What Are Our Systems For?
The legal matter my family has been living through has led my wife and me to reevaluate what is most important in our lives. Uncertainty has a way of narrowing the field. Things that once seemed urgent begin…
Category: Soil
Building While Preparing to Be Absent
There is a difference between planning for growth and planning for absence. Most of my life, building meant momentum—more work, more opportunity, more reach. The assumption underneath all of it was presence. That I would be here. That…
Starting With Soil (When You Don’t Have Land)
We don’t have land yet. Not because the vision isn’t clear, and not because the desire isn’t strong, but because circumstances haven’t aligned in a way that makes ownership possible right now. Legal uncertainty, financial constraint, and the…
What is Restore Creation
For the past few years, I’ve had a growing sense that the quality of food has been declining. Meat, fruit, vegetables—nothing catastrophic, nothing you could point to in a single moment. Just a gradual shift. Slow enough that…
Where I am Now
I am waiting to be sentenced following a federal trial that ended in a conviction on a single count. I’m not going to explain that in this post, and I’m not going to litigate it in public while…
Meet Robert W. Lederhilger III
My name is Robert W. Lederhilger III — most people call me Rob. I grew up in a suburban town in New Jersey, near Paterson. I didn’t grow up with much and my parents divorced when I was…