Southern Legends / The Back Forty
The Back Forty
Southern Gothic agrarian satire. Written by a flower farmer who used to be a pastor and still isn't sure which job was harder on the knees.
Joel Salatin is not my guru. Neither is Wendell Berry. But I read them both, and I grow flowers in clay soil in Anniston, Alabama, and occasionally that combination produces something worth writing down.
July 21, 2026
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