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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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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How do I Love a Fence?
By Edmund Brown With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Fence Thee? Let Me Count the Ways How to fence a farm? Let me count the ways....
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1800 Gallons of Water for a Pound of Beef?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FGTQISWsI By Garth Brown There are many claims about the amount of water it takes to produce a single pound of beef, some as high as 2000 gallons. While there...
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Hazelnut Hubris
By Normandy Alden I would never tell you that you must own some land. Just as I would never say that you must have a garden, or bake a blueberry...
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Grass Fed Bugs (and Grass Fed Beef)
By Edmund Brown Strictly speaking Monarchs are not grass-fed since milkweed is their sole food source as larvae and milkweed is not a member of the grass family, but that...
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Good Coffee, Evil Coffee
By Garth Brown Years ago I worked at Aldo’s Coffee in the coastal town of Greenport, New York. While I had developed a habit in college, it was there, that...
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Oban to the Rescue
By Garth Brown There are two big, well fenced sections of pasture on the farm, and proper grazing management requires moving the cows and sheep between them several time each...
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Grass Fed vs. Grass Finished Beef and Lamb
Grass Finished vs. Grass Fed Beef In the past month a few people have independently asked me if my cows are grass fed. “Ah ha,” they say after I reply...
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Regulations Aren't the Problem
By Garth Brown There’s a narrative popular with both the high priests of alternative agriculture and with much of the local food loving public that regulations exist to make life...
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Where the Cattle Roam
By Garth Brown Early on the Friday of a dreary, rainy week in the dreary, rainy June of this year’s dreary, rainy spring, I looked out my window and saw...
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