Farming

My name is Ian Griebel, and I operate a 2,300 acre ranch with my wife Dana Blume and my two wild little boys Cohen and Fynn. I’m the third generation farming this land, but have only been doing [...]

Last time, I posed the following questions: 1) What are the hidden black swans associated with relegating all food production to robotics? 2) Is food production important enough that we should [...]

I thought it would be a good time to kick off 2018 with a piece looking at the future and the brave new world of autonomous farming. But in order to look forward, let’s think like historians and [...]

Here is part 1 and part 2 of the Land as Insurance series. In an attempt to understand how to create insurance for my family around food, water, energy, and money, I came up with the idea of [...]

This is a three-part series based on an idea I recently had around the subjects of farming, black swans, and creating a product that can help insure against risk. In this first article I’ll [...]

I thought it would be a good time to kick off 2018 with a piece looking at the future and the brave new world of autonomous farming. But in order to look forward, let’s think like historians and [...]

Attention farmers: Joel is back!   Our friends at Milkwood are hosting a series of live, in-depth, 90 minute online sessions with Joel Salatin where he’ll dive into the nuts and bolts [...]

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Coppicing has always been interesting to me as a wood production system (fuel, timber) because it uses trees that can be cut perpetually. In other words, the tree is cut and grows back. This is [...]

          About the farm:  The Marshall’s are developing a farm on a 20 acre property on the south side of the bow river, 3 km east of Deerfoot Trail, just outside of Calgary’s city limits. This [...]

Andrew Bennett, small-scale farmer and moderator of our Online You Can Farm Semester with Joel Salatin, reflects on the learnings of the first few weeks of “E-School”.   Note: [...]

Andrew Bennett, small-scale farmer and moderator of our Online You Can Farm Semester with Joel Salatin, reflects on the learnings of the first few weeks of “E-School”.   The [...]