This was the first “published” piece of Tumble Bug Press in October of 2021. Bloody Run is a cold water spring fed trout stream in northeast Iowa near McGregor. True to Iowa’s legacy of being the lapdog of the Farm Bureau, Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is considering allowing a confined animal feeding operation in the very karst topography that drains into the headwaters of Bloody Run Creek. The Sierra Club of Iowa is suing Iowa’s DNR for accepting faulty data in its decision process. Please read more and support https://savebloodyrun.org/ .

Artistically, the paper is handmade hemp/flax and weathered 365 days posted on the telephone pole near our local neighborhood nature trail.

After freezing rains, sub zero temperatures, a blizzard, spring rains, summer sun, and eternal wind, the 8×10 inch hand set and printed on a Vandercook 15 broadside was intact and removed from the pole one year after its posting. The only real change in the broadside over time was the eventual fading of the red ink, or the “red” side of the balance sheet, the liabilities. If only it could be that easy in life to let our liabilities fade away and disappear. So long Supreme Beef!