REMEMBERING WENDELL BERRY
I'm fighting tears at the loss of a giant, perhaps the most articulate voice for good farming and right cultural living in America: my friend and mentor Wendell Berry. He passed away at his home in Kentucky yesterday, Aug. 31, at the age of 92…
TRUMP EO ON ON-FARM PROCESSING
People are emailing right and left about this proposed Executive Order from President Trump giving farmers and ranchers the right to process their animals on their own properties for their consumption. Duh, that is already legal…
NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOWDOWN
As small farmers who produce livestock get more squeezed out of the retail market, at least one state is leading a charge against federal government overreach: New Hampshire. Yes, "Live Free or Die." That state, bless 'em…
LETTUCE AND EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA
According to the official narrative, not a single case of cyclosporiasis has occurred in domestically-produced lettuce. The safest is local, but even large producers farming in the U.S. have not had a problem…
FAUCI FAVOR
By now, we've all witnessed the Sen. Rand Paul/ Anthony Fauci senate hearing and his 111 times invoking the 5th Amendment. What a farce…
PAT BUCHANAN NOTE
Faithful readers know my mom passed away 6 weeks ago at 102 and six months, so we're doing the normal going through things. Drawers, files, personal effects…
National Mall, July 6
Just a quick but huge THANK YOU for the hospitality and shepherding of this country boythrough the D.C. labyrinth. Thank you for inviting me to the stage to talk about Food Freedom…
COMING AROUND
Once in awhile you see something out of industrial murkiness that indicates an "aha!" moment and it's truly refreshing. Those of us on the good farming side can take great solace in such revelatory stories…
HAPPY COW
I get requests like this from time to time and I thought this one especially well written and heartfelt. When people take me to task for being libertarian, this is why. Unless and until you've had that big-badged bureaucrat step into your house threatening to destroy your livelihood, you can take a cavalier approach to big government tyranny…
SILOED FARMERS
Yesterday I spoke on the National Mall in Washington D.C. as part of the U.S. 250th commemoration called The Great American State Fair…