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Posts published in “2019 October”

Confessions of a Hemp Farmer, Pt. 4

By Ed Berg Winston Churchill is said to have described human history as, “… just one damned thing after another.” He could have been a farmer. Last month’s installment included complaints about partners, weather and water, which must be familiar to any farmer or rancher and can only make for boring reading. I’d gotten myself and my wife into the quasi-legal medicinal hemp industry, with its tangle of anti-social laws built on eighty years of propaganda and prejudice. I was having some self-doubts. I was also trying to learn about farming in the marginally farmable climate of our high-altitude desert ...

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