Food & Diet
Aug. 18/26 There's a decision every one of us makes constantly without noticing we're making it: do I trust the instrument, or do I trust what I'm carrying around in my body. Most days it doesn't matter which way you lean.
Food & Diet
August 4/26 That thirty-second habit at the produce section, the ten-minute TextExpander snippet, the single line dropped into Everlog — none of them look like much on their own. What struck me this week is how little they had to do with the size of what they were
Food & Diet
July 28/26 I spent twenty-seven years walking fields I thought I knew end to end, and it still took me until my forties to notice that the low corner of the back forty flooded first, every single time, even though I'd have sworn on a stack
Long View
Tuesday — The Long View The Art of Noticing Farming teaches you to pay attention or pay the consequences. You learn to read soil the way other people read faces. You watch the sky not for beauty but for information. You notice the color of a leaf, the behavior of water,
Long View
GARDENER OF LIFE — Food & Diet I spent twenty-six years farming in California’s Central Valley. We grew crops, we worked hard, and we used chemicals — a lot of them. Herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. It was just how farming was done. Then something shifted. A county farm advisor started talking