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		<title>Lawns Of Purple and Gold</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/lawns-of-purple-and-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Rain and good old-fashioned laziness kept us from mowing the lawn until the first week of May this spring. By then the yard was so beautiful with wild flowers, I didn’t want to mow, but if I waited any longer I’d have to make hay out if it. As the photo above [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6435&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once A Farm Boy, Always…</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/once-a-farm-boy-always/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON I was sort of shocked by an ad in a recent New York Times Sunday magazine which I read regularly. It showed photos of a magnificent new high rise apartment and the surrounding skyline of the city, also magnificent. The building’s form was awesomely grotesque with the floors seemingly piled on top [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6429&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Wee Little Businesses Save the Nation?</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/can-wee-little-businesses-save-the-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Both political parties and both capitalism and socialism spout lots of support for “small business.” Maybe this is where we can bring the country back together again. But I put quotes around “small business” because the Census Bureau and the Small Business Administration have exceedingly murky notions about what “small” means. By [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6421&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Springs</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/sacred-springs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON A clear spring bubbling up to the surface of the earth was once one of nature’s greatest gifts to humans, holy wells by whatever meaning you give those words. Having your own clean, unpolluted water “on tap” without much effort or expense was a priceless treasure. Significantly ancient sacred springs honored in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6415&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Good Results Make Me Look Smart</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/unexpected-good-results-make-me-look-smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Over the years, gardening and farming have taught me to be pessimistic. I’m the guy who invariably says, when a really nice day arrives, “we’ll pay for it.” We are not in control. How often I have seen two farmers do the same thing but on different days. One makes a profit [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6405&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Shoe Drops In The Global Warming Debate</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/another-shoe-drops-in-the-global-warming-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Despite the scolding some of you have given me, I still don’t think science has explained worldly global warming any better than religion has explained otherworldly hell. But the debate has taught me something. While scientists like to point out, correctly I think, that theologians are influenced more by ideology not facts, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6400&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Farms Going Belly Up Again?</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/big-farms-going-belly-up-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON I often wonder if the people who read my meanderings through the pastoral world care about news about big farmers going broke. We probably should care, but I wouldn’t blame those who didn’t. Big business, big government, and big farmers have forged an agricultural economy that is not sustainable. Everybody knows it. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6392&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Horse Filet Mignon. Yum.</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/horse-filet-mignon-yum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Recently, as everyone knows by now, horse meat was found in Swedish meatballs being sold in various parts of Europe, and the Great Horse Scandal of 2013 was off and (pardon me) galloping. From the consternation being voiced in some quarters, you would think that human flesh had been found in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6385&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s Mud In Your Sty</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/heres-mud-in-your-sty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Mud is the most appropriate icon (how I hate that overused word anymore) of the struggle between humans bent on making money in farming and a nature bent on stopping them. Mud in springtime turns barnyards into forbidding quagmires that can swallow pigs. I say this with some authority. As a child [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6378&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Brush Piles</title>
		<link>http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/burning-brush-piles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON March brings the job I enjoy the most, fittingly for this drab season. I burn brush piles that have been collecting from cutting firewood over the past year. Authors who write books about nature are sometimes not pleased by brush pile burners like me. They want us to keep the piles around [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10047870&#038;post=6372&#038;subd=thecontraryfarmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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