Jim Goodman: The Real Cowboys

It strikes me that many of the problems we run into on a day-to-day basis are caused by people doing a job for which they are not fully qualified. We have all run across the bad restaurant meal: a cook who wasn’t so good; an owner who didn’t get fresh ingredients; a wait person who [...]

Jim Goodman: Welcome Back to Food

We often think that farmers markets are a product of our times as they spring up in cities and small towns across the country. Truth is, farmers markets are the traditional way of selling agricultural produce around the world.
The really nice aspect of this transaction is that the farmer receives just compensation for his product [...]

Jim Goodman: The Hard Way

The Hard Way
We are, for better or worse, part of the land we live on. We can choose to extract as much as possible from the earth around us, the “Manifest Destiny” (or nature’s in my way) line of thinking. Or we can take as little as necessary and leave as small a trace as [...]

Jim Goodman: Nature’s Way

Jim Goodman
Nature’s Way
Last month I had a pretty good idea how the cows would react to their first days on pasture, but I never get tired of seeing them acting like calves again– running, gorging on fresh grass and stretching out flat and dreaming of an endless summer. Cows love the spring and they love [...]

Jim Goodman: The Rebel Dairyman

By Jim Goodman
Recently I was reading Tom Hayden’s book Irish On The Inside and his speculation that the Irish character contains the seeds of rebelliousness rather than conformity, idealism rather than materialism and communal ethics rather than individualistic ones. I’d agree with that. I also think in these times we all need to be a [...]