Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go
After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden
Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell
Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia
The American Food System’s Very Bad Legacy
There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.
Road Kill
I had to understand life and nature not as something to be mastered, but as gifts afforded to me to steward by a God abundant in goodness.
Finding The Seam: How Small Farmers Can Thrive
There are much easier ways to make money than farming. The primary goal of a good farmer is to find success in caring for one’s land, community, and family.
Winter Rabbits
And so the shotgun sits in our home like a quiet benediction. It dreams—as I do—of long walks in the valleys of my youth and whispers of future pastures that are untrod and unspoiled.
Allegories of Pruning: Cutting for Growth
Pruning is difficult because we are forced to make a conscious decision to remove something that has been part of a growing plant. But these cuts are necessary and even life-giving.
Doppelganger: Me and George Monbiot in the Mirror World
Our modernist mindset too easily leads us to the comfortable notion that ‘they’–the government, the scientists, whoever–are going to save us with the latest whizz-bang techno-fix. They’re not. Nobody is coming to save us.