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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
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Grass farming
So, after a long hiatus, I’ve decided to reboot this blog. When doing so, it’s often hard to know where to start, so I decided to start with the question we get asked most often: Why don’t we mow our grass? … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Swinging for the fences
The one part of our farming adventure at Innisfree on the Stillwater that has dogged us since the beginning is the fact that we have continued to lease our 100 acres of tillage ground, mostly for the sake of the … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Food, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, chemicals, Choices, Dirt, Experiments, Farming, goals, ideas, Morality
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: On animals and worldviews
I suspect that one of the driving forces of the greatest changes in society over the past 100 years versus the past several millenia has been specific movement of people away from caring for food animals. One cannot help but … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Animals, Farming, ideas, Morality, pragmatism, Worldview
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: And so much more…
I’ve discovered over the past five years that people have huge preconceptions about what being a farmer means. I know, coming in, I had all sorts of them, and I know I am surrounded by fellow farmers who have deeply … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, farmers, Farming, growth, knowledge, Lessons, preconceptions, work
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