Getting Greasy: A Beginner’s Guide to Infusing Oils

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Ready to get your hands dirty this winter? Infusing oils is a constructive and joyful activity that adds a bit…

Classic Hummus

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Hummus has been enjoyed in many parts of the world for centuries and with good reason.  The earliest recipe for…

Home Alone: Women on the Great Plains

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“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed…

Willa Cather: My Ántonia and the Settlement of the Great Plains

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"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I…

Homesteading with Dogs: Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends

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If I had to give a label to our Akbash/Great Pyrenees dogs or put them in one category, well, I…

Learn to Earn: Ten Books Every Homesteader Should Read

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The rise in popularity of the homesteading lifestyle is a good thing but it has caused the market to become…

Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

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Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans.  This…

Living to Tell the Homesteading Tale

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Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the…

The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting

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There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why your cucumbers aren’t getting bigger than pickles, or…

Waste Not, Want Not: Repurposing on the Homestead

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Growing up in the rural Midwest, and being a child not unlike millions of others with a more selective than…