Welcome, friend.

Here I write about farming, faith, ancestral food and traditions, and sometimes books, too — books I’m reading, and books I’m writing.

Farming, writing, and the gracious hand of the Lord have been the constants throughout a life of change. Pasture People is born out of a desire to share these loves with others. This newsletter is a place where all those things collide — sometimes clumsily, sometimes more gracefully — with my musings about our ordinary home life here on a tiny homestead.

So welcome to my table, my hearth, my garden. Let me pour you a cup of something nourishing and slide a well-loved book into your hands. I hope I can show you something beautiful before you go on your way back into the wild, frightening, and marvelous world.

What you can expect to see here:

Short vignettes of rural life & its lessons, personal Farm Notes, and longer-form essays about authentic living for paid subscribers.

For the sojourner:

• The Rural Economy

• Despise Not These Humble Beginnings

• Encampment

• Seven Generations

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