Dear Folks: January 18, 1987
Dear Folks,
At the beginning of this new year, I should re-introduce Foundation Farm and the characters who live here, for the benefit of the many new subscribers to the Dana Meadows News Service, and for the amusement of the original subscribers, some of whom know us very well, many of whom have lived here or visited at one time or [...]
A Time of Death, a Time of Life
By Donella Meadows
–November 27, 1986–
The shepherd’s new year begins in November. That’s when we bring the sheep up from the pasture, butcher last spring’s lambs and turn the ram in with the ewes to start making next spring’s lambs. The record book closes on one cycle, and the next cycle begins.
I think of late fall as The Time When We [...]
Dear Folks: November 23, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s late on a Sunday night and I’m too tired to be writing this. I just got back from a trip to Washington, interesting but draining. I came home to find only Dennis here, with a nice pot of lentil soup and a cabbage salad ready for me and the woodstoves all fired up and the chores all done. [...]
Dear Folks: October 18, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s Saturday night, a nearly-full moon shining in my bedroom window as I type this. Dennis has just left for a trip with the craziest itinerary I ever heard — Ottawa, Seville (yes, the one in Spain), New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles and then home. All in two weeks. Suzanne is working in Boston this weekend. We’re hoping [...]
A Farm That Thrives Without Chemicals
By Donella Meadows
–September 4, 1986–
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear, for a change, about a Midwest family farm that is not in trouble?
Meet Dick and Sharon Thompson, of Boone, Iowa. They have worked their 300-acre farm, the one on which Dick was born, for 29 years now. They’ve raised four children. One son works with them, another has his own [...]
