APARTMENT CHICKENS
Well, we’ve certainly got a lively discussion going with a HENDOMINIUM in city apartments…
CHICKEN FURNITURE
I’ve sure enjoyed all the give and take on this in-house chicken discussion stimulated, as you know, by $100 million in venture capital to start up kitchen scrap dehydration and shipping to make into chicken feed…
INDOOR CHICKENS
Yesterday’s blog post inspired some great comments and I want to respond to the aversion several of you expressed about dust, smell, and chores in an apartment…
SHIPPING GARBAGE
The Wall Street Journal over the weekend ran a big story on the number of start-ups getting into the food waste business, trying to keep it out of landfills…
DAVID AND GOLIATH
Happy New Year, everyone. I preached Sunday, filling in for our pastor, who was out of town. As a text, I used probably the most famous Bible story in all history: David and Goliath…
POLITICAL DRIVEL
One of my annual routines is what I call “cleaning off the desk” and I usually get it done between Christmas and New Year’s. So today I’m deeply imbedded in finding hidden papers, neglected letters to answer, and everything that got put off during the hectic time of the year…
100 YEARS OLD
Mom turned 100 Dec. 11 and we had a birthday celebration for long-time friends and neighbors at a local bed and breakfast on Sunday. It was quite a doin’s and was wonderful to see folks spanning a lifetime…
WHO WILL DEFEND US?
“I’m a West Point grad, planned on a military career, but I’ve been in 5 years and am getting out,” said the young man, tears his eyes. ..”
EATING SOLAR PANELS
A wonderful young homesteading couple from Indiana visited us over the weekend with a first person disconcerting story…
PRE-FLIGHT CHECKLIST
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…
CREATION STEWARDSHIP: CORNERSTONE OF CHRISTIAN CREDIBILITY
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…