Every week we buy eggs from a farm family who sells them to our local food co-op. Tucked into each box is a short jewel that sets the eggs apart from other products: a four or five-line update about their farm or its practices. The story is photocopied, cut into strips and put into the egg cartons.

Last week instead of a narrative about the arrival of new chicks or the antics of a turkey was a statement about the movement to pay a farmer the worth of what a farmer raises. “Thank you for no longer seeing food as a cost, but as the treasure it is,” the last line of the message read.

The weekly writing from the Bauman family is marvelous marketing. It’s a blog as well, though one written without the Internet. The Baumans are Old German Baptist Brethren. They reject some forms of technology, including television and computers. They also raise their chickens the old fashioned way – on pasture instead of in a windowless chicken shed with giant fans.

Can a blog be a blog if it isn’t on the Internet?

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