The Feed Store

Thinking about ecology from a national perspective, my house with standard R-19 walls and R40 roof, standard windows, and so on, is a “problem.” From a local perspective, though, there’s a solution that’s far simpler than the ones proposed by national standards for green building: Get up from my library chair and throw another log in the wood stove.

Moore insists that his book about farming is not exclusively about rural places: “the point is not even about farming . . . most of what I’ve said in this book is equally applicable to work in the office, factory, classroom, or home." Moore argues that in each of these locations, the human experience begins and ends with gratitude.

For farming to exist sustainably, even from an economic perspective, it must be re-imagined.

This is a description of small-town life and the help you can expect to receive from people not conditioned to give strangers the finger.

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 locust tree is a rare symbol of Christmas and Easter as one.

This year an unexpected autumn snow blanketed our farm.  In the days that followed, single-digit temperatures secured its place in the landscape, and another,...

The maypop shows, however, that localism need not mean confining oneself to an austere and moralistic diet. If I cannot grow bananas and mangoes in the Ozarks, I can nonetheless harvest maypops.

The presence of a mature orchard is a sign of the longevity of the farm and the temperance and patience of its farmers.

Better dumb guineas than no guineas at all.