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BARN SHEEP

Saturday night I did my last of three  3-hour workshops, just outside of Hebron, and am now heading back home…

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AVRI RON

Yesterday I had the special privilege of spending a couple of hours with the man known as the agrarian patriarch of Israel, Avri Ron.  He’s also the largest organic certified farmer in Israel and perhaps the Middle East…

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BULLDOZED VINEYARD

Yesterday the Israeli government sent in bulldozers to destroy a 20-acre vineyard near where I’m staying in Israel.  You might wonder why.  Fair question…

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JUDEA AND SAMARIA

I’m in Israel at the invitation of HaYovel, a 20-year effort started by the Waller family to minister encouragement to Israeli farmers.  Yesterday I met with two farmers and tonight I’ll be speaking in the Jordan Valley…

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HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI

One of the reasons I took nearly a month off from blogging was because I was hunkered down with a new book…

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KROGER’S CARBON NEUTRAL EGGS

By now you’ve no doubt seen the plethora of press releases from Kroger saying they have the first carbon neutral eggs in the country…

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LIVESTOCK mRNA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s DEFENDER has done us all a wonderful service by shining the light on the plethora of pharmaceutical efforts to create mRNA vaccines for livestock…

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Eggs

Eggs are on everybody’s mind these days.  Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is the boogeyman at least for the shortage in the supermarket…

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2023 PREDICTIONS

We’ve had quite a holiday season here on the farm, with two major ice storms, temperatures below 0, no internet for two weeks (due to the ice storm) and then to top it all off…

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NO AND YES

“What you say no to defines your business more than what you say yes to.” My mentor Allan Nation hammered that into me years ago and I’ve never forgotten it…

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YOUR FIST ON MY NOSE

For libertarians like me, the “your freedom ends when your fist hits my nose” is the litmus test for liberty. It seems simple enough when spoken initially, but it gets complicated in practice.

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Most people who travel to foreign countries go to historical sites, museums, nature experiences and exotic shops….

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