Portable Trees

Addressing earth's ecological needs with human ingenuity.

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Saving Money on Groceries

The news is full of high grocery prices these days. How can we pair provenance with finesse for something better all around?

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Surface Runoff

What's the most unknown and underappreciated structure of our farm? Water.

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Scents of Spring

The farm aroma in spring is one of my most enjoyable smells of spring because I know it's caused by converting fermenting bedding into aerobic compost. Here's how it works...

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Bird Flu

With many thousands of pastured chickens immersed in a wildlife-friendly ecology, we're watching this global issue. Here's our stance and plans for weathering this storm.

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Grazing Plan

What's on your plate starts in late winter...with a calculator, lots of paper, figuring, and head scratching to get all the animals at the right place at the right time throughout the year.

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Friendly Talking Points

Talking points on how to present your food weirdness to friends, co-workers, and family to draw others into a healing mentality.

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A New Year

Where we are and what we're doing for an even better 2025

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SOY

We've had a breakthrough in soy. We've had our chickens checked by energy fields, pendulums, crystals, chromatography...Now we have definitive proof.

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Thanksgiving

The older I get, the more grateful I am for my parents who embraced different. Indulge me in a couple of stories from our family's past to illustrate how we relished "maverickness".

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Inventory Fluctuations

One of the biggest differences between Polyface and Wal-Mart is that we don't fill inventory gaps from a warehouse. Craft is all about something different.

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PUFAS - Trendy or True?

Are PUFAs a big deal? Polyface has been in the pastured livestock business long enough to have seen numerous litmus tests of the day come and go. What about PUFAs?

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