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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Walmart Wants to be Regenerative
Walmart would have you believe that it is all in on sustainable agriculture. It’s already the largest seller of organic groceries in the country, and it generously supports research into...
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Anger, Hope, and Seed Saving
Believe it or not, I sometimes think this is the best time in history to be a farmer. I don't mean economically - in most places it's harder than ever...
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Missing Frosts
A few years back we had a frost hard enough to kill the squash on August 31st. Never mind that the rest of September was warm and sunny, with hardly...
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Amish Healthcare and the Future of Community
Out driving earlier this week I passed a sign for an upcoming fundraiser in support of Anabaptist HealthShare, an insurance alternative geared towards communities of Plain People. There were a...
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Lab-Grown Meat Doesn't Belong in the Farm Bill
Lab-grown meat companies are after a slice of the farm bill. In the words of Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick, “Some country is going to decide to lead the way...
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Bamboo Scams and Environmental Farming
Farmers are as prone to chasing trends as anyone else. In the past couple decades there have been alpaca bubbles, pigeon pyramid schemes, and absolute manias for a couple different...
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Boyhood
“Do you think you cut a diamond with a tool or with a laser?” my son asked a few days ago. “A tool,” I replied. “Yes, because a laser is...
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Frankenpork and the Future of Food
A pound of corn provides about 1500 calories. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds. On average, an acre of United States cropland yields 170 bushels. Add that all up...
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Easy Pork and Rice
Easy recipes are rarely as simple as they sound on paper. There’s usually a strange ingredient, a finicky technique, a cooking step that requires hawklike watchfulness, or just a big...
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Grilled Drumsticks with Miso-Honey Sauce
Drumsticks are my favorite cut of chicken to grill. The meat has plenty of flavor, which means the a good char is complementary rather than overwhelming. They are also much...
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Eat Ice Cream for Your Health
Pictured above: the bowl of ice cream I ate immediately after writing this. If I told you that ice cream was healthy, would you believe me? What if I got...
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Memory, Children, Rabbits, Death
This time of year the grass is sweet and green, perfect for grazing, but it grows so fast the herd can never keep up. The trouble is that pasture isn’t...
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Easy Pork Shoulder "Stir Fry"
Stir fry is delicious. Done properly, it consists of meat and veggies sliced paper thin, cooked in small batches in a screaming hot wok, then served and eaten immediately. The...
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