Mark Manry teaches history, geography, and theology at Rochester College in southeast Michigan. He drug out his formal education in theology at Lipscomb University in Tennessee and history at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK by distracting himself with greater things: his wife and five children, four years of mission work in East Africa, and many hours of manual labor on his ten-acre farmstead in the making. He posts intermittently on Instagram
Mark Manry
Articles by Mark Manry
Live like a Tree
I am an unlikely localist. My life is a product of globalization. My mother’s side of the family is from Singapore, China, and India, linked to each other through the…
Broody Hens and the Sustainable Farmstead
My farmstead poultry flock is sustained by a handful of broody hens—female fowl who have somehow retained their ancient instinct to nest and hatch offspring. Broody hens respond to their…
Cutting a Farm into a Forest
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke of the axe he is writing his signature on the face of the land. --Aldo Leopold, Sand County…
Feeding Pigs and Solving for Pattern
Oakland Township, MI My small, exurban farmstead is sustained, in part, by the relationship I forged with my local feed store. To help the reader appreciate the practical and economic…