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…
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…
***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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
