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Practical Farm Magic (opens the original)
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I’ve always had a lot of sympathy for Lot’s wife. I also realize that this isn’t the primary theological lesson we’re supposed to take from that section of Genesis. But hear me out — what if Lot’s wife had OCD?My mother has been pondering this out loud for many years. We’ll be driving in the car, or she’ll be musing in the kitchen, and she’ll say, “What if Lot’s wife just wondered if she’d turned the stove off?” And just like that, the story of fleeing a city on the eve of God’s wrath gets way m
Julian Thinks the Barn Is Stupid (opens the original)
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What’s the difference between being in control and being controlling? This week in Stable Roots , I’m thinking about all the ways I’ve confused the two — from spending four hours trying to convince Max to get on a horse trailer, to watching well-meaning humans become complete doormats in the name of giving horses a voice, to one very opinionated chestnut gelding who spent an entire thunderstorm explaining exactly what he thought about being put in a stall. We’ll talk about consent-based horseman
The Four Seasons (opens the original)
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The Four Seasons: An almanac for those who are emotionally dependent on mowing grass Kim has a problem. Summer isn’t even over yet, and she’s already worried about what will happen when the grass stops growing. After one full trip through the seasons at Lavender Hill, mowing has become more than another farm chore. It’s three uninterrupted hours on a machine, moving slowly enough to notice things, loudly enough that nobody can talk to her, and leaving behind the deeply satisfying evidence that s
Alpha is a Misnomer (opens the original)
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Alpha is a Misnomer: On horses, wolves, the Cold War, and our need to know who is in charge Who is actually in charge in a herd of horses? For a very long time, we thought we knew. We built entire systems of horsemanship around dominance, hierarchy, and the idea that a good human needed to establish themselves as the leader. Somewhere along the way, the language of Natural Horsemanship became tangled up with Alpha wolves, Cold War thinking, and our very human desire to arrange the world into nea
A Total Eclipse of the Foxtail (opens the original)
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A weed can be growing beside you for years without causing a bit of trouble. Then somebody teaches you its name — and tells you to be afraid of it. Suddenly, it’s everywhere. This week, between two eclipses, I am roaming a horse pasture hunting foxtail, an ancient grass that has followed agriculture for thousands of years and that I had been conditioned to fear during my unfortunate former life selling hay. There are horses. There are weeds. There are extremely particular hay buyers. There is a
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