September 2026

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.