High Agency Man
Among the latest digital preoccupations is an obsession with agency, specifically, the value of being high agency. Both employees and bosses should be high agency. The most important thing you...
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Beyond "Beyond Organic"
Driving south on route 8 I passed a sign which I could have sworn was advertising Dry Creek Reserve wood pellets. I laughed aloud at the absurdity of exclusive stove...
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A Magical Food System
Here’s a fun thought experiment: imagine you had a machine in your home that could synthesize a few cheap, easily available ingredients into any food item you might want. You...
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In My Own Mind
One of the great difficulties of life is trying to see beyond a bubble of self-regard and self-interest, though that may be an overly broad statement born of the (self-centered)...
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Spring in February
A February thaw on the farm usually consists of hammering rain, howling wind, and temperatures in the high thirties or maybe forty. In other words, it gets rid of the...
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In the Hops Barn
A century ago our "hops barn" was in fact used to dry and store hops. Hops have long since passed from the agricultural scene of upstate New York but the...
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Strong as a Hog
Most people are familiar with the simile "he's strong as an ox," meaning someone with great physical strength or a vigorous constitution. Ruminating on this topic it seems to me...
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How Not to Survive Doomsday
If Evan Osnos, writing in the latest issue of The New Yorker, is to be believed, a significant portion of the wealthiest among us are preparing for the apocalypse by...
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Winter Grazing (Browsing)
What you're looking at here is a small stand of bamboo bent down with snow. I snapped this photo back in late November when we got about a foot of...
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Cold Comfort
It's my impression that pigs feel the cold in a way sheep and cows don't. The way they jockey for position in the sleeping pile and their diminished interest in...
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Snow-fed Beef
This is a few days old now, the snow has melted since I put this post together. I thought I better upload it before it's even more dated than it...
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A Muddy Problem
For the third year in a row, fall has been a time of great mud for me. In the usual course of most people’s lives rainy days and time spent...
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Dressed for Work
Three point hitches and PTOs are marvelous things. Some tractors can put to good use a wider array of implements than I have changes of clothing. I know almost nothing...
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Fall Waterfall
The weather turned towards the end of last week. A few snowflakes fell amidst the rain, but it stayed above freezing, which really wasn’t much of a blessing. There’s a...
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