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My View from the Ramparts: Reintroducing this blog
As you can see from the history, this blog has languished for a while. Well, it will no more. What prompted the absence and the change? It started with the fact that I got really sick two and a half … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Ten years in the trenches
It’s been a while since I’ve written here, though the story has been going on. It’s also been ten years since I took on running this farm as my primary occupation, an event that deserves at least some remark. To … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming
Tagged Anniversaries, determination, Farming, hard work, realities
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Agriculture is still a strange game a quarter of a century on…
It turns out that I will have been doing work related to agriculture for 25 years this year and will have been doing it full time for a decade this August. It’s strange to imagine having done anything for that … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Five years on: Disasters, reevaluations, and the straight and narrow
There are few things like a disaster of one’s own making to cause one to reevaluate. We’ve had more than a few disasters, big and small, since we came back to Innisfree on the Stillwater. They kind of come with … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Anniversaries, commitment, disasters, failures, Farming, goals, learning, reevaluation, work
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Five years on: thoughts on half a decade at Innisfree on the Stillwater
It’s been five years since Keba and I returned to Innisfree with the idea of creating a sustainable homestead and refuge from the ravages of the modern world. So far, that quest has been unlike any experience I have ever … Continue reading → Continue reading
