Everyone talks about surviving winter. Powering through. Beating the darkness. I think we're getting this backwards. The dark isn't something to fight. It's an invitation to rest and regenerate. As a farmer, I've learned that the land requires rest. Not...
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I've been wrestling with something lately, and I'm not the only one. Beef prices are at record highs. It's all over the headlines. Yet the young people I meet who want to get into ranching? They can't make the numbers work....
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This week I was reminded, again, that I don't have anything figured out. Our dog Tulip had a run-in with a skunk Tuesday morning right outside our back door. Not a direct hit, but close enough. Andrea was standing nearby...
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 This week, as I'm preparing for Thanksgiving, I find myself overwhelmed with gratitude. Twenty years ago, Andrea and I started with borrowed land and hand-built chicken coops. No safety net. Just a crazy belief that farming could be done differently....
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The northern lights surprised us with a pink glow over the farm this week. We caught our last batch of chickens this week, all 6,000 of them. Our crew of 16 (half adults, half kids) spent a couple hours loading...
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