Carving out a homestead is a fantasy of many a young boy. Even now, when Saturday morning programming does not include anything like Davy Crockett…
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 huge…
For the third time, my husband Donnie and I were making a foray into Holmes County, Ohio, home to the second-largest population of Amish families…
Early in 2009, while the country was swept up in talk of bailing out banks and saving our national bacon, I was on vacation out…
The very nature of living on a homestead is such that it generally involves living in isolated, rural environments. Many active homesteaders are single individuals…
Once upon a time, everyone could find an elder, even if it wasn’t in their own family, who had ties to the “old ways of…
When sitting at the computer I have only to look slightly left to see a substantial part of my rural kingdom. The view is through…
If homestead life has you feeling harried, hurried, and stressed on a daily basis, barely feeling like you’ve got enough time to get anything done,…
Encounters with “nuisance wildlife” have been on the upswing in recent years. Complaints from homeowners run the gamut: trampled gardens, ransacked trash, chewed electric wires,…
As we all know, the evolution of the kitchen — room, concept, purpose, and practicality — began on a camping trip. It was a camping…
In life, it doesn’t seem to matter what undertaking you do, be it getting married, changing careers, going into business, starting a family, buying a…
There is a common misconception we come across when talking to non-homesteaders about our way of life. A picture of open fields, livestock grazing, and…