Yesterday I did a podcast with Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie on Free the People and the discussion turned to his 5-year-old bill the Prime Act. It has not gotten traction until now. In the last ten days, he's picked up 18 co-sponsors. That's pretty dramatic for a bill that couldn't get a handful for 5 years.
Read MoreWords are fascinating things. As a lifelong word artist, I'm intrigued by phrases and word choice. Lots of times a seemingly insignificant word indicates a host of unspoken background. It's like a curtain opening a crack and suddenly you realize an entire dramatic production is being played out behind the curtain.
Read MoreFew things indicate spring like asparagus. It shows up when it feels right. It doesn't consult a calendar. It doesn't ask for special legislation or grant money to operate. It just pokes through the soil and sends up its beautiful spire when its intelligence and data gathering services confirm: "today is the day."
Read MoreFor all its inconvenience and maddening unknowns, the silver lining to the coronavirus is a collective understanding of some new things. It has brought into sharper focus new opportunities and perhaps new enthusiasm for healthy change. Here are some things that seem to be permeating our cultural conscience, perhaps for the first time.
Read MoreDr. Judy Mikovits, a long time molecular biologist says wearing a face mask reactivates your own coronavirus and is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Read MoreYesterday, with great disappointment, I announced the Mother Earth News fair at Polyface postponement until next summer due to Covid-19. That was our educational component for the season.
Read MoreRead MoreThe most anticipated shindig in our lives for more than a year has succumbed to the realities of Covid-19: The Mother Earth News Fair at Polyface. If you've never been to one of their several fairs around the country in the last decade, you're missing a real treat. It's the biggest gathering of authentic self-reliance and eco-enhancing practitioners in the world.
We don't normally do that in our sophisticated society; we just censor. Take away their voice.
Read MoreThe Polyface Stewards. That's who. Here on the farm, we have numerous rites of passage during the season. In the late winter, arrival of the first broiler chicks is a sign that spring is just around the corner…
Read MoreUntil last week, I did not know anyone who had Covid-19. But a close friend finally got it, or thinks he did. And therein lies the insanity of this whole thing.
Read MoreWhat do you think that is? Go ahead, take a minute and think: what is foaming chickens?
Read MoreToday I returned from my first plane flight since the Covid-19 outbreak. I flew from Charlottesville to Charlotte to do a farm consult for a young family on a multi-generational farm. We spent yesterday dreaming and going through financial and resource issues, marketing and distribution, and putting together a plan to leverage their current position into a truly thriving pastured livestock farm.
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