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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Farming with the Ancients
Description: M.D. Usher, University of Vermont Professor of Classical Languages and Literature & Author of How to Be A Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land
Does the more farming change, the more it stays the same?
They are called “classics” because they do not wear out with time – even with thousands of years of time!
The writers of the classics captured life as they saw it with the words of their day. If one is able to translate those ancient words into today...