The Feed Store

In Oklahoma, the nature many of us live so close to is a different thing from the concept of “nature” we have internalized.

If we are serious about sustainability, we need to rethink where and how we apply pressure.

Trust in rural places isn’t built on virtue; it’s built on visibility. It’s knowing you’ll see the person again.

There is no law preventing us from being worthy pupils of the spring rains, the dead, and the plants. We can mind first principles; we can keep our hands off the principal.

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…

Every year that we farm in the old ways, more of nature returns, despite the mistakes we make. Each return teaches hope.

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

I am happy that the boys enjoy the garden too. But who knows how it will be in five years?

The lessons of murmuration are clear. There is power and safety in community

Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible

Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals.

After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden