Cheese Should Be Dangerous
The cheese crafted here came about as a byproduct of a larger whole, the natural dividend of a complete way of life, and this is the foundation of the best farming.
Backyard Beekeeping
I had long resisted adding ten thousand new livestock to our less than two acres. I had listened to beekeepers’ tales of bears and...
Once More to the Garden (Then to the Trout Streams): ...
I wonder if Mr. Big in the sky would be willing to give us a Do-Over.
Broody Hens and the Sustainable Farmstead
My farmstead poultry flock is sustained by a handful of broody hens—female fowl who have somehow retained their ancient instinct to nest and hatch...
Cutting a Farm into a Forest
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke of the axe he is writing his signature on the face of...
The Winter of our Disconchickentent: A Dispatch
Nature stepped in in her wonted way and took complete control.
Feeding Pigs and Solving for Pattern
Oakland Township, MI
My small, exurban farmstead is sustained, in part, by the relationship I forged with my local feed store. To help the reader...