Those who are not yet living the homesteading dream may be confused about the passion with which homesteaders talk about compost but homesteaders, even backyard…
If you’re new to gardening, you’ll be doing yourself a great service by learning the basics of composting and beginning the essential practice of cultivating…
Creating sustainable homesteads has become more and more important over recent years. People are more interested than ever in reducing their footprint, saving money, and…
A girl about the age of twelve, sporting a French beret, stands to the side with her face tilted, looking over the fields as I…
Tooting My Own Horn (Briefly). At the beginning of 2020, I predicted (and gave concrete plans on how to mitigate) the current gas and energy…
Beeswax is a versatile by-product of honey production and a very valuable tool. There are many ways you can begin using beeswax around the homestead.…
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…
Bats are among the most misunderstood creatures on the planet. For centuries, these flying mammals have been associated with evil and death and reviled as…
Eating in season. Eating locally. They’re not just foodie buzzwords, that’s how our ancestors ate. They had to. There was no running to the store…
My first up-close encounter with an opossum was one evening many years ago when I went to get feed for our horses. I had seen…
We spend our lives trying to get back to our Earthly roots, living simpler and off the land, recycling when we can, and doing as…
Especially in this time of inflation and rising energy costs, heating and air conditioning can take a big chunk out of the household budget. Of…