Dropstone Farms

…but Mighty God King [You may safely assume that all links contain swears and off-color humor] a blog that’s primarily about comic books, jokes about bad science fiction and an unhealthy obsession with Rex the Wonder Dog has published a short essay on sustainable agriculture and responsible meat consumption.

My dog did this just the other day. (Stolen from Mighty God King with respect.)

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We got an email off a farming list the other day stating that a nearby greenhouse owner was moving and she was having a greenhouse sale of all the now-superfluous equipment. So I fired the truck up and went to see if I could find a bargain. I managed to pick up:

• A 55-gallon compost tumbler
• A smallish garden cart
• Six greenhouse table tops
• 12 brackets for building tables from 2×4s
• A hula hoe
• 12 large seed-starting trays
• Six tomato cages
• A mess of domes
• A billion seed flats
• A mess of small seed-starting trays

All for the princely sum of $87. I am awfully pleased with myself. In the spirit of giving back to the gardening , I offer up the following jpg.

Sources close to the Obama administration assure me that this is Tom Vilsack's own farm in Iowa.

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We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big mesh pen.

However, in combination with the dogs’ fondness for chicken feed/poo, this can lead to some entertaining antics.

See below.

Ruby's life is extremely hard.

I helped her out as soon as I managed to a) stop laughing and b) take a picture.

Poor Ruby.

Update: Famous dog is famous.

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Sometimes someone writes a really well-researched and well-written book on our relationship with food and sometimes someone draws a smart-assed web comic about the same thing.

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