I Didn’t Grow Up on a Farm

2003. Dr. Joe Yenish, my major professor, and Jack. The bird hunting that wrecked my grades in 1997 is the same bird hunting I did with the man who ran my graduate program.

A, B, C, D, F. My worst semester at WSU, the letter that followed it, and the man who told me I wasn’t worth an internship because I didn’t grow up on a farm.

Regenerative farming: 20 years wrong about the soil

Carston with one of our young lambs. Growing up regenerative native.

It’s 5:09 AM in Pullman. I have two ag degrees from WSU, decades in agriculture, and I still didn’t understand what was happening in our soil. Tonight my 15-year-old gets honored at State FFA for what I only recently figured out.