A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson an revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices.

Okay – so bottom line is even with NaBloPoMo I sucked. I failed miserably at getting a post in a day for an entire month. I got some other thoughts and ideas though… Look for them soon.

Imagine that for 30-50 years, you were were farmer. You saved a bit of the seed from what you grew, had it cleaned and sowed that the following year to cut you cost. Suddenly, somebody says you can not do that anymore and wins.

I am sending this site through a relaunch if you will, using the concept of NaBloPoMo as a way to gain traction and incentive to get it going and sustain it for the next thirty days.

Spent some part of this weekend with a good friend of mine over in Garrard County. We did our usual of talking a lot over some tea as well as talking some more while one or the other of us helped out. It was my turn this time, as he was planting some [...]

Obama had the right idea on limiting the direct farm subsidy programs and it is sad that greed kept the limitation from passing through the process.

I am sure if you are alive, eat anything from the grocery store or from a food establishment that prepares it for you, unless you are currently under a rock you have heard about the the suspected tomato salmonella scare. Just in case you have not a brief bit of background. There were a bunch [...]

My hats off to France! Long live the revolution! Okay, so I don’t even know what number of revolution we are on and I am most times more fond of the history of France in the 1st half of the Hundred Years War, when prior to Joan they were getting their butts kicked by the [...]

For those that do not know there is currently a farm bill very slowly making its way through congress and eventually likely heading to the Presidents desk to be signed into law.  The farm bill does create some new laws and regulations to farming, but mostly it is concerned with appropriations, who gets how much [...]

As I am waiting for a few thousand files to upload across the network so that I can move on the next step of something I doing for me on the computer end of things (which of course in turn allows me to put off for a bit longer what I need to do for [...]