Fall typically comes with a sense of urgency. The homeschooling schedule is underway, and we must focus on the usual production and selling all while readying the farm and family for winter. We need to do a final count on CSA shares for the year, work out the processing schedules, get livestock to the butcher, […]
The Perfect Diet
“Where are those herbs I brought home from the cafe? I’m trying to find stuff to shove up the chicken butt,” I explain to Bob as he watches me scramble about the kitchen. “There seems to be a lot of that going around today,” he remarks as he takes a long sip of bone broth. […]
Slow Marketing Part II: Algorithms, Negativity Bias & Marketing OFF Social Media
I think Kevin has boundary issues. Lately he’s been writing to me a couple times per week. From the tone of his emails, you’d think we knew each other. His notes suggest that, at some point, we connected, and that we need to get a time on the books when we can talk about a […]
Slow Marketing: Business without Social Media
“It’s a necessary evil,” I lean back in my rocking chair, soaking up the warmth from the fire while Dusky sprawls across my lap. I’m trying to stay calm, centered. I need to convince everyone of my view. And they’re not convinced. Sunday family dinner is over, and we’re lingering a little longer before everyone […]
Pop Pop’s Love
He doesn’t take his granddaughters to Disney, he doesn’t take them fishing. He doesn’t buy them baubles. But every afternoon and every morning he goes to the barn with them and stands patiently as they learn to work with their livestock. He shows them when to be firm, he makes sure there is time for […]
The Hacker from Hanoi
My New Year’s resolution was to learn to see the things that are holding me back, and to let them go. I sent the intention out to the universe; I’ve been reciting it to myself several times each day. I was thinking in terms of finally being able to clean out my underwear drawer, winnow […]
Keeping Your Family & The Business Together
It was an Irish lamb stew, made from our farm’s grassfed lambs, local root vegetables and a bone broth that we simmered for 72 hours straight. It came with a wedge of fresh baked Irish soda bread with local grassfed butter, a slice of Irish apple cake topped with custard cream, and a pint of […]
Kindness Helps
Bob’s dad used to fret that he’d wind up a dish washer in a restaurant. When I decided to major in creative writing for my undergrad degree, my family feared a similar fate for me. They were all right. Bob and I wound up working in a restaurant. We cook our guests nourishing […]
The Right Price
Wow. Folks get riled up when they talk about food prices when buying direct from farmers. And yet, for all the understanding the local food movement seems to have about fair wages for farmers, based on your comments these past weeks, it seems like we all have some war stories to tell In this three […]
Agnes & The Cloak of Shame
Last week you heard about a nasty anonymous letter sent to my fellow farmer, Tricia Park of Creekside Meadows farm, berating her about her prices. All of us small, independent farmers and business owners…if we’ve been in the game for a while, have a few of these war stories to tell. This week I’m going […]
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