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Published Work

A selection of writing work out in the world.

2023

The Ag Mag – Fall 2023
Have Skills, Will Travel (page 16)

Atticus Review – November 4, 2023
Interview: Kandi Maxwell, Author of Snow After Fire: A Memoir of the Paradise Camp Fire & Its Aftermath

Fibershed – November 2, 2023
Community Husbandry at Rancho Las Palmas

Fibershed – September 11, 2023
Weaving Lineage in Diaspora

Fibershed – August 24, 2023
Amazing Graze at McCormack Ranch

Fibershed – July 5, 2023
Acadian Brown Cotton Is Back

Fibershed – May 1, 2023
Two Women and Two Generations of Stewardship at Blackberry Farm

Spin Off – Winter 2023 issue
Lani’s Lana: Sheep, Landscape, and Western Wool

Fibershed – March 23, 2023
Taking the Long View at Mustang Acres

Fibershed – March 13, 2023
Grange Home Returns the Hand to the Made

Fibershed – February 27, 2023
Herderin Begins with the Body and Soul

2022

Fibershed – November 18, 2022
Perennial Green Goals at Meridian Farm

Fibershed – September 26, 2022
The Not-So-Simple Life at Outlaw Valley Ranch

Fibershed – August 26, 2022
A Life Filled with Meaning at Green Goose Farm

The Ag Mag – Spring 2022
All Things Fiber – Connecting the Dots (page 26-27)

2021

Grit Magazine – April 23, 2021
Print and online at Shear Your Own Sheep

Cal Matters Op-Ed – March 19, 2021
Rely on IRS rules for contract workers, not the ABC test of AB 5

Hippocampus Magazine – January 8, 2021
Literary No Body


2020

The Ag Mag – Fall 2020
Load ‘Em Up (p. 11, on livestock evacuation during wildfires) and Future Farming? You Decide (on vertical indoor farming, p. 30-31)

Fibershed Blog – October 2, 2020
From Soil to Skein with Mendocino Wool and Fiber Inc. (an update on Sarah and Matt Gilbert, whose wool mill story features prominently in Raw Material)

Next Avenue PBS – June 22, 2020
Granting My Grandmother’s Final Wish

The Ag Mag – Spring 2020
Wildfire Prevention: Portable Eaters (p. 28-29, on contract grazing with sheep to reduce wildfire fuel load)

The Saturday Evening Post – March 25, 2020
The Joys of Shearing Ornery, 250-Pound Sheep

The North American Review – Spring 2020: Volume 305, Number 1
Personal Effects (not yet available online; PDF forthcoming)

The Ag Mag – Winter 2020
California 4-H Funding Reduced (p. 8-9)

2019

The Ag Mag – Summer 2019
The Low Down: Fibershed Marketplace (p. 6) and Rural Routes: Stairway to a Heavenly Garden (p. 12)

2018

The Ag Mag – Summer 2018
Cover photo and Keeping the Culture in Agriculture (p. 24-26, on the inaugural Transhumance festival in Petaluma, California)

The Ag Mag – Winter 2018
Photos and Where Clothes Grow: Making Raw Fiber into Finished Goods (p. 8-10)

Medium – July 12, 2018
The Trailsplainer of the High Sierra

The Billfold – March 2018
5 Lessons From an Eldercare Emergency
My family and I thought my 87-year-old grandmother’s finances were in great shape and ready for anything. We were wrong.

2017

The Billfold – December 2017
Buy a New Life With a F**k Off Fund

Hobby Farms – December 4, 2017
The Triple Benefit Of Feeding Sheep With Cover Crops
In the right situations, farmers, sheep and land can all benefit from sheep grazing on cover crops. Some mixtures make for better forage than others.

Hobby Farms – November 1, 2017
2 Online Tools Help You Track The Carbon Sinking & Soil Building Of Sheep
Small flocks create big benefits for soil and farm budgets. Two tools from the USDA and Colorado State University help you see them.

Hobby Farms – September 25, 2017
7 Key Points In The Sheep Care Guide Updated For 2017
The Sheep Care Guide, produced by the American Sheep Industry Association, covers feed safety, transportation, regulatory data and emergency planning.

The Ag Mag – Fall 2017
A Rat Hunter and His Mongrol Hoard (p. 8-10, not currently available online)

Hobby Farms – August 21, 2017
Use Beer To Help Ailing Sheep? Many People Say It Works
Curative ale is more than an old wives’ tale. Many sheep owners swear that beer has helped sheep who wouldn’t eat after other remedies failed.

The Billfold – July 2017
Halftime
When your workload is halved–and you’re okay with it.

Hobby Farms – July 17, 2017
Salt, Selenium & Sheep: Getting Your Animals The Minerals They Need
Too little or too much selenium can prove fatal, and salt blocks alone cannot guarantee sufficient amounts. Here are ways to get sheep what they need.

Hobby Farms – June 12, 2017
Are Your Sheep Too Fat? The Dangers of Overfeeding Sheep
Overfeeding sheep is more harmful to the animals’ health than most people might know. Here’s how to spot problem weight and what you can do about it.

Hobby Farms – May 10, 2017
What’s That Yellow Stuff In My Sheep’s Fleece?
Yellow sheep’s fleece may be a problem or not at all. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Hobby Farms – April 3, 2017
5 Sheep Books Off The Beaten Path
Seeking more sheep reading? Enjoy five of my uncommon favorites.

Hobby Farms – February 3, 2017
Bummer Lambs Are A Bargain
Grow your flock affordably with bummer lambs.

2016

Hobby Farms – December 12, 2016
7 Gifts Fit For A Sheep Farmer
Keeping sheep is hard work, but these gifts can make the tasks at hand much more bearable.

2014

Midwestern Gothic – Issue 14
Township (short fiction)

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You can buy wool cheaper in Australia; let your forty acres of sheep grazing land go to waste. You can buy rice cheaper in some foreign clime; let your rice lands go to waste. You can buy woolen goods cheaper; burn your woolen factories, let your water-power run to waste, and cease to work your coal mines. God made a mistake when He gave you these gifts.

William Lawrence
The American Wool Interest, in address of the Farmers’ National Congress at Chicago, November 1887

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