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By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – December 2020
December, 2020: Announcing The Game Seven Line-up For Humanity: Gregor Mendel, Terroir, And Many Small Farms Vs. Gene Markers, Poor Soil, and More Farmer Serfdom Each year at the peak of summer my sons and I find ourselves out...
By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – November 2020
November, 2020: Processing Like a Shaman, Winning in the Marketplace The first food I popped into my mouth when I woke this morning was hemp, and I ate it in a very analog way; an eight-thousand-year-old way. I simply...
By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – October 2020
Another Digital Age Human Joins the Eight Millennia-Old Harvest Dance My family is just in from harvesting a good portion of our winter superfood diet, care of a half dozen plant species. Think about this: in a time of...
By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – September 2020
What A Farmer Thinks About When The Hemp is Growing a Few Inches Per Day I love this part of the hemp season. Though I realize as they emerge that I could write these same eight words as the...
By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – August 2020
August, 2020: The Finish Line is In Sight: Final Steps If Hemp is Going to Save Humanity I admit it: I find it cool that I can confidently write, “hemp cleans up radioactive soil.” Not, “I heard it does,”...
By Doug Fine
Fine In The Field – July 2020
We’re All Soil Farmers Now: Actively Mitigating Climate Change With Hemp As we dance toward triple digits again here in New Mexico today, I’m just in from the hemp field for breakfast, sipping my hemp/ginger shake and watching the...
Erik Rothenberg Rest in Peace
Our friend and larger than life hemp hero Erik Rothenberg departed this world last Thursday, surrounded by love, family and friends. Erik is who first turned me on to and sold us our first hemp oil. He was a...
By Doug Fine
Fine In the Field – June 2020
The first sprouts — keikis, as folks call babies of all species in Hawaii — have joined the multi-species clan here the Funky Butte Ranch. Accordingly, I have heaved that sigh that all farmers have when they’ve taken the...
Fine In the Field – May 2020
The main reason I’m out in the field, one of the one percent of Americans who are farmers these days? Hemp is a superfood, and I like the feeling of the humans and goats I care about most having...
New Senate aid bill approves farmers for Economic Injury Disaster Loans
On Tuesday April 21st, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill worth some $480 billion that would replenish funds for emergency small business lending programs among other things. The good news is that thanks to our collective advocacy efforts, this...
