So what is a small farm?

In my last post on small farms I acted as if small farms were small in area, talking about how it’s easier to grow grain on bigger fields which can…

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Small Farms

Small farms,  in my opinion, are not the future of agriculture.  I’m asked all the time about why I hold this unfashionable position. It’s a tangled set of issues and…

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What do you think of Brillat-Savarin? Honestly now

This is a serious question. Brillat-Savarin, just to remind you, published in 1825 a work on gastronomy called Physiologie du Goût (in English The Physiology of Taste)  self-described as “a…

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