How to Thrive in Hard Times on the Homestead
One of my favorite recipes stays with me not for its overwhelming…
Seeking the Old Ways: Sources for Homesteading Knowledge
Once upon a time, everyone could find an elder, even if it…
Manage Your Minutes: How to get more done and make more time for yourself.
In the book On Life as a Pioneer Woman, Laura Ingalls Wilder…
Check Out These Seeds! Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library
Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library…
Lessons From My Maple Syrup Misadventure
I huddled in the dark wilderness listening to howling in the distance…
10 Old-Fashioned Homesteading Skills for Self-Sufficiency
What does it mean to be self-sufficient? For some, it might mean…
Learn to Earn: Ten Books Every Homesteader Should Read
The rise in popularity of the homesteading lifestyle is a good thing…
What I Learned About Patience, Parenting, and Poop
No one tells you how much of homesteading is just… waiting! As…
Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you…
Two Parents, a Kid, and One Tiny Cabin
“Yeah that Laura Ingalls Wilder, her sisters and their parents all living…
The Blair Colony: Freed Slaves Homesteading in the Dakota Territory
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly…
Tanning Skins and Hides on the Homestead
When I tell people I tan snakeskins and animal hides, they politely…