What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for ourselves that can be supported indefinitely by Nature because it imitates Nature's own…
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…
If you’re a quilter you may have started on a whim because of a quilt you saw in a book or maybe you saw one…
Snow, ice, sleet, and wind. Darkness at 4 p.m., rock-hard ground, frozen water-troughs, frostbitten ears on calves, milk frozen in buckets, salt feeders buried under…
The subtitle of this article could be “Don’t Do What I Did.” Well, don’t do what I did wrong, anyway, just do what I did…
Nobody’s life is without challenges. But we homesteaders are among the demographic of people who often find ourselves butting up against the very edges of…