WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa airs The Big Show from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM on weekdays. I happened to be listening today and heard the hosts discussing the swine flu.
Category Archives: Pastoral Economics
The Beginning Farmer
August 17, 2008 – 6:56 am
I surfed over the The Des Moines Register this morning and read a story that really warmed my heart. A Farm is Born is a story about Ethan Book, a man who wanted to become a farmer. Ethan and his wife Becca have established a small farm in south-central Iowa where they raise [...]
Can I Do It?
October 27, 2007 – 8:45 am
I recently finished reading Joel Salatin’s latest book, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front . This book illustrates how government regulation favors Big Agriculture and limits what is possible for small-scale farming. Most of what is big today, started as a small-scale farming idea. [...]
Buy Low, Sell High
August 7, 2006 – 11:04 am
Most farmers in the U.S. have given up the source of wealth that God (whether you believe in him or not) has so generously given them and traded it for the empty promises of prosperity that big agribusiness have deceived them with. The basic rule of economics is to buy low and sell high. This [...]