The Good and the Perfect
Everything, it turns out, comes with tradeoffs. Time is the universal example of this truism; each minute I spend on one activity is necessarily not spent on any of the...
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From the Ground Up
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Grass Fed Basics
If you're new to the world of grass fed and pastured meat, this is a great place to start.
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Deep Dives
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Grass Fed Chicken
If someone claims to raise grass fed chicken, you should be skeptical.
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Reasons to Doubt Lab Grown Meat
In the past decade there's been immense hype about lab grown meat. So why isn't it in stores yet?
The Latest From the Farm
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The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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Self-Driving Tractors, Self-Driving Sheep
In the garden tidy rows of onions stand in tidy rows, on the hill across the street the cows are grazing, and on the flats down past the hops barn...
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Spanakopita Meat Loaf Recipe
Years ago I worked in a restaurant that used spinach in a number of dishes, and I can still vividly recall the culinary legerdemain employed to extract the excess water....
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Is Green Lightning a Fraud?
If you missed my last post, it is a very brief, not at all technical primer on nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen cycle chart courtesy of wikicommons. There has always been a...
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Nitrogen Basics
Clover is an amazing plant. It can start growing as soon as the snow melts, and it can make its own fertilizer. Plants, we all learn in grade school, work...
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Flattening the Food Pyramid
Many mornings when I was young, on days when I didn’t have a good book and when I’d exhausted whatever outdated copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer happened to be floating...
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2026 Predictions Extravaganza
What will happen in the worlds of food, farming, and health? Making predictions as the new year begins can be fun, but it's important to write them down. Most of...
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