Our little growing wheat experiment was fun. Last Fall, the guys planted wheat in our newly reshaped rocky field patch. By springtime, we had bright green wheat grass everywhere! It was a beautiful ground cover when everything else was still winterized. It rapidly grew and we diligently watched over it as to not trample it…
We came home to a scary overgrown jungle in the garden after being gone for a week. I stood at the garden fence looking in at the wild jungle that had tripled in size in just a week. I grow great super weeds and rocks. I stood gazing at the garden in a cloud of despair. I…
One of the reasons we moved to the farm was in search of a slower paced life that allowed time for “one another”. It was seeking meaningful relationships and finding the time to invest in other people’s lives. In short it was looking for community. Not the old Cheers theme of community, you know the one, “Sometimes…
Feed corn, winter snow and boyhood farm work are beautiful sights! The boys went up to a new feed store that just opened up in town. They bought some bags of corn for $5.75 for a 50 lb bag. They were doing good to get the trailer unloaded and the feed put away in the…
While I’m very thankful for the tractor and all that it can do – the actual impact of progressive farming was exactly opposite of what this old film clip portrays. In fact, Beth recently quoted from “The Hind Tit“, Andrew Nelson Lytle essay published in 1930 on this very topic. Check out this little clip for the story…
Thomas Moore, the chairman for the Southern National Congress, wrote a great essay late last month, that is well worth sharing. He gives a great high level fly over of the root problem in the corporate food industry. It doesn’t matter if the new laws, such as the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009…
Here’s a Food INC. movie review from some friends of ours: Well, we just got back from the movie. Their answers to the problem seemed to rely too much on government, interestingly the same people they place a large portion of the blame on. I have put a review on my blog here. Update from…
Ok – so in the absence of much writing, maybe you’d like to see what we’ve been reading. In addition to our family reading story, Every Farm Tells a Story by Jerry Apps, and my private study time book, Arator, by John Taylor of Caroline here are a few links to some good on-line articles. How do…
Here is another movie that just opened on the 12th, called Food, Inc. We haven’t seen the entire movie yet, but we will. Based on this interview, I’m sure there are parts of the movie that we will disagree with, such as a solution to the problem which includes “Changing Walmart” or other corporations. Having said…
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