I have a lot of very wise people in my life, and I count myself fortunate every day to know them. To them I am constantly posing this question of “how am I going to farm? I can’t afford it.” And have been getting some very wise responses, especially in light of this stupid S.510 [...]
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Taking It Slow
Posted in Farming, Life on 02/12/2010 | 2 Comments »
Why Farm, Pt. 2
Posted in Farming, Pretty Pictures on 24/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
All this talk of going underground just makes me want to farm even more. Why do I want to farm? Why do I want to commit my life to a load of hard work and sunburns and probably being in debt for the rest of my life in order to get a little spit of [...]
Why Farm
Posted in Creepy Foods, Farming, The Food System on 23/11/2010 | 1 Comment »
I was originally going to write a post on all the reasons it is hard to get started in farming if you are a new, young, and relatively poor farmer (or wannabe farmer). This was going to include a bulleted list of all the reasons, mostly economic or regulatory, especially in light of this new [...]
The Biggest Assumption of All
Posted in Farming, Life, The Food System on 01/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are two big assumptions that need to be addressed in moving forward. Both of them are difficult to tackle, very politically incorrect, and very much related to one another. Both of them have to do with land use, and I’m still not sure which one it makes sense to explore first, so I’ll just [...]
Pink Fluffy Unicorns vs. Reality
Posted in Farming, The Food System on 29/10/2010 | 1 Comment »
And lest you all imagine I have my head stuck up my ass… No, as I have said before, I do in fact realize that the reality of the agriculture situation means big commodity farms aren’t going anywhere in the immediate future. As several of the farmers we spoke to pointed out, if the poultry [...]
Things That Are Obvious
Posted in Farming, The Food System on 28/10/2010 | 2 Comments »
Capital News Service: Switching to Grazing Helps Farmers, Chesapeake Bay Well, duh. The first thing I thought of upon reading this article was: yeah, obviously. Doesn’t everyone know that? But then I remembered that someone recently told me they had been asked by a coworker, quite seriously, what a potato tree looked like, and I [...]
Moving Forward
Posted in Farming, Life, The Food System on 27/10/2010 | 3 Comments »
I really want an ice cream maker. But every time I think about this I think, wow, what waste of energy. And then I think, what will I do when we run out of oil? What will I do when there’s no more electricity? And so I’m hoping to find a hand crank ice cream [...]
Cool Stuff
Posted in Farming, Links, Pretty Pictures on 26/10/2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Georgic Odyssey: The Agricultural Photographs of Edwin Remsberg Pretty pictures! Of farms! And some interesting facts. I even learned a few things.
Trellising or Death
Posted in Farming on 23/08/2010 | 3 Comments »
The whole hornworm fiasco occurred during one of my other not so favorite tasks. Actually, I don’t mind it that much, but it tends to make my back scream at me later, which is never pleasant. I’m talking (of course) about trellising. There are many ways to grow tomato plants, but the general concept is [...]
Big Bad Bugs
Posted in Farming on 20/08/2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week at the farm I finally discovered a task I simply despise: squashing tomato hornworms. These are big, fat caterpillars that devour tomatoes and the tops of tomato plants and are difficult to discover because they are so fat and are the same color green as the leaves. However, if not discovered, they will [...]
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