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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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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Deceptive Marketing
By Edmund Brown I’m grumbly and grouchy right now. My baseline mood is generally upbeat and optimistic, but perhaps my tapering coffee intake or something has me looking askance at...
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How Many Farmers Should There Be?
By Garth Brown I’m not at all sure how many farmers there should be. Rolling back the clock 100 years to a time when more than a quarter of the...
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Purity or Complexity
By Garth Brown We all want a pure food system, at least in the narrowest sense of the word, and so we have built up a mass of regulations aimed...
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Agrarian vs. Local
By Garth Brown It’s a testament to agrarianism's intuitive appeal that so extreme a perspective continues to have any currency at all. As the lives of most people move further...
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