North Star Farm Offers A Different Argument For The World

From the Opinion Desk: the farm has become less a place and more a proposition about time, attention, beauty, labor, and what kind of life still feels worth building.

From the Opinion Desk, I have come to think that North Star Farm offers a different argument for the world.

I do not mean that in a grandiose way. I mean it in the practical, stubborn, slightly absurd way that most meaningful things begin. A field makes an argument. A trail makes an argument. A pond, a dome, a berry bush, a fire pit, a sheep standing in …