Farm

  • Bothering Flies

    October 18, 2014 “Do you have a fly swatter?” I almost laughed. Didn’t. We were sitting in the shade of willow trees, talking. Water ran down tea glasses and wet rings grew on the wood picnic table. Folk lightly swatted… Continue reading

  • Eating Locally, Artistically

    September 13, 2014 Belinda and I were asked to join a ten-day program to eat locally. Folk were hoping to get some statistics on how hard it is to eat food from within a 100-mile radius of our home. We… Continue reading

  • Virtuous Redneck Liberal

    September 1, 2014 Home was a small piece of sage canyon land butting against open land. As kids, my sister, brother and I and our friends never gave it much thought biking a mile or so to a friend’s house.… Continue reading

  • A Glass of Green Pepper-Strawberry Gene Splice Juice

    August 25, 2013 Last spring a farmer in Oregon sprayed his field with Roundup, a glyphosate weedkiller.  The weeds died but tufts of wheat in the field did not.  After getting in with a weed scientist from Oregon State University… Continue reading