Results for “farm”
The Reluctant Southerner: Reflections on Home and History
...inescapable landscapes of youth, to go home again.” The book, A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929, is a strange history of American…
Community & Language
...farmer was dependably not a victim. Though we practiced a diversified way of farming, our farming focused on tobacco. The rhythm of our farming year, as of our financial…
Tenacious T: One Man’s Odyssey to Help Rural People
...causes of the farm emergency surrounding us. (p.118) When working with small farmers, Thompson understood both the value of organic farming and organic activism. Learning quickly what rural farmers…
Bobwhite
...changed. Did we change farming and then people left? Or did people leave and then farming had to change? Or was it both? It was probably both. To make…
Four Words to Change the World
...is for the underdog. But what would I do if my farm were further north, where pine is abundant and red birch scarce? I confess I don’t know. My…
Talking Chicken
...farmers to sell farm-canned goods such as salsa and applesauce. There are limits as to where farmers can sell these products (not grocery stores), they must take a required…
Chalk One Up for Organic
...published a study that measured, recorded and analyzed every input and output of energy of a 150-acre farm over the course of five years in the 1990’s. The original…
A Twenty-First Century Agronomic University: The Maurin Academy
...always open to new ideas for participation! Those interested in meeting, volunteering with, or otherwise supporting the John Paul II Catholic Worker Farm can reach Emily and Spencer at…
From the Editor: Local Culture 7.1
...held by farms of over 500 acres, and “although 70.5% of producers live on the farm with which they are involved, only 42% classify farming as their primary occupation.”…
The Big (Organic) Apple
...an industrial scale farm). 2) Simplify the distribution channels (Farm share, farmers markets etc.). These two have both been tried and are being tried and have had great success.…
Where Have all the Slaughterhouses Gone?
...is a farmer who usually writes practical farming books. Mr. Salatin has provided much direct, practical help to small farmers, including providing internships to young farmers. I'm not sure…
For Craft and Country: Richard Wakefield’s Eminent Domain
...but more familiar: the farm youth whose talent—in this case for basketball—becomes a ticket off the farm and into the mobile meritocracy of contemporary America. Clutching an old practice…
Ashes Along the Edisto
...became part of my family’s farm and included portions of the river. Today, the Edisto still supports farming in a region that has both changed and remained the same.…
New Beginnings: A Conversation with David Heddendorf about his Novel, The Terra Cotta Camel
...of deus ex machina to have the urban farmers win, or is he going to play it honestly. I was relieved that you chose the latter. But then you…
Fuel, Food, and Fault: Rethinking the Emissions Debate
...labor, not travel. For many farmers in rural areas that cost can be sizable. Plus farmers tend to hold onto equipment well past the warranty date, leaving the repair…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
