I’m an off-grid homesteader, which means I come from a pretty extreme end of the lifestyle spectrum (at least, according…
When I first started gardening, as a total greenhorn, I thought that there was only one harvest opportunity a year. …
I always feel a strange sense of forlorn relief at this time of year, as I glance over the garden-in-twilight. …
A huge proportion of the earth’s people groups depend on a starchy staple crop—one dependable source of filling nutrition that…
Off-grid living has begun to grow in popularity, as the many websites, magazines, TV shows, and YouTube channels featuring the…
As a relatively new homesteader, I have only recently hit the benchmark of starting to breed my own animals. This…
Like a kid in a candy store, I have been perusing recently-arrived seed catalogs with hope and delight. And though…
Any walk of life has its own set of harsh stereotypes associated with it. All doctors have bad handwriting. All…
The cicadas are rasping out a mid-summer melody. The air is still, the heat on the road wavering the image…
Living off-grid has only in recent times become a “trend.” Up until about 100 or so years ago, it was…
It’s early spring. The bone-chilling winds of winter have finally given way to that sweet-smelling southern breeze. Songbirds have returned…
Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there…