Homesteading women

Hooch and Hell Raisin’: Women Bootleggers

Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women moonshine smugglers were not unheard of; in fact,…

4 months ago

Throwing in the Towel: How to Move to the Country Fast and Cheap

"For I, methinks, till I grow old, As fair before me shall behold, As I do now, the Cabin small,…

4 months ago

Black, Female, and Homesteader

It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of…

4 months ago

The View from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House: A True Pioneer Woman

“The days of wilderness adventure are not past!  The pioneer spirit is not dead!”  These stirring words were written by…

4 months ago

Right On, Sister! The Feminization of Farming in North America

There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader pioneer woman on the frontier; the milkmaid; the…

4 months ago

The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression

"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley…

4 months ago

Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front by Sharon Astyk Review

Fine.  I’ll admit it.  This is a book that my husband bought for himself, having become a fan of Sharon…

4 months ago

Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess

In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale agriculture at a Rudolf Steiner center called Emerson…

4 months ago

Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders

While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…

4 months ago

Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song

If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…

5 months ago

Homesteader’s Guide to Emergency Childbirth

I’d like to talk to you about how to handle an emergency childbirth. Of a human. You might be thinking,…

7 months ago

Grandma Moses: A Primitive Freshness

She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She…

7 months ago