Create a Future-Proof Homestead: Planning for Climate and Cultural Changes
Tooting My Own Horn (Briefly). At the beginning of 2020, I predicted (and gave concrete plans on how to mitigate) the current gas and energy price rise. In early March of 2020, I predicted that about one million Americans would die from COVID-19 (and gave concrete plans on what to do). I also predicted that cities would be shut down…
From Beets to Beef: A Vegetarian’s Journey to Raising Beef Cattle
At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer from cover to cover. The book provides a detailed discussion and account of what it means to eat meat in the age of industrialized agriculture, but at the time, the main points that I took from it were graphic descriptions of the…
Ornamental Grasses and Ground Covers
All in the Family Although this article is about ornamental grasses and ground cover, I wanted to begin by listing the various types of grasses there are to show the seeming ubiquity of this plant. That was before I learned grasses belong to a family of flowering plants known as Poaceae (po-A-see-ay). An extended family with some 12,000 species categorized…
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Finding Community on the Homestead: Your People are Out There.
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From Beets to Beef: A Vegetarian’s Journey to Raising Beef Cattle
At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book…
Strategies for Sustainability: How to Keep Mother Earth from Becoming Smother Earth
We can kick her, stick her, fog her, and smog her, but…
The Complete Sissy-boy’s Guide to Pickup Trucks
The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement... that Never Never…
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes, a book is so perfect it defies definition. I was given…
Black Bean and Corn Salad
It's often quite true—particularly with food—that simpler is better and this recipe…
Lemon Herb Roasted Hasselback Potatoes
Who doesn't love roasted potatoes? Crisp on the outside and creamy on…
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Stop! Don’t Feed That Pigweed to the Pigs!
I had to go to Africa to discover pigweed. But, once smitten,…
Making Cheese at Home is Fun! Making Fromage Blanc
As I ponder my kitchen, which is a total wreck, I see…
Behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there
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