I'll be presenting on "Can Organic Feed the World?" at both the NOFA-NJ and OEFFA winter conferences Now that the holidays are over, tis...

The original headquarters of CAST was in Agronomy Hall at Iowa State University It’s the first week of November, and I’m on the road...

The Pfeiffer papers are in the basement of this building at Fellowship Community My final stop on my June research trip is in New York,...

The July 1940 issue of You Can't Eat That contains the first article that J.I. Rodale reprinted about organic farming “But now you’re...

It’s 6:30 a.m., the sun is shining, and it’s milking time in the Camphill Village Kimberton Hills dairy barn. I walk over from Sherry’s...

What better time than Thanksgiving Day to look back with gratitude on all the amazing experiences I’ve had this year? I know, it might...

I find connections to organic farming in the most unexpected places. This time, it was in a random book I just picked up from the library...

After completing my master’s degree at UW-Madison and moving home, I spent over a year trying to understand why highlighting a connection...

There’s a big difference between graduate and undergraduate college classes. In most undergraduate classes, you sit and listen to a...

To fund my second year in graduate school at UW-Madison, I applied for several different teaching assistantships. One was to teach...

I am a Bible-believing creationist Christian. I am also an environmentalist and an organic farmer. I see no conflict between the two. But...

All of the historical narratives that I’ve discussed so far have one thing in common—they are secular. They focus almost exclusively on...

I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2020 to 2022—during some of the most tumultuous years politically in...

There’s one more major narrative about agricultural history that I haven’t mentioned yet—not because it isn’t important, but because it’s...

Organic farming has always questioned the progressive narrative of history. It has to. After all, if the progressive narrative is true,...

History is storytelling, and there are different types of narratives that can be used to frame a historical event. Last week, I...

One of the most important things I learned in graduate school was that history is storytelling—and that there are different ways to tell...

When I first started writing about the past, I had lofty ideals. My goal was simple—to find the truth and tell it. I often wished that it...

One stereotype of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s was that young people didn’t listen to—or trust—anyone over thirty. That may...

As I write this, the wild pin cherry trees are just finishing blooming, white petals drifting down to the ground in a fragrant snow. The...