Notes from the Larkspur Supper Club
Notes from the Larkspur Supper Club
If you have livestock, you will have dead stock
These days sheep get dosed and drenched and vaccinated for a host of different ailments. Even then they still think up creative ways to die. Read more
Keeping watch for the Black Swan
Farmers have to learn to think of the worst and be surprised or even relieved when it doesn’t happen. It’s a form of robust preparedness. Read more
They’re here to replace us
This spring my children are swinging by the farm with more suggestions than usual about what I should do with the land and buildings. Read more
Where do good ideas come from?
The business of shaping a sentence in the English language resists mechanizing the way certain crops like mushrooms and ginseng refuse to be mass-produced, the way a pig refuses to be loaded. Read more
Will you be here in the spring?
It’s difficult to predict whether and how a person will adapt to life on the farm. It isn’t a life for everyone. Read more
The disappointment phase of technology
Every time I look at my two very old tractors, I can’t help wondering if there is anything we make today that will be useful, look pretty or even start sixty years from now. Read more