"You
will be able to experience the taste of produce you would
otherwise be unable to have during the winter. It is a great feeling to
know that while there may be frost outside on the ground, there is
homegrown freshness waiting at your table. A little care and planning can
go a long way in providing summer freshness in the winter." By Regina Anneler
"Living in a very rural
location, I can easily slip out into the forest and spend a few hours
among the chirping of frogs and the twitter of birds but, I can’t get my
wheels aligned out there, so try though I may, I can't spend nearly enough
of my time where it’s quiet, and like most everyone else in the modern
world, I wind up spending a lot of each day watching television with the
family, or shopping, or having tech support pump tripe into my ear or just
minding my own business going from one place to another, and I can tell
you, friend, that music is EVERYWHERE!" By Neil Shelton
"If you are lucky enough to own a dairy animal, then you probably have
excess milk on your hands and wonder, "What could I do with this extra
milk?" Extra milk can be processed into delicious cheeses. It
is fun, easy, and doesn't require a lot of expensive equipment to get
started. As you will see, you don't even need a kitchen, although I
do highly recommend one. You can also use store-bought milk for the
cheese I am making today, Fromage Blanc." By Allena Jackson
"...[with] an income of about $70 per week from what I think I can validly
call my "second career." I'm now contemplating cutting
down my regular work hours to have more time at home to pick and can, weed
my flower beds and smell the roses." By Barbara Bamberger
Scott
"Some general guidelines for raising pigs. This information does not cover
breeding. If you have never raised a pig before, it is best to raise one or
two for the freezer to get an idea of their behaviors, abilities, and
personalities. Breeding can be tricky and handling boars can be dangerous."
By C.J. Mouser
"I have to admit that my beloved Ford needs every one of
it's 23 horsepower just to mow the tall grass in the meadow in early
autumn, but it does the job the way I want it done, and while none of
these old classics can really compete with some of the enormous monsters
being built today, you can certainly get all the power you'll need on a
homestead farm." By Mary Beth Woods
"Each family has their own personal reasons to home-school, but whether
those reasons are religious, political, or having to do with the child’s
needs not being met by the public school system, the gist of the matter is
basically the same as why we homestead - we want to KNOW what’s going into
our children's heads is as pure and true as what we are so careful to put
into their tummies and their lungs." By Sheri Dixon
"Juba, the capital city of South
Sudan, is very likely like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It was
certainly new to me — despite working on HIV/AIDS issues for several years
and a having Master’s degree that focused on international development,
I’d never set foot in Africa before." By Tanya Balsky
"Mentha was a nymph
who because of the love Pluto bore her, was metamorphosed by a jealous
Prosperine into the plant we now call mint. Thus begins the ages-old
history of one of our most common herbs. Highly esteemed for many
centuries, the Mentha species originated in the Mediterranean regions
and has been known and used since the earliest of times. Some varieties,
slight variations of Menta spicata (our common spearmint,) came from
Egypt and the Holy Land - probably carried into northern and central
Europe by the Crusaders." By Gay Ingram
