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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New York is Losing Small Farms
Between 2017 and 2022 New York lost 2788 farms, a more than 8% decline. It was concentrated in small farms; the number of operations with over 500 acres actually increased....
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Beef Rice: An Examination of a Very Silly Idea
By taking standard rice, coating it in a layer of fish gelatin and microbial transglutimase, immersing the grains in a nutrient bath seeded with beef muscle and fat cells, waiting...
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Thin-Sliced Beef with Scallion and Crunchy Chili Oil
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, I always associated thinly shaved beef with cheesesteaks. Perhaps I would have assented on some abstract level that it could be used for other dishes,...
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How to Think About Microplastics
I have a strong intuition that consuming thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of microscopic beads of plastic, some unknown number of which doubtless become lodged within my body,...
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How to Identify Ultra-Processed Foods
If you’re like me, the term ultra-processed food (UPF) evokes images of chips coated in cheese dust so incandescently orange that each is a small sun, too bright to gaze...
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Why Eating a Healthy Diet is Incredibly Easy and Completely Impossible
When it comes to diet tidy answers are appealing. Carbs are the problem, or maybe it’s fat. Maybe The healthiest diet is to eat no meat at all, or to...
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Our Cardboard World
The boxes I use come from a plant out to the west, somewhere near Buffalo. Ordering them is always a thrill. “Send me 1000 fourteen inch cube boxes at your...
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Gratitude vs. Thanksgiving
Gratitude journals are fairly thick on the ground these days. Try to find a solution to most any problem, from raising an adolescent to an obsession with chocolate chip cookies...
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Lab Grown Meat and a Path Forward
On this blog I often take an interesting piece of news or commentary as a jumping off point. When it’s news — such as my post on porcine protein being...
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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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