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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…
Hillbilly Grace on a Five-Acre Farm in Lincoln, Arkansas: A Review of Minari
...So there’s an element of that in the film, so it grows very expansively without doing much to it. It’s a poetic plant in a way for me. Death…
How Farms Differ From Factories
...The strength of her book is the recognition that farming is a particular kind of work. Each farm finds itself situated in a unique natural, social, cultural, and biological…
Hope for a Humane Agricultural Future: A Review of Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future
...lifestyles that treat nature well. Conclusion Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future makes a solid case for agrarianism, which falls in line with the arguments of Gene Logsdon, Wendell…
Requiem for the Chapel on the Farm
...seem to be on the front line of the damage we are about to endure. Driving about in any direction, one can spy another relic of the New England…
Cutting a Farm into a Forest
...neglected farmland that is ready to be brought back to life with attention and care. The piece of property on which my story takes place had evolved past neglect:…
What Do Farmers Want?
...But with ever fewer farmers, the few of us joining agricultural work are all the more important. Towards that end, I spend most of my extra time organizing farmers…
Amish, the Farm Bill, and Universities
...Old Ways are New again in Quiet Manitoba Town.” Cameron MacLean reports on a community of Amish who are migrating to cheaper farm land. One of the previous residents…
Farmers, Physiologists, and Daylight Saving
...an issue that might seem quaint or strange for farmers to have cared much about. The Grange fought hard against Daylight Saving Time. (Officially it’s “saving,” not “savings.”) Contrary…
Farm Stories: Hog Killing
...to the farmer, he sees it every morning before the sun comes up. But I can testify, that farm yard air is always quite possible to breathe! Such splendid…
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…
Among the Mad Farmers: Chicago Good Food Festival and Conference
...but he chose to be another mad farmer (in Wendell Berry’s sense of the term). From the department of good ideas, I saw the Davis CA-based Farmer Veteran Coalition.…
The Farm Bill, Afghanistan, and Philanthropy
...using the discount code JOLLYSAVINGS. “Trump Wants to Take From the Poor and Give to the Wealthy.” Gracy Olmstead points out that the Farm Bill continues to provide handouts…
The Biggest Small Farmer
...to keep it healthy over the long term. Bromfield, like many farmers interested in sustainability, did not desire mere primitivism in cultivation, but a more intelligent way of farming…