From 2013 to 2015, this was a website and blog where I documented my self-education in agriculture, from internships and apprenticeships to books and workshops. Below are some of the essays I wrote during that time, divided into a few broad categories for your perusal.
Hazel Hill Farm
- In Which I Answer Your Unasked Questions
- On Seeds, Literal and Metaphorical
- On Naming the Farm
- Mushroom Inoculation 2015
Farming Essays
- On a Thursday Afternoon in Late June
- On Science, Progress, and Pigs
- On Learning With and Learning From
- On Good Intentions and Land Use
- On the Allure of Specialization
- On Being a Planner
- Young farmers with an eye on the future
- On prophet-farmers
Personal & Food Writing
- On Liminality in Food and Life
- On Jobs, Inactivity, & Motivation
- On the Cheese Counter
- How to Eat a Wolf
- On Liberal Oases and Serving Foodies
- Circle of Jamón
- Lost in Translation?
- Some Thoughts from Real Writers
Food and Farming Books
- A Postcard from Agricultural 1951
- Book Report: Dirt Hog
- Book Report: Restoration Agriculture
- Book Report: Eating Animals
- Book Report: The Unsettling of America
- Wendell Berry on a healthy farm