I was driving down the road the other day and looking at the hybrid corn fields whizzing past. They were all in nice neat rows, with plants all the same height, with ears of corn all growing out of the stalk at exactly the same internode, with one stalk per seed planted, with one ear of corn per plant. Practically perfect uniformity! I paused to reflect on what my open-pollinated corn field looks like: nice, neat rows but vastly varying heights, ears of corn coming out at all different points on the stalk, some stalks with two to three ears of corn, some with up to five stalks coming from a single seed. A veritable mish-mash of diversity!

ThoughtsMagdalene MastinOctober 17, 2019Healthy Homesteadfarm, farming, sustainable farm, open-pollinated corn, corn, organicComment

Divine Simplicity & Farm Complications

“Move to the farm and it will become the sustenance for your families.” That’s what Michele and I heard in prayer many years ago. So, why now are we working with only a 5th of the previous land, about one third of our cattle, and just a small percentage of our previous income (resulting in both of us having to work off the farm)?

Thoughts on FaithJeffrey MastinFebruary 23, 2019faith, God, farmingComment