Farmers, commanding large tracts of land, can choose by way of practice to increase or decrease the living complexity for everyone around them.
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Most of the time I feel like my biggest revelations are so absolutely basic that I must be a dullard.
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It’s kind of ridiculous, when you think about it, that we desire special products and expect of them generic availability.
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What causes a person to deliberately reject comfort, to say “no” to the constant craving of luxury, and adopt a routine of discipline and physical distress?
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As in industrial development, the necessary agricultural service – quality food raised well – must be supported by complex groundwork, and it is these supporting details that need presented to the consumer public for consideration.
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I don’t believe I’ve ever sought the advice of someone I perceive to be average.
It’s part of the human condition known as more. We don’t look up to competent people. Instead, we seek out and pursue the extreme, perceiving it to be better than good because extremes are highly visible while good is nearly invisible.
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Something is lost in substance as communication becomes easier.
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When organizations visit our farm for a tour the discussion forces me to step outside my first-person perspective and analyze daily activities from a new angle.
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Sometime between Saturday, March 12, and Saturday, March 19, the 3G signal from which our mobile credit card reader operated was discontinued, rendering our machine useless. On a cold, snowing morning, I faced a line of people waiting in the miserable elements to purchase beef from my family only to discover a lack of signal on my card reader.
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If you read this, Baker, thank you.
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My list of speaking notes was quite orderly: Step One, Step Two, Step Three, and, ta-daaaa! Compost! No sweat. I am fully prepared. Except for one glaring problem: Nobody really needs another “How-To” discussion.
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It’s about Moldova, Ukraine’s neighbor to the west.
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For me and my sister, the biggest DO NOT CROSS line was boredom. Just alluding to the possibility of being bored conjured up Mom’s List of Suggestions that we could undertake in order to overcome our unfortunate childhood entertainment deficit.
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There exists a growing rift between a country boy and his country. I believe that country boys are removing themselves from the land despite their continued occupation of it.
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Chemical companies can’t achieve this societal detachment by speaking directly to the people, so they advocate through less offensive mediums: clothing. Their camouflage tactics are remarkably effective.
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I am obsessed with beef and devote a considerable amount of time to the subject. Following are several tips that have helped me better understand my favorite protein.
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Referencing the books, I can tell you with remarkable accuracy which acre my herd of cattle was traversing on any given day going back through 2017. Imagine my dismay to realize, after years of day-to-day note taking, I still find myself in situations I don’t know how I got in and lack the knowledge to get back out of.
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Here is a behind-the -scenes look at the process we use to move our cattle from one pasture to another.
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Of course, if you’re reading about the good stuff in a book, then the unspoken message is that wherever you reside is not good. That’s a major bummer for everyone who isn’t an author of nature.
I admit that with my education I adopted the mindset of environmental inferiority.
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One cannot be a student of the subject of death for long without realizing that it is death that creates new life, which is itself something to be celebrated. People, to my knowledge, are the only species on Earth that isolate the two halves and fail to participate in the cycle.
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