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Homestead Year In Review Homesteading Life

Homestead Year in Review

By D. Glenn Miller
Reader discretion is advised: this Homestead Year in Review contains graphic images of poorly stacked firewood. One lifetime is simply not enough to fit in…
Homesteading Life

Adventures of Becoming a Backwoods Girl: Bugs, Guns, Dogs, and Fire, Oh My…

By Lacey Thacker
I decided when going back to college that I would major in Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my previous endeavors had all been…
Scavenging the Urban Jungle for Food Food

So, THIS is Why I Don’t Watch Television: Scavenging the Urban Jungle for Food

By Sheri Dixon
***Editor's note: this article was written pre-COVID-19 So, I’m not at home. My family is on a forced internment inside the bowels of the fourth…
Homesteading-Role-Models Homesteading Life

Just Like Grandma Used to Do: Homesteading Role Models

By Bobbi-Jo Irwin
My father was the youngest of seven children. He grew up on a farm where he lived until his father passed away when he was…
Homesteading Life

How a Blizzard and a Cow Fed Grandpa’s Family

By Gail Jackson
My dad grew up in a big family, eight kids.  He was the youngest of the four boys, and he had four sisters.  My grandpa…
Ideal Country Home Land

The Ideal Country Home

By Gene GeRue
Except in the 1516 novel by Sir Thomas More, Utopia is said to be impossible.  That is probably a blessing—it would be terribly boring after…
Soaring Eagle Farm Dori Fritzinger How Does a House Become a Homestead Homesteading Life

How Does a House Become a Homestead? A Visit to Soaring Eagle Farm

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“This is the Yadkin Valley.  The wind never stops blowing.  That’s why we can grow certain crops here that don’t do well in other parts…
Homesteading Failures Homesteading Life

Homesteading Failures – If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Worry, No One Else Does Either.

By Magdalena Perks
Anyone who succeeds without some measure of failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying about it. Farming, gardening, homesteading, or crofting—all have…
Homesteading Later in Life Lifestyle

Homesteading Later in Life

By Betty Taylor
At sixty years old, I live alone in a circle of trees in the middle of twelve wild and wooly acres.  People are either intrigued…
Paying Attention The Most Important Skill on Your Homestead Homesteading Life

Paying Attention: The Most Important Skill on Your Homestead

By Sheri Dixon
In the grand scheme of acquiring, establishing, and running your homestead, you will be paying A LOT of people. You’ll be paying the sellers of…
Homesteading Life

Laws of Attraction and the Importance of a Good Sense of Humor on the Homestead

By Sherrie Taylor
I recently read one of the more popular books regarding the Laws of Attraction and bringing what you want into your life with positive thought. …
Sheri Dixon Homesteading Life

Drawing a Circle in the Sand

By Sheri Dixon
The following is a true story.  Names have not been changed to protect the innocent. On a picnic one fine day several years ago, my…

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