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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Old Dogs, Old Tricks
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You Are Not An Alpha Male
Here’s an experiment: go to your bathroom mirror, stare deep into your own eyes, and say, “I am an alpha male.” Better still, try working the term into casual conversation....
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Tool Review: Fiskars X27 Splitting Axe
Updated 09/07/2021 I've added a substantial update to this post after using the Fiskars X27 hard for a few more years. Scroll to the end for my most recent, more...
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Identity Politics
This blog's primary author (Garth) writes posts on a wide range of topics. One of the beauties of farm blogging is the plethora of examples and metaphors one can find...
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Utopia, Lard, and Many Questions
I read this New Yorker article about a failed Utopian reality TV show with great interest. In it a group of strangers was confined to about 600 acres on a...
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Drowning Berries
For the first time this year the ground has gotten hard enough that sinking a shovel takes a bit of weight. But the current dry spell is too little too...
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Stormy Weather
As I drove back from a delivery Saturday evening a disk of sooty cloud cut across the sky. When I turned off the interstate a wispy finger drifted down and...
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The Surprisingly Interesting Life of a Pool
In an effort to take full advantage of the various perks available to me on the farm I’ve been using a pool beneath the waterfall to cool off after chasing...
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Eyesore of the Beholder
This time of year the pastures on my farm look particularly bedraggled, with thistle patches thick as the goldenrod used to be, the patches of goldenrod now thin , and...
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The Proper Thing
In case you have a hard time making out the script on the bottle in the lead photograph it says, "DISPOSE OF PROPERLY." Until a few days ago I had...
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Rising Waters
Water and time have forever been linked in the literary imagination. In Genesis the first acts of creation are the definition and separation of waters. Fitzgerald connects the two throughout...
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I'm Wrong, But So Are You
By the spring of my sophomore year at Villanova I was disillusioned with the school, both socially and academically. The sense of alienation, inadequacy, and fear that I hid beneath...
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Technical Difficulties
In his book Irresistible Adam Alter argues that much of modern technology, in particular smartphones and the programs they run, is designed to be as continuously engaging as possible. The...
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English Major!
The constant struggle when writing about the farm is specificity. In other words, how is it possible to write about a particular pasture, or a particular cow, or a particular...
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