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Priorities might be another apt “P” word this week. I’ve been making them and readjusting them by the hour. All I can say is that it is now nothing short of full-blown spring and …
[Editor’s note: Hunter’s taking a column week off, so here’s one of my favorites, from 2022. It’s been slightly edited for, you know, the two-year time difference.] …
[Editor’s note: Hunter’s taking a column week off, so here’s one from 2020, on his new lockdown hobby: growing and cooking mushrooms.] Many folks have taken to new hobbies as a …
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Way back yonder in the month of October—you know, a century ago—my wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. As per natural courtship rituals, it was upon my shoulders as …
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
As the leaves fall in the final days of autumn, so too fall the giants that bore them. Not everywhere, of course. But on the site of the future Hill family farm, the first signs of our …
Thursday, October 26, 2023
There are two kinds of men: those who just buy the new thing their wife wants, and those who volunteer and overpromise a masterfully crafted and cheaper alternative to the product at hand. …
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
What for some might be wallet, keys, spectacles and watch, for a farmer is wallet, keys, watch and pocketknife. Growing up, I lost a couple to the public school because everywhere but …
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
This year for the first time, my boys decided—with some structured leading—to plant and cultivate their own crops aside from those in our farm fields. It began with a strange request. …
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
So if you read my outdoor article last month titled “Fundamental Foraging,” you would know my boys and I recently came into a good supply of mushrooms harvested from a tree near our …
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The butcher’s kids go hungry and the cobbler’s kids go shoeless. I used to hear this phrase often, but perhaps less so lately. The idea behind it is that the thing we might do as a …
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Ever had a bad day? Bad week? Maybe it was just uncanny how many things could go wrong all at the same time. Well, this is the tale of one such time. It all started long, long ago. A time so far …
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Right now there are peaches available, and we thought we’d re-run Hunter’s column from last year, offering his own take on the delicious fruit. It’s amazing how fast the …
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
I wonder where I’d be sometimes if it wasn’t for God dropping blessings right in front of my face. Of course, I think about it—the very air I breathe and the ground I walk on count …
