There’s something special about building your own home, whether you build it traditionally or not. And, there are some major benefits of being part of…
As some of you may know from reading my Missouri Journal, I have been building a house on my 12-acre Ozark paradise for a number…
“Wait. You forgot to draw in the HVAC closet”, said the young man with the product in his hair, perusing my pencil-on-graph-paper rendition of the…
One of the first concerns of new homesteaders is to provide themselves with some sort of shelter. We have all heard the advice that it’s…
As we all know, the evolution of the kitchen — room, concept, purpose, and practicality — began on a camping trip. It was a camping…
In the summer of 2016, a neighbor lady invited me and my daughter over to see the greenhouse that she had built with her husband. …
Building a chicken coop, especially from scratch, can be exhilarating and exhausting, fun and frustrating. After all, a good chicken coop is one of the…
If you haven't yet, read Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part One: The Buildings Based on a recent survey—i.e. walking around the garage and…
Winter is a lot like death and taxes… it’s one of the few constants in life. Here on our property in Missouri, you can rest assured…
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…
Our Portable Building Cabin Adventure Continues A place to call your own. A place to escape to for relaxation, fresh air, solitude, or adventure.…
Who doesn’t long for their own piece of terra firma (or soil), or more specifically bonne terre (good soil), to call their own? If you’re…
