An Agrarian Take #4: The Internet

As agrarians, or aspiring agrarians, how much focus should we have on the internet? Should it captivate us, or bore us? The internet as we know it has only existed for around 30 years. And yet it has consumed mankind’s life, like no other invention before it. It distracts man from his day, and his …

John Casor, the Inconvenient Truth

Happy New Year GKS readers! Let us start out 2020 with a powerful (but little mentioned) historical fact that changes the *slavery reparations* debate a bit. Who was John Casor? a tobacco field, much like John Casor likely worked John Casor was a Negro indentured servant in early Virginia, likely employed in the tobacco fields. …

An Agrarian Take #3: Doc Martin “Work” Boots

This Agrarian Take will be practical, not theoretical. In the summer of 2018, I got a pair of Doc Martin brand works boots for agricultural use. By the beginning of the 2019 garden season, they were rough. Now they are basically trashed. I love Corcoran brand combat boots. Corcorans are well designed, of quality material …

Church Family and Regional Culture

“Our dead are greater and more fully alive than we are when we forget them, it is our whole future that we lose sight of…” ---text from a plaque I saw on the exterior of a fieldstone fireplace at a log cabin inside the stockade at Fort Harrod A few weeks ago an acquaintance of …

An Agrarian Take #2: Greta Thunberg

Back on January 15 of this year I posted an essay titled An Agrarian Take on Exercise vs. Labor. I have decided to make a series on this concept, posting a “An Agrarian Take” essay once (every mid-month) and a standard post on each 1st of the month. “I don’t want you to be hopeful. …

Fort Harrod and a Fire in My Bones

“Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary of forbearing, and I could not stay”. ----Jeremiah 20:9 After much thought, I have decided to resume my …

Fall 2019 Update: Harvest, Study, and my Upcoming Book Project

Well, it has been almost 3 months since I have posted here. So, here is my Fall 2019 update. Garden season has closed at the homestead. The zucchinis did well, the tomatoes and green beans okay. I harvested my potatoes (both red and white) in mid-August. I got two nice bushels of red potatoes, less …