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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Phones Can Help Small Farms
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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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The Bright Side of Everything
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
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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A Few Thoughts on Boredom
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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Farm Beauty Standards
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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Beef Shanks Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
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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Why We're Getting Worse at Thinking
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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Plastic Brains and Hard Choices
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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Food Should Be Less Efficient
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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Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed
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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Thinking In Circles
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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Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?
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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