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We Have Dung Beetles!
Yes, I am excited to see Dung Beetles in our pastures. Yes, I know that many people may think this is an odd thing to get excited about… but it’s because they don’t understand what it means. To me,...
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Don’t Wash Your Hands!
Almost 1 year ago, Tasha Sturm, a microbiology lab technician at Cabrillo College, posted the photo above. It is a bacterial culture of her 8-year-old son’s handprint. She had her son place his hand on...
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Spiders Is Good!
Spiderweb I don’t quote movies often, but I occasionally will repeat a random quote from a random movie, Fletch Lives. One character, Calculus Entropy (an undercover FBI agent) meets Chevy Chase in a...
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Using Lawn Hay
For many in the world of Permaculture or Regenerative Agriculture or “Green Living”, having a lawn is a sin worthy of excommunication. Five years ago, I wrote an article about how lawns cause a...
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How a Newt Matters
It is hard to capture in words the exact feelings I have about an amphibian. We all have something… or maybe we had something, in the past sense. There were certain things or people or places that...
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Planting Ramps in our Forest
There is something about the Spring forest that brings me a deep sense of joy and contentment. The days are growing longer. The air is warming. The trees are waking from their slumber. The songbirds...
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More Results of Rotational Grazing at the Bauernhof
We have been managing our pastures with rotational grazing for the last few years. I was out moving our ram lambs this morning and took a few photos that I thought I would share. Rotational grazing is...
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Cheap Food is an Illusion
My small farm is a tiny breeze blowing against the hurricane that is coming. But I will not sit idle knowing it is my children and grandchildren that will have to deal directly with that hurricane when...
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