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The Full Life of Empty Rural Spain
Though we may choose to live out our lives differently upon the land, there remain in both places people who still care for and respect land and community. I have learned much…
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Bobwhite
Every year that we farm in the old ways, more of nature returns, despite the mistakes we make. Each return teaches hope.
Of a Woodstove
I’ve heated with wood for a winter, and I am pleased to do so, but it’s backbreaking labor to warm this way for a lifetime
Can Good Deeds Become Like Murmurations?
The lessons of murmuration are clear. There is power and safety in community
In Praise of Old Fencerows
Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible
Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go
After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden
Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell
Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia
The American Food System’s Very Bad Legacy
There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.
Road Kill
I had to understand life and nature not as something to be mastered, but as gifts afforded to me to steward by a God abundant in goodness.
Finding The Seam: How Small Farmers Can Thrive
There are much easier ways to make money than farming. The primary goal of a good farmer is to find success in caring for one’s land, community, and family.
Winter Rabbits
And so the shotgun sits in our home like a quiet benediction. It dreams—as I do—of long walks in the valleys of my youth and whispers of future pastures that are untrod…
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