For several years now, we’ve been actively working to restore the native landscapes of Nan Awaya Farm. One of the things the experience...

A traditionally tanned buffalo robe is something pretty special. If any single thing can embody the connection between people, the...

The sassafras tree, kvfi in the Choctaw language, has been a part of the American landscape for a very long time. 65 million years ago,...

It was a little bit like the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie... We use an electric fence to keep the herd buffalo on our farm. An...

Gideon Lincecum was a naturalist, healer, and free-thinker. In 1819, he moved his family to Columbus, Mississippi, on the border of the...

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma recently opened its cultural center in Durant. Through it, the Choctaw people completed a dream that...

From my earliest memory and again today, Sunday evening is the night to take out the trash. I've gotten to take out the trash while...

One of the joys of fall when I was growing up was getting to experience the monarch migration. With the first hint of cool in the air,...

Tomorrow is Earth Day! We'd like to honor the day by sharing our household's experience of trying something new in '21 that was a little...

Those of you who have been following our blog for a while know that Nan Awaya Farm is about more than raising buffalo. One of our goals...

Almost every year as I was growing up, my family watched Holiday Inn. This 1942 film features Bing Crosby as a nightclub performer who...

We've been silent for a little bit. This blog was temporarily interrupted by life at Nan Awaya Farmstead. In November, we helped run...

An ancient Choctaw story tells of a hunter who, one evening after killing a doe far from his village, made his camp for the night near...

America's native grasslands are amazing places. They provide nutrition for grazing animals that is perfectly synced to the animals'...

The other day, I was listening to a recording of a talk that John Trudell had given in the year before I was born. One of his statements...

The northern hemisphere is just finishing up the hottest summer in recorded history...again. California is on fire. Oregon is on fire. ...

Sometimes something happens unexpectedly and it's like the years that separate the present day from an ancient time just melt away. It...

Adapt, improvise, and overcome. These are words that Amy's father, a 30-year Armed Service veteran and a full-blood Choctaw, has showed...

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Like most men, I had absolutely zero interest in flowers - that is until one day when I began to realize that out there beyond the flower...