Barbara Bamberger-Scott

He Wrote the Book – Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader

Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and made the movie; he was perhaps more than…

3 months ago

The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading

History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1,…

3 months ago

Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America

Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the…

3 months ago

Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess

In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson…

3 months ago

Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders

While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…

3 months ago

Humidifying Your Homestead for a Healthier Winter

The subtitle of this article could be “Don’t Do What I Did.”  Well, don’t do what I did wrong, anyway,…

3 months ago

Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song

If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…

3 months ago

How Sears Roebuck Helped Homesteading Happen

The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the…

6 months ago

How to Do Things – 1919 Style

A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones,…

6 months ago

Johnny Appleseed: The Myth and the Man

There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he…

8 months ago

Holy Days of the Farming Year

A Tribute to John Barleycorn John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste…

8 months ago

Rotten Tomatoes: Man vs. Monsoon

In May, my husband Donnie planted 31 tomato plants, everything from Bush to Rutgers, from stalk to vine, in cages,…

8 months ago