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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Please excuse the mess
Really, it’s more of a metaphorical mess as we go about the business of steering the beast that is Innisfree on the Stillwater in a new direction. What does that direction look like? Well, we’re now share-cropping organic row crops, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy, Updates
Tagged agriculture, challenges, Experiments, Farming, lamb, meat, organic, perennial, permiculture, sustainable, wool
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Random thoughts from a wandering mind: You’re so angry, you probably think this post is about you…
(With apologies to Carly Simon…) So, here it goes: everybody is offended these days and it’s likely nobody who doesn’t already agree with you cares. I’m guilty of it. So are you. So is almost everyone, especially if you are any kind … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Society
Tagged anger, offense, responses, social media, song riffs, the world
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Taming a tangled wilderness
We’re unusually free with sharing our successes and failures here at Innisfree on the Stillwater, a fact that is intentional and purposeful rather than naive and dramatic. You see, our desire, along with giving people access to quality, sustainably grown … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Animals, arrogance, challenges, Choices, Experiments, failures, Farming, knowledge, Lessons, Morality, risks, sharing
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: A state of mind
For me, the biggest downside of farming is that my health doesn’t always agree with it, mostly in the form of sometimes debilitating allergies. People often ask me why I keep doing it knowing that I will periodically subject myself … Continue reading → Continue reading
Random thoughts from a wandering mind: The scale of talent to skill
Most of us find ourselves in awe of those videos of a little kid, maybe just five years old, who can sit down at a piano and pound out a Mozart sonata like he was born with the instrument in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged age, desire, determination, Outcomes, practice, Skills, Talents, time
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