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How a Little Cattle Sale Became a Community
We started with $500, a little barn in Sparta, North Carolina, and absolutely no idea what we were doing. Eight years later, the best part of the Southeast Highland Cattle Show & Sale has very little to do with the cattle and everything to do with the people who helped build it.
Temporary Doesn’t Mean Disposable, What If Christians Have Stewardship Backwards?
I grew up hearing a lot about the end times. This world is temporary. Jesus is coming back. But lately I've been wondering whether Christians sometimes took that belief and drew the wrong conclusion from it. Maybe believing our time here is temporary should make us more concerned with how we care for what God placed in our hands, not less.
How Much Farmland Are We Willing to Trade for Progress?
Technology has given small farms like mine new ways to survive, but it also requires land, power and infrastructure. As development reaches farther into rural America, how do we make room for progress without losing the farmland we still need?
Some Things Are Worth More Than Money
Mountain land has always been valuable to somebody. After watching how quickly Western North Carolina has changed, I’ve started thinking differently about what it means to own a piece of it, what we trade away for money, and what we have a responsibility to leave behind.
That Time Dad Brought Home a Herd of Bison
When I was about 12, someone gave my dad a herd of bison. We had no proper fencing, no handling facilities, and very little idea what we were doing, but that didn’t stop us from trying. Years later, seeing bison in Custer brought back one of the wildest memories from my childhood.