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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Ground vs Whole vs Grass Finished Beef
Ground Beef Basics Ground meat in general and ground beef in particular is a versatile, wonderful food. It works well as the center of a meal in something like hamburgers...
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Don't be Afraid of Food (Or Anything Else)
By Garth Brown I haven't posted a video for a month due mostly to technical difficulties. I filmed what's below at least a dozen times, which may in part explain...
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Dicamba - Worse than Roundup?
By Garth Brown Roundup is the trade name for glyphosate, the most heavily used herbicide in the United States. The main reason for its popularity is the existence of crops...
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Why All Diets Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1isaHMBEJI By Garth Brown It's easy to get caught up in the minutiae of diets. While it can be fun to experiment with different approaches to food, it can also...
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Alanna's Unrecipe Soup
By Alanna Rose This is less of a recipe and more of a structurally sound concept for a nourishing meal. It’s fairly quick to throw together, although it could be...
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Why Grass Fed, Grain-free Chicken Doesn't Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_2DEBrZtw By Garth Brown If you've watched the video above you might have noticed that I skirt the topic of geese. My whole argument is that chickens are not physiologically...
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Green Revolutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3G1i5shols By Garth Brown The green revolution was a combination of advances in seed genetics, fertilizer, and pesticides. Coupled with the consolidation of farm land, these practices led to massive...
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Cows and Land Use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFf0DXd3qw By Garth Brown When thinking about cows and climate it's easy to assume the major factors are methane and the fuel used to grow their feed. But a look...
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Catching Cold for Health
By Garth Brown As days have turned cold and nights colder, as snow has once again come to cover the land, I have returned to intentionally getting really, really cold....
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Winter Thoughts
By Garth Brown There’s a strange sort of doublethink that for me accompanies weather events. As a storm approaches my better self hopes that the forecast is wrong, that the...
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Thanksgiving Proclamations, Ranked
By Garth Brown As the holiday season approaches the ageless debate rages anew, tearing asunder friendships and leaving families divided. Think of the countless hours of screaming talking heads on...
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No One Knows What to Eat or How to Farm
By Garth Brown The topic of diet is particularly fraught, with strong feelings about the relative merits and demerits of certain foods or nutrients endlessly litigated. Poke around online and...
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Predator Friends
By Garth Brown Farms are ecosystems, though it’s not particularly common to think of them as such. The great plains used to be tallgrass prairie and massive herds of buffalo,...
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