When I first started writing about the past, I had lofty ideals. My goal was simple—to find the truth and tell it. I often wished that it...

One stereotype of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s was that young people didn’t listen to—or trust—anyone over thirty. That may...

As I write this, the wild pin cherry trees are just finishing blooming, white petals drifting down to the ground in a fragrant snow. The...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

I loved science when I was a kid—especially biology. I loved learning more about nature, going out in the woods to look at plants and...

Six years after my failed pot fertility experiment at OSU, it happened again. The instructor for my Soil Microbiology class at the...

Fresh out of my first year of agronomy classes, I was excited to do my first internship at an organically managed CSA. My job at the...

I’ll admit it. My first attempt at designing an “organic” fertility experiment was a complete failure. When I started my forages class at...

If, like me, you get emails from nonprofit organizations, your inbox is probably filling up this week with calls for year-end giving. But...

This year, we had a wonderful bumper crop of almost every vegetable in our garden. For months, our hallway and entryway were full of...

Korre Boyer, the park manager at Malabar when I visited in 2015, reminded me a lot of my fellow agronomy students at Ohio State. He was...

As I walked past the big barn at Malabar Farm with Tom in 2015, I was surprised and pleased to see a freshly painted mural on the barn...

Tom Bachelder is passionate about Malabar Farm. After retiring from his career as an art teacher at the Mansfield Public Schools, Tom...

I knew I was getting close to Malabar Farm when I started to see hills. Before I took my first visit to Malabar Farm in 2015, I had spent...

When I do oral history interviews with people, I always ask off the recording if they have any questions for me. And what they usually...

Archival research is the gold standard in the historical profession. Sure, you can do good historical research using published primary...

I had never seen so many books in one place in my life. It wasn’t my first time in The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library, but I...

Welcome to the first-ever blog post on my new History of Organic Farming in America website! I’ve been researching the history of organic...