One of the biggest reasons I enjoy living out in the woods is the wildlife. Not that wild life. That life gets decidedly less wild…
Lately, I’ve had the satisfaction of launching into a new project that I’ve been planning for quite some time and dreaming about for longer still. A…
Charles A. Sanders, author of The Self-Reliant Homestead: A Book of Country Skills, has made a career as a Conservation Officer with the Indiana State…
The adze is among the very oldest of stone-age tools. It was invented about the first time someone tied a rock to a stick, which…
Sometimes we Americans can have some pretty lame attitudes toward food. We insist that tomatoes are a fruit, but nobody ever puts one in a…
The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement… that Never-never Land where everyone drove a Studebaker. ~~~~~~~~ I grew up on a cattle ranch…
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…
I guess that, like most people, I enjoy patting myself on the back every now and then, or maybe more often than that. Also…
In 2007, Americans spent five times as much on prescription drugs as they did just six years earlier. In 2002, Consumer Reports found that 65…
The other day I was driving along one of those little two-lane black-tops that snake through the Ozarks. I take these routes whenever I have…
Perhaps you’re wondering what sort of character would write a book review about an owner’s manual. Well, I have to admit that I don’t…
It’s certainly no secret that farm work frequently requires some heavy lifting, but what if you’re not too good at muscle-intensive manual labor? Well,…