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Category Archives: Life
My View from the Ramparts: Farming in the age of COVID-19
The past couple of months has been a strange time here at Innisfree, as I know it has been for everyone during this time of social isolation and pandemic outbreak. What’s been strangest for us is how relatively little our … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Life, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, covid, covid-19, Experiments, farm life, Farming, goals, Lessons, Ohio, Outcomes, pandemic, readiness, Self-sufficiency, smallhold, social distancing
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The Rambling Road: So, what’s this all about?
It’s sometimes hard to know where to begin an explanation of something that has been coming my whole adult life, so I will start with the event that triggered the birth of this blog. A couple of weeks ago, I ended up in the hospital for almost a week as the result of acute pancreatitis brought … Continue reading So, what’s this all about? Continue reading
Posted in Health, Ideas, Life
Tagged care, destinations, documentation, exercise, goals, illness, journeys, pacreatits, paths, plasmapheresis, rambling, Reality, roving, sharing, Uncategorized
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Seven Stone: The food that was trying to kill me
For reasons even science is struggling to understand, we are awash in an era of food allergies from the very real and sometimes deadly to the faddish and imagined. However, the idea that our food is making us sick is … Continue reading
Seven Stone: Calorie does not mean what you think it means
Most people, as a result of the junk sold to us by the media as dietary science, think of calories and nutrients for their body the same way they think of fuel and oil for their cars. As a result, … Continue reading
Seven Stone: About the farm
When contemplating weight loss, one of the first places people look is exercise, and if your work is exercise, so much the better. I came into the undertaking of running a sustainable farm much the same way. Five years ago, … Continue reading