Sheep Shearing Time
Tweet This week it was sheep shearing time. Before our lambs are born, we have Kevin Ford, a professional sheep shearer come to the farm to remove their thick winter coat. This helps keep the sheep...
View ArticleThe Complex Choices in Sustainable Seafood
TweetIn order to have a better understanding of the effect my food choices have on the environment, I recently read “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” by Paul Greenburg. The book focuses on...
View ArticleSpring Happenings
TweetLately, I’ve been super busy and not blogging a ton. Part of this reason is that I’m working on a new book, centering around food and sustainability. I’ll be able to announce it officially soon,...
View ArticleGrow Your Own Tomatoes This Year
TweetI love tomatoes. I try really hard not to indulge in them until it’s summer and they’re ready. I think about them all the time and when it’s finally tomato season, I’m all about them! There’s...
View ArticleTrip to Broadturn Farm
TweetThis past weekend, I headed up north to work on a video project with Allison Milligan. This will be our second video story in a series that we’re working on, about sustainable food production....
View ArticleHealthy Foods That are Cruel: Bananas, Coffee and Chocolate
Tweet Above is a video link to my presentation from the Ancestral Health Symposium at UC Berkley. I’ve outlined the presentation below: “To be interested in food, but not food production, is...
View ArticleTop Gifts for Folks Who Want to Grow Their Own Food
TweetThe holidays are just around the corner. My book, The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook, which is a full homesteading guide in addition to a cookbook, won’t be out until March, 2015 (but is available for...
View ArticleNature Is On Her Knees, Begging You to Please Stop Raping Her
TweetI just got back from the Food Freedom Festival. This event, put on by the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), was held in Staunton, VA and included a day at Joel Salatin’s Polyface...
View ArticlePerdue Will Buy Niman Ranch – Here’s Why You Should Care
TweetHot off the press: Perdue, America’s third largest producer of standard CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) meat chickens, which already owns Coleman, is now getting into the pork,...
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