When the USDA set up its coronavirus aid program for farmers, it said no farm would get more than $250,000. That was then.

By now you've all probably seen the news reports that we have a big outbreak of salmonella going on due to backyard ducks and chickens. When the grocery store shelves went empty, thousands of families decided to become more self-reliant and get a backyard flock of poultry.

It's Friday and time for another teaser about the upcoming book POLYFACE DESIGNS. Aren't you loving these little teaser pictures from the book?

We had the privilege over the last 3 days to host perhaps the world's best minimalist, Rob Greenfield. Detractors call him a professional mooch because he depends heavily on hosts and road kill, but I find his lifestyle fascinating. I always appreciate people who push the edges of the envelope; that's where challenges to our own thinking develop.

I have veto’d Joel’s blog post for today!

Happy Wednesday!

Love, Wendy

Teresa and I just spent last week in Montana at Music Ranch Montana where I gave the first ever non-music performance at this remarkable venue. Country music celebrities Paul Overstreeet, Jimmy Fortune, and Rory Feek surrounded us with music all week and it was wonderful.

This morning we had a heart-seeking conversation with the leaders at Mother Earth News magazine which unfortunately has been caught up in racial allegations against Polyface Farm and me specifically.

The upcoming POLYFACE DESIGNS book will have all the formulas for areas for pigs, millenium feathernets, chick brooders, etc.

Meeting with a fellow yesterday who runs in alternative medical circles gave me lots of stuff. Is it true? You decide.

wo pharmaceutical company chairmen, normally engaged in bitter marketing competition, joined forces to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal predicting that by 2050 antibiotic-resistant superbugs would kill 30 million worldwide.

I know I'm supposed to be teasing you about the new book POLYFACE DESIGNS every Friday, but I just can't help today weighing in on the name change at the Washington Redskins. They are our closest NFL team so our area is full of Redskins fans.

I've resisted any comments about the violence in our cities, but yesterday tipped me over the edge. I will relate it the way it was related to me, by the mother of a 23-year old fire fighter near Richmond.