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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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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Hog Panel Trellis
Hog Panel Trellis Hog Panel, Hog Wire, or Cattle Panel: Whatever the Name, It Makes a Great Trellis About Hog Panels Also known as "cattle panel" or "hog wire," hog...
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Is Whole Foods Beef Grass Fed?
Is Whole Foods Beef Grass Fed? Look for the Grass Fed Label Whole Foods carefully cultivates an impression that it is a responsible company, with an interest in the environment,...
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Is Eating Fish as Healthy as Not Smoking?
Is Eating Fish as Healthy as Not Smoking? Omega 3s: Good News and Bad Headlines “Higher levels of omega-3 acids in the blood increases life expectancy by almost five years,”...
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Bio Pivot and Good Farming: Two Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Farming
Bio Pivot and Good Farming: Two Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Farming The Problem There’s a steady drumbeat of bad news associated with farming. Agriculture plays a role in topics...
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Privatized Genetics: Lab Grown Meat and the Ethics of Ownership
Privatized Genetics: Lab Grown Meat and the Ethics of Ownership Who Owns the Cells that Make Lab-Grown Meat? An article in the guardian discusses the private ownership of the cell...
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Can Dog and Bunny Be Friends?
The most recent addition to the farm is a lop-eared bunny named Acorn. She lives in an open bottomed hutch on the lawn, where she passes her days eating grass...
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What a Box Shortage Can Tell Us
This past week I received an email informing me that my order of cardboard shipping boxes had been delayed indefinitely due to a lack of board stock. This comes on...
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Digital Hostages and Healthy Food
For a brief moment last year food security became a topic of mainstream interest. COVID and its fallout had an impact on every aspect of the economy, but it was...
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Big Ag Is Not Best
A recent article in Foreign Policy praising industrial caught my attention. (Big Agriculture Is Best by Ted Norhaus and Dan Blaustei-Rejto.) What I noticed was not the list of points...
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What Can You Do With 20 Tons of Broccoli?
Gazing upon the forty-two thousand pounds of broccoli that is currently sitting in palletized stacks of boxes down by my driveway raises some questions: questions about the intricate supply chain...
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I Can't Know Much
One of the particular joys of this spring has been the return of visitors. Over the past month a steady flow of grandparents has passed through the farm, and as...
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What Epicurious Gets Wrong About Beef
Website Epicurious recently announced that it will no longer be publishing recipes featuring beef. The statement itself is so milquetoast that, despite my best efforts, I have not been able...
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We'd Get Bored of Pterodactyls
The commonplace is easy to take for granted. For example, I imagine that I would be thrown into an endless state of rapturous wonder if I saw a pterodactyl flapping...
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