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GMO And Cardboard Food
May 24, 2015 Folks in Jackson County, Oregon are having a fit. The people of Jackson County voted last fall to ban GMO (genetically modified organism) crops. Alfalfa growers are ticked off. Lawsuits are filed. Having planted “Roundup Ready” alfalfa, a perennial plant that is productive for years, GMO farmers claim a potential devastating income…
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A Practice Of Reverence, Honor, And Spirit
May 17, 2015 Knowing food is a spiritual practice. Paying close attention to food is living a practice of knowing creation. To know food is to move beyond myopic buying of food with little thought of its origin: the people involved in its growing, the weather that supports its growth, the community of production, or…
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A Kitchen of Culture, Life, And Conversation
May 10, 2015 The kitchen is a favorite room of mine. Hard to imagine it isn’t everyone’s. Good food, good company, and good talk roll over the counter top and fill the house. Not a big room, but open with movement between kitchen and dining is hardly noticeable. Our home is a back door home.…
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A Landscape of Dented Buckets and Grain Sacks
May 03, 2015 We were driving through the Nova Scotia countryside in November taking in farms and farming practices. The practices and work we saw was much like the work of small farmers back home. Most farms were multi-crop in addition to dairy, beef, goats, or sheep. The workers of the land told a story…
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Meating Reverence At the Intersection of Life and Death
April 26, 2015 Most calves arrive on the farm arrive in the fall. Many of our neighbor’s spring calves sell at that time, so fall is a good time to buy. Fall, a year later, is butchering time. During the year I walk the pastures and slowly develop a relationship with the steers. Each walk…
Chewing the Cud 