It was such an ordinary day. Doris the hen awoke bright and early to the sound of one of the rooster’s loud calls ringing through the dusty, semi-dark air of the hen house. She looked up to see which rooster was onwake-up duty today. Sitting on the section of perch appointed to the holder ofthat […]

“I don’t know howyou manage, James,” a customer at the Watauga County Farmer’s Market laughingly observes.  “A farm, bees, a professorship…and kids?  I’d be in an insane asylum!”  The man is a stranger to me but is apparently well known to my companion, to whom this quip has been addressed.  James Wilkes responds with an […]