I'm thankful that we had a great harvest of beautiful mini popcorn this year! The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and even soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchf

The amazing ecosystem recovery after the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens inspired Bob Rodale's concept of regeneration. Regenerative agriculture has been the hottest “buzzword” in the alternative ag movement  since about 2019. Before that, all the focus was on “sustainable”—a word that’s often criticized as meaning nothing because everyone defines it differently. Regenerative, I quickly discovered, was suffering the same fate. Some define it as soil health or sequestering

US carbon emissions have declined 20% since 2005--mostly because natural gas has replaced coal in electric power generation. Data from US EIA. It might have seemed unattainable in 2005, but we’ve done it! We have successfully lowered US carbon emissions below 1990 levels. In fact, CO 2  emissions from fossil fuels in the United States have dropped 20 percent since 2005 and are the lowest they’ve been since 1987. And that’s with a population increase of 14 percent—a 30 percent

Per capita milk consumption has plummeted since the 1940s. Does it have anything to do with processing? Data from USDA-ERS. As someone who spends a lot of time studying the past, I’ve found it very interesting to compare today’s movement against overprocessed foods to the natural foods movement of the 1940s. There are a lot of similarities, but one major difference is that today’s movement seems excessively focused on beef and beef tallow, which weren’t considered “protective