September 2026

A thousand miles from my farm in Alabama, I was in upstate New York teaching a horticulture course at a week-long guild hosted by a Christian publishing ministry. Professionals from all kinds of arts and crafts had gathered for a week of work, worship, and spiritual growth. Around a hundred students, most of them young …

A farmer thinks through food regulation When I first started my farm business back in 2009, I was excited about serving people with good food. I wanted to give them the very best veggies, meats, and eggs possible. As I told a newspaper reporter interviewing us at the farmers market, “Our goal is to love …

The farmers who settled homestead land were drawn by the lure of free land. But free is often the most expensive thing to base a decision on. The result was a landscape known for ghost towns, abandoned farms, and dust bowls from plowed-up ground that should have stayed in grass and cattle, as it was before the Homestead Act.