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At the farm level, labor is typically manual, repetitive and fairly low-paying work. Usually that means minimum wage or a piece-rate job, so finding folks to do the work is already tough. But with the pandemic it’s become even more difficult because government subsidies aren’t motivating people to work. It puts those of us who depend on labor in a real bind.
Read MoreTo you, we wish eternal optimism, health and kindness, fortitude and grit to meet and exceed your plans for 2021, and the humility and patience it takes to achieve them.
Read MoreThis is an unprecedented time. My generation has gone through a lot, but nothing this swift, with global information coming in through every pore of the world. It’s overloading us, for sure—even more than we’re used to being overloaded, which is saying a lot. And it’s shortening our patience.
Read MoreCustomers don’t want to eat the traditional way anymore, whether it’s because it’s too expensive, too inconvenient or too time-consuming. Think of all the channels that exist now: meal kits, Amazon, grocery delivery. It’s safe to say that the effect of those channels recently sent two longtime grocers—Fairway Mart on the East Coast and Earth Fare in Colorado—into bankruptcy. And it’s predicted that US supermarkets will decline 6 percent in the next five years.
Read MoreSulforaphane is a chemical they’ve found in foods we already know are really good for you like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, watercress, etc. In our search for wonder drugs, we obliterate these foods in test tubes and isolate their contents on a molecular level to see what they’re made of.
Read MoreNitrates are thought to work better by increasing blood flow to our skeletal muscle bed, so the vessels that carry the oxygenated blood to our working muscle groups become physically wider so we get more air in. More air in equals a hotter fire. Theoretically, this suggests our endurance capacity is increased because we can run at a higher pace for longer before fatiguing.
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