Reading to Accompany this post: Chapter 13 “Youth on Land” from Farming While Blackby Leah Penniman I have spent a pretty good chunk of...

Reading to accompany this blog post: Chapter 9: “Raising Animals” in Farming While Black by Leah Penniman When I tell people I spent my...

Readings to accompany this post: "The Prophet" from The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann. "Environmentalists want to stop...

Reading to Accompany this post: “Economy and Pleasure” from What Matters? By Wendell Berry After my first three-day week at Nightfall...

Reading to accompany this blog: Chapter Two of “The Wizard and the Prophet” by Charles C. Mann and the essay “Staying Alive” by Mary...

Reading to Accompany Today's Blog: Prologue and Chapter One of "The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann In "The Wizard and the...

This wasn’t just a chore, it was the moving of a life force from one end of the land to another.

Readings to accompany this post: “A Practical Harmony” by Wendell Berry and “Honoring the Spirits of the Land” by Leah Penniman Living in...

Lately I have been rereading an old favorite of mine: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry. Berry’s idea...