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...
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Old Dogs, Old Tricks
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The Brief and Beautiful Lives of Dogs
By Garth Brown One wonderful thing about my dog Oban is that he didn’t notice that I forgot his seventh birthday last month. Of course, he forgot it too, and...
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Spring Comes Too Early
By Garth Brown On a happy farm animals rarely go through fences. Ideally, fences keep animals where they should best be at a particular time for their own health and...
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The Bernie Madoff of Beef
By Garth Brown An early but strong contender for the craziest ag story of the year comes from Washington state, where Easterday ranch has been accused of inventing 200,000 cows...
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The Quest for Healthy Junk Food
By Garth Brown Over the past couple years the company Beyond Meat, maker of fake burgers and sausage, has managed to attract the sort of breathless, credulous coverage that’s usually...
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The End of the Great Nitrate Hoax
By Garth Brown It’s likely you didn’t notice - a few other important topics have been in the news - but a statement by the USDA last month signals the...
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Is There Anything to Say About 2020?
By Garth Brown The farm has a particular character as winter settles in, with smoke blue clouds and purple forests set off by snow so bright it looks like more...
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Sheep on the Loose!
By Garth Brown Nothing makes a farmer’s heart sink like the sight of livestock charging across a neighbor’s field; a fence is easy to take for granted until the moment...
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The Definitive Guide to Pastured Turkey
Why You Need This Guide There’s a lot of stress and uncertainty when it comes to cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. This is only heightened when it’s a high-quality, pastured turkey,...
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Brush Hogging
By Edmund Brown Last week in the newsletter Garth used a photo I took of our pigs in the woods. The lead photo in all its anodyne glory shows a...
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Will Roombas Replace Cows?
By Garth Brown As a child I loved looking at pictures of Rube Goldberg machines. In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept, these are fanciful mechanisms that accomplish a simple...
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Don't Put Your Trust in Brands
By Garth Brown Can you guess what Panorama Grass-Fed Meats, Niman Ranch, Coleman Natural, Sonoma Red and now Pasturebird have in common? Given their names it would be natural to...
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The Trouble With Phones
By Garth Brown I intended to write and post this last week, but an intense storm blew through and knocked out our power, along with quite a few trees. Luckily,...
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How To Fight Genetic Editing
By Garth Brown This is the third post in a series. It should stand on its own, but for the full context read here and here. The recent history of...
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