“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed to feel that he was…
"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the…
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…
Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans. This year, while planning your food…
Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the land rushes and homestead movements…
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why your cucumbers aren’t getting bigger than pickles, or why your tomatoes look like…
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…
Wow, this was so much easier than I expected. I love pork carnitas, but always assumed it was something too difficult and time-consuming to make…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in…
It was 10:30 A.M. I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last of the quarterly newsletter details…