Tag: farming

In some ways Good Husbandry stands as a kind of bildungsroman for Essex Farm and, by extension, the support-your-local-farmer movement.

Mayweed is a persistent gift that teaches me how to thrive in unlikely places.

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.

Gracy Olmstead, Garth Brown, and Jason Peters on whether Solein can save the planet.

I am an unlikely localist. My life is a product of globalization. My mother’s side of the family is from Singapore, China, and India,...

The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings, the latest collection of writings by Wendell Berry, isn't a perfect book, nor the perfect expression...

“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.

Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.

He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five.

In some ways, the little farming community of Hallettsville where I have spent a writing sabbatical still resides in a simpler time. Czechs and...