Winter Attitudes
Lake effect snow occurs when water evaporating from the Great Lakes meets cold air blowing in from the west. Almost as soon as it rises it begins to precipitate into...
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Winter Attitudes
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Heading Out
In the morning haze I saw a deer bounding through my neighbor’s wheat. The way it arced up out of the rippling green reminded me of nothing so much as...
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Gardening Pros and Cons: Raised Beds vs. No-till vs. Stale Seed Bed
Cornell University runs a Master Gardener program. Do the coursework, volunteer on the gardening hotline, and you can proudly append the title to your name. I’m glad the program exists,...
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Fort Season
As children my brothers and I shared a mania for building forts. One, up on a slope where rain had worn out a shallow ditch, we made by laying rotting...
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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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What is it About Billionaires and Farming?
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. It describes the efforts of Larry Ellison, one of the richest men alive, to start a revolutionary agricultural enterprise...
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Snow Drifts and How to Spot Them
What is a snow drift? A snow drift is a large group of snow that has built up over time. This forms because of wind constantly blowing snow over a...
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Kids and Cornices
What is a cornice? A cornice is an overhanging drift that forms when snow is blown over a field and onto a steep hill/cliff. This formation is often icy with...
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A Few Square Inches of Light
I see through the window that it has begun to snow. Plump, lazy flakes drift more sideways than down. They appear to be arranged in ranks, with the closest tumbling...
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A Very Particular Tree
Lately I’ve been trying to see more clearly. Since I have an unfortunate predisposition to taking myself seriously, I mean this in the most insufferably pretentious way; because the fight...
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Tracker
Tracks are an afterimage of life’s passage. Walk out into the woods after a fresh snow and you will see, recorded in paw and hoofprints, the movement of animals through...
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Divided Time
There’s a sentiment I’ve been seeing more and more lately, which goes something like this; “January first is just a day like any other. And yet we put so much...
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Phones Can Help Small Farms
A common criticism of digital tools, especially our phones, is that they draw us out of the real world and into the digital. There is an obvious one-to-one sacrifice, in...
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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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