I'm thankful some people find the time and emotional fortitude to wade through bills as they come before legislative assemblies. God bless 'em.

Have you tried getting in to a slaughterhouse lately to get an animal processed? Have you tried getting pot pies legal to sell? How about ice cream with raw milk and real eggs?

A friend contacted me last week for talking points to go before his town council asking for backyard chicken relief. This is such a crazy American issue.

This is not a partisan post. The Republicans are just as clueless, but they aren't in charge right now, so the indictment goes to the current administration…

I've been going through my "stack of stuff." Unfortunately, this isn't my accumulated goodies for writing another book, but rather a hodge podge of interesting things over the last couple of years…

Amidst all the craziness of 2021, here are some things to be joyful and grateful about…

Yesterday I spent a delightful afternoon with the chief architects of a proposed Anglican sponsored all-boys boarding farm school about half an hour from our farm. We spent the afternoon looking at the 260-acre property on which they have a contract.

I'm now writing a monthly column for the magazine PLAIN VALUES and this is a plug for everyone to subscribe. Historically it has been aimed at the Amish-Mennonite community (people who dress plain) but its success is moving to a broader base.

My last post garnered the comment that this new constitutional amendment in Maine does not guarantee food commerce; the language speaks more to personal production and consumption.

A ballot initiative you may not have heard about in Maine late Tuesday created unprecedented freedom for voluntary food commerce. This first-of-its kind constitutional amendment does what the U.S. Bill of Rights failed to do: guarantee citizens the right to choose their food.

GMWatch published a story today about a $500,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to the University of California, Riverside to figure out how to get covid vaccines into lettuce and spinach as a new mechanism for inoculating humans.

POLYFACE MICRO: SUCCES WITH LIVESTOCK ON A HOMESTEAD SCALE is my latest book and we’re finishing up the initial autographed copy/discounted introductory price Sept. 30…