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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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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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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