Part of the decision to homestead is a desire to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle. It involves eating a more natural diet, leaving…
“This is the Yadkin Valley. The wind never stops blowing. That’s why we can grow certain crops here that don’t do well in other parts…
Like a lot of people who approach middle age, I started to wish for a simpler life based on the quiet of the country. So…
A while back, there was a commercial that had people walking around carrying “their number.” The number represented the amount of money each person…
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…
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:…
This is a story of greed, corruption, and the struggle for religious freedom. The story begins in one of history’s gloomiest times, the Dark Ages.…
Being a staying-at-home mother, who works as a teacher for her children, as a maid for her house, and as a farmer for her…
A good while back I read a book, whose author, and even title, evade me now, but one segment of the narrative has stuck…