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Tag Archives: challenges
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: The test of time
I recently discovered that the building housing my coffee roastery is falling down. It’s an old brick garage, quite possibly converted from a carriage house at some point, that had the misfortune of taking a direct hit from a barn … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged buildings, challenges, Experiments, Farming, learning, Lessons, Self-sufficiency, Tests, work
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Non-industrial farming as a vow of poverty
I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day that included the idea that the other person would be interested in farming as a career except for the vow of poverty. At the time, I laughed, and I still … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, contentment, Farming, poverty
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Art: Farm? Art? What?
If you’re the first person to figure out what this might be a very bad sketch of, I will eventually create a one-of-a-kind work for you on a theme of your choosing and say something nice about you here. Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Where’s your foodshed?
I just came across a term I really like. It’s called foodshed. Like a watershed, it refers to the idea of where one’s food comes from. So, where’s your foodshed? Is it big enough? Does it grow the kinds of … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Food, Local
Tagged challenges, Farming, foodshed, localvore
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: What’s in a name?
Our farm experience is undergoing a lot of transitions right now. One of them is discovering that the name we’ve been using–in fact the name my in-laws have been using for decades–has been the registered trade name of another farm … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Law
Tagged challenges, crises, existence, Farming, Lessons, names, Ohio
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