The Year Ahead: 2017
What a year 2016 was! So much occurred this past year -- some great events and some real challenges to each of us and maybe even humanity. So what else is new? How do we reconcile all of it? Or…
Thanksgiving Reflection
This past Thanksgiving offered us a few days to reflect on what we have to be grateful for and to realize it is wonderful that we can celebrate the people we value in our lives. We are truly blessed. It is…
My Personal Revelation
In 2007, I took my family to Africa, to Tanzania into the Serengeti. We camped (English style) for almost 3 weeks in three different places and occasionally stayed in rustic beautiful lodges. When we were out camping and exploring, we…
Grab a fork … or don’t
Do you trust your food and how should you eat it? If you read today’s news, you realize not all food is created equal. In fact, much of today’s industrial food production is focused on engineering food for you to like,…
Long Term Investing Is About To Get Real
If you take more out than you put in, it will certainly fail. Whether it is our economy or an ecosystem, we need to invested in and take care of the very engine that keeps us going. So why is…
It is all about the supply chain
Recently my dad told me that all this sustainable farming stuff is “kind of old news... We were doing this in Holland forever.” He continued, “I remember that the farmer had the cows, chickens and pigs and grew a huge…