***Editor's note: this article was written pre-COVID-19 lockdowns. So, I’m not at home. My family is on a forced internment inside the bowels of the…
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We've scrimped. We've saved. We've searched far and wide. At long last, we're here: The Country. Whether our Country is 100 acres in the center…
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If you are embarking on your homesteading experience and faced with building your home on vacant land, popular opinion says that you need three…
Ron Macher is the publisher and editor of Small Farm Today magazine and personally farms 80 acres of his own. In this book he…