Early in 2009, while the country was swept up in talk of bailing out banks and saving our national bacon, I was on vacation…
For centuries now, owning a home or plot of land has been a linchpin in the mythology of the American Dream. It’s also a…
A while back, there was a commercial that had people walking around carrying “their number.” The number represented the amount of money each person…
Raising angora rabbits and selling their fur or yarn has been an idea for extra income that I’ve been exploring for several years now.…
Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the strangest things Out There are things that you don’t even see. The whippoorwill, or whip-poor-will, is a prime…
In the 1960’s TV series Green Acres, the main character “Oliver”, who is from New York, buys a farm in the country. Whenever he wants…
To a generation who grew up on Lassie, Little House on the Prairie, and Green Acres, living a rural, homesteading lifestyle is about fairy tales…
Of all the names people call homesteaders—come on, you know we are easy to talk about— there is one that really gets my goat:…
There are a few, a lucky few, folks who were born on the family farm, grew up on the family farm, learned how to…
Having been blessed with an adventurous life, I have learned to avoid what I consider the murderer of contentment, the beginning of the end…
Ya know what I hate? I hate leaving the farm. For almost any reason. Leaving the farm means that I’ve gotta get in my…
What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for ourselves that can be supported indefinitely by Nature because it imitates Nature's…
