Farm Columbia is a complete resource for practical, actionable instruction that covers every aspect of modern agrarian life. You'll find information on everything from beekeeping and animal husbandry to cooking, homebrewing, and food preservation. I also enjoy covering the historical traditions this information comes from.

Farm Columbia is written and developed by me, J.B.

I attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, spent over ten years as a software developer in the biotech and healthcare industries, and I currently live in Vancouver, WA. I do the writing for the articles, and I also handle the technical development of the site. I'm always looking for ways to improve the site, so if you have any suggestions please use my contact form. You can also check out the roadmap to see what I'm prioritizing.

The "Farm"

I'm sorry to report that there is no farm. Actually, I don't have any land of my own at all. Until I can change that, I'll have to insist that the "Farm" in "Farm Columbia" is a verb, to encourage those with means greater than my own to make "Columbia" into an even more prosperous place than it already is.

The "Columbia"

To me, the "Columbia" is the river I live next to. On the other hand, Columbia is also the historical name of a large part of the Pacific Northwest region, which took the name from that same river. Further still, the name was used during the American Revolution as a poetic name for America as a whole. I like to think the "Columbia" in "Farm Columbia" applies to all these definitions.

What You'll Find Here

I want Farm Columbia to become a vast repository of well-indexed and catalogued information on agrarian life, from its traditions to its modern realities. It's certainly not limited to farming: I cover certain topics in depth, including beekeeping, cooking, foraging, and food preservation, to name a few. There are many ways to browse articles and shop products by category, which you can read more about in this article I wrote about the site itself.

The mission, fundamentally, is about encouraging everyone to build their own useful understanding of the world, to refine their most important skills, and to think about the nature and implications of scale.