They looked innocent enough, like fuzzy giant skittles bouncing around the tub. My friend had purchased colored Easter chicks for her daughters and had assumed…
When I had my dairy goats in Wisconsin nothing bothered them, and they lived happily and without a care in the world. So when I…
Over the course of the last 25 years, I have gardened both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and I have compiled a Gardener’s List of…
Homesteaders vs. Survivalists: Conflicting Interests or Alternative Routes to the Same Destination? A funny thing happened when I got caught in the Interwebs. Not that…
Whether your homestead is one acre or one hundred acres, there’s a terrific feeling of ownership and stewardship that goes along with knowing that YOUR…
Poor Bob. Although he and his wife live in the country on a few acres, they have no intention of being farmers. In fact, Bob…
Ten years ago I was overworked, underpaid, alone in the world and adrift without a home to call my own. That has all happily been…
The first livestock most new homesteaders bring home to the farm are chickens—and rightly so. Here’s how to start raising chickens from scratch. They’re small, relatively…
Oh sure, we all know the perks of growing our own food, supplying our own energy, and being as self-sufficient as we can be, but…
There are a few, a lucky few, folks who were born on the family farm, grew up on the family farm, learned how to run…
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…
There are several options available to the new landowner-slash-rural-inhabitant, some appealing, some viable, some neither one. It all depends on the zoning requirements (or lack…