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…
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above. On the one hand, I could…
I reflected it was an odd way to spend a morning. Crammed in a bulldozer cab, my bottom perched on a side molding of the…
This is the second submission by single-mom and homesteader, Mariann Foster. Click here to read her very popular first article, "Making a Life, Not a Living:…
"For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small, The Lake, the Bay, the…
"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car, that it would have been…
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…
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…
I found myself fitting in well to my new way of life: being a woman, living alone in the middle of the wild African bush…
Have you ever wondered why, when so much of the homesteading lifestyle deals with the practices and philosophies of the past, no comprehensive history of…
Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child. Now a resident of Alameda—an eleven square mile island in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay—she’s…
