I'm on my way today to PorkFest in New Hampshire, an engagement transacted by a speakers' bureau.  Rather than my getting the plane ticket, it was procured by a third party…

I'm flying back today from Palm Springs, a desert city with 120 golf courses that each use 1 million gallons of water a night…

This is our government food safety at work.  Read and weep…

  Last week I had the distinct pleasure of spending a day at St. Martin's Academy in Fort Scott, Kansas.  I became acquainted with the school in the fall of 2020 (remember that?) when a busload of students stopped by for a farm tour as part of a trip to the east coast…

David Stockman was President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury, and the youngest cabinet member to ever serve in the federal government…

Have you ever tried to help someone and then discovered your help wasn't appropriate?  I have…

You can like or dislike the current goings-on in Washington, but you have to admit we're learning a lot of things…

I'm writing from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport waiting to board to come home after speaking at the Heritage Homestead Festival in Waco and the Great Homeschooling Conference in Columbus, Ohio…

Today I received the following letter and request to add my signature…

Bill Mollison, co-founder of permaculture, always said the solutions to the world's seemingly complex problems are amazingly simple.  I've been thinking about food, farm chemicals, RFK Jr., and policy…

I've just finished a fairly comprehensive book titled MYTHOLOGY by Edith Hamilton.  I'll never forget a 10th grade English unit on mythology and find the whole study fascinating because it explains the stories concocted by Greeks and Romans to explain things…

I've been in Iowa the last couple of days doing a farm consult and then a homestead summit.  One of the other speakers was D. C. Savage whose book Agritopia tackles the crop insurance/farm subsidy program…