Reshaping the agricultural landscape.
One step at a time, almost anything is possible. I’d actually just like to skip the deep emotional dive now, please, and get talking about real-world matters: I mean, of the kind we can quantify, manage, and see with our … Continue reading “Persistence” →
Patience is more important when everyone’s rushing. Calm is more valuable in a storm. Joy is most appreciated when it’s trouble all around. It can be more valuable to do something when it’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, or just plain difficult to … Continue reading “Patience” →
It’s so much easier to make an excuse, an exception, a break, than to follow through on what you said you’d do. It’s easier to find a reason not to, than to pull it up at the end of the … Continue reading “Excuses” →
10 years ago, I was 28 and about to start treatment for a leishmaniasis infection that I’d brought back from my fieldwork in Peru, for my undergraduate thesis. I had a bunch of intentions to go into tropical ecology, because … Continue reading “Working in Regen Ag” →
Another storm is pounding the Southern California coast through Santa Barbara, Ventura and LA counties. No surprise, the flash flood warnings are coming out. The most important thing we can do in times like these is build relationships. I have … Continue reading “Flood & Drought, repeat” →
From my iPhone, while I was nursing, I typed this mini-note: Bill & Melinda Gates, GMO crops 40% jump in ps rate. What that referred to was the apparently ground-breaking development of plants that are 40% more efficient at photosynthesizing. … Continue reading “Misguided Do-Goodism” →
I dream of having a no-waste kitchen. Every ingredient in a reusable, and reused, glass jar. I take jars, or containers, or bags, to the zero waste grocery store or to the market, tare them on the scale, and fill … Continue reading “Bulk Goods” →
We watch an awful (really, I do mean to use that word – awful) lot of movies in our house. It’s one of the few mutually enjoyable activities we can do with L.’s mom. She forgets after a while which … Continue reading “In The Movies” →
Pick one. An option is a thing you could choose to do. It could be a job offer, a trip abroad, a life partner. A skill is something you choose to develop. A possibility is something that could or could … Continue reading “Options, Skills and Possibilities” →
What if all that time, energy (electricity, human energy, resources to feed the humans, cleaning staff, building personnel, etc.), and verbiage used in the telemarketing, was instead used for conversation? Like what if people – tens of thousands of people … Continue reading “Telemarketing” →