Healing Pastures

1. Give them a wide opening and a WIDE lane 2. If your pigs are trained to hot wire, consider keeping the fence off particularly if the lane is narrow. When they get shocked it's counter productive. 3. Be patient. They will follow the food. Just start feeding them in the new paddock. ... Read More about 3 KEYS To MOVING PIGS

This is just one result of asking myself "What is Essential?" and contemplating what I would most want to leave behind if I only had another day to live... It's not a morbid question. It's a FOCUSING question. Check out my previous post for the ideas behind this. Enjoy TODAY! ... Read More about INDIAN SUMMER Meditative Solo Piano (Improvisation No. 5)

Farmers, Homesteaders... Musicians. Modern people are confronted every day with more things "to do" than there is ever time or energy to "git it done." Hang out with me for a few mellow moments on a magically beautiful Fall day while I'm waiting for my car to be serviced. Once again we return to ... Read More about What Is Essential? Dealing with Overwhelm

Well it's pretty much over. The summer, the fall. The whole shebang.  Autumn... Winter. Coming. Need. Music. Stat. Here Comes The Fall! (Song #155) by Mark ShepardFor more about this song visit MarkShepardSongs.com ... Read More about Here Comes The Fall… I mean, WENT (Music Video)

Healing Trauma Begins with THIS Shift in Thinking... We ALL have experienced trauma or we all WILL at some point. By Trauma of course, I mean "stuff that hurts or feels bad that negatively impacts our daily lives until we RE-INTERPRET it as a 'gift'." The only way to let go of trauma is to ... Read More about Healing Trauma Begins With THIS Shift in Thinking…

Sometimes it's difficult for me to express succinctly what it is that I'm attempting to do in my own small way on my own small piece of land. Joel Salatin (I call him the "Prophet Joel" in my mind), calls himself a "Christian Libertarian Capitalist Lunatic Farmer." HE'S the guy I got the idea of a ... Read More about Joel Salatin: Healing Pastures Prophet of Sustainable Farm Profit