I’m quite sure you don’t love your weeds. But critters have a different experience of them. Just the other day I saw my cat making love to a pile of mustard greens that I had pulled. On her back, she rolled and nuzzled the wilted greens, cuddling them and tenderly sniffing something that most…

My Mennonite ancestors taught me to plunge my hands in the good earth. It was that body memory of farming the land and animal husbandry that eventually led me full circle to honeybees. As I hear the news of yet another mass shooting, this time in the tiny town of my alma mater, Hesston Kansas,…

Last weekend was the New Mexico Organics Conference. Celebrating 25 years, they noted that the market has ballooned to millions of $$$$ in sales, increasing at least 400% since it’s inception. The place was thronging with all ages. The attire ranged from heels and fancy clothes, coveralls, pointy toed cowboy boots/ hats to t-shirts and tattoos.…