There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the…
Once, on a late September day, my dear hubby came home, opened the side door, and jumped back with a…
Bravo to those already on their own land, who are old hands at gardening and raising animals and bettering their…
We didn’t invent recycling. Our ancestors did it by necessity. On the original homesteads across North America people re-jigged hard…
It’s a fact that, as a species, we bore easily. Curious beings are we, always looking for the innovative and…
What has monoculture ever done for us? Well, it created civilization, that’s what. Cultivating a few key crops enabled us…
Our fear of snakes seems almost primal. Indeed, along with fear of falling and fear of the dark, it’s, more…
Homesteaders have long been some of the most creative folks around. We’re a race of putterers, always tinkering and patching…
Believe it or not, for most of the 150,000 odd years humans have been walking the earth, we couldn’t drink…
I always believed a variety of natural, wholesome foods is pretty much all most people need to eat healthy.…