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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Do Purple Potatoes Taste Different?
A Scientific Inquiry Taste is a funny thing. Wine poured from bottles with fancy labels tastes better than the same wine poured from drabber bottles. (The drinkers must see the...
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Snowbound
“Travel may be very difficult or impossible,” the bulletin said as a gray front of clouds rolled in, with as much as 16” of snow in the forecast. By the...
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Live Wires
If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in artificial intelligence, now would be a good time to start. While I remain a skeptic of the idea that we...
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The Big Question for Small Farms
I’ve noticed that when we (meaning farmers like me) argue for the merits of small farms we do it by pointing out the failures of the industrial food system. From...
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Addictive Seltzer: Examining a Bold Claim
The chemicals in LaCroix Here are a few wacky things I believe: that anyone who puts raisins in stuffing is a monster; that the combination of social media and artificial...
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When to be a Techno Skeptic
My Grand Theory of Technological Progress Lately I’ve been luxuriating in the ocean of articles detailing the troubles faced by Meta, nee Facebook. So far, the pivot from being a...
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Limitations and Local Food
I am at heart a localist, particularly when it comes to food. Problems like dismal animal welfare standards, exploited farm workers, and certain environmental impacts are made much more tolerable...
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Will There Be A shortage of Thanksgiving Turkeys?
While shopping for pens and other knick knacks for the kids, I noticed something interesting. Everything was almost out of stock. There were only nine of the blue pens I...
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Is Food Palatability A Useful Concept?
The idea that weight gain occurs when a person eats more calories than they burn and loses weight when they burn more calories than they eat is obviously true; gaining...
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The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done
In the early years of the farm we had a wonderful neighbor named Don. He’d retired from dairying in the 90s, but he still planted a little corn, which he’d...
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Land Use Change and You
The big idea you’ve (probably) never heard of When thinking about how cattle contribute to climate change, most public focus falls on methane. It’s a gas emitted by ruminants, and...
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Watch Out for Wild Fork Foods
Watch Out For Wild Fork Foods Rotten Meat, Corruption, and Your New Neighborhood Butcher Wild Fork Foods has stores popping up in cities across the country. It looks like a...
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What Growing All Your Own Food Might Look Like
An exercise in imagination Picture it: it’s your first day exclusively eating food you’ve grown yourself. This moment has been months in the making, from planning a garden to getting...
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