FINAL INSPECTION OF CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES AT WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM IN MAINE. From November to January we pre-grade our entire crop of seed potatoes into thousand-pound-
ABOUT THAT TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF STRIVING FOR EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE. As far…
ABOUT THAT TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF STRIVING FOR EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE. As far as we’ve experienced it, the strongest bond uniting farmers past and present is the relentless machinations for ever increased production efficiency.
The chicken-and-egg
FILLING THE FEDEX TRUCK AT WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM. Caleb’s sister Amy, while …
FILLING THE FEDEX TRUCK AT WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM. Caleb’s sister Amy, while helping out in the packing room, took this photo earlier this week.
Here, Jeremy, our Fedex Ground driver for the past couple of years cheerfully and reliably transfers parcels from our loading dock onto his truck. …
WOOD PRAIRIE CATS ADMIRING OUR MAINE STATE BIRD. A winter-long obsession for …
WOOD PRAIRIE CATS ADMIRING OUR MAINE STATE BIRD. A winter-long obsession for Goose (left) and Ginger is to watch Black-capped Chickadees grab a lunch of oil-seed sunflower seeds from the bird feeder outside the kitchen window.
Perched in the ultimate safety of adjacent spruce trees, they will…
RECIPE FOR A FULL LIFE: NEVER BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD MONSANTO SAYS. Please keep …
RECIPE FOR A FULL LIFE: NEVER BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD MONSANTO SAYS. Please keep that at front of mind as you view this brilliant MUST WATCH video (41:57) produced two years ago by the investigative ‘Four Corners’ with the Australian Broadcasting Company (youtube dot com/
Our ‘…
BRIGHT DAYS INSIDE THE WOOD PRAIRIE CATTLE BARN. While our cowboy ancestors mig…
BRIGHT DAYS INSIDE THE WOOD PRAIRIE CATTLE BARN. While our cowboy ancestors might be turning over in their graves, truth-be-told our reasons for having cattle center around the need to clean up cull potatoes. Potatoes with gashes, gouges and defects are ‘picked out’ into 5-gallon buckets. As…
THE BITTER FRUITS OF OUR WORLD’S MODERN AGRICULTURE: GROWING RISK OF PESTICIDE P…
THE BITTER FRUITS OF OUR WORLD’S MODERN AGRICULTURE: GROWING RISK OF PESTICIDE POISONING. Accompanying farm consolidation comes an alarming INCREASED reliance on toxic farm chemicals. In a new study, scientists concluded an ASTOUNDING 44% of frontline Ag workers experience acute pesticide…
MARCH RESURFACES AS MAINE’S WINDY MONTH. After a few decades of the doldrums, r…
MARCH RESURFACES AS MAINE’S WINDY MONTH. After a few decades of the doldrums, recent Marches have re-emerged as the windy-season. Blowing snow and whiteout conditions have characterized Marches of late including early this month when for a time U.S.Route 1 in Bridgewater was closed due to zero…
ONE INSIDER’S ACCOUNT OF THE MILESTONE CHALLENGE TO MALEVOLENT MONSANTO. Monday…
ONE INSIDER’S ACCOUNT OF THE MILESTONE CHALLENGE TO MALEVOLENT MONSANTO. Monday will be the 10-Year Anniversary of our filing ‘OSGATA et al v. Monsanto’ (woodprairie dot com /
In…
WENDELL BERRY’S VISIT TO MAINE’S COMMON GROUND COUNTRY FAIR. Litchfield, Maine….
WENDELL BERRY’S VISIT TO MAINE’S COMMON GROUND COUNTRY FAIR. Litchfield, Maine. Circa 1978. This year, MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardening Association) is celebrating its Golden 50th Anniversary.
MOFGA is collecting stories from the last half-century. Jim contributed this memory from 43…
