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The Summer Kitchen: Why It’s Still a Good Idea

By Bonnie Lavigne
Once, on a late September day, my dear hubby came home, opened the side door, and jumped back with a yelp.  A dense mass of…
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Countdown to the Country: Ten Steps on the Road to Your Homestead

By Bonnie Lavigne
Bravo to those already on their own land, who are old hands at gardening and raising animals and bettering their lives.  These are the folks…
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Right On, Sister! The Feminization of Farming in North America

By Bonnie Lavigne
There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the tender of the flocks; the…
Frugality and Finance

Quilting: Recycling Made Beautiful

By Bonnie Lavigne
We didn’t invent recycling.  Our ancestors did it by necessity.  On the original homesteads across North America people re-jigged hard to obtain parts and materials…
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Weird Things to Grow and Market on the Homestead

By Bonnie Lavigne
It’s a fact that, as a species, we bore easily.  Curious beings are we, always looking for the innovative and new.  This is especially true…
Ecology

Monoculture: Is It Really So Bad?

By Bonnie Lavigne
What has monoculture ever done for us?  Well, it created civilization, that’s what.  Cultivating a few key crops enabled us to turn our minds and…
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Snakes on the Homestead

By Bonnie Lavigne
Our fear of snakes seems almost primal.  Indeed, along with fear of falling and fear of the dark, it’s, more or less, a universal fear. …
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Crafty Cash — Put Your Hobbies to Work

By Bonnie Lavigne
Homesteaders have long been some of the most creative folks around.  We’re a race of putterers, always tinkering and patching things together.  When faced with…
History

A Brief History of Milk

By Bonnie Lavigne
Believe it or not, for most of the 150,000 odd years humans have been walking the earth, we couldn’t drink milk.  Children drink milk of…
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Against the Grain: The Paleolithic Diet

By Bonnie Lavigne
  I always believed a variety of natural, wholesome foods is pretty much all most people need to eat healthy. This, for me, included whole…
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