Results for “farm”
The Growing Pains of a Small Farm: Kristin Kimball’s Good Husbandry and “The Problem of Scale”
...a kind of bildungsroman for Essex Farm and, by extension, the support-your-local-farmer movement. The Kimballs’ farm is nearing its twentieth birthday. Several of their former employees now operate farms…
The Call of Farm Life: The Challenge of Constancy and Fidelity
...shared purpose—the pursuit of the common good of the community—for the farm to carry on. A family farm cannot exist in isolation from the broader community. If the local…
Agriculture vs. Agribusiness
...that the interest of farms and farmers is in conflict with the interests of agribusiness and get on one side or the other. That said, I am on the…
The Saint of the City Goes Rural: Dorothy Day and the Life of the Land
...into view, the Catholic Worker farms have continued to thrive, and today there are 22 farms in operation in four countries. Contemporary Catholic Worker farms have taken a more ecological…
A Beautiful Farm?
...necessary to ask what role beauty plays on a farm, if any. Does it make any difference if a farm is “beautiful” or not? In his classic work, One…
The Rediscovery of Agriculture?
...family farming or a model for organic farming which could be used in larger scale farms? 3. In many parts of the world where farms are small they do…
Yo! Farmer Dude!
...and left the farm to their 8 children, those two got the main farmhouse and were able to buy another farm in a neighboring county. He passed away last…
Finding The Seam: How Small Farmers Can Thrive
...still be a farmer and care for the land without relying solely on the business of farming to support a family. In fact, most of them do. As of…
Save Nick’s Organic Farm
A farm in Montgomery County, MD may be shut down to build soccer fields. Will the community defend the farm? Nick Maravell has farmed the land on Brickyard Rd.…
Is There Such a Thing as Private Food?
...public health scrutiny on the evening it was serving its first-ever farm-to-fork dinner to dozens of area customers. In a letter to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, farm owner…
Clarkson’s Farm, a Folly Worth Watching
...definitely a dilettante farmer on his Diddly Squat farm—the show does not portray farming as a joke. Clarkson’s Farm highlights the expertise and effort required to do even the…
A Sign Does Not a Century Farm Make
...it for a farm. Can a farm be a farm if it is too big? Farms in Iowa are big and, like the average waistline, getting bigger. Most farmers…
On the Agripositive Side. . . .
...do not understand this comment. How are large farms more poorly managed than small farms? What makes a large farm large versus a small farm? Is it how the…
Agrarian Politics: Why I Care
...the entire state. Having the best farm land meant that we had the most prosperous farmers. I did not grow up on a farm. I grew up in Spencer—a…
James Rebanks in Conversation: Pastoral Song
...that collaboration is the way forwards, the old male macho farmer myth is something I try to dismantle in my book—good farms always took a village of people to…
Intellectual Grounding: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
...up on the farm? You watched older brothers and sisters and your parents take their work seriously, on the farm and in the household. Is that where you picked…
The Names of Things
...and Sky Farm and our Pied Beauty Farm exist as near mirror images of each other. Both were rundown, intensively farmed homesteads. Both have been taken over by English…
A Farmer Who Walks the Talk
...there is something different about this farm compared to a commercial farm, it is the action of the farmers’ hands and the inspiration of the minds guiding them that…
Does Food Policy Matter? A Review of Small Farm Republic
...farms and then start planting corn themselves; out of economic necessity the farmers themselves bought bigger tractors, which let one person work more land, so in the grain belt…
The Populist Farmer, Revisited
...the development of large-scale corporate irrigated farms over labor-intensive small farms which did not receive foreign investment, is pretty damning). Overall though, I commend you to John’s own take…
Where Is Our Freedom to Exercise Sympathy?
...the same thing my farmer grandpa had. I wanted the special thing that a farm gives to a farmer. What to call this thing? Maybe: a home place. A…
In Pursuit of Jimmie Ricker’s Farm
...a stone tub in his barn to water livestock and cool milk, an unusual thing. “Stump farm” means a farm pretty much unchanged from the time it was settled…
Farm Stories: The Flag of Rough Branch
Russell Arben Fox Our greatest stupidity from my farm years while growing up was the assumption my father--who knew about horses and cattle and feed and wheat and alfalfa…
The Internet Won’t Feed You, and Neither Will We
...small, self-sustaining family farming operation. How glorious for all of us arm-chair farmers (most of us on this site, I suspect, have done no real farming to speak of).…