Dispatches From the Funky Butte Ranch
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Seven Hemp Farms. Two Continents. One Revived Industry
First Legal Hemp Harvest Update American Hemp Is On Its Way to Your Car Battery And Your Bookstore The first digital age domestic hemp crop is being harvested as I write. The subtle decrease in seismic activity currently puzzling Virginia geologists can be traced to Thomas Jefferson ceasing to spin in his grave for the first time in 77 years….
The Doug Fine TEDxTalk: The Return of the Indigenous Gene
I’m probably one of only a handful of TED fans (let alone speakers) who has slept outside with his goats to protect them from coyotes like some kind of crunchy Elmer Fudd. And that in fact is the theme of my recent TEDxABQ talk, The Return of the Indigenous Gene: Why We Need Goatherding in the Digital Age. I was…
The Drug War’s Berlin Wall Is Down And So Is My Local Forest: Here’s The Connection
I’m on my yucca-framed porch swing sipping an organic Orange Julius and watching an 8,500-acre wildfire creep towards me here on the Funky Butte Ranch. Shrug. Just more climate change era chaos. I can smell and in fact feel the heat from the blaze already. Its light ash snowfall accumulating on my napping dog rather powerfully conveys the message…
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