Slow Food and the patriarchy
I just read the most spectacular longform piece by Rachel Laudan, A Plea for Culinary Modernism. If you have twenty minutes to spare, I highly recommend it.
In this piece she explores the lie implied by the “slow food” or “real food” movements - that somehow food was better in the past than it is today, by quoting…
Cow Videos!
Thank you all for your responses to my post the other day. The supervisor supposedly said, "That doesn't sound like him but it's possible, he shouldn't have said that, I'll talk to him." So that's not very promising but whatever.
In reward, I give you cow videos. Embedding seems to be broken, so sadly I can only give…
Cow Videos!
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On sexist douchebags suffering consequences
So if you follow me on Twitter, you may be reading about some of the sexist BS I run into as I try to start this farm. I chose farming because I'm an introvert and animals are like 1000% better than people, but apparently starting a farm means working with a hundred different vendors who all hate calling you back or…
I'm Approved!
So today I got some amazing out-of-the-blue news! I’m approved for my farm start-up loan. Now, I *knew* I was going to get the money somehow. It’s just that actually getting it has been a horrible struggle that has derailed all my plans and made my life hell for the last month.
I have been working my way through a…
Watch my cows be excited and adorable
Yep, they pretty much always do this when they get new bedding. With cornstalks like this, they will eat almost half of it, too. I don't even shake it up, I just plop a bale down, cut the strings and they spread it out themselves.
Michelle Bachman's heir wants to come to my farm
Yesterday I went Minnesota's Dairy Day at the Capitol - an event where dairy farmers go the capitol and listen in some committee hearings, go to meetings with legislators and have a reception to hobnob with them as well. There are some specific pieces of legislation that we have opinions on and some just general…
I can't sleep - getting a new job?
I seriously can't sleep at all. It may because my back kills. It may be because I drank a large coffee at 5pm. It may also be because I think I'm dusting off the ol' resume and applying for a new job! Eek!
I feel like a total job hopper. My first "real" job out of college was at a huge fortune 500 company vaguely in my…
Tell me I'm not a terrible person
So this is probably the most stupid, privileged whine ever but...
In a gift exchange, I won some necklaces and a blingy belt. I "stole" them (within the rules of the game) from some folks that wanted them, too. It was one of the more coveted gifts in the exchange. They are a little off of my style, I wouldn't buy them…
Babby Cow!
My favorite girl Sugar had a little girl! In the last three weeks I've had 4 boys in a row, so this is very exciting! (The boys get sold to the neighbor right away, so I don't get to keep them at all, but I do get a nice check)
Women Farmers
A story close to my heart. Women are farmers and always have been, but they haven't been counted as such because they were encouraged to list the husband as the head of household and business owner.
Tattoo progress & request for your opinions
So last night I did another couple hours at the tattoo place! (Here's the first post) We only got one of the book pages done, which is sad. She still had a lot of drawing (like, over an hour's worth) to do when I got there. But hey, we want it to be right.
Kinja mobile sucks
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for the compliments last night! Kinja mobile wouldn't let me reply to any of you so I hope me starring your comments conveyed an appropriate "thank you"
You were right
Oh wise people of Groupthink, I did indeed survive my first tattoo appointment, just as you predicted.
My first tattoo
Hi GT! I know quite a few of you have tattoos so I'm looking for some advice...I am getting my first tattoo tomorrow after work. I booked the appointment in July and the artist is so busy (and awesome) that this is the soonest session I could get. It's going to be quite large, two three-hour sessions plus some…
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