Many become homesteaders to experience the freedom that comes from living according to their values, without paying much attention to what society thinks. On the…
Ready to get your hands dirty this winter? Infusing oils is a constructive and joyful activity that adds a bit of sunshine back into gray…
If I had to give a label to our Akbash/Great Pyrenees dogs or put them in one category, well, I just couldn't do it. Our…
The rise in popularity of the homesteading lifestyle is a good thing but it has caused the market to become flooded with homesteading books and…
Growing up in the rural Midwest, and being a child not unlike millions of others with a more selective than exploratory palette, I was reminded…
Today, the Great Plains is an area of great resources and beauty. Nevertheless, during past days and even current times, because of its size and…
If you have a television, you’ve probably seen the PBS series, Simple Living, or at least heard of it. If you’re a fan of the…
For some baking bread is an art, for some a hobby, while for others it is a daily routine. Bread has been with man for…
Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women moonshine smugglers were not unheard of; in fact, there may have been more…
"For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small, The Lake, the Bay, the…
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly positive events occurred in America, even as the Civil War was at its…
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the people were poor. Matthew Raiford…