The feedback from the fence line blog was great and it makes me want to offer more nuance to the discussion…

Today I did one of the most enjoyable things I ever get to do:  clean an electric fence with a chainsaw….

 Last weekend I made four presentations to the Florida Parent Educators Association in Orlando and the last one was titled  simply “Backyard Chickens.”  Imagine my surprise when several hundred people showed up to that late-in-the-day final session…

 I just spent a couple of days in and around Orlando, Florida, the heart of Florida’s orange production country…

I guess I opened a bit of a Pandora’s Box that interestingly started with a celebration of the Supreme Court’s upholding California’s ban on crated pig sales, re-establishing the supremacy of states’ rights…

This has been a great discussion.  Can you abide one more post?  This one is stimulated by the question what would actually happen if EPA and FDA died tomorrow? 

Yesterday’s post about SCOTUS green lighting California’s ban on crated sows elicited some wonderful responses.  Thank you.  This proposition does nothing to other states; it simply says that within California, pork from crated sows cannot be sold…

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of California’s ballot initiative to prohibit pork being sold that originated from piggies born in farrowing crates…

We’re coming up on the final early bird offer for the Two Days of Truth gathering at Polyface June 23 and 24…

I’m thrilled to announced that the Rogue Food Conference is coming back to Polyface this spring May 13…

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

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…