Breathing Earth By Russ Conser | January 20, 2022 In an earlier musing, I wondered whether counting carbon was actually a good idea? It’s not that counting it might be bad, it’s the potential myopia if we focus on it too much. To be clear, carbon is actually a good thing to count as part of a bigger picture....
Lost Savannas By Russ Conser | January 13, 2022 Savanna – some think it’s just a city in Georgia, but of course that name came from somewhere. A “savanna” is a mixed grassland-woodland ecosystem. It’s the place where grass and trees live together because each makes the other better. As an environment gets more rainfall, it can support more...
Clean Eating By Russ Conser | January 06, 2022 Well, this week marks another milestone in government silliness. No not that one, this one. Some high paid bureaucrats in DC have decided that instead of labelling foods with already fuzzy terms like “genetically engineered” or as containing “genetically modified organisms,” it would be clearer to label foods with new...
Whole Earth – In Memory Of E. O. Wilson By Blue Nest Beef | December 30, 2021 “Future generations are going to forgive us our horrible genocidal wars because they have passed too far in history. They will forgive us all of the earlier generations’ follies and harm. But they will not forgive us for having thrown away such a large part of the rest of life...
Counting Carbon? By Russ Conser | November 15, 2021 In case you haven’t noticed, a whole bunch of folks have been circling up in Glasgow, Scotland the last few weeks to talk about carbon. All of them realize there’s too much in the air, and a few understand there’s not enough in soil. It was against this backdrop that...
Epic Art By Russ Conser | November 08, 2021 Two weeks ago, I talked about migrating bison and birds and how they might help us rediscover how the health of people and planet were intrinsically connected. It was a story of how the soils of both my birthplace and my current home were created by a symbiotic relationship between...
Rediscovering Both By Russ Conser | October 20, 2021 I grew up in Nebraska where the prairie was central to our identity. Although strange to me now, we saw the highest purpose of those prairies as something to be plowed up and planted. I did not realize that those prairies, and their carbon-catching, water-holding soils, were actually made by...
My Carbon Journey By Blue Nest Beef | September 30, 2021 Several months ago, I told you about my personal health journey and how it led me to see food as medicine. But there’s another half to my personal journey – carbon. I spent 30 years taking dead carbon out of the deep Earth, and now I’m on a mission to...
All Natural By Russ Conser | September 16, 2021 “All Natural” – it’s a phrase now so perverted that I utter it with some trepidation. But I want to reclaim just a bit of its honest meaning in the context of our new BoboLinks snack sticks. Today, we take for granted the preservative power of refrigeration for perishable food....
Cool Grass By Russ Conser | September 09, 2021 Now for the final chapter of this brief series – how does growing more perennials and catching every drop of sunshine help cool the Earth? To start, I want to draw your attention to a special 2019 IPCC report on “Climate Change and Land” which contained this enticing nugget: “Balanced...
Define Regenerative – Why Birds? By Blue Nest Beef | August 23, 2021 It’s a request I get all the time: Define “regenerative” agriculture? Many have attempted to take on this topic (e.g. here, here), but it’s easy to get lost in details. Some welcome the ambiguity and are even concerned that defining it too explicitly may ruin it. Although part of me...
Rediscovered “Countrey” By Russ Conser | August 20, 2021 My grandfather was born in 1901 in St Joseph, Missouri. Just 97 years before that, on July 4, 1804, William Clark, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, stood on the hills just across the Missouri River from “St Jo” and penned this description of what he saw before his eyes: ...
Quality vs. Geography By Russ Conser | August 13, 2021 Sometimes you can have it all, and sometimes you have to make hard choices. If you’re like us, there are SO many things you want to improve about the food system, it’s hard to know what is most important. Quality First. Quality (both in eating, and in the positive impact...
Not Cheap By Russ Conser | July 30, 2021 We do understand it, Our price may be steep. We could make it cheaper. But then it’d be cheap. Cheap costs the birds, And cheap costs the bees. Cheap costs the grass, And cheap costs the trees. Cheap costs the air, And cheap costs degrees. Cheap costs your health, And...
Eating Sunshine By Russ Conser | July 15, 2021 Last week, we talked about the need to build more perennials into our food system. This week, I want to and take the story just a bit further. If you zoom out to the biggest picture of Earth, you’ll see that the one true input to our planet is energy...
