Galveston, Texas, January 12, 2025. It was raining. Jeanne and I drove through a subdivision of houses on stilts high enough to park cars under. Water pooled everywhere except for the road that was several inches higher than the yards filled with water. Jim Stevenson’s driveway entrance was hidden among […]
Each year, I like to share a few photos that give me hope or are really good. Resistance seems to be a common thread. It’s been a rollercoaster year. Hold fast and stay strong. A nagging feeling of worry about our country haunts me constantly. Is there no limit to […]
“Do solar panels really work?” That’s what the woman asked as I showed some folks our barn with solar panels on the roof. I thought, Wow, how could you be so misled? Then I thought about all the challenges Americans are dealing with now: the misinformation, disinformation, and lies being […]
Some people wonder whether the climate crisis is real. Hasn’t Earth’s climate always changed? Yes, it has, and there are valid reasons why our climate has gone through periods of warming and cooling for millennia. We are now in a warming period, and this one is caused by an increase […]
“Here’s a toast: That we may learn the connection between land and water.” That’s the last line in Surf and Turf, a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Story, a short documentary showing that what we do here in the Shenandoah Valley, how we farm, profoundly and inextricably affects the water leaving our […]
I looked up and saw smoke rising from a field far upstream. I stopped in wonder. It can’t be smoke, I thought, because it’s brown. Then I realized it was a giant cloud of windblown soil reaching over a hundred feet into the air. Then I saw the tractor. The […]
Calving Background Whiskey Creek Regenerative Farming is a commercial cow-calf operation that uses perennial grass to produce calves for sale into all-natural beef programs supplying grocery stores such as Whole Foods. Leased bulls are brought in on June 1 to impregnate our cows and taken out on September 1. Cows […]
This Post Is Different It’s not about what we do on the farm, riparian buffers, or our comical journey with the electric car. It’s different because our country is in a whirlpool of negative chaos, and I’m down a couple of notches on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Forget about the […]
Trump’s first week in office brought chaos and destruction to the renewable energy transition in the United States (as well as just about everything else). Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, a global movement to stop fossil fuels and build a future powered by renewable energy, summed it up in his January 26 […]
Note: A real person wrote this: me. There are no paywalls, pop-ups, surveys, ads, or AI. All photos by me unless otherwise noted. We Traded In Our Prius For an All-Electric Vehicle Yeah, I’m one of those. It gives me a good feeling to drive a car that uses no […]
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