Last Saturday we had our first of 7 POLYFACE GATHERINGS hosting HOLISTIC HILDA. By all counts, it was a smashing success. One of the speakers, Dr. Devin Vrana, who is both a chiropractor and an acupuncturist, had a wonderful 7-point recipe for thriving in unsettled times. I took notes.

I do several guest podcasts each week and most interviews are fairly standard. The questions and of course my answers are almost routine. But usually each one has at least one oddball question that catches me a bit off guard and requires some new soul searching to find an answer.

An interesting fellow drove into the farm last week and caught me as I was coming back from moving the cows. He was a real estate developer working for a solar farm outfit.

Who we choose to associate with is one of our best insurance policies.

According to the Real Organic Project, yesterday a letter with 40 former National Organic Standards Board signatories went to Sec. of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and most congressmen and senators that said in part:

Yesterday I did a two-hour guest podcast for SCATTERED SEEDS, co-hosted by Tom O'Boyle and Nathanael Devlin, and we dug into my book THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS OF PIGS.

Thank you everyone who responded to my inmate farmer story. Today I received my favorite letter from inmates: HE'S OUT!"

In October, 2017, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security issued a report titled POSSIBLE FUTURE IN 2025. The 70-page report assumed a pandemic and how health professionals would respond to various nuances of the outbreak.

I've befriended inmates all my life. I'm not a fan of prisons; they do not accomplish anything positive. That doesn't mean I'm soft on punishment; it just means I don't see any efficacy in the current American prison system. That's a topic for another day.

I toyed with the humor of calling this TWO DAYS OF MISINFORMATION but thought that might be too bold, so I went with TWO DAYS OF TRUTH. The two kind of go hand-in-hand these days.

Friday's Wall Street Journal carried a full page story titled The Microbiome Makeover divided into numerous little snippets: Born this Way, Probiotics of the Future, Better Cleaning with Bacteria, Eating Right, Absorbing Fat, Furry Friends, The Impact of Covid-19, and Bring the Outdoors In.

Some of us are old enough to remember when Ted Turner, media mogul, became the largest owner of agricultural land in the U.S. His love of the west generally and bison specifically led to a massive accumulation of ranch lands.