Yeoman Geoff Graham

Geoffrey Long is the owner of Long Story Farms in Newberry, SC. We discuss his farm, his roots, what brought him to farming, and how his farm connects him to his community.



Please pardon the awkward delay. That left Geoffrey and I stumbling over each other a bit, hence the decision to continue the conversation face-to-face in the near future. So much more to discuss! Their soon-to-open retail location, Farms on Main. Southern Agrarians. Wendell Berry. Earl Butz. We’ll reconvene for more soon.



Buy from Long Story Farms:

https://app.barn2door.com/5PmxB



Long Story Farms on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/longstoryfarms/



On Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/longstoryfarmsc/



John Kempf’s Regenerative Agriculture Podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/show/14s0owdUUxjTYUeNXpWnv8?si=833cc155eb3a44a8



Dorito Effect, by Mark Schatzker:

https://www.markschatzker.com/doritoeffect-home-page



Fred Provenza, Sheep, and Nutritional Awareness:

https://www.amazon.com/Nourishment-Animals-Rediscovering-Nutritional-Wisdom/dp/1603588027



History of USDA:

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/about-fsis/history



Gunthorp Farm’s processing facility:

https://gunthorpfarms.com/pages/our-processing-plant



White Oak Pastures’ processing facility:

https://whiteoakpastures.com/pages/on-farm-processing



Jake Wolki on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/JakeWolki



Prime Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2814?s=1&r=59



CT Summer Hardware Store in Newberry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTYPGxZzhE



Ivan Illich / Counterproductivity

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counterproductivity

Charlie on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/OldUrbanist



Charlie's bio at Mercatus:

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/charles-gardner



Some court decisions referenced in our conversation:



Euclid v. Ambler, 1926

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/365/



Spann v. City of Dallas, 1921

https://casetext.com/case/spann-v-city-of-dallas-1



Buck v. Bell, 1927

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/



Kelo v. City of New London, 2005

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/545/469/



Wilson v. Shaw, 1907

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/204/24/



Other things worth noting, in the order that they came up:



Ilya Somin discusses the constitutional case against exclusionary zoning on Yeoman #4:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Mh7i33XU2NCLcb5n8uVeq?si=3860a9cb143347a3



Brett McKay and author Louis Menand discuss the philosophy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and his contemporaries on the Art of Manliness podcast:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/podcast-752-the-metaphysical-club/



Charlie referenced "Town and Country Planning" in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_country_planning_in_the_United_Kingdom



"Fee tail"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail



The fee tail as featured in Downton Abbey:

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1432&context=wlulr&httpsredir=1&referer=



Arbitrary Lines, Nolan Gray

https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines#desc



Land Use without Zoning, by Bernard Siegan

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538148631/Land-Use-without-Zoning-New-Edition



"Right to Roam: In Scotland, Hikers Can Go Anywhere", by Ken Ilgunas (I mispronounced Ken's last name in the podcast; my apologies, Ken!)

https://www.backpacker.com/stories/issues/scotland-right-to-roam/



It's worth noting that I probably overstated existing right-to-roam protections in Pennsylvania.



"Landowner will close access to two Colorado 14ers after lawmakers rejected legislation limiting liability"

https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/03/landowner-closing-14ers-mount-lincoln-democrat/



Other great resources on zoning reform and housing:

https://twitter.com/ebwhamilton

https://twitter.com/salimfurth



"Cutting Zoning Down to Size: Reevaluating the Legal Vulnerability of Urban Minimum Lot Sizes", by Charlie (currently in draft, full version will be published in May):

⁠https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4619301⁠

Ashley on Twitter

Rizoma Field School

Ashley's writings

Doomer Optimism podcast

I open our conversation quoting from this article by Ashley in Front Porch Republic.

Ashley referenced Andrew ⁠Szasz's Shopping our Way to Safety⁠.

"Spreadsheet Brain"

Coby's guest post on Noahpinion: "Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market"
Coby on Twitter
Coby's website
Coby's business
Coby's interview on Building Culture

Ilya Somin joins Geoff to discuss the newly published paper, The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning, that he co-authored with Joshua Braver.

What's the big deal about exclusionary zoning and what does it have to do with the overarching Yeoman theme? Glad you asked! Geoff answered that question in this thread.

Professor Somin is a Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights.

Ilya Somin’s bio and twitter

Josh Braver’s bio and twitter



Some things that came up in the conversation:

The Anti-oligarchy Constitution

Emily Hamilton's work on Houston

Edward Glazer's work on zoning and affordability

Pacific Legal Foundation

Institute for Justice

Michael Tavani is the founder and CEO of Switchyards, the world's first neighborhood work club. He joins Geoff to talk about creating a new—and much needed—type of "third place", his love of third places, the inspiration he took from Oldenburg's book The Great Good Place, building with soul, the advantages of being an owner operator, and the growth of the business.

Some relevant links:
Switchyards
The iconic sign
The Great Good Place
Bowling Alone