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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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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Trees of Power Book Review
I met Akiva Silver at the NOFA conference last year, where he gave a talk on the history, uses, and cultivation of hazelnuts and chestnuts. I very much enjoyed the...
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Egg-In-A-Hole, Shame of the New York Times
It’s blessedly rare, but there are moments when you see or read something that isn’t just wrong, but is wrong in a very particular way, a way that gives a...
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Invasive Sheepcies, Part III
This winter I wrote about invasive species in Part I and Part II of this series, and how I think they’re only the serious threat they’re made out to be...
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