John’s Recommended Reading List
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I believe constant learning is an imperative,…
Author: John Kempf
Homeostasis
Homeostasis is one of those nice words we do not hear much nowadays. It means the body’s ability to balance itself. ~ Charles Walters1 Homeostasis is…
Close Connections
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ John Muir What does it…
What actually produced the difference?
When observing changes on farms, we give credit to the wrong factors at least half the time. ~ Gary Zimmer A foundational premise of holistic agriculture…
The bulls-eye of the wrong target
We have become masterful at hitting the bull’s eye of the wrong target. A colleague sent me a recent article1 describing the discovery of a…
When Quality is the goal, Yield is a result
When yield is the goal we focus on, we manage plant nutrition to produce the highest yields possible. It becomes strictly a numbers game, making…
