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. …
When my husband and I ditched our rat-race city lives to lead a “simple” life in the country making a living off the land, the…
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…
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,…
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…
The trouble with keeping cows (aside from the regular, mischievous behavior of Bos taurus such as crashing through fences, or getting into, and making a…
They don’t live in houses but instead carry their houses with them. They don’t shop at malls, clip coupons, or wear the latest fashions. They don’t possess…
The Quest for the Precious Farmers have been extolled throughout history for the fine character qualities they possess: dedication, perseverance, insight, devotion, the ability to…
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…
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…