Holland Wildflower Farm

08/04/2026

Agree

Willie Nelson just weighed in on the fight happening in Nashville's own backyard, and he did not hold back.

The 93 year old country legend posted about data centers this week, calling them the last thing his hometown of Abbott, Texas, or any other town needs. He described them as loud, water thieving, and light polluting, and said the strength of rural America has never come from big industrial footprints. Nelson pointed to farmland and small family farmers as the real backbone of these communities, warning that whoever controls food and water controls the masses.

Nelson joins Brad Paisley, who has now issued two statements slamming the proposed DC Blox data center next to the Nashville Zoo, calling it a monstrosity and an eyesore that does not belong there. Paisley has framed it as a fight worth setting a precedent over, arguing a win in Nashville could help other communities facing the same thing. DC Blox closed on that property last month, and Metro Council responded days later by passing the city's first data center regulations and pausing new construction in Davidson County.

The timing lines up with something bigger too. Governors Bill Lee and Greg Abbott both signed a pledge pushed by President Trump aimed at keeping Americans from footing the bill for the national data center boom, though the pledge sets optional guidelines rather than enforceable rules.

When country music's biggest names start speaking up about zoning and land use, it says something about how far this fight has reached.

Original reporting by WSMV.

07/25/2026

Eat at your own risk. Thanks to our current leadership and their powers that are killing people and blaming national security issues for things like good safety. I’m calling bu****it..

You’re not likely to get cyclospora, and you’re even less likely if you eat at home. That’s not so much because your kitchen at home is cleaner than an industrial or restaurant kitchen. It’s probably not, actually.

But when you cook at home, fewer people touch your food — in fact, once it leaves the store, it’s unlikely to be handled by anyone but you, whereas in commercial settings it’ll get touched by many different people.

And although small farms may have less sophisticated handling systems than more industrial operations, they are also part of a shorter supply chain and supply fewer people. It’s not like lettuce from Mexico, which is distributed all over the country; anything that goes wrong on a small farm, by definition, has a limited impact. This is especially true of cyclospora, which is a parasite, not a bacteria, and therefore not contagious.

The big problem is that local, state, and federal health agencies have lost a lot of funding. CDC staff has been cut by twenty-five percent under Trump, and a lot of that was senior leadership. The administration has also made some cuts to FoodNet , which is a tracking system that helps figure this type of outbreak out. Twelve billion dollars in cuts to public health agencies that would be helping with the situation. Plus, people have lost health insurance. Some of them are getting sick and aren’t able to go to the doctor, or they do go to the doctor and it puts a financial strain on them.

The source has not yet been identified, and it’s a challenge, because the parasite takes at least a week and up to two to make you sick. So you’re saying to people, “What’d you eat two weeks ago? Where’d you eat that lettuce two weeks ago?” And everybody’s like, “Well, I don’t know.”

The Trump health-related budget cuts really hurt, and now you’re seeing that. It was predictable. It’s been demonstrated all over the world that Trump budget cuts are killing people. Now they’re making Americans sick. At the same time, I don’t want to say people are overreacting, but any individual is very unlikely to get cyclospora. – mb

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07/17/2026

We are attempting to bring this type of preserve into the riparian clime in Elkins. Any and all lands that can be conserved should be conserved.

06/25/2026

Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito that under the TPS law, the president has unreviewable authority to end the program, without intervention from the courts.

06/03/2026

06/02/2026

Gardens as food resources in neighborhoods and cities. Let’s support Ashley in her grand efforts to be a farmer and a light in the Bentonville food community!

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05/30/2026

05/29/2026

Mumford in our future. What a great song!

04/15/2026

We have provided seed to several different tribes of native Americans, and their tribal habitat restorations, superfund clean up sites etc, through the years. I follow the tribes in our home states across the south where we have been so privileged to live among and learn from these natural sovereign states of thinking, connected people. This article confirms how smart and resourceful their tribal ways are.

The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.

04/08/2026

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