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…
Bravo to those already on their own land, who are old hands at gardening and raising animals and bettering their lives. These are the folks…
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the people were poor. Matthew Raiford…
Jay Lehman had a dream. It was a modest dream. But the dream of Lehman's Store that started in a tiny community among people who…
Congratulations on your new land purchase and your decision to finally get out of the daily grind of urban life and retire to the peace…
Living off-grid has only in recent times become a “trend.” Up until about 100 or so years ago, it was just called living! Everyone—from the…
We began our homesteading experience from scratch. At that time my husband and I had no friends or close relatives with farming experience. In fact,…
It’s early spring. The bone-chilling winds of winter have finally given way to that sweet-smelling southern breeze. Songbirds have returned en masse to turn the…
I would assume that most people reading this are either homesteaders or folks with homesteading in their heart. I believe we have chosen a very…
Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there have been cities to escape…
I subscribe to a number of homesteading blogs. One in particular chronicles the adventures of a single person running a small homestead. While I certainly…
When my kids were little, someone gave me a recipe for maple-flavored syrup. I remember them telling me that it tasted just like the store-bought…
