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Green Burial: The Frugal Funeral for an Ecological Eternity

We spend our lives trying to get back to our Earthly roots, living simpler and off the land, recycling when…

2 years ago

Rabbit Stew, or Rabbits, too? Raising Meat Rabbits (Maybe)

My guy, Larry, wanted to make rabbit stew.  After searching in our area for someone raising meat rabbits, and coming…

2 years ago

Bad Boys on the Homestead

It’s autumn and Romeo smells like he just peed all over himself... which he has... for the umpteenth time.  The…

2 years ago

Living with Dementia: Caring for People with Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia is a devastating illness, which takes a profound psychological toll on both the patient and his or her family. …

2 years ago

The Pros and Cons of Homesteading: Dealing with Loss on the Homestead

The Bible says, “For everything there is a season, and time for every matter under heaven: a time to be…

3 years ago

Grafting an Orphan Calf to a Surrogate Mother

Easily one of my most frustrating, yet ultimately rewarding, experiences on the homestead came in the process of convincing an…

3 years ago

Keeping the Homestead Dream Alive: What to Do When the Bluebird of Happiness Poops on Your Head

There are a few, a lucky few, folks who were born on the family farm, grew up on the family…

3 years ago

Thwarting the Fox: Protecting Your Chicken Flock

It’s late March, and a red fox has been hanging around for the last couple of weeks. That’s a long…

3 years ago

Ruminations on Ruminants: a Goatherd’s Diary on Kidding

It's midnight in the goat shed.  The winter sky is black and cold, but diamond stars pierce the ebony blanket…

3 years ago

The Journey: Farmyard to Freezer

When we first moved to our farm, we purchased two Duroc barrows for the express purpose of putting them in…

4 years ago

Predator Proofing the Place (Or as Close as One Can Come)

It was the morning of January 4th, 2007, here in the Rockies of Central Idaho, a place far removed from…

4 years ago

The Mountain Men: America’s Original Survivalists

  Who were the mountain men? They were the pathfinders of yore, lovers of nature, and fiercely independent. They lived…

5 years ago