Welcome to The Cearley Cultivation

Hi! We’re glad you’re here. We started the Cearley Cultivation after moving to the family farm in 2020. We had been looking at our lifestyle, our parenting, our hobbies, ourselves, and asking what it is we wanted and why. None of these are easy questions, so we wanted a space where we can share our thoughts with others, and hopefully hear your thoughts in return! We love digging in deep and cultivating conversations that we feel need to be had.

The podcast

We focus on whatever topic interests us! We believe that even the most unassuming aspects of our lives can be used as a magnifying glass to better understand ourselves and our society. Seemingly straight forward topics are used to look into society and our collective programing. Listen as we have conversations which often lead to unexpected resolutions.

Our lifestyle

We also hope that you will follow us on social media where we will post about our house, our farm, and how our family fits into our post-modern age. We are trying to establish a lifestyle that has a positive impact on our health, the land we occupy and the communities that we are part of.

Short Stories

I have always loved to write stories. I hope to challenge the conventions that most people don’t even know they have with my stories, all while respecting the reader with the utmost important goal of writing something that a reader can enjoy!

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The Cearley Cultivation Podcast

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#025- Should You Prepare
#025- Should You Prepare

It seems that since the inception of civilization, people have been predicting how it will collapse. A common trope in mythology, religion, and science fiction has been that of apocalypse and the ensuing struggle for survival in the aftermath. In the episode, hosts Dexter and Shannon explore evidence for possible cataclysms of the past and potential calamities of the future. The conversation ends in a debate that you are not going to want to miss.

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#024- A Toxic Mindset
#024- A Toxic Mindset

This episode is a general approach to toxicity in the modern world. From chemical spills to relationships the word toxic is very versatile. In this episode we explore and stretch the definition of toxic and how applying literal Hazardous material response practices to figuratively “toxic” circumstances.

Check out more content at TheCearleyCultivation.com there you can find some short stories, a blog, and a backlog of podcast episodes. Also reach out to us with topic ideas or concepts that you want us to dig into.

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#023- Memento Mori Soirée
#023- Memento Mori Soirée

Have you ever thought about your death? “Memento Mori” has been chanted by monks and proclaimed by stoics for hundreds of years. They thought it was important to meditate on their deaths to enrich their lives. In this episode, we discuss Memento Mori as a philosophical practice and explore the modern applications as represented by “YOLO” culture and in cheesy country songs. More importantly, we discuss how this ancient concept may offer freedom in our modern world which is so focused on distraction. Remember, You will die!

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Short Stories

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Drunk on Decadence
Drunk on Decadence

Charlie Buchanan has a condition. He is homeless, stands on the corner to beg for money, and eats only… at the finest restaurants? Follow Charlie on a fabulous night out in Charleston SC.

Victims of Progress
Victims of Progress

I have always felt a tinge of remorse whenever I saw splattered wildlife on the side of the road. To me, road kill is a symbol of the insanity of our age. Our cruelty seems to be our desire for convenience at whatever cost, especially if that cost has no dollar signs attached. This story is a critique of modernity, and I also take it as an opportunity to take a poke at the carpetbaggers flooding into Texas. I hope you enjoy this story

Liquid Courage
Liquid Courage

I have wanted to write a story that captures the hope and despair that exist at the end of the night in every dive bar that I have ever been in. I also was attempting to capture some of the interesting cultural expressions around the Covid-19 pandemic at the same time. I hope you enjoy

About Us

The world shut down in 2020 and the Cearley family, like many others, began to question our place in it. We used the shut down as an opportunity to radically break from our comfortable city existence and move to Shannon’s families farm in rural Texas. We decided to sell our house, and most of what was in it, and move to a 100+ year old, one bedroom, farmhouse on Shannon’s family's ranch outside of Stephenville, Texas. Dexter and Shannon co-host The Cearley Cultivation Podcast.

Dexter Cearley is a day a fire fighter/paramedic. With aspirations of being a provider of farm-table quality products he also grows a market garden and seeks to scale up a chicken operation. He is also a ranch hand for his In-laws cattle operation.

Shannon Cearley is an instructor at Tarleton State University where she teaches Freshman Composition.

Emmett and Callahan are in elementary school. When they are our of school, they spend most of their time running around with the chickens, playing with toys, or destroying something.