The Deliberate Agrarian

Dateline: 5 May 2006 John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, is an advocate of sustainable farming. The common theme in ...

Dateline: 2 May 2006 And God saw every thing that he had made and, behold, it was very good. Genesis 1:31 There are numerous ...

Dateline: 2 May 2006 You can not reason with hens. They will not listen to you when you tell them that you do not want them scratching u...

Dateline: 30 April 2006 My grandfather, Percy O. Philbrick's old farm in Fort Fairfield, Maine, is shown in the distance. (click ...

Dateline: 26 April 2006 I heard on the radio a couple days ago that the European Union has recently banned the use of atrazine in ...

Dateline: 24 April 2006 After last week’s delightfully warm and sunny taste of spring, the weekend turned overcast and cold with intermi...

Dateline: 23 April 2006 I want to assure you that it is not my intention to blather on endlessly here about my new book, Writings of a D...

Dateline: 21 April 2006 Dear Friends, I have published a new book. This book is the “agrarian project” I’ve alluded to here over the p...

Dateline: 14 April 2006 I believe God is actively working in the hearts of more and more of His people to convict them of their “indus...

Dateline: 12 April 2006 The maple syrup season is over for another year here in central New York. The sap was getting cloudy and last we...

Dateline: 2 April 2006 Last October (about five months ago) I posted a story here about how my family made our own fresh-squeezed apple...