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Matilda-Glover-Koontz-Jackson-home History

Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily have ended somewhere along the…
Elinore Pruitt Stewart History

Letters of a Woman Homesteader 1: The Arrival at Burnt Fork

By Elinore P. Stewart
PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  The writer of the following letters is a young woman, Elinore, who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver…
black woman homesteader history, african american woman homesteader history History

Black, Female, and Homesteader

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of as a continuation—for African Americans—of…
homesteading, A Town Named Audacious Nebraska, African American Homesteaders, DeWitty Nebraska, Black settlers History

A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…
homesteading, homestead. homestead.org Self-employment

To Sew or Not to Sew

By Melody Cox
When people think about all the many different tasks that are done on the homestead, sewing may or may not make the mental list.  Coming…
Tygart Valley Homesteads History

The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley homestead project near Elkins, W.…
Humor

I’m From the Universe and I’m Here to Help

By Sheri Dixon
My family and I attended an unschooling conference recently.  We were pumped, ready, excited to go and be with people like us, who homeschool 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…
Leaving Corporate America Self-employment

Drop Out and Stay Out! Leaving Corporate America for Good

By Laurie Charpentier
It was 10:30 A.M.  I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last of the quarterly newsletter details…
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…
Building a Sunroom Using Recycled Materials homesteading, homestead. homestead.org Construction

Let There Be Light: Building a Sunroom Using Recycled Materials

By Mariann Foster
In the summer of 2016, a neighbor lady invited me and my daughter over to see the greenhouse that she had built with her husband. …
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…

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