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We were 8 years old during the latter part of 1960’s, as three Navajo boys in governmental boarding school huddled in the back room known as the “end room.” With a line of Indian boys all waiting to purchase a boloney sandwich we had manufactured from stolen products from the BIA cafeteria. BIA represents the

A research project completed at Spirit Farm COMPARING THE QUALITY OF THE SOIL WITH FOODS GROWN ON LAND AMENDED WITH MICROBIAL-RICH COMPOST For two years, from mid July 2019 to mid July 2021, Covenant Pathways conducted a research project that was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here are the highlights:

Five years ago, we were so excited to start our own flock of sheep. We purchased four, young, pregnant ewes and eagerly awaited the arrival of our first lamb. He was born on a cold, February morning. Watching the mother, we soon realized she did not want anything to do with her new baby. So

To begin our discussion, we do not like the phrase“ food insecurity” pegged to a specific group of people. We are all dealing with “food trauma”: food that is neither medicinal nor beneficial to our wellbeing. Food that has been commoditized and subsidized by the federal government has done major damage to us all, and

I heard a story when I was young, regarding the epic battle between a bear and a badger: One day a young boy,hunting small game in the thick ponderosa and oak trees, heard the crashing of limbs and the growling of animals nearby. The boy cautiously crept over to investigate. By the time he had

“From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things the flowers of the plains, blowing wind, rocks, trees, birds, animals and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same