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The Vice President of Farming: living a double life since 2011

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Foreign Country: Blythe, California

February 27, 2015by PaulFredenberg 7 Comments

I awoke at 4:30 and by 5:00 the rental Nissan was motoring down the sparsely vegetated ribbon of interstate between Palm Springs and Phoenix. I had just weathered two straight […]

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Business Trips, Cattle, Farming, Foreign Country, Hay

Parting Shot

November 14, 2014by PaulFredenberg 3 Comments

It was an absolute gift of a night. The air was like Mom’s kitchen, soft, fragrant, and yielding. The silhouette of black walnut tree and barn roofline featured against a […]

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Bedtime, Business Trips, Farming, Goats

Tender Loin

November 9, 2014by PaulFredenberg 12 Comments

It was the kind of gathering where a bowling ball rolled across the lush, encyclopedia-thick carpeting  might only make it eight inches before hitting the next set of Gucci loafers. […]

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Business, Business Trips, Cattle, Farming, Food, Hay, Miscellaneous

Free Nights

May 1, 2014by PaulFredenberg 12 Comments

It was the same old script from the same old movie.  Bleary-eyed businessman, half-dressed, swigging from a bottle of lukewarm Aquafina, clacking away at a hot laptop in a cold […]

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Bedtime, Business Trips, Parenting

Foreign Country: Plano, Texas

October 24, 2013by PaulFredenberg 13 Comments

It was lunchtime on a sunny summer Friday and I prowled the Dallas suburbs looking for the Next Big Deal. It sounds sexy to be out shopping for a thirty […]

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Business, Business Trips, Farming, Foreign Country, Hay

¿Se Habla Tuxedo?

July 17, 2013by PaulFredenberg 10 Comments

If a team of advance scouts from an alien race intent on overtaking our planet were to reconnoiter from a back table at a business summit they would probably knock […]

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Business, Business Trips, Parenting

Hay Fever

July 13, 2013by PaulFredenberg 1 Comment

You would never guess it from the marketing materials. The catalogs and print advertisements and websites all feature rock climbers perched on vertical cliffs, backcountry skiers buried in champagne powder, […]

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Business Trips, Farming, Farmwear, Hay

The Most Interesting Man in the Whole Foods

June 14, 2013by PaulFredenberg 22 Comments

I shuffled along the aisles with tired legs, a sullen look, and a throbbing left elbow.  I wore business casual standard: lightweight wool gabardine pants, a blue Tattersall button-down, and […]

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Business Trips, Cattle, Farming, Food

The Smell of Work

May 30, 2013by PaulFredenberg 3 Comments

The iPhone alarm sounded at 4:30am and three hours later the MD-88 lifted off from a promising April morning at Detroit Metro Airport.  Seventy minutes of turbulence later it landed […]

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Business Trips, Firewood

Foreign Country – Texas Edition

May 27, 2013by PaulFredenberg 9 Comments

After two days spent navigating a tight swirl of traffic congestion, Panamanian-jungle humidity, overwrought Tex-Mex restaurants, and the collective false bravado of 100,000 accountants in large pickup trucks, I was […]

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Business Trips, Cattle, Farmwear

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I'm Paul. By day I'm an executive at a real estate investment fund. By night – oftentimes very late night – and weekend I masquerade as a homesteader/farmer. I live with my wife and 9(!) children in rural Michigan. Read more about me here.

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