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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Watched a PBS special called The Buddha. It helped me get zen about the weather. The people in the film had a delirious peacefulness about them as they explained the antidote to suffering is finding glory in your morning cup-o-Joe. Evidently, when you’re one with the Universe, you’re just too blissed-out to get cranky when [...]
It was a Beach Day in the Berkshires. The thermometer hit the middle-high thirties, the sun blazed on the snow, and the big bad white stuff melted off everywhere. The sound of dripping, trickling water was so heartening. The air smelled wet, mist rose from the snow fields, and there was mud along the roads. [...]