Returning to agriculture’s sustainable roots

Returning to agriculture’s sustainable roots

When, save the last 100 years or so, has agriculture focused on a single product (plant, e.g., corn or soybeans, rice or peanuts, etc.)? Probably never intentionally – remember the oft cited ‘Three Sisters’ from Native American practices. According to Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. Administrator, Agricultural Research Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, “in agricultural parlance, ‘The…

Bluesky #BookChallenge

Bluesky #BookChallenge

As I engage more on Bluesky to avoid providing X my eyeballs, a great challenge caught me. List your top 20 books that have shaped your life, regardless of order. At first, it sounds really easy, then when I had to limit it to 20 – the challenge hit me full on. See everybody’s here….

Narratives – unreliable narrators

Narratives – unreliable narrators

Fiction readers are well familiar with unreliable narrators. Wikipedia summarizes like this: In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence…