A Savanna Life in a Technological World
Savannas, megafauna, early humans, and tool use. All in one picture. Most modern agricultural innovations have come from chemists and physicists. These include synthetic fertilizer and DDT. Those technologies have a whole chain of unanticipated negative consequences. We can predict that Fake Meat will exhibit […]
Biomimicry in Agriculture, or, (better yet) Ecomimicry Us nature-geeks blame technology for modern problems, but we can get a little fuzzy about where to go from there. Some nature-geeks champion the idea of ‘biomimicry,’ which is defined as ‘innovations inspired by nature.’ One example of […]
This is one family’s attempt to make a life full of savanna in a world dominated by technology. Bent Grass is a collaboration between myself (Nate Chisholm, writing) and Hanna Hart (taking the pictures that led you here in the first place). Together, with our one year old, Abel, we operate under the moniker “Meadows, Brooks, and Groves.”
In the winter, I manage grass-fed cattle in Sonoma County CA. In the summer, we will once again pack up and move cattle to our property on the Oregon Coast. There, we will again slave away for our unrelenting task masters: Meadows, Brooks, and Groves.