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 […]
Pricing & Spiritual Well-Being Part 1: Goldminer’s Vegetables
“You should name this stand Goldminer’s Vegetables….You only cater to the rich…Forget about your retired, year-round neighbors who need nutritious food on a fixed income.” The hand-written note wasn’t for me. It was anonymously left at my friend Tricia Park’s (of Creekside Meadows) farm stand a few hours west of here. But when she posted […]
Listening
I’m wondering how to include pig castration on Ula’s homeschool quarterly report. “It’s definitely science,” Jenn reminds me over lunch. “And don’t forget dissection!” “Is that vivisection?” Bob wonders. No. That would be if it were for research purposes. I think it might be more of a surgical procedure. All of this language would […]
Saoirse’s Choice
I remember the first time I stood in the barnyard, looked at an animal, and saw food. Growing up, I saw the livestock purely as animals. I stayed away when it was time to load them on the truck, mentally left the room when my parents, aunt, uncles and grandparents talked about the price per […]
Racial Reckoning
Nothing looks the same anymore. Last week I worked up the courage to pick up my copy of White Fragility by Robin Diangelo. My friend Vivian insisted I buy it over the summer. Demand for the book was so great, I waited weeks to get it. Then I procrastinated reading. Now, I can only read […]
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