Production agriculture is energy-intensive. Turning energy embedded in sunlight into food and fiber has long been a process exploited by humans. But until the late 1800s most of the work of farming was done by human or draft animal muscle. On a small homestead that could work, but for large acreage set up to feed […]

As though it happened overnight, our world is green again. Dense lawns and rolling fields, lush treetops and thick shrubbery, all throw their own unique and individual values across the canvas as summer once again draws nigh. My flower beds have gone from tentative and hesitant to tall and bursting in just a matter of […]