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 Begins Dick Proenneke is a name familiar to many who have made the decision to live the homesteading lifestyle. For…
Some of my earliest memories were of gluing paper together to make something in kindergarten. My materials then were pieces of construction paper cut with…
When a neighbor offered us an old outbuilding—one that was in fairly good repair but that he’d no longer wanted—Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher,…
Do you dream of one day owning a homestead of your own, a place where you can raise animals and gardens to provide good, wholesome…
What is your ideal house-size? Is it 1,000 square-feet? 2,000 square feet or more? Right now across the country, many Americans are purposely moving into…
I reflected it was an odd way to spend a morning. Crammed in a bulldozer cab, my bottom perched on a side molding of the…
