Living and Farming in a Changing Climate

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.

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Kelsey Keener
Our Experience with Roots So Deep

For 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. 

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Dante Zucchini

In 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.

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Islands

Within 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.

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The Land Provides

This 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.

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Kelsey Keener