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Farming: Get out of the market
There’s been a lot of talk over the past several years about the incredible volatility in the commodity food market, especially with staple crops like corn , rice, and wheat. Prognosticators, researchers, and talking-heads go on and on about what to do to control a market that, like most commodities, proves to be beyond control. I have an […] Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Food, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, commodities, Farming, markets, revolutions
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Farming: An open letter to farmers big and small, sustainable or not
Dear farmers, I’ve read a lot about how none of you want cuts to federal farm subsidies or programs. I’m betting no one whose federal budget is on the chopping block right now wants their funding to go, but the extreme nature of the budget crisis means that something is, by definition, going to have […] Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Government, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, goals, going it alone, Independence, subsidies
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Farming: How to get started growing your own food
Over the past couple of years, I have received several requests from various people about information on how to get started growing one’s own food. While there is no foolproof way that I know of, there are all kids of places someone can start, but I will share several things that helped me. A few […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food, Philosophy
Tagged books, Choices, Farming, Gardneing, getting started, magazines, raising your own food, Resources
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Farming: Figure it out
Let’s get something out of the way: growing food to feed yourself is not rocket science. Now, I understand that in the last half of the 20th century, a lot of rocket science found its way into growing food, and I think that fact is responsible for so many of the problems we face in […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, figuring it out, food independence, gardening, Gardneing, goals, Lessons, revolutions, you can do it
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Farming: Because it’s a farm
I heard today that our tenant farmer–he plants our 100 or so acres of tillage–thinks my wife and I are ripping off my mother-in-law because, well, there are goats eating grass in the front yard and chickens eating grass in the back. That’s not how things are supposed to be, you know, because now the […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, industrial farming, Self-sufficiency, the difference
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