Whenever you receive your copy or purchase the December issue of Mother Earth News magazine, you'll see my smiling John Henry on the front cover. Some of you may not know that I do a column in each issue titled "The Pitchfork Pulpit.”

Our summer intern program has been renamed the Polyface Farm Boot Camp. The last two weeks we had nearly 40 candidates in, for 2 days apiece, for the check-out part of the process. No longer called interns, these folks will be called Stewards.