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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High Agency Man
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Planet Rutabaga
Last time I posted about corn I mentioned the huge rutabaga sitting on my porch. It's still there, lurking, a volley-ball size root waiting to trip some hurried passerby. I...
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What I'm (Bored of) Eating
The defining theme of this experiment, at least for me, has been boredom; sure, it was tinged with more than a bit of desperation when all I had to eat...
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Corn
I grew some corn this year. Judging solely by the number of varieties of sweet corn vs field corn on offer in seed magazines the American gardener is much, much...
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Fat Cat
The cat that adopted us has been putting on weight, even though I've only fed her haphazardly the past few months. She raids compost buckets, and most days I see...
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Cider Update
Two days ago I moved all of the cider I started a few weeks back from primary to secondary fermentation. For those of you who are not familiar with the...
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Acorn Finished Pork?
The market I go to near Philadelphia is situated under a stand of oaks. One of the dozen or so trees there had a banner year this fall so I...
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Winter Forage?
I'm going to apologize right now. Sorry for writing a post that only three or four of you dear readers will truly enjoy. But since my face lights up when...
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Hog Feed
As Ed and I were putting the rest of the pigs into their hoops this morning we were having our bimonthly conversation about the merits of various feeding programs. It...
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Swineset hoop v2.0
I wrote recently about getting a pile of inexpensive wood for rough construction. Here is photographic evidence that I've put some of it to good use. This is my second...
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New Sheep
The sheep actually came to the farm a couple weeks ago, but I’m only now getting around to writing about them. This is for the best, since it gives me...
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The Meals of Just-ish VIII: Gross
If you are unfamiliar with this series of posts, start here. Alanna and I spent several months in France learning how to make cheese prior to moving to the farm....
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Oaks
"Planting trees is such a hopeful act." Normandy said this to me right after we finished putting an oak, a ginko, a red bud, and a hazelnut into the ground....
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Marbling
The farm's website is less than one year old and is still a work in progress. Somehow getting it just the way we want it hasn't made it to the...
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