New Yorker Wendell Berry Profile I know of him but little else. A kind of traditional agricultural guru. I can’t remember reading much about him but he is a BFD to some. It occured to me that I thought I had seen him mentioned on the blog before. A search showed a great deal more than …
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Pollan Channels Berry
My cousin Marnie, recalling the chat about sustainability we enjoyed over pricey cappuccino at a seaside resort last summer, sent this recent piece by Michael Pollan. Marnie writes: “Either Michael Pollan is channeling you or you are channeling him, and you’re both channeling Wendell Berry.” Pollan’s piece quotes my hero WB in defense of virtue …
Hunting Ethics – A Personal Journey
For those that have asked what Dr Nick Fox’s new book Hunting Ethics – A Personal Journey is about, or have disregarded it solely from Packham’s review, please read this oversight from Dr Tom Bailey BSc, BVSc, MRCVS, CertZooMed, MSc, PhD, Dip ECZM, RCVS Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. It’s a long but important …
Abbey and Voltaire plus other reflections.
“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.” ― Edward Abbey Some big assumptions there but similar to Voltaire’s advice.
Bill Kittridge RIP
His writing was good, but his mentoring was unparalleled. His mentoring is exemplified in the collection “The Last Best Place”.
More Tim–and Johnny UK, and Kazakhs, and the Urbigkits
Tim says to John Hill, on “Huntress”: “Johnny UK, my late partner Alan Sullivan, who attended the death, always choked up at that last line.” I agree, but the one that really gets me is the end of “Perro del Amo”: Vaya con Dios, love/ you were the dog of God.” Here is the Magdalaenian …
Pilgrimage
I’ll be travelling next week and part of the following one to Kingman, Arizona, to meet this guy, Harry McElroy, who has been a hero of mine for almost 30 years. Harry has taught and inspired at least two generations of falconers through his articles and books (4 titles and counting) and his willingness to …
The Revolution circa 2010
Whether you’re a neighborhood secessionist masquerading as a home gardener—or the reverse—it’s likely you’ve started this year’s troop review. Three cheers to the Revolution! This year we have a new recruit, an eight-foot bed made this weekend that is slowly transforming the kids’ playground to dual use. This fall some pole beans will be growing up the …
A Discourse in Schooners and Candles
Patrick Burns, our friend and reader, can make an argument worthy of a terrier. His mind is unrelenting, unafraid to dig and always pressing home. While you may get in a bite or two, you’ll soon find all your exits blocked and him waiting with a snare. If you’re lucky, he’ll let you go unharmed. …
Big Ag Blues
I might be less skeptical about the Obama Rhetoric below were it not for developments in the real world. This article from the San Francisco Chronicle may be the most horrifying yet: despite the so- called “Green” attitudes of California voters, apparently perceptions of what is “sanitary” trumps all sense of what is good for …