my writing, and ignoring my housekeeping. It was my fourth summer as the sole farmer on the farm. Finally I felt I perfected every mission critical task and process. I was gung ho to manage [...]
Rule of thumb: When things appear to be going perfectly, you are probably missing something. My advice is duck and cover because it’s just about to hit you. I woke up this morning with the same smug buzz I wrote about yesterday — opened all the doors and windows, meditated, breathed deeply in the sun, [...]
I harvested the last of the asparagus in my former vegetable garden before I turned the cows into the south pasture for the second time this season. It has been a three week streak of me doing farm work in every available hour, and I am feeling smug about my accomplishments. So many seasons past I [...]
Here on the farm we’ve been looking for Earth Day inspiration and we found it in Texas where Governor Rick Perry yesterday proclaimed three “Days of Prayer for Rain in Texas” as a way to mitigate climate change. I guess if you’re going to kick a problem upstairs, you might as well kick it all [...]
A report this week from the Disassociated Press reveals government and industry consternation at the public outcry over tomatoes bio-engineered to thrive on animal and human urine. One lobbyist said, “All these years we’ve been bio-engineering vegetables to thrive on poisons that pollute the water and soil and may cause cancer, and the public has [...]
A snow storm from the midwest and a rain storm from the Atlantic collided over the farm during the night, and this morning it’s a complete white out. There was no sunrise, just a cross-fade from black to murky grey to silent white. I started morning chores early because the cows and the goats were [...]
Really? Is that a burger you’re eating? Burger is a beautiful thing if you know where it comes from. I hope you know the cow your burger came from, or the farm, or the values of the brand that made it. Otherwise you are very likely eating Canadian slaughterhouse floor sweepings mashed into cows born [...]
True confessions: I am a foodie. And thus I was horrified by the Replica Foods catalog friends brought me from Tokyo. The idea that making plastic molded replicas of menu items is an industry puts a whole chain of modern food production catastrophes into perspective. The promotional materials say the plastic replicas help the restaurant [...]
A friend who reads my blog commented recently “farming seems stressful,” as if to ask why I put myself through it, and another said, “Maybe you should stop farming,” as though it’s not good for me. I am finishing one of the most exhausting weeks I’ve ever been through on the farm, and so these [...]