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…
Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess
In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale…
Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and…
Homesteader’s Guide to Emergency Childbirth
I’d like to talk to you about how to handle an emergency…
Grandma Moses: A Primitive Freshness
She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm…
Adventures of Becoming a Backwoods Girl: Bugs, Guns, Dogs, and Fire, Oh My…
I decided when going back to college that I would major in…
Covered Wagons Heading West: Life on the Oregon Trail
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough…
Homesteading Failures – If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Worry, No One Else Does Either.
Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first…
The Origin of the Robin
Publisher's Note: The Origin of the Robin is a Chippewa story. Jane…
Mollie Dorsey Sanford: Frontier Wife, Frontier Life
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens,…
Getting Started Spinning Wool: Spinning Wool for Beginners
One of the questions that I get asked a lot is, "Why…
Homesteading in Appalachia
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian…
