During a podcast last week, I had a bit of a revelation.  Nothing stimulates us to think things through better than a good question-answer period.  I can always tell when I'm guesting on a truly ground-breaking podcast because the interview teases out of me things I'd never thought of before.  Or at least, new ways to articulate old concepts…

This is the time of year when cow-calf producers wean their calves and take them to the sale barn to be sold to folks who will buy those stockers and carry them until they're sold to feedlots for finishing…

Goodness knows in the good farming sector of agriculture--as opposed to bad farming--we need friends.  This post is not to crucify; it is to point out blind eyes on our own side and unnecessary sensationalism…

The federal government captured America's food system two years after Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906.  The book revealed corruption and filth in the meatpacking industry, concentrated in Chicago.  Consumers fled the "big seven" meatpackers, who controlled 50 percent of the market at that time…

I have a flip phone, no smart phone.  I've never texted, never apped, never taken a picture or selfie, never GPSed a location and all of this partly to create private space.  I don't want the world to have access to me every moment of the day.  I don't think it's healthy.  In old school thinking, I view the phone as something…

I'm a pen snob.  I like a certain feel in my hand, a certain way the ink flows out, the way the pen moves across the paper, and ultimately the kind of marks it leaves.  I like smooth, bold lines and a fat instrument, not a skinny pen that's hard to hold…

Fox Digital broke a story this week about the food police threatening Kathy Kite in Harrisburg, Missouri over her home breakfast benevolence.  After losing her job at a filling station as part of covid lockdown fallout--a place that served breakfast--she decided to offer breakfast free to folks…

I'm fighting tears at the loss of a giant, perhaps the most articulate voice for good farming and right cultural living in America:  my friend and mentor Wendell Berry.  He passed away at his home in Kentucky yesterday, Aug. 31, at the age of 92…

People are emailing right and left about this proposed Executive Order from President Trump giving farmers and ranchers the right to process their animals on their own properties for their consumption.  Duh, that is already legal…

Last weekend we hosted another Rogue Food Conference here at the farm and I had the privilege of moderating  a fantastic panel that offered an epiphany moment…

As small farmers who produce livestock get more squeezed out of the retail market, at least one state is leading a charge against federal government overreach:  New Hampshire.  Yes, "Live Free or Die."  That state, bless 'em…

According to the official narrative, not a single case of cyclosporiasis has occurred in domestically-produced lettuce.  The safest is local, but even large producers farming in the U.S. have not had a problem…