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…
Love pasta salad but hate the carbs? Or, like myself, don’t love the texture of pasta salad but love the flavor? Well, you’re in luck…
For some baking bread is an art, for some a hobby, while for others it is a daily routine. Bread has been with man for…
Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women moonshine smugglers were not unheard of; in fact, there may have been more…
This week’s recipe is one of the simplest I’ve ever posted. So simple, in fact, you might wonder why I even bothered. Too often, folks…
Homesteaders are not afraid of hard work and do not collapse when confronting a challenge. This is why it is difficult to understand why many…
“For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small, The Lake, the Bay, the…