Growing up, I remember my mother always having Guinea fowl feathers in her hair, and seeing the little paintings she…
Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea. It was…
One man's trash is another's treasure, or in my case, his trash is my container garden. Container gardening in the…
I decided when going back to college that I would major in Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or…
Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying…
Publisher's Note: The Origin of the Robin is a Chippewa story. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft said that all the Chippewa of her…
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens, a gold rusher in her twenties, worked as…
One of the questions that I get asked a lot is, "Why should I spin my own wool, and knit…
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian mountaineers were, and are, an admirable people who…
If I were to just say the word “homestead” what would you envision? Maybe a family with several kids on…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner…