How long can you keep people from associating? At some point, the desire to get together outweighs Covid risks and even regulatory pushback. We humans are social beings; isolation has been used to punish people, break people, and as a form of torture since the dawn of civilization.

In the business world, Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements (MNDAs) are considered standard fare. Perhaps few things illustrate my contrarian mentality more than the fact that I refuse to sign them and challenge any business that wants me to sign one.

One of the nice things about a blog is that you can correct inaccuracies with the same emphasis as the original sin. Ever notice how publications bury corrections in a tiny box in the least prominent place?

People have accused me of being extreme and my hiatus reflects a time of thoughtful introspection on how I want to use this blog.

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: