Root Vegetables List: 20 Roots, Tubers, Rhizomes, and Bulbs
Archaeologists working at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains of South Africa pulled 55 charred whole rhizomes out of old fireplaces. They belong to ...
Is Plant-Based Meat Healthy? (And Is It Helpful?)
I was at Costco last Saturday, working the sample tables like everybody else. The guy at the beef stick cart held one out to the woman ahead of me. Sh...
Mini Cow Breeds: What You’re Actually Buying
A miniature cow is not a breed. It’s a height. Clear 42 inches at the hip at three years old and you have a miniature, whatever the animal’...
What is a locavore? 7 reasons to eat local food
Paleo, plant-based, keto, carnivore, and now locavore? It sounds like the next thing to get a hashtag. It isn’t. The locavore is the oldest eate...
The Okinawa Diet: The Data Says You’ll Live Longer, But It’s Misleading
The residents of Okinawa, Japan have a reputation for outliving everyone else on earth. After Dan Buettner’s 2009 TEDx talk, “Blue Zone...
WWII: We Won The War, But Lost Our Soil
A few years ago my wife and I took a trip to London and spent a week hopping across the various museums and tourist traps. Across London and the rest ...
100 Cow Names Worth Using, From Funny to Classic
Most cow name lists are padding. Two hundred entries, half of them ordinary human first names, sorted into categories that mean nothing. So I went loo...
Lamb vs. Sheep: Where the Line Is, and Who Draws It
Sheep were the first animals I ever raised. A trio of Dorpers, two ewes and a ram, each about ten months old, and the ewes were already bred by somebo...
What Is a Broody Hen, and Should You Break Her?
Hangry. Neurotic. A waste of feed. Those are a few of the words I’ve used to describe my broody hens. It’s late afternoon and you’re...
How Do Chicken Eggs Get Fertilized?
American hens laid about 105 billion eggs in the year ending November 30, 2025. Of those, 15.2 billion were hatching eggs, the ones sent to incubators...
Boer Goats: The Meat Goat Everybody Starts With
Sometimes I get lost in a daydream of starting my small farm all over again. Instead of doing a million things, I would put all my eggs into one baske...
How Long Are Goats Pregnant? Goat Gestation and Due Dates
There are few things more precious than baby animals in the spring, and baby kids are among the top contenders for my heart. If you have a doe who has...
