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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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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What is Nutrient Dense Food?
More and more farms, food purveyors, and online health advice dispensers are promoting nutrient dense foods. This sounds pretty good - after all, you don’t want to be stuck eating...
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The Roots of Exclusion
This is the second part of a series I am writing about land ethics, agrarianism, and how we should think about the places we live. You can read part one...
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Piggies
It's been a while since I wrote about our pigs. Each year we've had pigs we do a little better at getting a set-up that works well for all the...
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What is Agrarianism?
This is the first part of a series I am writing about land ethics, Agrarianism, and how we should think about the places we live. -Garth The people who live...
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A Bit of Perspective
My family and I have been visiting relatives in Tucson, Arizona. Although there’s tremendous variation in the landscape of the northeast, both the dramatic changes from valley to mountain to...
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Enthalpy
A few days ago, in the midst of the recent cold, I went up to give the pigs their afternoon whey. I pulled open the valve on one of the...
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The Blue Heron
Trying to explain some aspect of the farm that I am directly influencing is relatively straightforward. But one of my favorite parts of living here, a part that is much...
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Cold Water Bathing
If you've never spent much time in absolutely frigid water, you're missing out. Many of us have done ice bucket challenges or polar plunges or less formal outings - until...
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The Lean Grass Fed Beef Myth
One of the most persistent myths about grass-fed beef is it's always lean. Much grass-fed beef is lean, but not all, and certainly not most of the beef we raise...
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Material Handling
When trying to change some aspect of the farm it's usually better to use animals than machines. Putting cows and sheep or pigs onto a patch of goldenrod will turn...
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Organic and Grass Fed Fraud, or, Let's Just Call It Farming
Back in August I got a call from a fellow farmer who lives a few valleys over. We chatted about cows and grass, and when I mentioned that our vegetable...
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100% Grass Fed Beef
To me, 100% grass-fed and finished beef means our cattle never eat grains or grain byproducts at any time in their lives. I wish there was a way to convey...
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Why Buy From Cairncrest Farm
When you purchase grass-fed beef, lamb, or pastured pork from our farm, your support makes a difference: ~Fertility goes to feed healthy, verdant New York pastures instead of hypoxic dead...
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