Sometimes a conversation meanders around and then suddenly and spontaneously winds up in a profound place. Such was a guest podcast I did a couple of days ago with Certified Health Nut Troy. I do several guest podcasts a week and can't begin to keep them all straight, but apparently he also has a superfood line where everything is grown in volcanic ash beds.

I challenged the Orlando gathering last week of the Libertarian Party with their Achilles heel: property rights versus the commons. Numerous members admitted that the LP has a horrible assumption of environmental degradation.

Last week I spoke at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Orlando so I have a flight update to share. Tomorrow I'll share what I talked about at the convention. And for the record, I am not a member of the Libertarian Party--I'm not a member of any political party; they all get squirrely around the edges.

Have you ever wondered what the dimensions are of a home-made cattle chute? A head gate? So much is manufactured today that the idea of making these things from scratch is hardly on anyone's agenda. But if you have a template, you can bootstrap a lot of things that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars.

University of Virginia researcher Eyleen O'Rourke features prominently in a recent Charlottesville Daily Progress article about how diet and gut microbes influence pharmaceutical activity. For those of us versed in nature's awesome complexity this is a ho-hum piece that shouldn't even make the news. But for the medical research community, this is jaw-dropping stuff.

I can't help it, folks. I have to step into the coronavirus situation; it's been too long and I've been accumulating stuff from real people, not news organizations. Many front line health workers come to the farm and I always engage them to find out their perspective. Folks, it's universally opposite the daily news feed. I haven't met a single one that trusts the numbers.

It's Friday and time for another teaser on my book with former apprentice Chris Slattery titled POLYFACE DESIGNS.

Two senators have gotten some big media play proposing a bi-partisan cure for alleged cattle price manipulation by the big packers. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Testor (D-Montana) have teamed up to write a mandate that the big four beef processors must purchase half their supply from what is known as the spot market.

 Those of you who follow this blog fairly religiously know that we went through roughly a year of being unable to get our beef livers back from the slaughterhouse because a new inspector unacquainted with the green sheen on grass finished beef livers condemned them as inedible.

These days I do half a dozen guest podcasts a week.  Someone asked me recently if I had my own podcast, and while numerous folks have asked me to do one, I'm not sure the world needs another podcast.  I'm too old for something that novel.  This blog is about as modern as I can handle, and if it weren't for Wendy, I couldn't do this either.

 In keeping with the Friday teasers introducing my collaborative new book titled POLYFACE DESIGNS with guru engineer and former apprentice Chris Slattery, today I want to focus on some of the ancillary material.

Since Covid-19, apartment rents in San Francisco have dropped nearly 10 percent.  That means just a few months ago, a one bedroom apartment in San Francisco averaged nearly $4,000 a month.  Just call it $45,000 a year.

**Thank you Kate Simon Photography for use of your image!!