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My View from the Ramparts: Farming in the age of COVID-19
The past couple of months has been a strange time here at Innisfree, as I know it has been for everyone during this time of social isolation and pandemic outbreak. What’s been strangest for us is how relatively little our … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Life, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, covid, covid-19, Experiments, farm life, Farming, goals, Lessons, Ohio, Outcomes, pandemic, readiness, Self-sufficiency, smallhold, social distancing
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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: 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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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Fanaticism
There’s something about the sustainable food movement in all its various incarnations that brings out the fanatic in people, both pro and con. I admit that I am just as bad as anyone. Yet, there is an underlying problem with … Continue reading → Continue reading
Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Hay season
A couple of times a year, I mow lots of grass. Not in the $40-billion-make-my-lawn-look-like-a-golf-course sort of way, but in the make food for animals sort of way. We mow and bale about 30 acres of grass hay every year … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Animals, Farming, hay, Lessons, pasture, Seasons, thoughts
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