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  • Google Comes for Us All

    Google Comes for Us All

    Digital life often feels far less regulated than the real world, mostly because people are so rude when talking through screens. The single most notable quality of online discourse, something...

    Garth Brown |

  • Beyond Meat Failing and the Future of Fake Meat

    Beyond Meat Failing and the Future of Fake Meat

    When it comes to fake meat there are two flavors of skepticism. The first is an instinctive and powerful distrust of something so unnatural and a consequent grasp for anything...

    Garth Brown |

  • Dealing with Scammers

    Dealing with Scammers

    “We are having a birthday party for my mother, and I would like to order 100 pounds of ground beef. I will arrange for a truck to come pick it...

    Garth Brown |

  • We Can't Remake the Past

    We Can't Remake the Past

    I’ve come to believe that quite a lot of our ideas about how the world should be effervesce from a sort of cosmic gumbo of influences: media, our friends, world...

    Garth Brown |

  • Dam Season

    Dam Season

    Earlier this spring I predicted 2025 would be the year of children building forts. Though time may yet prove me correct, the early signs are not promising. Despite a flurry...

    Garth Brown |

  • The Self-Sufficiency Trap

    The Self-Sufficiency Trap

    A recent essay by Mike Riggs in the Washington Post caught my eye. In it the author describes his family’s move from Philadelphia to a few acres in North Carolina,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Heading Out

    Heading Out

    In the morning haze I saw a deer bounding through my neighbor’s wheat. The way it arced up out of the rippling green reminded me of nothing so much as...

    Garth Brown |

  • Fort Season

    Fort Season

    As children my brothers and I shared a mania for building forts. One, up on a slope where rain had worn out a shallow ditch, we made by laying rotting...

    Garth Brown |

  • Old Dogs, Old Tricks

    Old Dogs, Old Tricks

    Edmund went away for a long weekend, which meant I was on livestock duty and also that the animals weren’t on their best behavior. On Friday I was drinking my...

    Garth Brown |

  • What is it About Billionaires and Farming?

    What is it About Billionaires and Farming?

    A recent article in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. It describes the efforts of Larry Ellison, one of the richest men alive, to start a revolutionary agricultural enterprise...

    Garth Brown |

  • Snow Drifts and How to Spot Them

    Snow Drifts and How to Spot Them

    What is a snow drift?  A snow drift is a large group of snow that has built up over time. This forms because of wind constantly blowing snow over a...

    Garth Brown |