Nature is Cruel and Kind
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in nature as “nasty, brutish, and short” a view that continues to resonate with certain members of the populace. Often a man of...
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Nature is Cruel and Kind
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A Bit Transcendental
In college I took a course on Transcendentalism, and this afternoon, as I looked out the window with my daughter napping on my lap, I was struck by how very...
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Legacy
Live like you're going to die tomorrow, farm like you'll live forever This is the view from the front porch of the old house I live in. We are surrounded...
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A Working Dog?
Regular readers will remember the somewhat guarded appraisal of my dog Oban I wrote a few months ago. Specifically, I was unsure that he would ever be of much use...
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Good-bye Onions
Back in the winter I thought that May would probably be the most boring and limited month on the home-grown diet. But now that June is half-way over I can...
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Confession Time
I've subscribed to a number of different ag related magazines over the years and my favorite one, bar none, is Graze. The content is geared toward dairy farmers who graze...
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Cutting Grass
Last year I slaved over an essay that centered on how much I dislike mowing lawns. This turned out to be a really boring topic, so I ended up going...
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Beer...sort of
A couple weeks ago I posted about making beer from barley I'd malted. It seems to have worked out well enough, since I went through the usual brewing process with...
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Soda... sort of
The summer-like heat of a few weeks ago prompted me to come up with a refreshing drink. I don't have much to work with, but in the back of the...
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Pig Oil?
I’m happy to report that I had no adverse physical reactions to straying from the program this past weekend. It was wonderful, and I have no regrets. And even as...
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G-Hog
No, believe it or not pigs are not the topic today. My farm is rife with groundhogs. I don't have a major bone to pick with the rodents, but then...
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Breaking All The Rules
Later this summer Alanna and I will be heading out to Arizona to celebrate her grandparents’ wedding anniversary. Deer season isn’t open out there in early August, so I’ll have...
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In the Fall
It looks like we're going to get a good apple crop this year. There are numerous wild apple trees spread around my farm, and last autumn was abysmal. One single...
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Beer from Scratch
Until today I hadn’t brewed beer for about ten years. But last fall’s cider was terrible, and the new batch is still months and months away, so I took the...
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