In May, my husband Donnie planted 31 tomato plants, everything from Bush to Rutgers, from stalk to vine, in cages, on espaliers, and just trailing…
I have friends who started homesteading in Arkansas back in the early 1970s. Their little girls had been raised in town up to that point,…
I first learned about haybox cooking in England, in the 1980s. It was part of a course in Biodynamic Farming and Gardening that included studies…
Want to beautify an ugly unfriendly patch of ground, an old ditch, a weedy edge? Want to create a stunning border for a garden path…
Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea. It was in the high nineties outside…
It was strawberry season again. Strawberries are so good and so inexpensive around here. Despite the heavy rains in the early spring, late May promised…
My connection with figs began early. I would have been no older than four when we moved to a little brick house in Greensboro, North…
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens, a gold rusher in her twenties, worked as a seamstress and a cook. She…
Visionary and value shaper, Jim Kristofic grew up on a Navajo Reservation in Arizona, and after immersion in that ambiance, became a writer and journalist.…
There were a lot of reasons for Americans to head West after the Civil War, with the Homestead Acts initiated by Abraham Lincoln being a…
Two Decembers ago I was sitting on the porch enjoying the smell of wood smoke rising from our little outdoor cooking grill, and I made…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…