As you can see, the posts are getting farther and fewer apart as mid-summer creeps up on us and we find ourselves in the heart of the season. All is well on the farm. We are in the midst of planting and starting all the fall and winter crops and we haven’t even begun harvesting [...]
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Heart of the Season
Posted in Agrarian, Farm Update, Greenhouse on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Agrarianism — Thoughts on our Rural Lives
Posted in Agrarian on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is something I wrote recently for our local newspaper, the Applegater and will appear in their September/October issue. I have a bi-monthly column called Farm Talk in the paper. It is a fun and creative thing I get to do every other month. Enjoy and thoughts, please…
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There is an emerging desire in a new [...]
Inspiration
Posted in Agrarian, tagged Alternative agriculture, Small Farms, Sustainability on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I guess I’ve been searching for inspiration lately. I found some today while reading John Ikerd’s book Small Farms are Real Farms.
“Small farms allow people to fit their uniqueness to their ecological niche and to the unique tastes and preferences of consumers. Small farms are management intensive–they allow farmers to rely more on themselves and less on borrowed [...]
