...among the most vernacular and charming institutions that scenic and mountainous tourist attraction of a state has is the country store. These quaint, ancient, family-owned emporia can, or at least could, be found in all the tiny villages spread through the hills and dales of the state, providing their residents with just about everything they need to live, eat, and work, without the grueling voyages to the bigger stores over the mountains and far away.…
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As someone who has lived nearly everywhere, I would like to say something out loud to those who choose to see only inconveniences inside this county-wide community. Please, wake up and smell the coffee. It’s wafting on the breeze from the successful java shop on the corner.…
News from the Noteworthy Much Ado About Methane Our column, The Life of the Land, is an exploration of local agricultural practices. Several of our pieces will focus on farms which raise grass-fed animals; here we address the environmental implications of locally raised livestock. It is indisputable that industrial livestock management is an ecological disaster. This has led to pronouncements from numerous authoritative agencies to eat “less meat” or even “no meat”. Yet grass-fed production of livestock is an important…