When I first started gardening, as a total greenhorn, I thought that there was only one harvest opportunity a year. The pre-determined vegetable calendar, to…
I always feel a strange sense of forlorn relief at this time of year, as I glance over the garden-in-twilight. The tomato vines worked so…
A huge proportion of the earth’s people groups depend on a starchy staple crop—one dependable source of filling nutrition that was the basis for life…
Off-grid living has begun to grow in popularity, as the many websites, magazines, TV shows, and YouTube channels featuring the lifestyle can attest. And wherever…
As a relatively new homesteader, I have only recently hit the benchmark of starting to breed my own animals. This spring, our Muscovy duck flock…
Like a kid in a candy store, I have been perusing recently-arrived seed catalogs with hope and delight. And though this is probably one of…
Any walk of life has its own set of harsh stereotypes associated with it. All doctors have bad handwriting. All good chefs are fat. All…
The cicadas are rasping out a mid-summer melody. The air is still, the heat on the road wavering the image of distant grass in a…
Living off-grid has only in recent times become a “trend.” Up until about 100 or so years ago, it was just called living! Everyone—from the…
It’s early spring. The bone-chilling winds of winter have finally given way to that sweet-smelling southern breeze. Songbirds have returned en masse to turn the…
Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there have been cities to escape…
On the homestead, spring is a flurry of activity. The garden is woken up, quilts are aired out, lambs and kids take their first, unsteady…
