Category Archives: Commentaries and Essays

  When an email from the group Food Democracy Now! landed in my inbox last week, asking farmers to occupy Wall Street, it seemed only right that I notify the subscribers of GrassfedCooking—a free monthly e-newsletter I run for other … Continue reading →

  Every week during the growing season my husband and I cart our family’s grassfed meats to market, priced at $11/lb for pork chops, $7.50/lb for ground beef.  Every week we meet someone who tells us the prices are too … Continue reading →

As a rule, I don’t do protests.  I don’t occupy anything, except my home and the farm.  I am a country girl, and the key to living a happy agrarian existence lies in having a certain personality type – I’m … Continue reading →

By Shannon Hayes, GrassfedCooking.com  I’ve received a fair amount of personal communication from people asking me for my take on Paleo eating.  I’ve stayed relatively quiet about the issue in my online postings because my family has had to endure … Continue reading →

Dear friends; We have a glorious beef hanging in our cooler, fattened on the fall grasses, ready to offer up some of the tastiest steaks of the season.  Knowing many of you are facing similar abundance, I thought I’d send … Continue reading →

  Goodnight, Irene….   It was busy in town Friday and Saturday.  Stores and restaurants were filled with New Yorkers and Long Islanders seeking refuge from hurricane Irene, slated to pummel downstate on Sunday.   We were safely outside the … Continue reading →

Thanks for Doing Business in the Middle of Nowhere Shannon Hayes Yesterday I walked into my local Post Office to mail a few boxes of books.  Cathy, our postmaster, looked exhausted.  “Is it happening?” “Looks like it.” For years now, … Continue reading →

A tragi-comedy of epic proportions

Who will do the farm work?

A farmers’ perspective on raising, slaughtering and eating meat