spinach, tomatoes, egg, feta, balsamic & olive oil

Balsamic Vinegar From the Farm

Salad dressings are truly something of regional and personal preference. I can side with Texas on ranch dressing now and then, but I’ve always loved the Italian style dressing of ...

my fish tacos

Great Hawaiian Food: A Lunch Wagon on the Big Island

Recently, I wrote a blog post about meeting a farmer in Hawaii and getting a chance to eat a salad made with his greens. That’s definitely an incredible dining experience. ...

Chinese ceremonial candles

Welcoming the Chinese New Year – Year of the Dragon

It seems to creep up on me every year. I get busy with all the things that come after the calendar switches to a new year, and then I turn ...

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FARMnWIFE Judi Graff

Social Media Hero, Farmer & Blogging Coach Judi Graff aka @farmnwife

A lot of the people who are involved in agriculture and who write blogs will probably recognize the social media hero I want to highlight this week. It’s Judi Graff aka @FARMnWIFE. There are a lot of reasons she is a social media hero to various people, but I get to make the list so [...]

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Take a Ride on the Reading Railroad #WordlessWednesday

Not sure how many times in my life I said I get to “take a ride on the Reading Railroad.” But when my sister and I were in England we did just that. We were staying in Reading and we hopped on the railroad there a couple of times! We had a great time and [...]

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Stuck in the Middle or Gone Over the Edge?

Late Friday night, I read a blog post on Jeff Fowle’s blog about winter weather and the differences between locals being prepared and others seemingly careless. As I watched current weather reports and saw tweets from friends in the Pacific Northwest indicating they were fairly home-bound due to the storms hitting them, I thought about how [...]

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VIDEO: CNN Headline News Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell Discusses Factory Farms, Here are Real Farms

Tonight, after I drove through freezing rain to get home, I just settled in on the sofa to relax before eating dinner. The fact that people who work with livestock on America’s family farms were getting a chance to speak to animal abuse and undercover videos. Kay Johnson Smith of the Animal Ag Alliance was [...]

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Guys on #Pinterest? Do they need to turn in their “man cards?”

Pinterest has been rising in social media circles for a while. One of the more recent phenomena is more guys getting on the service. With this I want to share a few ways I thought of that those guys who want to defend their “man cards” to do just that! I made these placards for [...]

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Who Are My Social Media Heroes? Hero #1 is @ArveyColumbus

Recently, my friend Cheri Albritton (Twitter’s @ArveyColumbus) wrote a blog post asking if you are a social media hero in the making. She was nice enough to point to me in her post. That was awesome to see pop up in my email! I decided to do at least a short series of posts highlighting [...]

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Lorraine Motel National Civil Rights Museum

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. & Civil Rights Efforts

Travel most of the week followed by a redeye and weather-induced issues on traffic, cut my office time to just one day this past week. One of the topics we discussed was the upcoming holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday. Sitting here on the weekend, I tried to get photos from my [...]

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