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Farmer John: Go into establishing your own flock of chickens with a gameplan

April 25, 2021 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — Chickens are fun, relatively easy to care for and provide eggs. They don’t bark, they don’t bite, and you don’t

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Farmer John: Benefits abound in owning chickens, but go in with clear eyes

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — The allure of having chickens got the best of me about two decades ago. I ran a farm in

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Farmer John: Collard greens are local, durable, tasty and very unafraid of weather some avoid

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — How long can you stand still outside, in the winter, even with winter clothes on, even at the peak of

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Farmer John: Plant a tree for a healthy ecosystem — or just a nice spot to nap

October 16, 2020 The Independent News

Ed. — This originally ran in the Sunday, Aug. 23, print edition. BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I woke up from a nap the other day,

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Farmer John: Plant a tree for a healthy ecosystem — or just a nice spot to nap

September 30, 2020 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I woke up from a nap the other day, after reading about trees, and I had a visceral feeling of being

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Farmer John: Building a garden starts with healthy, living soil

May 2, 2020 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I call it the garden of eatin’.  I love that fresh food, and I love working – really, playing – in the

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Farmer John: Healthier, nutritious meals for our local communities now — and for our future selves

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — Consider eating a diet of the lab-made stuff seen in the movie The Matrix starring Keanu Reeves. It was a tan

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Farmer John: We need to stop treating sustainable agriculture practices as edgy ideas

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I read a book, Children of the Mind, by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, which used the terms “edge

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Farmer John: Searching for balance in our world, systems that produce our food

October 17, 2019 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — We experienced the fall equinox on Monday, Sept. 23. The Earth was poised between light and dark, day and night.

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Farmer John: Benefits of managing livestock in a regional food system

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 The Independent News

BY J.D. WILSON VIRGINIA BEACH — There are a couple of lines of thought about livestock practices that are at odds. I understand central points

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