Valente Farms

"Columbus, Ohio, for example, has enough cropland within about 200 miles to feed its population, but the range would need to extend out about 700 miles to include enough grazing land." Civil Eats

Great Grandmother Louise Valente Fereira. She was an especially beautiful person and helped to maintain some amazingly massive gardens in and near Fort Bragg, along the Noyo River! She's my daily inspiration and a high bar to aspire to!

Iain Tolhurst is an organic stock free farmer who is widely published and has received numerous awards, including the recent Soil Farmer of the Year award.

A welcomed first frost today. It came earlier than recollection, of the past two decades.

"Meatpacking workers, for example, have been victimized by the industry and the administration working together to force meat plants to stay open despite outbreaks, leaving workers to choose between getting sick or missing a paycheck. About 42,000 meatpacking workers, mostly Black, Latino, and immigrant, have been infected with COVID-19, and more than 200 have died." Choose Wild