Her uncle, who shut off all disordered rooms, also shut out disordered situations; Guinness now faces the consequences of his well-meaning denial, especially when it comes to the farm's elderly stewards, Joe and Susie Kirwan, who inhabit its gate lodge with their disabled son.
He imagines himself a careful steward of his farm; we see an unwanted alien, out of tune with the rhythms of the land.
In the mid-'80s he was a co-founder of the Practical Farmers of Iowa (P.F.I ., and between then and his death, he and his wife showed more than 40,000 visitors how a relatively small farm could support a modern family while stewarding the land.
In their view, Americans, with our resource-intensive and inhumane farming operations, are poor stewards of the environment and unreliable spokespeople for animal welfare.
Keswick was at the hub of the monastic farms in the area, and Fountains based a steward in the town, where tenants paid their rents.
In return for being good stewards to the land and wildlife on their farm, these farmers can be certified with the Cheetah Country eco-label and receive premium prices for their products.
The farm at Ten Hills suffered from poor oversight on Winthrop's part — the steward of the farm made questionable financial deals that in the early 1640s caused Winthrop to have a cash crisis.
When talking about some of the "speculative" projects that Google is working on (such as driverless cars), Page notes, "we're very careful stewards of shareholder money — we're not betting the farm on this stuff".
NRDC's 2010 Growing Green Awards winner in the Water Steward category, Mike Benziger is a leader in the Biodynamic farming movement.
