My co-author of BEYOND LABELS, Dr. Sina McCullough, has offered to do some partnering

in the same conversational format as the book. Hope it’s informative and enjoyable.

Like you, I've done a lot of thinking the last couple of months. I'm working hard right now on a new book, titled HOMESTEAD ANIMAL HAPPINESS that hopefully will be available sometime mid-to-late summer. I've realized that I can't keep up a daily frenetic blog rate; it's too much and it tempts me to wander where I shouldn't.

Here in the northern hemisphere, December 21 is the shortest day of the year. It might be the most important day of the year here on the farm.

If you're up on the news from Denmark, you know that supposedly a mutated strain of Covid-19 through mink farms has infected 12 Danes…

We've decided to cancel the initially planned 2020 Stewardship Festival next summer July 16-17 because here at the farm we have lots of things developing that require our attention and dumping a multi-thousand-person event into the mix is more than we can handle.

In seventh grade I felt obligated to try out for the baseball team. I had an athletic older brother and Mom taught health and physical education at the high school. Surely playing on the baseball team would earn me affirmation.

With all the craziness in the world right now, I'd like to devote this Thanksgiving week to things I'm grateful for. I'm going to start with my parents…

Sunday's Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) gathering at Polyface, held outside, has created a bit of a firestorm: many folks grateful for the opportunity to get together and many calling it a "super spreader" or labeling us murderers. The media wants to do stories on it as well but I've learned that they cannot be trusted to adhere to context and respectful attitudes; therefore, we are not talking to the media.

Instead, here is our public statement and our position, unedited and wrapped in context:

Sunday's Weston A. Price pop-up shindig here at Polyface created more memorable pieces of advice than you can imagine. Today I'll feature Hilda Gore's "5 secrets for ancestral living." Hilda is WAPF's publicist and runs their podcast. Some of this is direct quotes; all come from my notes.

Sunday we hosted here at the farm a Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) one-day conference and everybody left literally levitating. I'll dispense snippets of it the remainder of this week, I think. For those of you unfamiliar with WAPF, it was founded by Sally Fallon Morrell 20 years ago to highlight the work of Weston A. Price.

In one of my favorite magazines, FARM SHOW, 30 years ago I read an article about a farmer who mounted a windmill on his farm pond to run a generator to power an electrolysis machine that separated hydrogen from the water and filled a tank on the shore.

A couple of days ago I had the distinct privilege of being one of a dozen virtual roundtable participants, convened and hosted by Prince Charles, as part of his Sustainable Market Initiative. The hour-long consortium featured three Americans, several Brits, a couple of Australians, one Dane and an Indian (one of my heroes, Vandana Shiva).