While I was putting dinner together this week, Greg came over to the kitchen sink to wash up and said “’I spent the entire day outside doing physical work, and boy, am I feeling it!” Suffice it to say, he’s got spring in his step, but summer on his mind. And even...
There are these auctions that happen in the farming world. They take place in a field somewhere, way off the beaten track, in early spring when all the farmers are itching to get back to working in their fields. Usually, Greg goes to the auctions solo and gives me a...
I had a dream that I was walking around the farm with an old friend, introducing him to our pigs who miraculously just learned to fly, when Greg arrived on the scene, driving a tractor trailer with a cow on top. The very next morning, right after I told Greg about my...
Anytime I doubt that Greg’s chemistry background is even the least bit related to his work on the farm, he reminds me that when it comes down to it, farming is just a series of complicated year-long experiments. A year ago, in the dead of winter, we set our...
bet you already know this about us, but when you ask us questions and share your concerns with us, we listen. Sometimes, we aren’t able to be more than a listening ear or offer more than a calming presence. But every now and then, we connect the dots and see...
It wasn’t some big event. Just a simple moment in time that changed my life. And that I remember as clear as day. I was fresh out of college. And in preparation for a research fellowship I was doing in sub-Saharan Africa later that year, I joined the crew on a small...
