Healing Pastures

The difference between pigs (which people say are smarter than dogs) and dogs is that dogs make eye contact! Pigs are looking down towards the ground most of the time... they aren't interested in OUR approval. But they are still really cool. AND they taste really good!!! Plus, THESE are 3 VERY happy ... Read More about Pig Quality Time: Thoughts about Pigs vs. Dogs & other ramblings…

A song about the joys, wonders and challenges of being alive on this beautiful planet twirling through space... Support this project! Download this song! Beautiful Day (Song #335) by Mark Shepard For more of my songs, please visit "A Life In Song" MarkShepardSongs.com ... Read More about It’s A Beautiful Day (Music Video)

If you've ever experienced something called "flow" when things just happened at the right time in the right way in the right place better than you could have possibly imagined, you might enjoy song #453... "Flow Through Me" Or, if you've never experienced that state, you might NEED this song to ... Read More about Long Term Thinking and the “Flow” State

Before ANY of us, 2 leggeds, 4 leggeds, finned or feathered can actually LIVE and experience the wonders and challenges of Creation, we have to be BORN! I got a call from the Bennets at Bittersweet Farm that they'd all been up all night and needed some back up to stay with Bluebell the sow and ... Read More about PIGLETS!!!

This is my first full length talk exploring spiritual and practical concepts in the context of what I am variously calling my "Farm Church", "Food Church", "Church Farm" or what I like even better..... (wait for it) "Modern Musical Monastery." As Easter week unfolded, a butterfly got caught in ... Read More about Why Farming, Music & Spirituality HAVE to be Integrated

Healing Pastures and Apocalypse Gardens Update All it took was a few warm days and I climbed out of my basement recording studio and back out into the formerly white wonderland of Northern New York state and back into building a farm mode... here's the story! ... Read More about Why Tamworth Pigs, St.Croix Hair Sheep & Scotch Highland Cattle are my breeds of choice