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Spelled my name right….
…but not too many people have noticed my “Zen-like” serenity. http://www.leesburgtoday.com/more_a/middleburg_life/reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-buy-local-beef/article_a48716e8-f436-11e4-994b-eba584b20713.html
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You’re so vain….
….oh, alright, but hear me out. Several years ago, I was so crippled up I walked bent over like an old man and I hurt all the time. Thanks to a physical therapist and her staff in nearby Warrenton—plus an improved diet and plenty of red wine—I snapped out of it. The therapist’s name is Kendal Blaser and she is not only an exceptionally talented professional, she is one of the most delightful women I’ve ever met. So Kendal was working on her website with a professional photographer and wanted me to pose as one of her success stories. The deal was, I got some of the pictures and this is…
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I’m from the government and I’m here to help you….
We try to keep politics out of our blogging….we really try. But the #&*@! pointy-headed bureaucrats are doing it again. They’re about to promulgate a regulation which would make it illegal for us to have our grandchildren join us in working on the farm. From the time they’re able, some of our grandkids love to help out; others aren’t interested. They all want to drive the 4-wheeler, of course, and will do any chore that involves that. Sorry kids….the Obama Administration says Grandpa is trying to kill you. Please watch the following. I know it’s crazy Fox News and all that…and the comments go “off the wall”….but still watch, please.…
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On the soap box (again)…
If Thistle Hill has a secret weapon, it may be our mineral program. It’s certainly not a “top secret”; many natural livestock people do what we do. But it is not generally used in the commercial industry because of the cost involved. A cow grazing in the wild doesn’t need mineral supplementation. She can select from the grasses, herbs and even the soil to keep her system in balance and her immune system strong. But in a fenced pasture, she is at the mercy of what is before her. That’s particularly a problem in the East, where the land was “farmed out” long ago. I’ve seen estimates that it would…
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From the Soap Box….
Sometimes it seems to us that farming is a bit like the canary in the coal mine, a kind of early warning system. It’s the farmer who first saw the dangers of modern, industrial agriculture. He tried to tell us that not only was he being shoved off the land, but that the corporations replacing him were using industrial, mass production practices that were ultimately destructive to the land. But because the immediate result, as far as most consumers could tell, was lower prices, no one paid any attention to the warnings. Even when, like the canaries, millions of farmers keeled over and died. Only now are scientists beginning to worry, and…