Every week on the farm we are privileged to view miracles and sometimes participate in them. This week Paula’s father passed, at the age of 95, after a long and productive life. He didn’t really start to lose quality of life until he was 93. And it was at the time that Paula and Danny […]
Every year in July I seem to have to go through a period of ennui, or sometimes depression. It is brought on by the often-excessive heat, the unrelenting work of the farm, the weeds that we didn’t get taken care of in a timely fashion, and the realization that the season is only half over, […]
Special individuals come along in our lives from time to time and thus they remain indelibly marked in our memories and our hearts. Eloise the cat, who we found on the front lawn dead on Wednesday morning, was one of those individuals. She was part of a 6-kitten litter back in August of 2017 whose […]
The latest podcast of Ari Whitten’s covers corporate capture of science, ideological bias, glyphosate, golf courses, war chemicals, and myriad other topics that stimulated my thinking process in new ways. I learned for the first time (or perhaps remembered again) that the reason glyphosate causes gluten sensitivity, is because not our genes, but the genes […]
I woke up Saturday morning at 3 am raring to go. I am pretty sure that it has to do with the seaweed (Shantel’s teacher always called it “sea vegetables”) that Jack and I, Dingo, Skippy, Harriet, Eloise, Sadie and Beba have been ingesting since Thursday. Here is a great article about the immensely long […]