If we can get a handle on this one thing, nature will accomplish for free everything we’re failing to mitigate with technology, from air quality to water quality to quality of life.
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I think my current home life is a good analogy for society’s reaction to poop: It’s too close and we want it gone.
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We do not have to convert our farms into miniature replicas of foodservice giants;
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Ironically, when primitive people are ‘working’, they’re engaged in activities modern people yearn for as recreation: Hunting, fishing, picking fruit and berries, and traversing the countryside are all vacation activities highly prized.
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I don’t think there was one of us there who enjoyed wearing formal clothing, yet it was a setting requiring such decoration that provided the opportunity to socialize and swap stories.
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Here’s a fun brain game: Let’s pretend you have a kennel, and I have a dog that reproduces as though it were a bacterium, splitting in two once every minute and creating progeny that will do the same. I’ll stop by tomorrow at 11am to deliver the dog into your care. We know your kennel will be full at Noon.
What time will your kennel reach half capacity?
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We must conclude that the leadership role is not on the shoulders of the biggest, badddest tough guy.
It’s usually his old mom in charge.
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People are smart enough that we don’t use vegetative pigmentation to lead us around like a bug. When it comes time to formulate a diet we use science, not color attractants.
Our method fails to acknowledge a critical reality.
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Most of my days are spent on the edge of my proverbial seat, waiting for something to go wrong so I can proclaim my rightness for worrying about it.
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This story will be brutally honest. You’ll soon know all my shortcomings.
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“Here we go again,” I thought. “Some faux do-gooder program like a cereal box that saves trees or a laundry detergent that saves the ocean.” Bah, humbug.
Then I researched the project and decided to stick the proverbial foot in my perpetually pessimistic mouth.
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The first farmers on this continent made a mistake. 500 years later, we’re making it worse.
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Growing up a farm kid, I learned in roughly the first three days of life that ‘manure’ comes out the back of an animal. Manure stinks. The smell with saturate clothing, pores, vehicle seats, dogs, babies, hair, your spouse, your house…everything.
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In his book Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing, Harry Beckwith warns against doing things bigger or better than ‘the competition’. Customers won’t notice the incremental advantages you’ve achieved over similar businesses. You’ll end up going nowhere, and working hard to get there.
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Humanity, in all its glamour, depends on an exchange program between plants and fungus.
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Here’s the link for the May 2021 Clarion Farms Newsletter. Enjoy!
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Vegetation is the world’s most perfect solar collector. Without a single manufactured part, grass captures sunlight and stores it in a physical form.
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I like to deconstruct my meals. On the occasions that I’m dining alone at home, I consume foods in a circular pattern, one ingredient at a time, without sitting at a table. Instead of mixing a salad, I’ll select each vegetable I want and eat them separately.
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Our physical bodily systems are constantly attempting to establish equilibrium with the outside environment via the food we consume.
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If you’re thinking that beef grades are proof that people do understand beef quality, consider what it is that makes steak appealing. Is it just savory fat? Consistent texture? Reliable supply? No!
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