February 28, 2020

(6th in a Series) The idea that you need motivation and will power to reach your goals is part of a story that says if we use enough of the right kind of force, we’ll get to the goal. There is an easier way.

Are You Going After Your Goals the Hard Way or the Easy Way?
February 21, 2020

(5th in a Series) By prioritizing what is important over what is urgent, you can live a more spacious, meaningful, satisfying life.

Is it Important, or Merely Urgent?
February 14, 2020

(4th in a Series) How your taking care of your “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands your influence.

The Power to Make a Difference
February 8, 2020

(3rd in a Series) How to focus your energy where you can be most effective, rather than wasting it on things that you cannot make any difference to.

Are You Acting on Life or Is Life Acting on You?
February 1, 2020

(2nd in a Series) Here is a way of looking at even the really big challenges that breaks them down to a manageable size.

One Moment at a Time
January 29, 2020

(1st in a Series) Everything we need to create a more just, alive, abundant and beautiful world exists today. Why aren’t we using it?

There is Only One Place to Begin
November 13, 2019

The best way to have healthy, happy chickens is to integrate them tightly into a thriving, bustling ecosystem that benefits from their presence, rather than allowing them to spread out in a sparse ecosystem that they steadily ​degrade because it is unable to support them.

Beyond Eggs: How to Keep Chickens Happy in Confinement
October 30, 2019

Deep litter bedding for chickens mimics the forest floor environment they evolved in, builds their health, provides them with entertainment, and captures fertility for soil building. Here is why we decided to try confinement on deep litter with no outside foraging.

Beyond Eggs – 8 Advantages of Deep Litter Housing for Chickens
October 28, 2019

Chickens can either be very helpful to gardeners, or incredibly destructive. How can we harvest all that chickens have to offer, in ways that keep everybody happy, healthy, and productive?

Beyond Eggs – Pros and Cons of Free Range and Mobile Pens
October 13, 2019

Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.

Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
October 12, 2019

What too many ​children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust ​their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting ​enters the mix, ​it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.

Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
October 4, 2019

If you choose to keep growing as an adult, you’ll become increasingly self-actualized and self-reliant, and less dependent on corporate providers. This is very BAD NEWS for the growth economy, which is why no profit-focused corporation will ever fund government policies to encourage the public to behave like this.

Out-Growing Consumerism 3: A Self-determined Life
September 27, 2019

Better questions lead to more informed choices, enabling you to live a life designed by you rather than one that’s handed to you as a member of the consumer culture.

Out-Growing Consumerism 2: An Act of Subversion
September 21, 2019

Having monetized everything else, in order to keep growing the consumer economy now needs to monetize the space inside your head.

Out-Growing Consumerism 1: What Should Never Have Been For Sale
July 22, 2019

Electric fencing works very effectively for pigs, but only if they get the right first impressions of it. Here are the steps we take to train our piglets to stay behind electric fences, without terrifying them in the process.

Raising Pigs – Fence Training
July 5, 2019

6 ​Salad bowl contenders that can handle heat and high humidity. ​The 7th plant can make a nutritious salad by itself if you have the right growing niche for it. Plus a tip on getting the most nutrition from your salad greens. UPDATED July 2023.

7 Easy Substitutes for When Lettuce Won’t Grow
May 4, 2019

Feeding ​the pigs, as they grow bigger, ​can ​easily degenerate into a full body contact sport in which the pig ​wins and the amateur pig-raiser ​gets discouraged and gives up on homegrown pork. Is there a way to keep pig-raising ​enjoyable when those cute little piglets are no longer cute?

Raising Pigs – Can pigs learn table manners?
May 4, 2019

Why we buy piglets rather than breeding our own; preparing for their arrival and minimizing the stress of their transition; what to feed them; a few thoughts on choosing heritage breeds versus modern breeds.

Raising Pigs – New Piglets
May 3, 2019

What we have (so far) found to be the pros and cons of mobile versus stationary pig raising systems, and why we are currently trailing a stationary arrangement for our pigs.

Raising Pigs – Mobile Pens vs Pigs in One Place
January 31, 2019

Why the modern healthcare system undermines our families and communities, and how we came to be so dependent on it.

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2