From the Farmer

Real talk and weekly insight from the Grass Roots farmers

Friends, we've been suckered into buying food in two installments: the empty calories at the grocery store, then the missing nutrients at the pharmacy.The numbers make my blood boil. Since the 1950s, industrial farming has stripped 30-70% of nutrients from our food. Spinach has...
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CHAPTER ONE Friends, I'm about to get more real with you than I ever have before. Last month I shared how Andrea and I nearly walked away from farming before finding renewed purpose. Today, I'm documenting another critical moment in our...
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My incredible wife Andrea – the heart of our family, farm, and community. All those agricultural books on my shelf, and turns out I should've just been paying closer attention to how Andrea raises our kids. Mother's Day has me...
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CELEBRATING THE COOPERATIVE 7 years into our farming journey, Andrea and I were on the verge of burnout. Don't get me wrong, we loved what we were doing, but the steep learning curve of raising animals on pasture was just...
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