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Slowdown Farmstead

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Cultivating authenticity in a synthetic world. Ruminations on ancestral food, healthy living, family, homesteading, connection to the natural world, life, death and this radical little thing called "sovereignty".

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fare thee well

All images in this essay, Bernard Blommers, 1845-1914.

When the geese sounded their farewells last autumn, I felt a heaviness in me that could only be described as incongruence. I had been feeling restless in my indecision and confused by...

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human-keeper

I saw a duck standing on a rock beside the lake yesterday.

I saw a duck standing on a rock beside the lake yesterday. All of the other ducks have gone, none remaining to keep her company. She was without flock or partner, looking (if I dar...

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ego rides shotgun

Sometimes I marvel at the young woman I was.

Sometimes I marvel at the young woman I was. I wonder who she was to have done what she did with such confidence (and, yes, I wasn’t really confident) and abject determination (though I doubted...

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audio: ego rides shotgun

Full essay, links, and comments can be found on the main essay page.

Full essay, links, and comments can be found on the main essay page.

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in my kitchen, around the farm

Water, Maerten de Vos, 1580 (all subsequent images also by same artist)

It’s 0400 hours and I just got in. I woke up to bawling cows a little too close to my bedroom window somewhere around 2:30. The most effective kind of alarm there is....

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    Farmer, mother to three beautiful daughters, nutritionist, and a hopelessly devoted woman to my man. I hang out with cows and ravens, beavers and snakes whenever they'll have me. I'm after the real, in all of its messy glory, or nothing at all.

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