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  • Food Should Be Less Efficient

    Food Should Be Less Efficient

    I love the immediacy of farming. Unlike, say, developing an SaaS business that provides a suite of analytics tools designed to help identify and forecast trends in mid cap stocks,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed

    Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed

    A vehicle used to spray pesticides at the scale required by industrial ag looks like a combination of a tractor, a truck, and a crane. It sits on narrow, tall...

    Garth Brown |

  • Thinking In Circles

    Thinking In Circles

    If you’ve ever been bored on a long flight across America, you may have looked out your window and noticed clusters of perfect circles traced on the ground below. These...

    Garth Brown |

  • Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?

    Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?

    Berries are the purest food. I don’t mean this in some sort of moral or sense, and I don’t mean that they are the healthiest food. What I mean is...

    Garth Brown |

  • Dogs and Overbreeding

    Dogs and Overbreeding

    My son Ellis has recently acquired a book about dogs. In addition to numerous stories about notable canines through history (which the book calls “Top Dogs”, of course) it discusses...

    Garth Brown |

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    It's Time to Give Up On Lab-Grown Meat

    Whether or not lab grown meat ever makes it into grocery stores will hinge on cost. No one disputes the fact that certain genetic lines of cow cells can be...

    Garth Brown |

  • Grilled miso chicken wings with a side of salad

    Grilled Chicken Wings in Miso Marinade

    Confession time: I don't like wings very much. At least, I don't like the ones that come from a pizza parlor, deep fried then tossed in so much syrupy sauce...

    Garth Brown |

  • Lunchables and Microplastics

    Lunchables and Microplastics

    The Focus on Lead A recent study by Consumer Reports found elevated, though not illegal, levels of lead and cadmium in prepackaged lunch meals. Lunchables is the most famous version,...

    Garth Brown |

  • Bringing Down The Industrial Food System

    Bringing Down The Industrial Food System

    The story of food for the past hundred years has been one of industrialization. This is true of farming — we’ve gone from horses to 600 horsepower tractors — but...

    Garth Brown |

  • New York is Losing Small Farms

    New York is Losing Small Farms

    Between 2017 and 2022 New York lost 2788 farms, a more than 8% decline. It was concentrated in small farms; the number of operations with over 500 acres actually increased....

    Garth Brown |

  • Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea

    Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea

    By taking standard rice, coating it in a layer of fish gelatin and microbial transglutimase, immersing the grains in a nutrient bath seeded with beef muscle and fat cells, waiting...

    Garth Brown |

  • How to Think About Microplastics

    How to Think About Microplastics

    I have a strong intuition that consuming thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of microscopic beads of plastic, some unknown number of which doubtless become lodged within my body,...

    Garth Brown |