A few months later…. Coming back from a long break, and it feels like I owe an explanation. I don’t have one. Somehow I just stopped writing, and I don’t really know why. Lots of things happened to distract me: a gi… [...]
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A few months later…. Coming back from a long break, and it feels like I owe an explanation. I don’t have one. Somehow I just stopped writing, and I don’t really know why. Lots of things happened to distract me: a gi… [...] “I tell you what guys–if Jeff Dunham shows up to the Clucker Council meeting again and tries to stick his hand up my butt, he’s gettin’ the beak!”Thanks everyone for participating! I so enjoyed parsing through all your entries. You made it… [...] First, we kissed off corporate America as twenty-somethings, pledging to never again let dysfunctional executives walk all over us while greed runs wild. You might say our premature mid-life crisis may have been caused by indigestion. That’s way befo… [...] This summer, Scott Price completed a four-month internship at what may be the most well-known and well-respected organic farm operation in the country: Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, run by Joel Salatin. An accountant by education… [...] It’s hard to put your finger on what makes the farm at Urban Roots so enchanting. Maybe the protective surrounding of trees takes you to a rolling country somewhere, rather than off highway 183 just a few minutes from downtown Austin. May… [...] So this adjustment out of farming is going to be harder on me than I thought. My grand plan was to wait it out until I was inspired to write about ag and ag issues again, but in the meantime that meant a crushing silence on Dissertation to Dirt. … [...] I am currently settling into a farm-less life. We have both found non-ag jobs, and Round Table Farm is closed. Travis has been hired by a functional landscaping business called Yard Farm. It’s close enough to agriculture that Travis’ ab… [...] Gene Logsdon, my unspoken mentor (so unspoken that he, in fact, doesn’t know), recently posted an article pointing to small farming as one answer to the jobs crisis in the US. If the government would get out of the way of small farms, Logsdon say… [...] The land east of Austin is a monochrome pallete in the off-yellows of dying plants. Nowhere was it more stark than when I rounded the curve of pasture that separates Tecolote Farm from Highway 969. Tecolote is east of downtown Austin, not t… [...] Wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut around central Texas, nearly 4 million acres. 30,000 acres have been burned in Bastrop alone, just southeast of Austin. Thousands of people have been affected, and many have lost their h… [...] |
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