The food we eat is utterly dependent on oil. It seems absurd and hard to wrap your mind around it if you think your food comes from the grocery store shelf. Every bite of food required more “fossil calories” than what you actually take in! In fact, for...
It is astonishing how the dollar we spend on food is broken down – it is surprising how little of the dollar is the actual production of the food we ingest. The following data is from an Iowa State University study based on 2006 USDA data. The cost of food is...
Came home from work and a cow and a few goats were out. Tristan didn’t think the fence was working so he took the battery in to get it charged. A leaning cow can do wonders on a fence! Alex just kept going after that long grass and finally an insulator broke...
We’re in the planning stages – what to raise, what tractor do we need, where should the fencing go, how much hay do we need – can we grow it ourselves? Here is a general idea of what the layout looks like and what type of terrain we...
Interesting – population data from city-data.com – what will the 2010 census reveal? Ladonia: 691 Bells: 1,322 Wolfe City: 1,633 Honey Grove: 1,828 Prosper: 3,073 Commerce: 9,066 Bonham: 10,527 Greenville: 25,551 Paris: 25,755 Sherman: 38,407 The Colony:...
