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 own…
Today, the Great Plains is an area of great resources and beauty. Nevertheless, during past days and even current times, because of its size and…
Wow, this was so much easier than I expected. I love pork carnitas, but always assumed it was something too difficult and time-consuming to make…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in…
It was 10:30 A.M. I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last of the quarterly newsletter details…
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily have ended somewhere along the…
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of other euphemisms and you would be describing pretty much any animal’s defecation. Poop,…
Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child. Now a resident of Alameda—an eleven square mile island in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay—she’s…
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that a homesteading woman should be celebrated. The woman I chose was arguably at…
I’d like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, or Bamewawagezhikaquay. On…
If you have a television, you’ve probably seen the PBS series, Simple Living, or at least heard of it. If you’re a fan of the…
Ninety. You’d never guess it from the taste, but that’s the number of calories in two satisfying cups of this velvety asparagus soup. Packed with…