I Hit Reset.

February 20, 2012

I’ve been quiet here lately. You may have noticed.
I don’t have a good excuse. I simply haven’t been feeling it. I’ve been uninspired, unmotived, unmoved… stale.
This past weekend I was scheduled to go to the 2012 Young Farmers & Ranchers Conference — conveniently held in Grand Rapids, Michigan this [...]

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From Scratch

February 9, 2012
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There’s a lot of pride to be had when building a business from scratch and when that business is a farm part of that pride is so very tangible. Some days I stand out there and I look around and I marvel at how far we’ve come. Last time I travelled for work [...]

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Where You Have Livestock, You Have Dead Stock: What HSUS Doesn’t Tell You.

February 8, 2012

I’m about to share with you an inconvenient truth: Only you can change the way livestock are reared on commercial farms in the United States. I said it when everyone was in an uproar about routine antibiotic use a few weeks ago and I’ll say it again. American consumers may like the [...]

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Local Food, USDA and Stereotypes

February 4, 2012
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Last summer, during a farm tour, one of our guests, a pre-teen boy, started talking about how great our breakfast must be. He waxed poetic about the bacon, eggs, sausage, and toast we must eat at the crack of dawn every morning. I’m not going to lie—before he was done I was beginning to [...]

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Randomness to Wrap Up The Week

February 3, 2012
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I’ve been a woman of few words lately; which is terribly out of character. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, I just haven’t been saying it here. I did however, say it here (on local food trends) and here (a rare departure from food and ag, this time on education). [...]

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Into The Belly of the Beast We Go

January 31, 2012

I spent much of yesterday morning shopping greenhouse supplies online. This after spending much of the previous day trying to draw up the planting plans for this spring. I came away from that exercise with much the same conclusion as every other year; it can be rather succinctly summed up as: what the [...]

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Randomness for a Thursday

January 26, 2012

I’m not very fashionable. You all know me. I like black shirts of various types and blue jeans and that pretty much sums it up. Occasionally I’ll throw a black bracelet and some nail polish into the deal but anything more and you’re pretty much asking to pull teeth from a chicken. [...]

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On Order & Getting It Done

January 24, 2012

I’ve been working on this particular book project for months and, at last check, the word count was still measly. I made an outline of the book first; that’s what they tell you to do. And though I’ve never been much for following directions, in publishing I seem to take advice from the [...]

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For the Love of This Life

January 19, 2012

Today was not a great day. It’s cold here. Not as cold as it has been. It could be a lot worse. It’s single digits cold and we’ve seen winters where it didn’t even reach the negative single digits for weeks at a time. It’s only been this cold for [...]

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Only You Can Keep Animals Off Drugs

January 17, 2012
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I can’t count the number of op-eds, blog posts and general news articles I’ve read about the FDA’s recent move to ban extra-label uses of cephalosporins — a type of antibiotic – in meat production in the past two weeks, but Mark Bittman’s piece for the New York Times pretty succinctly sums up what [...]

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