The past six months we have experienced three severe weather events. DROUGHT, we had almost no rain August -October. Then the rains came bringing flooding. Most recently a winter storm blew in coating everything with several inches of ice, the ice stayed for 10 days because temperatures rarely got above freezing and dropped as low as 2 degrees.
Read MoreFor years, I have struggled with many of the arguments the vegan community and now the plant based meat industry has made in regards to the production and consumption of animals for protein. First of all I want to say that I 100% identify and agree with the core argument that the industrialized meat production model is should be a crime as it is destroying the planet through the excessive use of gmo monocrops which are poisoning our waters, our soils and our atmosphere at an alarming rate.
Read MoreSummer day knows, perhaps, the probable parabolical curve on the axis of its own act(s) its path, who’s end I will not seek, though It may.
Read MoreZucchini, squash, cucumber, these must be picked every day. The daily vine. Tomatoes, okra, green beans, peas, these must be picked every other day.
Read MoreIn 1306 Dante began writing the Commedia, which was to become the center of the western literary canon for a couple hundred years until around 1600 when Shakespere surrounded all.
Read MoreWithin ecology we also find that when systems, spontaneous or fabricated, grow and extend in complexity they almost always have a tendency to produce heterogeneity and to form subset or Islands.
Read MoreThis is a scene from my morning walk with the cows. Hints of Fall are everywhere in the pasture. The late blossoms of iron weed and native sunflowers are making all the bees and wasps go wild as they prepare for Winter.
Read MoreIt’s kind of fun to think about our farming/food supply chains and how everything is connected. Here’s an example
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