Continuing to catch up on last couple months… I recently interviewed Bluffton farmer Greg Probst at his “Century Farm” for a local newspaper article. He grows everything organically, has free-range chickens (no antibiotics), etc., etc., etc… He said he … Continue reading
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I was reading some of The Available Man (Warren Harding) today. The book noted that in choosing his Cabinet, Harding wanted to “…have a popular group of the best minds around him.” With my Cabinet, I don’t know so much … Continue reading
In the last couple months, I’ve found myself (as usual): multi-tasking. I’ve been out to campaign on the back roads of Ohio several times. I’ve been working on a big house painting project in Bluffton (“Joe the Painter”). Liz (the … Continue reading
Met recently with Dan Kremer in Yorkshire, Ohio. He is an organic farmer who is an absolute evangelist for Catholic Rural Life Association teaching. He grows organically because he believes the artificial herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers are bad for the … Continue reading
For a school lesson yesterday, my son Jonathan, 9, and I looked up “eagles” in our World Book Encyclopedia. That’s right, we didn’t ‘Google’ it, we looked it up. And there it was, with big pictures of eagles and everything. … Continue reading
There was an AP article today reporting that Hillary Clinton is in the country of Laos. In some foreign affairs research about Laos, I learned that we dropped two million tons of bombs on this country during the Vietnam War … Continue reading
The Senate is weighing a bill that would pull some subsidies from farmers, cutting about $5 billion from the Federal Budget annually. The genesis for farm subsidies came during the Great Depression and were safety nets for small farmers to … Continue reading
I’ve been doing research this week on the Unincorporated Territories, and former Unincorporated Territories, of the U.S. One of the former ones is the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear detonations. The … Continue reading
Catching up on our last week in Ohio… We’ve come to farm country near the mid-western border of Ohio for a pit stop. This afternoon I was out in a barn putting up bales of hay… Earlier in … Continue reading
I met with a group of Vanderbilt University students (and others) who were traveling from Tennessee to Tampa, Florida to stand in solidarity with farm workers protesting for better pay. The students are part of a Workers Dignity Project … Continue reading