Results for “farm”
The View from Your Front Porch
...two communities today. Remus’ motto is “Farms, Families, and Friends” and in keeping with that spirit of tradition and roots, many of the original families continue to farm or…
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…
A Long, Long Row
...more than just foregoing raspberries in winter. It took fifty years to lay waste the family farm; it will take at least as many years of hard work for…
Dirt, Dollars, and Devices
...more difficult than it has to be. I hate that most farmers would rather listen to bluegrass on the front porch than Beethoven in the concert hall. I hate…
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…
Live like a Tree
...communities in the “cloud.” I like to scroll through images of the woodcarvers, farmers, and farming families that fill my Instagram feed to glean ideas for my place. I…
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…
Deworm the Goat
...fancied she gave the horses a smug look as I set her down. We then headed back to the house. This is a rather humdrum episode for a farm,…
Agrarian Hypocrisy and the Evils of Distributism
...own lives, then is it not hypocrisy for them to expect it of others? But “moving back to the farm” as Carter glibly puts it, is not much of…
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…
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Rebuilding an American Economy Focused on Family and Community
...capital-poor young farmers with existing enlightened landholders so that what is now expressly that "land collected like artwork" you (accurately) mentioned can be returned to farming that might benefit…
Roots Along the River
...figured this farm would be last address. (Even planted Dad on the ridge overlooking our farmhouse.) Nope. I'm more interested in people than land now. Like Socrates, I don't…
Ohio’s Backyard Scientist
...it.” Starlight Nights is as much about Peltier’s life on Ohio ground as it is about his explorations of Ohio skies. “Blessed are those who are raised on a…
Searching for a Usable Past
...God-forsaken place [the farm]” and his inability, no matter how far he runs, to do so. Finally, crucially, Quinney recounts his efforts in retirement to preserve the farm. Most…
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.…
Guinea Fowl
The following essay is from How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers by Scott H. Moore. Copyright © 2019 by Baylor University Press. Reprinted by arrangement with…
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…
Saving String, Kicking Leaves: Donald Hall’s Elegies
...beloved grandfather, a New Hampshire farmer with whom Hall spent his boyhood summers. Wells died while Hall was at Oxford, and the poem is a sort of incantation meant…
Canadian Story Cycles: A Conversation with author John Van Rys
...part of our love of animals, we’ve lived on two hobby farms (one in Iowa and now one in Southwestern Ontario near Hamilton)—also meaning that we’ve spent a lot…
Is Joel Salatin the Problem? Reflecting on The Last Pig
...spilled here at the Porch on such topics.) Often the heroes emerging in such stories are local/organic/grass-fed/holistic farmers like Joel Salatin. The Last Pig is a genre-busting film because…
