Before taking off on a farming venture, you need to check some things just like pilots do before going airborne.  Land to Market asked me to do a guest blog for them regarding this topic and it forced me to condense some thoughts I hadn’t put on paper…

I spent the weekend at The Vineyard Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, pastored by

Chris Figaretti, who contacted me in 2014 after reading my book The Marvelous Pigness

of Pigs…

Whenever someone asks me “what’s your weak link?” my standard response is “marketing.”  Lots of folks think somehow I have a magical ability to sell stuff, that people flock to our farm products and we have to beat them off with a stick…

Okay, folks, I’m going to give you one more excerpt from my new book, HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:  Good for Country, Critters, and Kids…

I’m sharing another little portion of a chapter of my new book HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:

Good for Country, Critters, and Kids…

I’m thrilled and grateful to announce that we finally have my newest book, HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:  Good for Country, Critters, and Kids, in hand and ready to go…

Censorship is like food police—you don’t realize what it’s like until it actually happens to you….

It’s 4:30 a.m. and I’m in the airport near Medellin, Colombia waiting for my return flight to Miami, reading the comments to my blog post about the idea of running chickens under coffee trees. I shared it with a bright group of young coffee growers yesterday…

I’ve just returned to my hotel room after a full day visiting folks and keynoting the 16th annual AgroFuturo Expo here in Medellin, Colombia…

My neighbor, Michael Godfrey, is one of the foremost bird authorities in the United States and releasesone of these short videos each week, primarily extolling the virtues of grasslands…

 I just returned from a farm consult that included a 70-acre timber harvest 4 years ago.  That area is coming back beautifully in assorted hardwoods and poplars, some of which are already 15 feet tall…

An ultimate win often takes years of painful endurance.  More often than not, folks need to be hit by a 2X4 before realizing what a win might actually be.  McDonald’s, mRNA, and Chick-fil-A are all going in the wrong direction, of course, but taken together they are gradually building a sick, sick, sick society…