Phones Can Help Small Farms
A common criticism of digital tools, especially our phones, is that they draw us out of the real world and into the digital. There is an obvious one-to-one sacrifice, in...
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A common criticism of digital tools, especially our phones, is that they draw us out of the real world and into the digital. There is an obvious one-to-one sacrifice, in...
Garth Brown |
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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With each passing year on the farm I grow less certain about how to fix the food system. I don’t mean this in the sense of what foods we should...
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Halfcocked Turkey Recipe An Unconventional Approach for Perfect Turkey: Pretend It’s a Chicken One thing that always strikes me about turkey recipes is their assumption that there will be at...
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I have a vivid recollection from childhood. I lay beside a rhombus of sunlight on the living room floor of the house in which I grew up. The scratchy wool...
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People have written endlessly about beauty standards and the malign influence of advertising, Instagram, and fashion magazines on our collective idea of what a healthy, attractive human looks like. But...
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One great quality of beef shanks is that basically the only way to mess them up is to undercook them. They contain so much collagen that they are in no...
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Thinking about thoughts is tricky, and writing about thinking about thoughts is trickier still. There are endless very interesting discussions to be had about just what a thought is: completely...
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It seems like a day can’t go past without microplastics turning up in some new part of the human body. Recent studies have claimed to find them in lungs, livers,...
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I love the immediacy of farming. Unlike, say, developing an SaaS business that provides a suite of analytics tools designed to help identify and forecast trends in mid cap stocks,...
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A vehicle used to spray pesticides at the scale required by industrial ag looks like a combination of a tractor, a truck, and a crane. It sits on narrow, tall...
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If you’ve ever been bored on a long flight across America, you may have looked out your window and noticed clusters of perfect circles traced on the ground below. These...
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Berries are the purest food. I don’t mean this in some sort of moral or sense, and I don’t mean that they are the healthiest food. What I mean is...
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