The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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The Future is Sheep
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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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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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