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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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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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Many mornings when I was young, on days when I didn’t have a good book and when I’d exhausted whatever outdated copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer happened to be floating...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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Winter Attitudes
Lake effect snow occurs when water evaporating from the Great Lakes meets cold air blowing in from the west. Almost as soon as it rises it begins to precipitate into...
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