Ever have an itch that just never goes away no matter whether you scratch it or you don't? My dad had an itch like that. …
We began our homesteading experience from scratch. At that time my husband and I had no friends or close relatives with farming experience. In fact,…
The bush-hogging is done. The perimeter fence will go up next week, after I cash in a CD. I’m rigging up a Quonset-hut shelter out…
I would assume that most people reading this are either homesteaders or folks with homesteading in their heart. I believe we have chosen a very…
“There's no way this car will make it the rest of the way home in the dark. The alternator belt is gone,” I said. My…
I couldn't say the exact date I started single-parent homesteading since it has been a steady progression over the last seventeen years. I grew up…
I found myself fitting in well to my new way of life: being a woman, living alone in the middle of the wild African bush…
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…
The Bible says, “For everything there is a season, and time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to…
A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones, computers, netbooks, smart watches]…” And…
When we first bought the land that would one day become Ivy Hill Farm it was a desolate February day, complete with gray skies and…
I've been pretty busy lately doing whatever it is that I do. Besides all that, I've personally spent the week preparing for the Olympics. Not…
