Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans. This…
What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for ourselves that can be supported indefinitely by Nature…
On your way to greater self-sufficiency, you have purchased a dairy cow or goat. You should feel proud that you…
Read Part One: The Whitmires Read Part Two: Martin and the Mackeys Michael and Casey Lance run a small family…
Read Part One: The Whitmires Christina Martin, along with business partner John Strom, runs the Morningside Farms CSA in Brevard,…
The vegetable garden is usually one of the first steps taken toward self-sufficiency. Who would want to do without plump…
I try really hard to keep within our food budget. I also try really hard to serve my family food…
After waging war on all the germs and bacteria we know are lurking around us, people are finally beginning to…
When I first started gardening, I knew I would probably be spending a lot of time weeding. What I didn’t…
Want a quick but very useful and effective homesteading project you can knock-out this weekend? Consider installing a rainwater catchment…
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian mountaineers were, and are, an admirable people who…
I recently watched a movie produced by Robert Kenner called Food, Inc., a documentary about current American farming practices and where…